Database reactivation
Make money from contacts you’ve already paid for.
Former customers and unanswered inquiries sit in Excel or in your CRM, and nobody has gotten back to them. We contact each one through a channel the law allows and hand anyone interested over to your salesperson, along with their history.
- we start free: contact counts
- without replacing your CRM
- only as the law allows
The problem isn’t the inquiries, it’s that no one got back to them
An inquiry comes in, the salesperson happens to be in a meeting, and a week later nobody knows who was supposed to call. A former customer hasn’t bought anything for a year, and nobody asked why. You’ve already paid for these contacts once: with advertising, time and work.
- 7×
- higher chance of turning an inquiry into a conversation if you reply within an hour (Harvard Business Review)
- 23%
- of companies never respond to a web inquiry (Harvard Business Review)
- 24,000
- of 47,000 inactive contacts of a Czech online store opened an email again. Revenue exceeded CZK 1 million (Ecomail)
- +38%
- revenue from messages sent at a moment that suited each customer. Messages sent too early backfired (Maastricht University)
Honestly: usually a few percent of an old database makes it to a real conversation.
How it works
- 1Free of charge, we count how many contacts you have, how old they are and where they came from. We don’t need any personal data yet
- 2Database audit: we clean up the database and split it by who you may write to
- 3We send former customers an email with an option to unsubscribe. A person calls those who only made an inquiry
- 4Anyone who shows interest goes straight to your salesperson, along with what they once asked about
- 5A weekly report: how many people replied and how many conversations started
- 6The automation keeps running: name days, anniversaries and service intervals
What your salesperson gets
Not a list of names, but a person who wants to talk:
- Petr Svoboda
- inquired about heat pump servicing in March 2025
- Replied today
- “Yes, get back to me next week.”
- Channel
- phone: made an inquiry, didn’t consent to emails
- Next step
- call within an hour
Is it legal?
A customer who has bought from you: email about similar services
Marked as a commercial communication, with an option to unsubscribe in every message.
A contact who gave consent: email
Within the scope of their consent.
Someone who only made an inquiry and gave no consent: a phone call from a person
At the start of the call, we say who’s calling and why. We can ask for their consent to receive emails.
Someone who unsubscribed: nothing
One opt-out list applies to all channels.
We don’t use bought databases. Robocalls and AI calls only with consent. We based our process on Act No. 480/2004 Sb. and the opinions of the Czech Office for Personal Data Protection (ÚOOÚ) and the Czech Telecommunication Office (ČTÚ).
We work with a marketing agency
We run reactivation together with a partner marketing agency. Each side does what it knows best.
Partner agency
- Writes the messages in Czech and in your tone of voice
- Decides who gets what message and when
- Knows when to send good wishes and how to win a customer back
Cortio
- Cleans the database and sorts it by what the law allows
- Sets up sending and automations in your CRM
- Measures results and sends a report every week
Why work with us
- In your CRM. And if you don’t have one, an Excel export is enough. After the campaign, the automation keeps running.
- Personal and in Czech. Name days, addressing people in the vocative case, “six months ago you asked about…”
- A human in the loop. AI only writes drafts; a person sends the messages and makes the calls.
- Reliable. We stop once someone replies, an opt-out applies to all channels, and you get a report every week.
Price
- Contact counts
- free
- Database audit
- we’ll tell you the price on the call; it’s credited toward the pilot
- Pilot
- we’ll tell you the price on the call
Frequently asked questions
No. We work directly in your CRM, and if you don’t have one, an Excel export is enough. We deliver interested contacts wherever you want them: into your CRM, or by email to your salesperson.
Honestly: usually a few percent of an old database makes it to a real conversation. We’ll estimate how many that will be for you after the audit, based on how old your contacts are and where they came from.
One word is enough. The opt-out applies to all channels, and we won’t contact that person again.
Our partner marketing agency, in Czech and in your tone of voice. You approve every template in advance.
Before any data is handed over, we sign a data processing agreement. We process the data in the EU and, once we’re done, delete it or return it.
AI helps draft messages and sort replies. A person sends the messages and makes the calls. We don’t make AI calls without consent.
Clients we’ve worked with
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Custom CRM development, in progress
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Process automation
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Process automation
Cortio is an agency in Prague. A vetted team works on our projects, and founder Valentin Kalmykov is accountable for every one of them.
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