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Here’s an interesting test we just ran with some surprising results on verified email data: We tested what happens when you point an AI agent at 5 different data sources for contact enrichment. 450 runs… Same agent and same prompt, only the retrieval tool changed. At first, coverage looks strong and the tables are “complete”. But we dove into the one column that really matters if you're using AI agents for outbound: verified work email. Specialist data tools returned a verified email 94% of the time. Web search returned one 22% of the time. Same "complete" status. Wildly different data to hand a rep. Web search can't return a verified email. It guesses a pattern (first.last@domain) so a fill-rate score can't tell the difference between a guess and a real one. If you're building agent workflows for your sales team right now, verified email is the column to check before you trust anything else the agent hands back. ZoomInfo’s full benchmark, methodology, and our findings here: https://lnkd.in/gGSTdDFm