Every workers comp brokerage has the same quiet problem: a CRM full of business owners who once asked for a quote, went quiet, and never got called again. Maybe the renewal date was six months out. Maybe the producer gave up after two attempts. Either way, that list is the cheapest pipeline you own, because you already paid to acquire every contact on it. Industry data backs this up. Harvard Business Review found that 23% of online sales leads never get a single response, and firms that respond within an hour are nearly seven times more likely to qualify a lead than those that wait longer. Reactivation flips the usual math: you have a 60-70% chance of selling to an existing contact versus 5-20% for a cold prospect, according to Invesp. The catch is that most brokerages don't have the staff to work a 2,000-record dormant list by hand. That's where reactivation providers come in. We compared seven options for workers comp brokerages, from done-for-you AI outreach to pay-per-result campaigns, so you can pick the one that fits your book.
#1 Worqd — Contact for pricing. Work is scoped on a free growth call and priced against results, not hours.
Worqd is an AI-powered growth agency based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and it takes a different approach to old leads than everyone else on this list. Instead of selling you a tool you have to configure, or a batch of texts you have to monitor, one partner runs the whole path from first click to booked call. Their Pipeline Recovery service works the contacts already sitting in your CRM, including aged workers comp quote requests and lapsed commercial accounts, and turns them back into booked calls. There's no platform switch required: it works with your existing CRM, and you only pay for the conversations that come back. What makes this work for a workers comp brokerage is speed and coverage. Worqd's AI SDRs qualify every inquiry in under 60 seconds, 24/7, including after-hours and weekends, which matters when a business owner fills out a quote form at 8pm. Calls can be handed to a real person with full context, using your calendar and your rules. Worqd claims a 4-7x conversion lift over unmanaged follow-up at 70-80% lower cost per qualified conversation versus a traditional SDR team. The company is deliberately integrated: one plan, one report, no separate vendors for ads, creative, and follow-up. If a reactivated account later needs fresh demand, the same Growth Engine covers paid ads, SEO, and creative testing without adding vendors. They're also honest about evidence, with a published anti-fabrication policy: no invented testimonials, logos, or conversion claims.
Pros
- One partner handles reactivation, follow-up, and new demand generation
- Sub-60-second qualification, including nights and weekends
- No CRM migration required
- Pay-for-conversations model on reactivation reduces risk
- Published anti-fabrication policy, no inflated claims
Cons
- No public pricing, so you need a growth call to get numbers
- Retainer-style service, not a self-serve tool for teams that want full control
- AI SDR performance claims are the company's own, not independently audited
Best for: Workers comp brokerages that want a done-for-you partner to revive dormant leads and run the full follow-up path without hiring SDRs or managing another tool.
#2 Launch Leads — Contact for pricing. Free needs assessment available.
Launch Leads has run a dedicated Dead Lead Revival program since 2009, and according to their website it has delivered 152,000+ qualified appointments and influenced over $5 billion in pipeline revenue. The model is human-first rather than AI-first: they import your closed-lost, dormant, and "not now" records, scrub them against current data to strip the truly dead, and rank what's left by signals that suggest timing has turned, such as new leadership, funding, or renewals. A trained US-based caller then works the list by phone, opening each conversation with what changed since last contact instead of a generic check-in. For a workers comp brokerage, the renewal angle is a natural fit, since workers comp policies renew on predictable dates and many dormant commercial leads simply weren't in-market when first contacted. Every revived lead is re-qualified against a three-point standard: verified fit, decision authority, and active timeline. Leads that pass reach your producers with a grade, the trigger that brought them back, and call notes. Insurance is one of the verticals Launch lists on its site. The trade-off is cost and channel: this is phone-based outbound run by people, so it's priced accordingly and it isn't an instant AI setup.
