https://re-vault.io/blog/ Field notes from a running outbound engine: buying signals, reply rates measured on our own pipeline, LinkedIn limits, and what agents can and cannot do in GTM. en https://re-vault.io/blog/hiring-signals-job-boards/ https://re-vault.io/blog/hiring-signals-job-boards/ Mon, 07 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 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. https://re-vault.io/blog/weekly-outbound-report/ https://re-vault.io/blog/weekly-outbound-report/ Fri, 04 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 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. https://re-vault.io/blog/five-steps-of-outbound/ https://re-vault.io/blog/five-steps-of-outbound/ Wed, 02 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0000 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. https://re-vault.io/blog/after-the-first-reply/ https://re-vault.io/blog/after-the-first-reply/ Mon, 31 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 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. https://re-vault.io/blog/linkedin-limits-pacing/ https://re-vault.io/blog/linkedin-limits-pacing/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 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%. https://re-vault.io/blog/buying-signals-shared-lists/ https://re-vault.io/blog/buying-signals-shared-lists/ Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 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. https://re-vault.io/blog/sdr-cost-fully-loaded/ https://re-vault.io/blog/sdr-cost-fully-loaded/ Wed, 19 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 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. https://re-vault.io/blog/cold-linkedin-benchmarks-2026/ https://re-vault.io/blog/cold-linkedin-benchmarks-2026/ Tue, 18 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 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.