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Service 02 · Cleanse

Turn a tired CRM into a working one.

Deduplicated, verified, mapped to your fields and delivered with a change log, so the system your team lives in is one they can actually rely on.

What's included

Cleansing that leaves a clear audit trail.

  • 01

    CRM cleansing

    Deduplicate, standardise and refresh HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive or custom CRMs, safely, with a change log you can hand to leadership.

  • 02

    Deduplication and merge rules

    Matching rules agreed with you up front, so records merge the way your business thinks about accounts rather than the way a tool guesses.

  • 03

    Contact validation

    Verify emails, numbers and roles so outreach lands and reporting isn't built on ghosts or job movers.

  • 04

    Formatting and normalisation

    Consistent country codes, addresses, industries and job titles, mapped to your fields, not to a generic template.

  • 05

    Enrichment layers

    Fill only the gaps that matter for scoring, segmentation and routing, no vanity fields nobody uses.

  • 06

    A full change log

    Every merge, edit and removal recorded, so anyone in the business can see what happened to a record and why.

Cleansing and organising CRM records
Cleansing pass
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  • J. Smith · Acme Ltd
    Duplicate
    Merged
  • John Smith · ACME Limited
    Duplicate
    Merged
  • E. Johnson · Brighton Group
    Bounced email
    Verified
  • Daniel Moore · Nova Solutions
    Job mover
    Updated
  • sarah wilson · apex partners
    Formatting
    Standardised
  • P. Okafor · Ridge Analytics
    Missing role
    Enriched
  • M. Laurent · Delta Freight
    Old record
    Removed
0
Duplicates merged
0
Records corrected
0
Gaps filled

Illustrative view of a live pass. Every merge, edit and removal lands in a change log you can review.

The cost of a messy CRM

Where a decaying CRM quietly costs you.

Problem

Data decay

Records go stale fast. People move roles, companies rebrand, sites close and domains change. Left alone, a database quietly turns into fiction while everyone keeps reporting from it.

Problem

The data janitor trap

Skilled people spend a quarter of their week in spreadsheets, correcting records instead of doing the job you hired them for. Cleansing is work, not a career.

Problem

Broken reporting

Duplicates, missing fields and inconsistent formatting break dashboards, scoring and routing. Once nobody trusts the number, decisions get made on instinct instead.

Problem

Risk sitting in the database

Old records nobody can account for become a problem the moment someone asks where the data came from or how long it has been held.

Our ground rules

How we treat a database that isn't ours.

Nothing changes without a rule

Matching and merge rules are agreed with you before a single record is touched, so the database changes the way your business expects it to.

You see the log

You see the rules before we apply them and the log after. If we get something wrong, we say so and fix it rather than quietly writing over it.

Judgement calls made by people

Automation handles the volume, people handle the judgement. Anything ambiguous is checked by hand before a record is changed.

Common concerns

What worries people about touching the CRM.

Can we not just run a deduplication tool?

Tools are good at obvious matches and poor at the ones that matter. Two records for the same account with different trading names, or a contact who has changed employer, need a person to decide. Getting those wrong loses history you cannot get back.

Could our own team do this internally?

They can, and it usually stalls. Cleansing is a project, not a spare hour on a Friday, and the people asked to do it are normally the people you pay to sell or run campaigns.

What if you change something we needed?

Nothing changes without agreed rules, and everything that does change is logged. Work is delivered so it can be reviewed and reversed rather than dropped in place and hoped for.

How do we know the quality is actually better?

You get a sample before the full pass, and a before and after summary at the end covering duplicates removed, records corrected and gaps filled.

Outcomes

A CRM your team wants to open on Monday.

✓

A CRM your team actually trusts to use daily

✓

Cleaner segmentation, routing and reporting downstream

✓

Fewer bounced emails and dead end phone calls

✓

Hours returned to the people you pay to sell, not to clean

✓

A documented record of every change, ready for any internal review

✓

A base that stays usable, with a clear routine for keeping it that way

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