Harkness and Vale is a fictional 40-person recruitment agency in Leeds. Their book holds 5,000 candidate and client contacts, gathered over eight years. Some are gold. Some moved on long ago. Here is what happens when they send it to us.
Beat 01 · Day one
They upload the 5,000 contacts as a spreadsheet export. No card, no call. Within a day the scan comes back with the shape of the book: how many look active, how many look stale, how many are duplicates of each other. No detail yet, just an honest first look.
Beat 02 · Week one
The full test runs every contact. 312 addresses would bounce if mailed today. 187 contacts show signs of a possible role or company change, and each flag comes with its evidence, so Harkness and Vale confirm every one themselves. Everything lands in new fields in their sheet. Nothing they wrote is touched.
Beat 03 · Week two
A dated record of the test: what was checked, when it was checked, and what the evidence showed for each verdict. When a client asks how current the agency's book is, there is now a plain answer to show them, with a date on it.
Beat 04 · One quarter later
The book does not sit still. Over the quarter, 23 watched contacts show signs of a possible role or company change. Each flag arrives with its evidence, the agency confirms the ones that matter to them, and a candidate who quietly became a hiring manager gets a well-timed call.
5,000
contacts tested
312
addresses that would have bounced
187
possible role or company changes flagged, each one confirmed by the agency
74
duplicate pairs found
23
moves caught by the watched list over the quarter
Send a sample of 200, old contacts welcome. A person confirms within one working day, we check them live, and the report comes back in pounds and counts with the evidence. Free, no card details, and your data is deleted within 30 days unless you go ahead.
Harkness and Vale is fictional. The figures on this page are illustrative, not a promise of your results. Recruitment is one example industry: Datuma tests B2B contact books of any kind. More for recruitment agencies →