Co-Founder Taliferro
You've got names, emails, companies, maybe a few tags. But here's the question—can you use it?
Most contact databases are cluttered, outdated, and broken. I've seen email addresses that bounce, names in all caps, phone numbers in the wrong field, and duplicates across the board. Sound familiar?
That's not an asset. That's noise.
Bad data isn't neutral—it's expensive
Every time you email a bad contact, you hurt deliverability. Every time you skip over a promising lead because their data is messy or incomplete, you miss out on revenue. And every time you waste time cleaning records manually, you're not doing what matters.
According to IBM, bad data costs U.S. businesses over $3 trillion a year. Most of that loss isn't flashy. It's slow. Silent. Missed follow-ups. Botched outreach. Time spent fixing what should've been right in the first place.
Most tools make you the janitor
Let's be real: CRMs are not built to help you fix data. They just store it. If a phone number ends up in the email field, it stays there until you notice. If someone enters “N/A” as a company, guess what? That's what shows up in your email campaign.
You end up cleaning by hand. Or worse—not cleaning at all.
This is why I made TODD do the dirty work
I got tired of wasting time on manual cleanup. I wanted a system that worked like a digital assistant—one that:
- Auto-detects when data is in the wrong field
- Enriches contact records by researching missing info
- Validates email addresses so I don't send to ghosts
- Flags duplicates and bad formatting before it becomes a problem
- Reconfigures fields so everything lands in the right spot
That's what TODD does. Quietly. Consistently. Behind the scenes.
Good data powers better decisions
When your data is clean, you can:
- Segment your outreach with confidence
- Write emails that sound personal and hit right
- Follow up without wondering if you're duplicating effort
- Build better reports, pipelines, and plans
And you don't waste your best ideas on a broken list.
Quick test: Is your contact data working for you?
- Do you know how many contacts have missing emails?
- Do you trust your segments to be accurate?
- Do you ever get embarrassed by a send?
- Do you spend more than an hour a week fixing data?
If the answer to any of those is yes, your data is a liability.
Final word
Data should work like fuel—not sludge.
Most tools hand you the broom. TODD handles the cleanup for you, so you can actually get back to moving forward.