KNOB HILL CONSULTING
THE RESEARCH DESK
Freshly verified records of the Michigan businesses that just became buyers — delivered to the firms that sell to small businesses.
Small businesses buy the most in the weeks right after they open, change hands, join an association, or expand. This desk watches for that moment across Michigan, verifies every record before delivery, and delivers the records to one buyer per category, per territory. Yours.
WHO IT IS FOR
YOU SELL TO SMALL BUSINESSES. WE FIND THE ONES WHO JUST STARTED BUYING.
The desk serves firms whose growth depends on reaching new businesses early: a business in its first months is binding coverage, setting up payment processing, opening its books, and starting payroll — all at once. The firm that arrives in that window usually keeps the account for years.
- Commercial Insurance
- Merchant Services
- Payroll
- Bookkeeping & Accounting
- Commercial Services
THE MOMENT
New openings, changes of hands, new association and chamber members, moves, and expansions — plus established businesses verified to have no website of their own.
THE PROOF
Every record carries the date it was verified, printed on the record. A record that proves wrong is credited or replaced in the next delivery — check the work before you spend a dollar, and at any time after.
THE TERRITORY
One buyer per category, per territory. While your cell is active, that category in that territory is sold to no one else. That holding is honored on every delivery.
THE STANDARD
HOW A RECORD EARNS ITS PLACE
A record is not a name pulled from a directory. It is a business, at a verified moment, with the proof printed on it. Nothing enters a delivery until it meets all five parts of the standard.
1 · A REAL TRIGGER
The business opened, changed hands, joined, moved, expanded, or has no website of its own. The trigger and its date ride on the record.
2 · A PROPRIETARY PROCESS
How the desk finds its records is proprietary. It draws on many kinds of sources, including business partners and information gathered across the internet. What you receive is the finished record.
3 · CONTACTS AS PUBLISHED
Phone and email appear only where the business itself published them. Contact details are never guessed or invented.
4 · RE-VERIFIED BEFORE DELIVERY
Every record is checked again before delivery, and the verification date prints on the record.
5 · FAILURES REPLACED
A record that fails verification comes out of the delivery and a verified record takes its place. The count you pay for is a count of verified records.
Each record carries the business name and trade, city and county, street address as publicly listed, owner or principal where publicly stated, business phone, business email where publicly posted, website state, the trigger and its date, the source, and the verification date.
If you have a question about sources, let us know.
THE THREE DOORS
PUBLISHED PRICES. NO NEGOTIATION THEATER.
At checkout, each order records your category and your territory — the two facts the exclusivity promise runs on.
THE VERIFIED STARTER BATCH
$99
- ✓50 verified records in your territory
- ✓Source and verification date on every record
- ✓Clean spreadsheet, delivered within two business days
- ✓No commitment after delivery
If your category in your territory is already held, you are told before fulfillment and offered the nearest open territory or a full refund.
ORDER THE STARTER BATCH →THE TERRITORY FEED
$149 / month
- ✓Fresh verified records every week, on one fixed weekday
- ✓Your category in your territory is exclusive while active
- ✓One-time reconciliation of your own scattered lists included at onboarding
- ✓Cancel at any time; deliveries made are never clawed back
The fulfillment guarantee stands behind the feed: a month that under-delivers extends at no charge until the promised delivery is made whole, inside the active subscription.
START THE TERRITORY FEED →THE CUSTOM LIST COMMISSION
$249
- ✓50 records built and verified to your criteria
- ✓You state the business kind, the territory, and the trigger
- ✓Criteria restated by email within one business day
- ✓Delivered within five business days
If the criteria cannot be built to the standard, you are told before fulfillment and refunded in full. A criteria set is never quietly watered down to fill the count.
COMMISSION A CUSTOM LIST →THE PROMISES
IN WRITING, BECAUSE TALK IS CHEAP
EXCLUSIVITY
One buyer per category, per territory. While your batch is the current delivery or your feed is active, your cell is sold to no one else. A held cell is never quietly sold twice.
CREDIT OR REPLACE
Any record you document as the wrong business, a closed business, or a wrong contact point is credited or replaced in the next delivery. No dispute process. One line in a reply is all the documentation it takes.
THE FULFILLMENT GUARANTEE
If a feed month under-delivers against the stated promise, the term extends at no charge until the delivery is made whole. Make-good time lives inside an active subscription; if payment stops, the service ends, accrued time included.
Feed subscribers also receive one reconciliation of their own files at onboarding: send the desk your scattered spreadsheets, and the desk merges them, removes the duplicates, and reconciles them against the feed so your firm never works the same business twice. A later reconciliation is available at the standard service rate of $99 per event.
START HERE
CHECK THE WORK BEFORE YOU SPEND A DOLLAR
The way in is a free sample: ten real records from your territory, each carrying its source and the date it was verified, with no charge and no obligation. Reply by email with your firm name, your category, and the counties you work, and the sample goes out personally, one firm at a time.
Prefer to talk first? Call (248) 222-5120. The full terms — standard, doors, exclusivity, credit rule, and guarantee — are set out in The Client Guide.
