Phone scoring with Trestle: the setup

Score every number with Trestle before you dial, load only the Dial First and Dial Second tiers, and cut roughly half the dead numbers from the list.

• The reframe: you do not have a lead problem, you have a dialing problem. Blind dialing means ~50% dead numbers, a 2-3% connect rate, burned caller IDs (every dead dial trains the carrier algorithm), a
• Do not dial disconnected numbers: they almost never come back through the Trestle pass, and the old habit of calling every number regardless is retired (Ty, D2 1:30:02).
• What Trestle actually measures: ACTIVITY, not correctness. Skip tracing guesses which number belongs to the owner; Trestle confirms the line is alive from carrier data. Holding those two jobs separate
• The 5-tier dial priority system: Dial First 81-100, Dial Second 61-80, Dial Third 41-60, Dial Fourth 21-40, Drop 0-20. Tags live on the phone number inside DataSift .
• Line-type intelligence: mobile averages 80.8, true landlines 30.2; 24% of numbers DataSift labels "Landline" are actually VOIP and textable. A WRONG-status number still averaging 78.2 means the line i
• Why this is also a compliance and spam tool: carriers watch for runs of disconnected dials (about 10 in a row reads as machine dialing); stripping dead numbers keeps every outbound number healthier .
• Dial First: 30.3% correct rate, 1.9% dead; Dial First + Second hold 92% of all correct numbers in the study set
• Blind dialing ~1 correct per 32 dials; scored ~1 per 10
• Connect rate 2-3% blind vs 9.5% scored (4.75x, Joshua English split test)
• 93.6% of correct phones score 70+; 88.4% of dead phones score 30 or below
• The phone validator skill run in Claude: cost printout, litigation scrub option, the output CSV
• The update-existing CSV upload mapping phone tag + phone number
• A record with blue/red icons and dial tags after the pass
• The 5-tier chart with correct-rate and dead-rate per band
• The funnel: 2,000 numbers in, 980 dialable out, 92% of correct numbers kept
• The 5-tier ladder with correct rate per rung and the cut line under tier 2
• Skip trace vs Trestle as two different questions: "whose number is it?" vs "is the line alive?"
• Caller ID as a depreciating asset: each dead dial a withdrawal, scoring as the deposit