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Practical notes on targeting, multichannel sequence design, human review, deliverability, account protection, and responsible measurement.

Your Contact Database Is the Wrong Thing to Optimize

2026-09-11 · Julian Hartwell

A procurement-side take on AI prospecting tools in 2026: why contact database size is a vanity metric, when a B2B team actually needs an email validation service, what Sales Navigator export really costs you in cleanup time, and how the okki-go vs Apollo decision looks once you stop counting records.

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