Comparison · Pool outsourcing
A trusted alternative to cohort-rotated pool outsourcing.
Pool outsourcing keeps prices low by rotating 3-5 operators across every buyer; the cost control comes at the cost of operator continuity, audit-trail completeness, and LinkedIn account safety. TTPA Discovery is the deliberate alternative: one senior (Ex C-Suite) TTPA, Two Laptops and a little bit more dedicated hardware and software for security and encryption, one public DPA, one refund-by-delivery policy.
Eight axes of difference — pool model vs single-operator TTPA.
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| Axis | Pool model | TTPA Discovery |
|---|---|---|
| Operator continuity | Cohort-rotated pool of 3-5 operators per buyer; rotation is the cost-control mechanism. | One named senior TTPA per buyer; |
| In plain English: With pool services a rotating team of 3-5 people shares your account to keep costs down; with us, one named senior person owns your account the whole time. | ||
| Hardware | Shared bot infrastructure; same VPN range across buyers; LinkedIn flags risk. | Dedicated hardware in your time zone; one IP per buyer; documented at /security/ C5 + C8. |
| In plain English: Pool services run many clients through the same shared machines and the same internet connection, which makes LinkedIn suspicious. We give you your own dedicated computer in your time zone and your own internet address, so your activity IS one real person, your TTPA. | ||
| DPA + sub-processor list | Available "on request"; redacted; not on the public site. | Public, signed-and-dated, 12 clauses + 4 Annexes; 5 named sub-processors; 30-day notice on additions. |
| In plain English: A DPA is the legal contract covering how your data is handled. Pool services only show it on request, with parts blacked out; ours is public, automatically marked as accepted at service payment, names every outside company we rely on, and gives 30 days’ notice before we ever add one. | ||
| Refund mechanics | Pro-rata or "credit-on-account"; no delivery-aware refund. | Refund-by-delivery: undelivered work is fully refundable; partial deliveries are itemised. See /legal/refund/. |
| In plain English: If you cancel, pool services give you a part-refund or store credit no matter what was actually done; we refund anything we have not yet delivered in full, and list partial work item by item. | ||
| Approval workflow | Pool operator drafts; "internal QA" then ships unless flagged. | Multi-stakeholder FSM modelled at intake (Comm_002 §15 q14); nothing ships without your final OK. |
| In plain English: With pool services an operator writes your posts and an internal check sends them out unless something gets flagged; with us nothing is ever published until you give the final yes, following an approval chain we map out with you at the start. | ||
| Tone radar + lint rules | No published tone-modelling; lint = ad-hoc style guide review. | Tone radar against your last 25 posts + lint-rules DSL with starter packs per profession (medical, legal, accounting, financial services). |
| In plain English: Pool services have no real system for matching your writing style beyond a general style guide. We score every draft against your last 25 posts so it sounds like you, and run an automatic rule-checker with ready-made packs for your profession (medical, legal, accounting, financial services). | ||
| Sales-Navigator workflow | Bulk InMail templates; volume-first; pool-shared seat. | Per-partner saved-search sweeps; 1st-connection-first; never InMails to colleagues without a real-world touchpoint. SN catalogue at /services/sales-navigator/. |
| In plain English: Pool services blast template messages to lots of people from a shared LinkedIn seat. We work through your own saved searches, reach out to people you are already connected to first, and never cold-message colleagues you have not actually met or dealt with. | ||
| Pricing | $249-$399/month entry tiers; 3-month minimum; auto-renew default. | Pre-paid only; no auto-renew; $1,799.87/mo Tier 1 (dedicated senior operator). |
| In plain English: Pool services advertise cheap $249-$399 monthly plans with a 3-month minimum that renews automatically. We are pre-paid only with no auto-renew: $1,799.87 a month for Tier 1 (your own dedicated Ex. C-Suite senior operator). Tiers 2 and Tiers 3 will only be offered after 3 months of uniterrupted service on previous tier. | ||
Switching calculator — what the pool model costs you.
The four-row calculator below uses our 2024-2025 cohort medians against published pool-vendor disclosures and LinkedIn account-safety telemetry from the Discovery binary.
| Metric | Pool model (median) | TTPA Discovery (median) |
|---|---|---|
| Operator-continuity probability over 12 months | 24-32% (rotation rate) | 94% (single-operator binding) |
| In plain English: This is how likely the same person stays on your account for a whole year: only about a quarter to a third of the time with a rotating pool, versus about 94% with us, because one operator is tied to you. | ||
| LinkedIn account-flag risk over 12 months | 9-14% (shared VPN ranges) | < 0.5% (dedicated hardware + dedicated IP) |
| In plain English: This is the chance LinkedIn flags or limits your account within a year: roughly 9-14% when connections are shared, under 0.5% with us thanks to your own dedicated computer and internet address. | ||
| Audit-trail completeness | Email-only summary | Immutable per-draft FSM transitions + lint-rule hits + reviewer comments |
| In plain English: This is the proof you get of the work done: pool services send a short email summary, while we give a tamper-proof record of every draft, every rule check, and every reviewer comment. | ||
| 12-month ramp-time to consistent quality | 90-180 days (re-onboarding each rotation) | 15-30 days (single ramp, no rotations) |
| In plain English: This is how long until the work is reliably good: 3-6 months with a pool because each new operator has to learn you all over again, versus 2-4 weeks with us because there is only one operator to bring up to speed, once. | ||
Numbers are observational, not guarantees. Quoted on a like-for-like 14-day discovery sample — one buyer, one workload, both vendors.
Evidence dossier (visual placeholders).
Below are the four anchor screenshots we reference on every discovery call. Each is captured from the Discovery binary itself; the equivalent pool-vendor screenshot is intentionally omitted to honour trademark policy.
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1. Approval-workflow FSM
Multi-stakeholder reviewer chain modelled at intake (Comm_002 §15 question 14). Sequential, parallel, or quorum routing; immutable per-draft state machine.
In plain English: This screen shows the exact approval path your posts follow — who checks them and in what order — agreed with you up front, with a locked record of each step so nothing can be quietly changed.
Screenshot placeholder — approval-workflow FSM (Discovery binary). -
2. Tone radar + brand-voice drift detection
Every draft scored against the buyer’s last 25 posts; drift flagged before the draft hits the reviewer chain. Visual radar chart on the Composer dialog.
In plain English: This screen scores each draft against your last 25 posts and warns us if it starts drifting away from your usual voice, before anyone reviews it.
Screenshot placeholder — tone radar + drift score (Discovery binary). -
3. Lint-rules DSL editor
Per-buyer rule pack — require / forbid / suggest patterns; starter packs per profession; edits versioned and tied to the audit trail.
In plain English: This is where we set your personal writing rules — words to always use, avoid, or suggest — with ready-made starter sets for your profession, and every change logged.
Screenshot placeholder — lint-rules DSL editor (Discovery binary). -
4. Crisis-freeze button
One-click halt across all platforms; takes < 60 seconds end-to-end; logged at /security/ C9. Cannot be triggered by a pool operator without buyer authorisation.
In plain English: One button that stops all activity on every platform in under a minute if something goes wrong (for example, a virus alert or if main electrical power is lost and we are running on battery), or if you want to stop immediately, in this case, a pool operator can never trigger it without your say-so.
Screenshot placeholder — crisis-freeze trigger (Discovery binary).
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