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What actually happens inside a running outbound engine: the signals worth chasing, the numbers we measure on our own pipeline, and the parts that break. Three a week, no email gate.

07 September 2026 Hiring signals: reading a company's own job board We scanned a few hundred company domains over six weeks. Board coverage ran from 54% to zero depending on the slice. What an open role is worth as a sales signal, and how to check it. 8 min read 04 September 2026 How to read an outbound weekly report without fooling yourself Six weeks of our own numbers. One week reads 8.7% or 1.8% depending on the denominator you pick. Seven checks to run before you trust a Friday outbound report. 8 min read 02 September 2026 The five steps of outbound, and which one an agent closes Outbound splits into five steps. Across 3,706 sourced people and 1,651 invitations from our own profiles, a model closed one of them end to end. Here is the split, with numbers. 8 min read 31 August 2026 What to send after the first reply to a cold message Across 69 cold conversations we started, 42% produced a second reply. Here is what the first reply actually contains, and what we sent in the two messages after it. 8 min read 28 August 2026 Why LinkedIn limits your account, and the pacing that stops it Platform refusals measured across 1,495 invitations from our own sending profiles, and the four pacing rules that took the refusal rate from 6.1% of attempts down to 0.4%. 8 min read 21 August 2026 Buying signals that still work when everyone has the list Trigger events are sold as an edge. Here is what a hiring filter, a role change and a plain profile filter actually returned on live invitations, with every denominator written next to the rate. 8 min read 19 August 2026 What an SDR actually costs in 2026, fully loaded A line by line cost model for one SDR seat in 2026: compensation, employer load, tools, ramp and management time, with funnel numbers from a live pipeline to turn it into cost per meeting. 8 min read 18 August 2026 Cold LinkedIn benchmarks in 2026, and what actually moves them Accept rate, reply rate and meeting rate from a running outbound engine, with the sample size next to every number and the four things that changed ours. 5 min read