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
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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.

Common questions
Frequently asked questions

Salmon uses multi-source triangulation — cross-referencing data across professional networks, company registries, open web, and partner sources at the point of query. When sources disagree, AI agents resolve conflicts using recency, authority, and corroboration signals. Every field gets a confidence score (0-100) and source attribution.

Multi-source triangulation is a verification method that cross-references the same data point across multiple independent sources. If three sources agree that a person holds a specific title at a specific company, confidence is high. If sources conflict, Salmon's agents investigate further — checking recency, source authority, and corroborating evidence to determine the most accurate answer.

A confidence score is a 0-100 rating that Salmon assigns to every data field based on how many independent sources confirm it, how recently those sources were updated, and how authoritative they are. High confidence scores (80+) mean multiple recent sources agree. Lower scores flag fields that may need human review.

Static databases refresh quarterly at best. In that time, 10-15% of B2B contacts change jobs, companies restructure, and contact information goes stale. Static vendors can only tell you what was true when they last refreshed — not what's true today. Salmon verifies at the point of query, eliminating the gap between data capture and data use.