What is the correction cadence and why does it matter?

Overview

The correction cadence is the weekly review where you look at Vantage’s output and mark where it was wrong. It typically takes about 30 minutes per week and is the single most important activity for making the system more accurate over time.

Most clients initially underestimate this step, and by Month 6 it is usually the part of Vantage they value most.

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Why the correction cadence is not optional

Vantage learns your judgment primarily through your corrections, not through upfront documentation.

• Voice Corpus: Gives the system an initial starting point.
• Correction cadence: Teaches the system how you actually make calls in real situations.

Much of what makes your evaluation standard valuable is tacit:

• You cannot fully articulate it in a recording session or written documentation.
• But you can reliably recognize when an output is wrong.

That recognition — “this is not right” — is extremely valuable training data. The system does not need you to explain your full reasoning. It needs you to tell it when its output was off.

Each correction does two things:

1. Fixes the specific record
2. Updates the pattern library

Over time, these corrections accumulate into a rich pattern library that closely mirrors your real-world decision-making.

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What a correction actually looks like

Example:

• Vantage scores an account as Tier 2.
• You know this account is actually Tier 1 because you have a strong relationship with the decision-maker that is not visible in the CRM.
• You change the score to Tier 1 and add a short note:

• “Reclassified to Tier 1 due to existing relationship with decision-maker not reflected in CRM.”

Key points:

• The system does not need long explanations.
• A simple correction plus a one-sentence note is enough.
• The note is optional but significantly improves the quality of the training signal because it gives Vantage a hint about why your judgment differed.

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What happens if you stop correcting

If you stop doing the weekly correction review:

• The system does not get worse on its own.
• It simply keeps producing the same level of output it did the last time you corrected it.

However, the world around it changes:

• Your market evolves.
• Your ICP (ideal customer profile) shifts.
• New signals and channels emerge.

Without ongoing corrections, Vantage falls progressively further behind your actual judgment. Over time, this gap becomes large enough that you can no longer trust the scores.

Because of this, Vantage’s kill criteria include prolonged absence from the correction cadence. An uncorrected system is effectively a frozen snapshot of your past judgment, not a live reflection of how you evaluate opportunities today.

Related: How long corrections take · What happens if you stop · What makes a correction useful