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What you get, how often it arrives, and what exclusive means.
What exactly is on a board?
Rows. Each row is one carrier, group, or borrower in your territory with a dated, publicly filed reason to buy: a trucking company on the federal thirty day clock, a 100+ life group approaching its renewal with the incumbent broker’s Schedule A commission shown, or a CMBS loan coming due with the refi gap computed. Every row names its filing, so you can check it before anyone picks up a phone.
Where does the data come from?
Federal public records: motor carrier insurance filings from the Department of Transportation, employer benefit plan filings from the Department of Labor, and securitized loan disclosures from the SEC. We read them on their refresh schedules and compute what changed. We do not buy lists, scrape social media, or guess email patterns.
Is this a lead list?
No, and the difference is structural. Lead lists are sold to many buyers at once, disputed constantly, and priced per name. A board is sold to one buyer per territory, never resold, and priced flat. Nothing on it is shared, auctioned, or returned, because nothing needs to be.
What does exclusive actually mean?
While you hold a board, we sell that board for that territory to no one else. Not a competitor, not a bigger firm, not anyone. We confirm a territory is unclaimed before we sell it.
When does the board arrive?
Your first issue lands within one business day of your territory confirming. After that, a fresh issue lands weekly in your portal, the same day each week.
What if my territory is quiet?
We do not pad a board. If the record is quiet in your territory, the issue says so and shows you the real count rather than filling space. We count events honestly and would rather refund silence than pad a board. The other written guarantee is the same shape: a row whose public filing does not check out makes the month free too.
Can I switch states later?
Yes, if the state you want is open. We move your board at the next issue and your old state reopens to the next buyer.
What happens when I cancel?
Your subscription ends at the period you paid for, nothing renews behind your back, and your territory reopens to the next buyer. The issues you already received are yours to keep. If you come back later, your old state may be taken; exclusivity cuts both ways.
Can you work the board for us?
Yes. That is the managed service: we run the outreach under your name, you approve every message before it sends, and the board is included. $2,500 a month for founding clients.
What it costs, how long it runs, and who else we take.
What are the products, and what do they cost?
Three products, all flat. The insurance board is $249 a month per state, exclusive. The loan maturities board is built and not yet on sale. Managed outbound for founding clients is $2,500 a month on a ninety day term, with the $1,500 setup credited back across it. Never a percentage of premium, commission, or any loan.
Is there annual pricing?
Not yet, honestly. Monthly only. If an annual price ever exists it will be printed on the pricing page before anyone is offered it privately.
Is there a setup fee?
The $1,500 setup is credited back in full across the founding term, $500 against each of the first three invoices, so a client who completes the ninety days pays no setup at all. The build behind it is real money: two to three weeks happens before a single email can send. Domains, authentication and warmup are not optional and cannot be compressed. When founding pricing ends, that build gets priced; today we carry it in exchange for the reference.
Why is the service ninety days?
The term belongs to the managed service; boards have no term and cancel any time. It is ninety because the first three weeks are build. A thirty day trial would end roughly when the first email lands, which tells neither of us anything. Ninety days is the shortest honest window in which a campaign can be judged.
What happens after the service’s ninety days?
You decide. No automatic renewal, no notice period to remember. If it is working, we continue at the same rate. If it is not, the domains and the list are yours to take elsewhere.
How many clients do you take?
Few, and deliberately. Client count is capped so every campaign gets senior attention, and we would rather say no than run yours badly.
Would you run a campaign for my competitor?
Not into the same market and geography at the same time. Two clients mailing the same prospects from the same operator is bad for both, and the prospect notices first. If your segment is already being run, we tell you that instead of taking the work.
Whose domain sends, and what we will not promise you.
Do the emails come from my domain?
No, and that is deliberate. They send from domains registered for you that carry your name, but your primary domain stays out of it. If a campaign ever hits deliverability trouble, the email your business runs on is untouched.
Could this damage our email reputation?
Your existing reputation is not exposed, because nothing sends from your primary domain. The new domains build their own reputation from zero, which is what warmup is for and why it cannot be rushed.
What reply rate should I expect?
We will not quote you one. Published averages average across every market, offer and list quality, and yours is none of those. Anyone who gives you a number before seeing your market is telling you what you want to hear. What we commit to is reporting what actually happened.
Where do the email addresses come from?
Business data sources, then verified before use. Never guessed from a pattern, because guessing produces bounces and bounces are what get a sending domain blocked.
Is cold email to businesses legal?
Commercial email in the US is regulated rather than prohibited: accurate sender information, a real postal address, and an opt-out that works and is honored promptly. All three are built in. If you sell insurance, your state’s advertising rules apply on top, which is why your approval of the copy is a required step. None of this is legal advice, and your counsel should review the contract.
What if my market is too small?
We size it before building it. If it is too small to sustain a campaign, that is a reason not to start, and we say so.
What we need from you, and what stays yours.
Who sees the copy before it goes out?
You do, every time, including changes. A rewritten subject line is a new piece of advertising and goes through the same approval.
How much of my time does this take?
A few hours across ninety days. Half an hour once to define a good prospect, a pass over the list, and reading the sequence when copy changes. The one thing nobody can do for you is answering your replies.
Who owns the list and the domains?
You do. If the engagement ends, they leave with you. Nothing is held back to make leaving expensive.
Do you handle the replies?
No. Replies route to an inbox you control and the conversation is yours from the first message.
What do I get at the end of each month?
What was sent, to whom, what bounced and what answered. Plain numbers, and the underlying list if you want it.
What if I get locked out of the portal?
Email us and a new password is issued in minutes; reissuing signs out every old session. There is no self-serve reset email, on purpose: fewer ways in beats convenient recovery for a tool that holds your territory’s intelligence.
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