How Salmon Verifies

Everyone claims accurate data.
Here's how we actually prove it.

Static vendors are ~40% inaccurate. Email validators don't check if the person still works there. And no raw LLM can process millions of partial records against live sources with a confidence score on every output. Salmon does.

The core problem

Three approaches. Three ways to get it wrong.

Every other approach to contact verification fails at a fundamental level. Not because the tools are bad — because they're answering the wrong question. Salmon answers the right one.

Email validators

ZeroBounce, Emailable, etc.
achen@vantage.io
Checks Does inbox exist?
"Valid"
What it missed
Alex left Vantage 8 months ago
Catch-all domain — every address "validates"
You just confirmed a dead lead with false confidence
Checks the inbox, not the person.

Static databases

D&B, ZoomInfo, Apollo
Query: Alex Chen, Vantage
Checks Last bulk crawl
6–8 months old
What it missed
Alex was promoted to CMO three months ago
Moved to Meridian — still shows old company
~40% of records already degraded at delivery
Queries a snapshot, not the real world.

Raw LLMs

Claude, GPT, Perplexity
"Find Alex Chen's email"
Checks Training data + reasoning
Plausible guess
What it missed
No access to commercial data providers
Can fabricate plausible-looking contact data
No verification mechanism — no confidence score
Reasons well, but can't verify against live sources.
How Salmon is different

AI agents that adapt their verification strategy to every record.

Salmon's agents don't apply a single fixed strategy to every record. They evaluate what signals are available, choose the right verification path, and escalate when early results are inconclusive — the way a senior analyst would, at machine speed.

Record submitted
NameAlex Chen
Emailachen@vantage.io
TitleVP Marketing
CompanyVantage
Signal evaluation
What signals are available?
Corporate email domain
Full name
Title may be stale
Company identified
Route selection
Selected

Standard verification

Corporate email + name + company → lightweight multi-source check

If needed

Deep investigation

Personal email only, or early signals inconclusive → extended source cascade

Live multi-source query
Company websites Live
Data partners Live
Open web Live
Professional networks Live
Public filings Live
News & media Live
No Salmon database to go stale. Every query hits live sources at the moment of the request.
Cross-reference & resolve
Employment Left Vantage → now CMO at Meridian 3 sources agree
Email alex.chen@meridian.com Verified live
Title VP Marketing → CMO 2 sources agree
Phone +1 (415) 555-0142 Direct dial confirmed
Verified output
Alex Chen
98% confidence
Email alex.chen@meridian.com 99%
Title Chief Marketing Officer 97%
Company Meridian 99%
Phone +1 (415) 555-0142 95%
Status Job change detected
Millions
of records processed reliably per batch
<5s
average time to verify a single record
100%
of fields returned with a confidence score
0
static databases — every query hits live sources
Why it matters

Four things no other platform — or AI tool — does at once.

01

AI agents with access raw LLMs don't have

Salmon's agents have direct partnerships with commercial data providers and licensed access to platforms that restrict automated querying. When our agents verify a contact, they pull from a data layer that a prompt to Claude, Perplexity, or any general-purpose AI simply cannot reach.

02

Verifies the person, not just the inbox

For each record, Salmon looks for current employment evidence — not just email activity. The question we answer: does this person still work at this company, in this role? We cross-reference employment signals across multiple sources and return a status that reflects actual tenure.

03

AI agents query live at the moment of request

There is no Salmon database to go stale. When a record is submitted for enrichment, our AI agents query live sources in real time. You get the state of the world right now — not the state of the world when someone last ran a crawl.

04

Resolves identity from partial inputs

Most tools require a complete record to return anything useful. Salmon works with whatever signals are available — a name and company, a personal email, a geo alongside a job title. When a personal email is the only identifier, we treat it as a signal and attempt to find the person, then surface their current professional contact information.

Orchestration

Every record gets its own AI-driven strategy.

Salmon's agents don't apply a single fixed playbook. They evaluate what's available, choose which sources to query, how deep to investigate, and when to escalate to a higher-confidence source if early signals are inconclusive.

Input
Corporate email + job title
Route
Lightweight verification pass
Input
Personal email + name only
Route
Deep investigation cascade
Input
Name + company + geo
Route
Identity resolution + enrich

See it work on your data.

Send us a sample from your CRM — messy, partial, stale, whatever you have. We'll run our AI agents against it and show you what comes back, with confidence scores on every field.