A qualified meeting checklist you can use before the invoice.
Agree on what counts before outreach starts. A calendar booking tells you a time was reserved; qualification requires evidence about the person, the company and the conversation.
Write the definition before the list.
For a founder buying outbound, the useful question is whether the meeting meets the criteria you agreed to pay for. Start with a written buyer profile and a shared review process. Keep the same definition in the campaign brief, meeting record and invoice review.
SecOutbound’s service terms, section 4, describe client-specific qualification and make the engagement agreement authoritative. This checklist explains how to evaluate a meeting; it does not replace that agreement.
| Check | Evidence to review | Decision |
|---|---|---|
| Role | The attendee’s current title and responsibilities against the written buyer profile. | A senior title outside the agreed function needs review. Do not assume seniority is a match. |
| Company | Agreed geography, size, sector and service fit; existing-pipeline and other exclusions. | Hold an uncertain company match for verification before counting it. |
| Attendance | A meeting-platform record showing the prospect attended for the required duration. | SecOutbound’s published default is at least 15 minutes. A booking or brief join is insufficient. |
| Intent | A short factual outcome note: what was discussed and whether a two-way sales conversation occurred. | A mistaken accept, an opt-out-only call or a vendor pitching back does not establish sales intent. |
| Held status | Actual attendance, distinct from the scheduled event or reschedule notice. | No-shows and cancellations do not count. Review a reschedule when it is held. |
| Uniqueness | The contact’s prior qualifying meetings within the agreement’s billing cycle. | Apply the written duplicate rule. A follow-up is not automatically another billable meeting. |
Use three review states: qualifies, does not qualify, or awaiting evidence. An empty attendance field belongs in the third state. A seller saying “the call went well” still needs to supply the attendance evidence.
A worked review of five bookings.
Modeled example only. These fictional outcomes illustrate the checklist and are not SecOutbound campaign results. Assume the written agreement requires an approved Head of IT at a US company in the agreed size band, at least 15 minutes of attendance, genuine sales intent and one charge per unique contact in the cycle.
- An approved Head of IT attends for 22 minutes, discusses the service and is absent from the exclusion list. The company matches and the contact has not counted this cycle: qualifies.
- A second approved buyer cancels before the call: does not qualify.
- A buyer reschedules for next week: no charge now; evaluate the eventual call when held.
- A previously counted contact attends a follow-up: no additional charge under the assumed duplicate rule.
- A new attendee has the right title, but the company’s size is unverified: awaiting evidence.
At this review point, one meeting qualifies. At the current $500 performance price, that is $500 for the one qualifying meeting, not $2,500 for five bookings. The pending company check or a later held reschedule could change a later invoice.
Keep a record both sides can check.
For each proposed billable meeting, record its date, a restricted contact reference, verified role/company fit, attendance duration, outcome, exclusion result and duplicate-check result. Name the person reviewing it. Store identifying evidence in your approved private customer system, never in a public report.
Agree on who resolves missing evidence, how to raise a disputed line item and the applicable deadline before launch. Keep qualification separate from later sales outcomes: a qualifying conversation can still end without a proposal or a sale.
When comparing offers, use the same definition and count of held, qualified meetings. The outbound pricing guide shows how that count changes the economics. For the managed service, see MSSP and vCISO outbound or the SecOutbound overview.
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