OneAway vs Belkins: Guaranteed Meetings vs Best-Effort Outbound

Belkins will charge you $5,000–$15,000 a month, lock you into a 6-month contract, and guarantee you absolutely nothing. <oneaway> charges $5,750/month, works month-to-month, and guarantees 15 qualified meetings in 90 days—or we keep working for free until we deliver.

That's the headline. But the differences go deeper than pricing. Here are the four things you need to know before choosing between these two agencies.

1. Belkins Doesn't Guarantee Results

This is the biggest issue. Belkins operates on a “best-effort” basis. They'll assign a pod of 5–6 people to your account—an account manager, an SDR, a copywriter, two researchers, and a deliverability specialist—and they'll run campaigns. But if those campaigns underperform? You still pay. Every month. For the full length of your contract.

Multiple reviewers on Trustpilot and TrustRadius report the same pattern: Belkins promises a certain volume of leads, delivers a fraction, and offers no refund or recovery mechanism.

“delivered nothing except sending 500 emails.”— Belkins reviewer, Trustpilot

“they did not deliver what they promised, stopped sending anything, and the few they sent weren't vetted.”— Belkins reviewer, TrustRadius

How <oneaway> is different

We guarantee 15 qualified meetings in your first 90 days. If we don't hit that number, we keep working for free until we do. We can offer this because our signal-driven targeting and AI-personalized outreach consistently converts. We don't need 6 months of “testing and adjustment”—we need your ICP, your value prop, and two weeks.

2. You Might Not Be Getting Belkins

Here's something most people don't know: Belkins' “Small Business” tier isn't actually delivered by Belkins. Their own pricing page says it's fulfilled through “partnering agencies from the Belkins ecosystem.”

Read that again. If you're a smaller company hiring Belkins, you might be getting a subcontracted agency you've never heard of, wearing a Belkins jersey. You're paying for the brand. You're getting someone else.

Even on their higher tiers, the quality of your experience depends on which “pod” gets assigned to your account. Belkins has ~200 employees across multiple continents. Some pods are excellent. Some aren't. It's a lottery—and there's no way to know which team you'll get until you're already locked into the contract.

How <oneaway> is different

When you hire <oneaway>, you get <oneaway>. There's no subcontracting, no pod lottery. You work directly with a dedicated US-based strategist who understands your market, your buyers, and your competitive landscape. Every campaign is built with that context—not by an SDR reading a script about a product they've never used.

3. The Black Box Problem

With Belkins, you're renting pipeline. You don't build any internal capability. You don't learn what's working. You don't get the playbooks, the targeting logic, or the copy frameworks. The day your contract ends, your pipeline goes to zero.

Their proprietary tools—Folderly, Frostbite, Leadsforce—are closed systems. You can't see exactly how they built your campaign, you can't replicate it, and you can't take it in-house. That's by design. Dependency is the business model.

How <oneaway> is different

We build on an open, modern stack. Clay for data enrichment, AI agents for prospect research, and custom automation workflows you can see and understand. We're transparent about how everything works because we're confident in our execution—not reliant on keeping you in the dark.

4. Fake LinkedIn Engagement

This one surprised us. Competitor analysis and third-party reviews indicate that Belkins uses Lempod—a LinkedIn engagement pod tool that creates artificial likes and comments on posts to boost visibility. Engagement pods are explicitly against LinkedIn's Terms of Service.

Why does this matter to you? Because if Belkins is running LinkedIn outreach from profiles associated with your company and those profiles are flagged for fake engagement, your company's LinkedIn presence could be penalized. LinkedIn actively detects and restricts accounts using engagement pods. That's not a hypothetical risk—it's a documented one.

How <oneaway> is different

We don't use engagement pods. We don't fake social proof. Our LinkedIn outbound strategy is built on genuine personalization and relevant messaging—because that's what actually gets replies, and it's the only approach that doesn't put your brand at risk.

How <oneaway> Works Differently

<oneaway> exists because the traditional agency model—the one Belkins operates—is broken. Hiring a pod of SDRs to blast emails and hoping some stick is a 2019 playbook. The game has changed.

• Signal-driven targeting: We don't just scrape a database and start emailing. We use intent signals, hiring data, technographic data, and funding events to identify prospects who are likely to buy right now. This is the difference between pipeline generation and list blasting.
• AI-personalized copy: Every message is crafted based on the prospect's specific situation—not a template with their first name swapped in. This is how we achieve reply rates 10x above industry average.
• Transparent, modern stack: Clay for enrichment, AI agents for research, custom workflows for orchestration. You can see how everything works. No black boxes.

When Belkins Might Still Make Sense

We're not going to pretend Belkins is right for nobody. There are scenarios where their model fits:

• You're an enterprise company with a $50K+/month outbound budget and want a large, recognized agency brand
• You need cold calling as a primary channel (Belkins added this recently, though it's not their core strength)
• You want their Folderly deliverability platform as a standalone product (it's genuinely good at what it does)
• Brand recognition matters more to your stakeholders than performance guarantees

For everyone else—founders, revenue leaders, growth-stage teams who need pipeline without gambling on a 6-month contract—<oneaway> is the better bet. And we mean that literally: we guarantee results, or you don't pay.