Us vs. Them

Job boards give you the ad. Lead lists give you a name someone typed a year ago. We give you the hiring manager, found today.

Contact lists go stale. Here's how fast.

Public numbers, not ours. No list seller prints them next to the price.

What changes	How fast	Source
Time in a job, private sector (median)	3.5 years	US Bureau of Labor Statistics, January 2024
Time in a job, ages 25 to 34 (median)	2.7 years	US Bureau of Labor Statistics, January 2024
Business contact lists going bad	About 22.5% a year	HubSpot, on MarketingSherpa research
A list bought a year ago	About 1 in 4 records wrong	The row above
An Ad Call search	Run the morning you search	Nothing stored, so nothing goes stale

	Ad Call	Job boards	Lead lists	Doing it yourself
What you get	The companies worth calling, each with its hiring manager and phone	A job ad and an apply button	Hundreds of rows, the same ones everyone bought	The right answer, eventually
The employer	The real company, checked on its own site	Whoever posted it, often a staffing agency	Whatever was scraped	You check it yourself
The manager	Named, with email, and how sure we are	Not provided	An old title from one database	An hour of digging per ad
Freshness	Today's live ads	Live, but raw	Weeks or months old	Live
Your morning	Calling	Scrolling	Sorting spreadsheets	Researching

	Their accuracy	How you'd check
Job boards	None. They don't name a manager.	Nothing to check
Lead lists	No published number	Buy the list and count the bounces
Ad Call	About 8% of results have something wrong	Published here, measured on fresh searches

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