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Most outbound stalls because the right message never reaches the right buyer. We line up your market and your message, put US-based callers on the phones, and turn real conversations into sales meetings.
Most companies underestimate what it takes. By the time you've hired, onboarded, tooled up, and waited out the ramp, you still don't know if your market will pick up the phone.
Hire, train, ramp, tool up, manage, and hope. Six months before you have real data. $162,500 before you know if it works.
Bring us your market and your message. We align the two, launch the campaign, and put real conversations on the board. You hear what your market thinks in weeks, not quarters, without hiring a single rep.
Get one wrong and nothing else matters. Great callers can't save a pitch aimed at the wrong buyer, and the right buyer hangs up on the wrong pitch. We get both right before we scale the dials.
The people who feel the problem you solve.
The reason a busy buyer stays on the line.
The right buyers answer the phone, but nothing they hear gives them a reason to stay. Lots of dials, no meetings.
A sharp story delivered to people who don't own the problem or the budget. Nice conversations, no pipeline.
Buyers who own the problem hear why it matters right now. That's where pipeline comes from, and that's what we build every campaign around.
Outbound isn't a technology problem or a headcount problem. It's a system problem, and every piece has to be in place before it produces real results.
Most companies struggle with outbound because they're trying to solve five problems at once. We take three of them off your plate. You tell us who to call and what to say, we sharpen both together, and we go to work. Every week returns data on which message is landing in which market.
See how we get going →No long onboarding project. We align your market and your message, get on the phones, and keep sharpening until the meetings come.
Book a Discovery Call →A working session on who you sell to, what problem they feel, and why they should care now. We challenge both before a single dial.
We source the contacts, write the talk track around your buyer's problem, and set up your reporting. You see it all before we launch.
Every call is recorded. Qualified conversations and booked meetings show up in your dashboard as they happen. Most clients hear first conversations within two weeks of launch.
Weekly reviews of what buyers say and where they push back. We adjust the market, the message, or both, and the results compound month over month.
Kevin and his team made the setup effortless, and within days we were making a high volume of dials. The best part was the iteration: the learnings from those calls went straight into my board meeting and shaped our entire go-to-market for 2026.
Kevin and his team are the best in the business at outbound. The ROI was obvious, but what surprised us was the long tail. Conversations they had 6 to 12 months ago are still developing into pipeline today.
Better quality work at the top of the funnel than any agency I've seen. We were impressed with the body of work, and had real pipeline, potentially a customer, within the first few weeks of our engagement.
Meetings booked at Visa, Mastercard, Brex, and Airbnb. One client, one campaign.
Impart Security · Cybersecurity SaaS, Series A · Full case study →
"We had never made outbound calls. At the start, the campaigns struggled, but Kevin, Oliver, and the team continually pivoted until we found a working strategy. We booked over 50 meetings and landed more than 5 new paying customers, with more still in the pipeline."
Our goal on every campaign: book your team a sales meeting. When we don't, we tell you exactly why, and that intelligence is worth more than what most agencies deliver in a full engagement.
Qualified, two-way conversations with your target buyers, where our only objective is to schedule a sales meeting. When we succeed, you have pipeline. When we don't, you have a diagnosis.
Every call recorded and analyzed. Which titles respond. Which words win. Which objections surface and why. Your go-to-market story gets sharper with every campaign.
Every recording, every outcome, every data point, logged and available to you. No black boxes. You see exactly what happened on every dial and why.
Every client gets a reporting portal, and inside it, SmartBound Snapshot: a one-time, critical analysis of your campaign from every angle, with clear suggestions on how to improve. Run it whenever you want an honest read on what's working.
Shown with ACME Incorporated, a fictional sample account. Your Snapshot reads every one of your own conversations.
“We just moved the whole team onto a new dispatch board in March. Call me after peak season and I'll give you twenty minutes.”
Service Manager · 90-technician HVAC company
Service Managers book at 21.4%. Build the next list around them, starting with HVAC and plumbing.
Reach: move dials off the 3 lists connecting under 2%.
Bad data: retire contacts after 8 unanswered dials.
Pause the Owner list until peak season ends?
Are the 14 call-back dates already in your CRM?
Hopp Consulting Group, Inc. DBA SmartBound.
Connect SmartBound to Claude or ChatGPT in about two minutes, no engineer needed. Ask in plain English and get answers built from every dial, conversation, and transcript we've recorded for you. Read-only, live, and private to your team.
Claude
SmartBound connector
Here are ACME's five strongest conversations this week, ranked by how far each one moved toward a deal.
The pattern: all five opened on what a missed appointment window costs, not on features. Service Managers are your strongest title, booking at 21.4% across the program.
Want me to pull the recordings for the two booked meetings?
