Email bounces waste time and hurt domain reputation. Lusha’s email confidence scores give RevOps a trust layer in enrichment, so only reliable contacts sync into CRM.
Even the best sales data can vary in accuracy. For RevOps leaders, one bad email sync can ripple across the funnel: bounced outreach, damaged sender reputation, and wasted rep time. That’s why teams are building an extra trust layer into their enrichment flows—email confidence scores.
With Lusha, enrichment doesn’t just return an email; it includes a confidence score that signals whether the data is strong enough to sync automatically or should be flagged for review. This small adjustment in workflow protects your CRM hygiene, ensures outreach reliability, and builds trust in your data across Sales and Marketing.
Why confidence scores matter
Reduce bounce rates: Sales reps avoid sending to invalid emails that hurt domain reputation.
Build trust in CRM data: Reps are more likely to adopt systems they believe are reliable.
Protect pipeline forecasting: When contact data is accurate, pipeline coverage is real, not inflated by bad records.
A workflow example in RevOps
Trigger: New lead enters CRM from form, list import, or enrichment.
Enrichment: Lusha API appends verified email with a confidence score.
Decision rule:
– High confidence (e.g. 90%+): Auto-sync to CRM and mark as ready for outreach.
– Medium confidence: Route to SDR queue for manual validation.
– Low confidence: Suppress from CRM to avoid clutter.
Sync: Approved contacts flow into outbound sequences.
Feedback loop: SDRs can update or flag incorrect data, strengthening the system.
Benefits across GTM teams
- RevOps: Stronger data governance and reduced error handling.
- Sales: Fewer wasted calls and better connect rates.
- Marketing: Lower bounce rates improve sender score and campaign performance.
- Finance: Avoid hidden costs of bad data like domain warming or campaign re-runs.
Best practices
- Define thresholds (high vs. medium confidence) in alignment with Sales leadership.
- Combine confidence scoring with email deliverability checks for added reliability.
- Track metrics like bounce rate, deliverability percentage, and pipeline conversion to measure ROI.
Confidence scoring is a simple yet powerful RevOps workflow. By letting Lusha flag which emails are ready and which need validation, teams safeguard data quality, protect domain reputation, and give reps more reliable records to work with. The result is a cleaner funnel and a GTM engine that scales with confidence.
FAQs
An email confidence score is a measure of how reliable an email address is, based on verification checks and enrichment logic. Lusha provides a score alongside enriched emails so RevOps teams can decide whether to sync automatically, flag for review, or suppress low-confidence data.
By filtering out low-confidence emails before they enter the CRM, teams ensure that outbound sequences and campaigns only target verified addresses. This reduces bounce rates, improves deliverability, and protects the company’s domain reputation.
Yes. RevOps teams typically define thresholds (e.g., 90%+ confidence = auto-sync, 60–89% = manual validation, below 60% = suppress). These thresholds can be customized in automation tools like Zapier, n8n, or directly inside CRM enrichment rules.
Absolutely. Confidence scoring applies across enrichment use cases — inbound form fills, bulk list uploads, or on-demand lookups. In every case, Lusha attaches a score that helps teams control what enters the CRM.
A deliverability check tests whether an email server can receive mail at that address, while a confidence score reflects the overall reliability of the address. The best practice is to use both: confidence scoring to set sync rules and deliverability checks for final validation before sending.
Common KPIs include:
Email bounce rate before vs. after implementation.
Connect rates on enriched contacts.
Percentage of leads auto-synced vs. flagged.
SDR validation time saved.
