Editorial Guidelines
What we do
Independent, hands-on reviews of AI sales tools across prospecting, engagement, conversation intelligence, and ABM.
Testing methodology
- Sales intelligence platforms: account opening; data-quality spot-checks against G2-verified ground truth; integration tests with Salesforce, HubSpot, Apollo, Salesloft, Outreach.
- Engagement platforms: campaign building; deliverability audit (Instantly, Smartlead); sequence testing on opted-in lists.
- Conversation intelligence: recording ingestion; note accuracy vs ground truth.
- Autonomous AI SDRs: 14-day compliant campaign run (opted-in lists only) measuring replies, meetings booked, rep-time saved, failure modes.
Compliance
All outbound testing is run on opted-in lists only. We comply with CAN-SPAM (US), GDPR (EU), CASL (Canada). No cold-scraping for testing purposes.
Sourcing standards
- Pricing: vendor pricing pages re-verified quarterly.
- User ratings: G2, Capterra, Trustpilot — current counts linked directly.
- Public-company data: ZoomInfo earnings calls and investor presentations used as primary sources for pricing-strategy and customer-metrics claims.
Update cadence
- Pricing: quarterly.
- Capability re-tests: semi-annually for rapidly-evolving categories (autonomous SDRs).
- Major events (shutdowns, acquisitions, pricing model changes): 72 hours.
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Corrections & fact-checking
See Corrections Policy and Fact-Checking Policy.