Pros
- 16-year track record with published appointment volume
- Human re-qualification means only genuinely ready leads reach your team
- Renewal-signal targeting suits workers comp x-date selling
- Test-dial phase before scaling
Cons
- Phone-first model, slower than AI-driven outreach
- Human calling costs more per conversation than automated campaigns
- No published pricing
Best for: B2B brokerages that want human callers re-qualifying old commercial leads by phone before they reach producers.
#3 LeadsNow AI — Pay-per-result, billed on booked appointments. Contact for pricing.
LeadsNow AI runs done-for-you database reactivation on a pay-per-result model: AI-driven SMS, email, and voice outreach across your dormant records, conversational qualification against your criteria, and qualified prospects booked into your calendar. You're billed on booked appointments rather than messages sent, which is a clean incentive structure for a brokerage that cares about booked renewal reviews, not reply counts. According to their website, across their Colliers-era campaigns they converted 4.4% of contacted dormant lists into booked appointments on average, peaking at 8.9%. Company-wide they cite 50,769+ AI-booked sales appointments since 2017, 25 filmed case studies, and named clients including Colliers and 121 Brokers. They publish an honest limitations section too, which we appreciate: they're Australian-headquartered and run US campaigns remotely, they qualify hard so raw response counts run lower than blast campaigns, and they'll decline lists that are too small or lack a consent trail. For a workers comp brokerage with 1,000+ dormant commercial contacts and producers who need appointments rather than replies to chase, the model fits well. Just note that TCPA consent on aged commercial lists is your responsibility to document before any campaign starts.
Pros
- You pay for booked appointments, not outreach activity
- Published performance figures with named clients
- Multi-channel: SMS, email, and voice in one campaign
- Will decline unsuitable lists rather than take the money
Cons
- Australian headquarters means US campaigns run remotely
- Hard qualification means fewer raw replies than a blast campaign
- Not suited to small lists or purchased data without consent history
Best for: US brokerages with 1,000+ dormant contacts that want appointment-based billing rather than per-message fees.
#4 Viking Marketing — Flat pricing from $297/mo, no contracts.
Viking Marketing sells a straightforward database reactivation service: AI-powered SMS, email, and ringless voicemail drop campaigns sent to your dormant contacts, with conversational AI handling every reply, answering questions, qualifying the lead, and offering a booking link straight to your calendar. Their site is unusually transparent about realistic results, noting that practitioners commonly report around 5 to 15% of a dormant list re-engaging, and that the share who actually book is smaller and depends on list age and offer. They also point to other providers' figures, such as LeadsNow AI's roughly 4% booked-appointment rate, as a reality check against double-digit promises. Pricing is published and simple: flat from $297 per month, no contracts, with TCPA and CASL compliance built in. For a workers comp brokerage testing whether an aged commercial list still has a pulse, that's a low-commitment way to find out. The service works from your existing contact list, segments and cleans it, and surfaces every reply and booking in an inbox that syncs to your CRM. The limitation is depth: this is a campaign service, not a full growth partner, so strategy, offer design, and what happens after the appointment are on you.
Pros
- Published flat pricing with no contracts
- Transparent about realistic booking rates
- Multi-channel outreach including voicemail drop
- Compliance handled for TCPA and CASL
Cons
- Campaign service only, no broader growth strategy
- Results depend heavily on list age and your offer
- Voicemail and SMS may suit commercial contacts less than phone-first outreach
Best for: Brokerages that want a low-commitment, flat-priced test of their dormant list before committing to a bigger program.
#5 99 Calls — Campaigns start at $500.
99 Calls offers database reactivation campaigns starting at $500, aimed at converting older contacts into new customers through email and text outreach with easy opt-out. Their site positions the service for contractors and local service businesses, but the mechanics transfer to any brokerage with an aged contact list: you send them names, emails, and cell numbers, and together you devise a promotion to entice prospects to book an appointment. They recommend spotlighting your most profitable service, which for a workers comp brokerage could be a free renewal review or x-date audit. They claim database reactivation produces leads at significantly lower cost than SEO and Google Ads, and their site cites that reactivation campaigns are 67% cheaper than generating new leads. Free reporting of results is included, and quarterly campaigns come bundled with their Growth Pro package. The service also flows naturally into ongoing lead nurturing, keeping contacts warm on a seasonal or quarterly cadence, which suits insurance where buying windows follow renewal dates. The honest limitation: this is a lighter-weight service with less sophisticated qualification than the AI-driven providers above, and their published experience is in contractor verticals rather than commercial insurance specifically.
