Wrong email? Fixed.
Medialyst now runs journalist emails through waterfall verification and lets users report profile issues so inaccurate contact data can be fixed faster.
Hey there,
Most media databases handle email verification one of three ways:
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they don't verify at all
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they verified it months ago
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they run one cheap check and call it a day
All three lead to the same place - bounces in your sent folder.
So this week we worked on exactly this.
✅ Waterfall email verification
Before any journalist contact gets to you in Medialyst, it now runs through a verification waterfall. We check, recheck, then check again, every time.
Here's the before/after data since we shipped this change:
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More emails come back verified. (+26pts)
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Fewer catch-alls (-16pts)
Pitch with less bounces, more confidence.
🚩 Report an issue, we'll fix it in minutes
You can now flag any journalist from inside your list. Wrong email. Wrong title. They moved publications. Whatever's off.
Click the journalist → Report an issue → tell us what's wrong. The report routes straight to the agents maintaining our database — they will re-research the profile and push the fix back if validated, for everyone, in minutes.
Our self-healing media database is already getting smarter day by day, now with this it improves even faster - because you are in the loop.
Also shipped this week
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Approval UI improvements. It's now easier to approve or give feedback to Medialyst Agent.
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Smoother email provider reconnects. When your Gmail or Outlook connection loses scope, recovery is now one click instead of disconnect-and-start-over.
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Credit history in the usage dashboard. Every credit grant, spend and your current balance, broken down by source.
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CSV export filter parity. Exports now respect the same filters as the table view. Yes, this was a bug. It is no longer a bug.
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Free tier Changes. Free tier now gets 10 journalist contact unlocks — use it to evaluate our data accuracy or run a mini campaign.
4 weeks ago, media database quality was our biggest daily concern.
Today, with real-time enrichment across the entire internet, a self-healing agent team running 24/7, waterfall verification, report-an-issue — we've hit escape velocity on the database itself. It'll reach industry-grade, on its own, without us watching it every day.
So next week we're moving on to what's next on our roadmap.
Coming soon: email scheduling and tracking to start bringing you the full email sending suite.
— Elvis Sun, Founder at Medialyst
P.S. Closing the week with our product philosophy in its most honest form:
