We read your existing call book and hand each rep a ranked call list, every morning — who to dial next. More live conversations, no new headcount.
For credit, investment & search firms — and operating businesses ($2M–$250M). You pay for the outcome, not the hours.
Your own book, read in the right order. The name most likely to pick up sits at the top; the cold record sinks to the bottom. The rep opens it and starts at the top.
The reason it matters: 84 of every 100 dials had been reaching people who never answer — the right name was already in the book, just buried.
The same four steps for every engagement. You see the work prove itself on your own data before any monthly commitment — then you buy live conversations, not hours billed, and not a new desk.
We start from the problem above: most of the morning goes to dialing people who never answer, while the warm names sit buried. That is the leak we are here to close.
On a short intro call, we look at how your desk dials today and which names your reps should be reaching first. No obligation, no slide deck to sit through.
A short, paid build — a ranked call list your reps can dial, like the one above — proving the work on your own contacts before any monthly commitment.
Once it works, we keep it running. One system points the desk at the next right call each morning, priced to a known cost per outcome — the live conversations it creates.
Rank every contact, surface who is likely to answer today, reach decision-makers directly, and keep the list clean as it grows.
Find buyers who actually fit, reach them with a reason to reply, track every reply in one place, and get answers from your own data in seconds.
One real-estate private-credit lender, one cleaned and reactivated legacy database. We report what held, not just the peak.
Funded loans a month rose from 6.4 to 9.5 — on flat intake. Same desk, same pipeline; the difference was the order they called in.
“Not more leads — better conversations.”
New deal creation stayed flat (-0.4%) — same intake, same desk, better conversations. Not more leads, better conversion. (We did not close the loans — this is the firm’s outcome; our part is the efficiency.)
Top-priority contacts answered 30.8% of the time versus 7.5% at the bottom — a clean, monotonic climb up the rank tiers.
“Rank the book, and the connects follow.”
Top-priority contacts answered 30.8% of the time versus 7.5% at the bottom — a clean, monotonic climb (roughly 3.8x the illustrative cold-call average).
One verified list of 17,400 contacts — 78% deliverable, 0 duplicates — behind a maintained 64,589-address suppression wall (3.7x the active list). Across the study, 84% of dials had been landing on people who never answered once. 13 of 17 closing reps served.
Capital Catalyst is Bill Baumgarth, who came from growth-equity investor relations and personally ran the outreach that booked 83+ institutional meetings for a $1B AUM fund. He now runs operations at a private real estate lender, where he rebuilt outbound across a 170K-contact CRM.
LSE MSc; Fordham economics, cum laude.
The leak, a short call, a paid pilot, then we run it. We find where the time is leaking and scope it together.