USE CASE:

Partner and title classification

Here is how title classification for partner actually gets done, what it costs each way, and where each way stops working. The tools we name are Mamba Labs Apify actors, priced per row, and Contact Classifier is the one pointed at partner.

What is actually going wrong

Partner distort title classification, for a reason specific to them. Partner sit in one function and one seniority band, and both move with company size, and title classification inherits that. Worth knowing about partner, since title classification inherits it: the same title means three different jobs at a startup, a scaleup and an enterprise. Contact Classifier carries 1 ready made setup for title classification on partner.

Traditional Search Tools

  • The job advert itself, for partner. Free, and the responsibilities section says what the title actually means there.
  • A spreadsheet of keyword rules. Contains and does not contain, in order. Fragile, free, and completely transparent when it goes wrong, which counts for a lot.
  • Your CRM's picklist. Forces structure at intake and only works when the person entering the record picks honestly. In practice they pick the first option.
  • An LLM prompt over the column. Handles the odd ones a rule list cannot. Costs a call per row and gives a different answer on a rerun unless you pin the temperature.
  • Build a lookup. Export the distinct titles, map the top 300 by hand, treat the tail as unknown. Two hours, and it covers most of the list because titles follow a power law.

The method

  1. Start with one of partner you already know, so a wrong title classification answer is obvious rather than plausible.
  2. Run Contact Classifier across your list of partner, which carries 1 ready made setup for title classification.
  3. Read ten rows of title classification on partner by hand before you trust the rest of the list.

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