Pros
- Clear published starting price
- Simple setup: just names, emails, and phone numbers
- Includes ongoing quarterly nurturing option
- Free campaign reporting
Cons
- Experience is centered on contractor verticals, not commercial insurance
- Email and text only, no AI voice or phone follow-up
- Lighter qualification than done-for-you AI providers
Best for: Small brokerages wanting a low-cost, simple email and text reactivation campaign with basic reporting.
#6 Conversica — Contact for pricing.
Conversica is the enterprise option on this list. It sells conversational AI agents that hold two-way conversations over email, SMS, chat, and messaging apps, and its site describes using them to re-engage inactive accounts, trigger renewals, and prompt upgrades for low-usage accounts. According to their website, the company has powered 1.5 billion conversations for 2,000+ teams and names customers including Iron Mountain, T-Mobile, ServiceNow, and the Boston Red Sox. Other coverage of the space notes Conversica has engaged 24M+ prospects and identified 10M+ qualified leads. For a large brokerage with a database in the hundreds of thousands, that scale is the appeal. A workers comp book with tens of thousands of commercial contacts, spread across renewal dates and account executives, is exactly the kind of list where an always-on AI assistant keeps dormant accounts from falling through the cracks between producer touchpoints. The honest limitation, which even competitor roundups state plainly: Conversica publishes no dedicated reactivation product. It's a configuration of a general conversational AI agent, so segmenting the dead list, writing the re-entry offer, and defining what counts as a qualified renewal conversation all land on your team. If you have a marketing ops function to own that, it's powerful. If you don't, it's a project.
Pros
- Proven at enterprise scale with named large customers
- Persistent, human-like follow-up that doesn't quit after two touches
- Works across multiple channels from one agent
Cons
- No dedicated reactivation product, configuration is on your team
- Requires ops resources and a substantial database to justify
- No published pricing
Best for: Large brokerages with mature marketing operations and very large dormant databases to configure and run in-house.
#7 RealVoice AI — Contact for pricing. Early access via waitlist.
RealVoice AI is building an AI reactivation product worth watching, though you should read its status carefully. Their site describes an "AI employee" that connects to your CRM, automatically identifies and re-engages dormant leads, and reaches out through calls, texts, and emails, then books reactivated leads directly into scheduled appointments with your sales team. Setup is positioned as a four-step process: upload your lead list from CSV or CRM, review and customize your AI agent's voice and script, set campaign parameters like timing and call limits, then launch and monitor results in real time. They claim setup takes less than 15 minutes. Their site cites figures worth treating with caution: 30-40% of CRM leads go cold, a 15-25% reactivation success rate, and 24/7 automated outreach. Those numbers are marketing claims without published case studies behind them, and the product page is marked "Coming Soon" with an early-access waitlist, which is the main reason it sits seventh on this list. For a workers comp brokerage, the multi-channel design and CRM integration are the right shape, and if you're curious, joining early access costs nothing. But you wouldn't want to bet this quarter's reactivation plan on a product that hasn't fully shipped.
Pros
- Multi-channel outreach including AI voice
- Direct CRM integration and calendar booking
- Fast setup, claimed under 15 minutes
- Free to join early access
Cons
- Product marked Coming Soon, not fully launched
- Cited success rates are vendor claims without published case studies
- No track record or named clients yet
Best for: Early-adopting brokerages willing to test a pre-launch AI reactivation product at low cost.
