Live · read 11 Aug, 21:05

The open desk

What our General has actually built in the last thirty days, including the lists that came back short of what was promised. Read live from the same records that decide whether a prospect gets an email, so there is no version of this page that only shows the good days.

4

lists finished and sent to the person who asked

92

companies researched and stood behind

78m

typical time from the ask to the inbox

0

running right now

Where it fell short

The offer promises 25 targets. The rule underneath it is that a verified short list beats a padded long one, so when the research can only stand behind fewer, it sends fewer and says so on the cover. Here is how often that happened, and what it cost.

1

lists that came back under 25

8

names we could not verify, and therefore did not send

1

started and never delivered: failed, lost, or too thin to be worth sending

A number in that middle column is a name that looked plausible and could not be evidenced. Sending it would have made the count look better and the list worse, and the second person to read a forwarded list has no way to tell those apart except by whether we are the kind of company that prints this panel.

The last few

What was asked for, in the requester's own words. Never who asked: the brief is the interesting part and the identity is theirs.

What they asked forPromisedSentTook
Lenders, banks, credit unions, life insurance companies, CMBS lenders, and debt funds that focus on hotel financing.252563m
family office2525121m
industrial, commercial, institutional businesses252592m
established growth companies, newly funded companies (series B or later), companies post-merger or acquisition25177m

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