Four kinds of empty: 310,550 agent lookups in 30 days, 81.5 % returned no row, and only one of them should be retried
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If an agent or an n8n workflow feeds a list into a pay-per-found lookup, most of what comes back is empty, and the harness decides what each empty costs: a real lead thrown away, a retry storm, or a row that was never actually checked. This post is the 30-day request log of the b2bsearch lookup Act…
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Four kinds of empty: 310,550 agent lookups in 30 days, 81.5 % returned no row, and only one of them should be retried
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