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      <description>Fifteen agencies that sell outbound to SaaS companies, compared on how much of a market each says it works and how it sizes a message test. None publishes coverage as a share.</description>
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      <description>Every stage with the number attached: how the market is sized, how many mailboxes carry it, how copy is tested and when a test is called. Most agencies publish none of it.</description>
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      <description>Thirty providers read on who the rep is and what they cost. One publishes both a price per rep and a volume per rep, and the two together work out at $23.90 per record touched.</description>
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      <description>The acceptance criteria are written before launch as a named list of titles. What makes a meeting billable, who decides, and what happens when the two sides disagree.</description>
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      <description>Thirty agencies read on data decay. Three commit to re-checking on a schedule, none attaches a number to record age, and the statistic they all sell with traces to a show of hands.</description>
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      <description>Thirty-one providers audited on how much of a client's market they actually work. Six publish a monthly contact volume, one publishes a minimum market size, and none publishes a remedy.</description>
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      <description>What each outreach channel can actually cover, measured against published activity rates and platform limits. One market takes 39 SDR-months by phone and 17 days by email.</description>
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      <description>Official registry counts for eight B2B markets set against what sixteen agencies publish about monthly volume. At the lowest published throughput, covering one market takes 131 years.</description>
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      <description>Recursive Scale invoices only for meetings a qualified prospect attends. What a zero-meeting quarter costs, what coverage buys, and where published retainer prices sit.</description>
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