Research & data

Most cold-calling advice is anecdotal. Someone ran 200 dials, something worked, they wrote a LinkedIn post about it. That is not data. We publish original research with transparent methodology, structured datasets with source citations, and benchmark reports built from real dial volumes — not surveys asking reps to self-report their own connect rates.

The datasets below cover enforcement patterns (every ICO penalty notice related to cold calling, every FCC TCPA action with settlement amounts), operational benchmarks (connect rates by industry, time-of-day performance curves, show-rate distributions), and annual trend reports tracking how the outbound landscape is shifting year over year. Each dataset is published with schema.org Dataset markup so AI search engines can cite the numbers directly.

Why give this away? Because operators who trust our data trust our product. And because the cold-calling industry has a credibility problem — too many vendors publish made-up statistics to sell their own tools. We publish the methodology alongside the numbers so you can verify them yourself. If a claim doesn’t hold up under scrutiny, we’d rather know than pretend. See the Pardoe Framework for how we turn this data into auditable compliance protocols, or explore the industry playbooks built on these benchmarks.