Example answer from ACME Incorporated, a fictional sample account. Works in Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI tools that support MCP connectors.
We're not just calling to get meetings. We're building intelligence. We map your market account by account, learn who really decides and when to call back, and give every bit of it back to you, transparently.
That's the foundation for outbound and go-to-market success over the long run. It lives in your systems, and it stays yours after the calling ends.
# every call, ready for your CRM or warehousecurl "https://api.smartbound.ai/v1/calls?start_date=2026-10-01" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer sbk_YOUR_KEY" { "total_matching": 1204, "calls": [{ "title": "Director of Field Operations", "outcome": "Meeting Booked", "duration_seconds": 412, "has_transcript": true, "custom_fields": { "hubspot_contact_id": "3347753" } }]}
I've spent over a decade in outbound sales building teams, running campaigns, and studying what actually makes a cold call work. Before SmartBound, I built and ran other agencies in this space. I've seen how most of them operate.
The standard playbook is high-volume, low-skill, offshore execution. Dial as many numbers as possible, report meetings booked, and call it a day. The client never really knows what's being said on their behalf.
SmartBound is built on a different premise. Every conversation our team has is recorded, analyzed, and fed back to you as structured intelligence. We don't make assumptions about your market. We go find out. The patterns that emerge from hundreds of real conversations with your actual prospects are more valuable than any consultant's opinion or analyst report.
This is US-based, senior-level work. We take a limited number of engagements at a time, not because we can't scale, but because doing this right requires real attention. If we take on your campaign, you have our full focus.
Kevin Hopp, Founder
We run one focused campaign at a time: one persona, one market, one objective. You get a partner who thinks about your go-to-market, not a vendor who dials for dollars. Every campaign ends with a formal debrief: what happened, what the data says, and what we recommend next.
You don't have reps. We are your reps. We source the list, build the script, make the calls, qualify the prospects, and hand you sales meetings, plus the market intelligence behind every conversation.
Your team handles closing. We handle cold market entry, feeding your reps better leads, sharper messaging, and real-market data that makes every conversation they have more effective.
Our engagements are built for B2B companies with a real go-to-market challenge: founders who need to know if their market will pick up the phone, heads of sales who need pipeline without adding headcount, and growth teams who need hard data from real conversations before they scale.
SmartBound isn't the cheapest option in this space and we're not trying to be. If you want volume for volume's sake, there are plenty of vendors who will sell you that. If you want your market to actually talk back, book a call.
Our primary vertical is B2B SaaS. We also work extensively with VC and PE-backed companies building pipeline ahead of growth milestones. We don't take every engagement, only the ones we know we can win.
We work on 3- or 6-month engagements. Not because we want longer contracts, but because that's what it takes to get your market and your message right and then scale what works.
Your first month teaches us who you're selling to. By month three, we're dangerous in that market. By month six, you have a market intelligence asset no competitor can replicate.
Both engagements start the same way: we align your market and your message, then get on the phones.
A conversation is any time we reach someone at one of your target accounts and come away knowing something we didn't before. Here is the kind of thing we bring back.
If we didn't learn something new, you don't pay. Our business is built on qualified output, not inflated numbers.
All engagements include US-based callers, dedicated campaign management, full call recordings, and weekly intelligence reporting.
We assess fit before every engagement. If we're not the right call, we'll tell you.
Three things, on every engagement: qualified conversations with real decision-makers in your target market, structured market intelligence on what's landing and what isn't, and full call recordings for every single dial. You see exactly what happened on every call and why it went the way it did.
Book a discovery call. We talk through who you sell to, what you want them to hear, and whether we're the right fit. If we are, we scope the campaign, align your market and your message, and get on the phones.
Engagements run 90 days or 6 months and are priced on campaign scope: how many markets, how many personas, and how many conversations. Use the ROI calculator on this page to model a starting engagement, or book a call and we'll scope yours. SmartBound is a premium service. If you're looking for the cheapest meetings available, we're not it.
Any time we reach someone at one of your target accounts and learn something new about your market: who to contact, which competitors they use, their timing, the problems in their business, interest in a sales meeting, or a follow-up. A wrong contact counts when they tell us who the right person is. Wrong numbers, calls nobody answers, and voicemails are never billed.
Most clients have their first conversations within two weeks of launch. From the first week of calling, you see what's landing and what isn't, so you know early whether your market and your message are working.
Yes. Every SmartBound caller is US-based and trained in real two-way conversation, not script-reading. You get full recordings of every call so you hear exactly what's being said in your market on your behalf.
Companies looking for high-volume, low-cost overseas meeting setting. Solo founders or bootstrapped businesses without the budget for a premium engagement. If you're not sure whether you qualify, book a call. We'll tell you honestly whether it's a fit.
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