Old lead reactivation is the highest-ROI move most workers comp brokerages haven't made yet. The math is hard to argue with: you already paid to acquire every dormant contact in your CRM, existing contacts convert at 60-70% versus 5-20% for cold prospects, and workers comp renews on a predictable schedule that gives you a natural reason to reach back out. The seven providers above cover the full range of approaches, from human phone-based revival at Launch Leads, to pay-per-appointment campaigns at LeadsNow AI, to flat-priced tests at Viking Marketing, to enterprise AI at Conversica. Our editor's choice is Worqd because it's the only one that pairs reactivation with instant AI qualification, works inside your existing CRM, bills you only for the conversations that come back, and keeps the whole growth path under one partner. If your brokerage is sitting on a list of aged quote requests and lapsed commercial accounts, book a free growth call at worqd.com/book and find out what that dormant list is actually worth before you spend another dollar on new leads.
Frequently asked questions
What makes Worqd different from other old lead reactivation providers?
Most providers sell you one piece: a text campaign, a call team, or a software license. Worqd is a growth agency where one partner runs the whole path from first click to booked call. Their Pipeline Recovery service reactivates dormant CRM contacts, their AI SDRs qualify every inquiry in under 60 seconds 24/7, and calls hand off to a real person with full context. You only pay for the conversations that come back, there's no CRM switch, and if you later need new demand generation, the same partner covers ads, SEO, and creative testing in one plan and one report.
How much does old lead reactivation cost?
It depends on the model. Viking Marketing publishes flat pricing from $297 per month with no contracts, and 99 Calls starts campaigns at $500. LeadsNow AI bills pay-per-result, meaning you pay for booked appointments rather than messages sent. Launch Leads, Conversica, and Worqd all price on request. In every case, reactivation is cheaper than new lead acquisition: industry figures put the cost of acquiring a new prospect at 3 to 10 times the cost of reactivating a dormant one, because the acquisition cost is already sunk.
Is reactivating old insurance leads TCPA compliant?
It can be, but you have to do it right. Any automated outreach to aged contacts must honor Do Not Call lists, manage opt-outs instantly, and respect TCPA consent rules, which get murkier as a list ages. Providers like Viking Marketing state TCPA and CASL compliance is built into their service, and Worqd describes its outreach as personalized and permission-aware. Before any campaign, audit your list for where each contact came from and whether they opted in. If a segment has no consent trail, the safest move is to leave it out. A good provider will help you make that call rather than blast the whole list anyway.
What percentage of old leads actually come back?
Realistic numbers are modest, so be skeptical of double-digit promises. LeadsNow AI reports an average 4.4% booked-appointment rate on dormant lists, peaking at 8.9%. Viking Marketing notes practitioners commonly see 5 to 15% of a dormant list re-engage, with a smaller share actually booking. Even at 3-4%, the math works: on 1,500 dormant contacts, a 3% bind rate is 45 new policies you didn't pay a lead vendor for, and workers comp premium renews and compounds every year the policy stays on the books.
Why do workers comp leads go cold in the first place?
Usually timing, not disinterest. Harvard Business Review found the average firm takes 42 hours to respond to a web lead and 23% never respond at all, and it takes 7 to 12 touchpoints to convert a modern buyer while most agents give up after one to three. Workers comp adds its own wrinkle: a business owner may be locked into a policy until their renewal date, so a quote request in March might genuinely be a Q4 buying conversation. That's why renewal-date signals and x-date targeting matter so much in this niche, and why a lead marked dead was often just early.
Should I buy new leads or reactivate old ones first?
Reactivation first, almost always. You've already paid for the dormant contacts, they already know your brokerage, and the probability of selling to an existing contact runs 60-70% versus 5-20% for a cold prospect. New shared leads from marketplaces like EverQuote are often sold to three to eight agents at once, so you're paying a premium to compete on speed. Work the list you own, convert what's recoverable, then reinvest some of that recovered premium into new demand. That sequencing is exactly how Worqd's Growth Engine is built: Build, Launch, Optimize, then Recover.