What Skip Tracing Accuracy Actually Means

Three numbers, three meanings

Accuracy is the share of returned contacts that genuinely belong to the person you asked about. Match rate is the share of submitted records that came back with anything at all. Connect rate is the share of your calls that reached a human being.

These move independently. A provider can return something for almost every record and still be wrong half the time. Another can return fewer contacts that are almost always right. Only the second is useful, because wrong numbers cost you call time and goodwill.

What LeadCruncher reports

LeadCruncher skip tracing runs at 98% accuracy, and around nine in ten records return contact information you can act on. Results are returned instantly at $0.25 per record, with no subscription required.

We do not quote a guaranteed number of phone numbers per record, because that number is not ours to promise. What comes back depends on the person and on what the underlying records actually contain.

• 98% accuracy on returned contacts.
• Roughly nine in ten records return usable contact information.
• Instant results, $0.25 per record, no subscription.

Why a bad number is worse than no number

An unmatched record costs you nothing but the lookup. A wrong number costs you a dial, the time spent on the call, and occasionally an irritated stranger who has no connection to the property.

At scale this matters more than the headline match rate. Fifty extra contacts that are wrong will waste more of your week than fifty missing ones would have.

Compliance is still on you

Skip tracing returns contact details. It does not decide whether you may lawfully call them. Calling rules, consent requirements and do-not-call obligations vary and they apply to you as the caller.

The dialer supports blocking against a do-not-call list that you upload and maintain yourself. That is a tool for honouring your own suppression list, and it is not a substitute for your own compliance process or for legal advice.

How to judge a provider honestly

Run the same modest batch of records, ideally ones where you already know the right answer, through each provider you are considering. Then measure what actually happened rather than what was advertised.

Count how many records returned something, how many of those were correct, and how many calls reached the intended person. Those three figures, from your own data, will tell you more than any published percentage.