The receipt
What it actually cost
Run on 2026-09-23, 50 companies in.
- Companies matched
- 958 on Apollo; the first page of 50 taken, one charge of $0.026
- Rows with a usable domain
- 48 of 50
- Passed the jev gate
- 27 of 48 at 50% or more; 21 dropped before any paid step; 14 would have passed at 60%
- A named marketing lead found
- 27 of 27 (20 by Findymail, 7 by LeadMagic's role finder)
- Work email found
- 21 of 27 (18 by Hunter, 3 by Kitt on Hunter's misses; Tomba out of capacity, see below)
- Verified deliverable
- 20 of 21; 1 unknown; 0 invalid
- A news event in the last year
- 19 of 21 (PredictLeads)
- Opener scored by jev
- 19 of 19; 4 scored decent or better on a 0 to 3 scale, mean 1.79
- jev, both steps
- 67 verdicts on 55,009 input tokens, $0.0023 at list price; the team's own key, so not metered
- Wall clock, four calls in parallel
- about 5 minutes; the gate took 90 seconds for 48 companies
- Total metered
- $2.33 for 50 companies, or $0.12 per deliverable lead; the 21 dropped rows would have cost about $1.79 more at this run's rate
Every number above is what olywork.com's ledger settled on 2026-09-23 for this run, not a rate-card estimate. The gate is the change from the first run of this workflow on 2026-08-26, which spent $3.62 on the same filter with no gate and delivered 27 leads, $0.13 each. This run spent $2.33 and delivered 20, $0.12 each, with 21 of the 48 companies never reaching a paid step. Whether those 21 held good leads is the one thing the run cannot say, because nothing was spent on them; at this run's $0.085 per passed row they would have added about $1.79 to the bill.
What jev had to read was thin. Apollo's list page carries the domain, NAICS and SIC codes, printed revenue, founding year and headcount growth, and nothing about what a company sells or to whom. On that, jev's probabilities ran from 15% to 67% and never higher, so the 50% threshold is doing real work and 60% would have kept 14. The drops read sensibly: a consumer social network, an education publisher, a consumer lender, a robotics maker and a mobile-games studio all went. A third question, which title buys lead data at this company, answered Head of Marketing for all 48, which is the prior and not a judgement: a question the state cannot answer returns the prior, and the page no longer asks it. Enriching each company first would sharpen the gate; it would also cost more per row than the verdict it feeds, which is the trade this workflow exists to show.
Where the money went after the gate: $0.53 to Findymail for 27 calls, of which 7 were misses settled at the list rate because Findymail does not report the charge in its response, and $0.35 to LeadMagic's role finder for the 7 it then found. Tomba, the cheapest per-hit email finder, answered all 27 calls with a capacity error on olywork.com's own key at no charge, so Hunter served at $0.44 for 18 hits and 9 free misses, and Kitt found 3 of those 9 for $0.015. Verification was $0.13, with the one unknown free. News was the dearest step again at $0.84, PredictLeads at $0.04 a call. jev's own bill for 67 verdicts was $0.0023 at its list price on the team's own key.
The opener scores are the honest part of the tail. Of the 19 companies with a news event, jev rated 4 as a decent or strong first line, most of them a funding round or an acquisition; the rest were product launches and partnership notices it scored as generic congratulation. The CSV is sorted by that score, so the four worth writing to first are at the top and nobody has to read 19 events to find them. The catch-all field came back empty on every verified row, so the CSV carries no catch-all verdict for this run.
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