Decision makers
Decision maker contact lists, screened before they ship
The short answer
A decision maker list is a list of people who can start a buying conversation without asking permission. LeadNumbers screens every record against your written profile before it ships, so junior titles, vendors, competitors and out of scope departments never reach your reps, and the people who remain carry a reachable number.
Screening
Title, employer, size, geography and keywords
Removed
Juniors, vendors, competitors, wrong departments
Match score
Visible on every contact you receive
Two titles
Economic buyer and practitioner from one account
Detail
What counts as a decision maker
In a small business it is usually the owner or a single director. In a mid-market company it is a department head with a budget line.
In enterprise it is rarely one person, so the useful pattern is an economic buyer plus a practitioner champion from the same account.
Titles alone are unreliable across company sizes, which is why we screen on role and employer together rather than on a title string.
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How screening works
Your profile becomes a written brief: the titles that qualify, the ones that do not, company sizes, geographies, industry keywords and explicit exclusions.
Every candidate is checked against that brief before any contact details are spent on it, so budget is not burned enriching the wrong person.
Each delivered record carries a match score and the reasons behind it, so you can see why it qualified.
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Keeping the list honest over time
Rejected patterns are remembered, so the same wrong title or wrong vertical does not come back next month.
Flagged records feed the same memory. One correction improves every future batch for your account.
Your customers, open opportunities and anyone who has opted out are suppressed automatically.
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From list to conversation
Decision makers answer mobiles far more often than switchboards, so a mobile-first list changes the economics of the first touch.
Pace matters too. A steady daily batch keeps reps calling instead of rationing a file.
If nobody on your side wants to dial, the same list can be handed to a calling partner and worked on your behalf.
Checklist
What to insist on
Written brief first
Qualifying titles and disqualifying ones, in writing.
Screened before enrichment
Wrong-fit people never consume budget.
Score on every record
Match score and reasons visible in the portal.
Suppression applied
Customers, opportunities and opt-outs removed.
Rejections remembered
Corrections improve every later batch.
FAQ
Questions buyers ask
Can I ask for two people at the same company?
Yes. Many accounts request an economic buyer and a practitioner from each target company so a rep can run a champion-first approach into the budget holder.
How do you avoid junior titles?
Disqualifying titles are part of your brief from the start, and anything that slips through can be flagged once. The pattern is then remembered for your account.
What is on every contact you deliver?
Full name, job title, company, a checked work email and a mobile number or confirmed direct dial. Main lines, extensions and toll free numbers are thrown out before delivery.
What happens if a number is wrong?
Flag it in the portal and a replacement is queued free of charge within fair use limits. Your flag rate is visible to you at all times.
Who makes the calls?
You can, or our dialing partner ColdCalls.Ca can call the list for you at one blended rate per dial with North American reps. The list and the calling are separate decisions.
Dialing partner
Do not want to make the calls yourself?
LeadNumbers builds your list. Our dialing partner ColdCalls.Ca can call it for you. North American reps with 10 or more years of B2B sales experience call in your company name, handle gatekeepers and objections, and book interested buyers straight into your calendar. One blended rate of $1 per dial, prospect data included, with 3,000 dials a month as the recommended starting point.
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