- Controls
- Inspection intervals, the integrity program and which contractors are approved for each method.
How to open: Ask what is coming due in the next outage and which methods they struggle to staff.
NDT appointment setting: get on the approved vendor list before the turnaround
Most NDT work is awarded months before a technician mobilizes, when the plant builds its outage scope or the fabricator picks an inspection partner for a new contract. We book meetings with the integrity, QA/QC and maintenance people who make those calls, so your company is qualified and on the list when the work is scheduled.
Qualified NDT meetings on your calendar, booked by U.S.-based SDRs under your name.
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The sales floor behind your NDT program
- $1B+in client revenue generated
- 100,000+meetings booked a year
- 2,000clients
- 17+years on the phones
- 4.8 / 5on Google, 4.6 on Clutch, 4.64 with the BBB
Abstrakt company figures as of October 2026; ratings as published on Google, Clutch and the BBB, September 2026. See client results.
What we fix
Why NDT pipelines stall, and what changes
Work that arrives as emergencies
Outbound builds relationships ahead of planned outages and integrity programs, so your schedule fills with booked work instead of call-outs.
Prequalification walls
The SDR learns each account's safety and qualification requirements early, so your team knows what paperwork is needed before the first meeting.
Level IIIs and leads are in the field
Your SDR does the prospecting and follow-up, and your technical people only join meetings with a defined scope.
Long gaps between turnarounds
Nurture keeps your name in front of planners between outages, so you are on the bid list the next time scope is built.
How it works
How we fill your NDT calendar
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Build the list
Plants, fabricators, operators and contractors in your coverage area, sorted by asset type, inspection methods needed and outage timing, with integrity and QA/QC contacts named.
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Run the outreach
A U.S.-based SDR team works phone, email and LinkedIn under your company name, leading with methods, certifications and mobilization capacity.
- 03
Book qualified meetings
Every meeting is with the right company, the right contact and a timing reason such as an outage, a new contract or a vendor review.
- 04
Nurture the rest
Accounts between outages stay in a follow-up cadence so you are in the conversation when the next scope gets planned.
Every meeting clears three checks before it reaches you
- Right companyAn account that fits the work you want.
- Right contactSomeone who signs or shapes the decision.
- Right timingA stated need or a reason to talk now.
Then it is graded on our 25-point 5 Star Scorecard. What counts as a qualified appointment.
We take one NDT client per territory
If yours is open, a strategist can walk you through the target list, the outreach and the meeting number on one call.
Where the pipeline comes from
The accounts a NDT program calls
- Refineries, chemical and petrochemical plants
Piping, pressure vessels and tanks on inspection intervals, plus turnaround scopes that need UT, PAUT, radiography and visual crews on short notice.
- Power generation and utilities
Boilers, turbines, welds and transmission structures inspected during planned outages, with work planned well ahead of the outage date.
- Steel fabricators and pressure vessel shops
Weld inspection and QA/QC tied to code and customer requirements on every job. Shops without in-house Level III support need a reliable partner.
- Pipeline and midstream operators
Integrity programs, new construction and repair digs all need weld and corrosion inspection across a wide area.
- Heavy civil and structural contractors
Bridges, structural steel and special inspections on building projects, where the GC or owner hires testing and inspection by project.
- Aerospace and heavy manufacturing
Castings, forgings and critical components inspected to customer specifications, often as recurring outsourced work.
Who decides
The people behind a NDT buying decision
- Controls
- Weld inspection requirements, procedures and inspector qualifications on fabrication and construction work.
How to open: Ask how they cover inspection when volume spikes and who reviews the inspector certifications.
- Controls
- Outage scope, scheduling and contractor coordination for planned shutdowns.
How to open: Ask when the next turnaround is and when they lock contractor scope for it.
- Controls
- Master service agreements, safety prequalification and rate sheets.
How to open: Ask what it takes to get prequalified and when the inspection MSAs come up for review.
Reasons to call
What opens a NDT account
- Planned outages and turnarounds
Scopes are built and contractors chosen long before the shutdown. Calling early is how you get included instead of asked to fill gaps.
- A failure, leak or regulator finding
An incident pushes inspection intervals tighter and makes owners rethink whether their current provider caught enough.
- New fabrication or construction contracts
A fabricator or contractor who just won a large job needs weld inspection capacity they may not have.
- Moving to advanced methods
Owners replacing film radiography or manual UT with PAUT, TOFD or digital radiography look for providers with the equipment and qualified people.
- MSA renewals and vendor reviews
Master agreements come up on a cycle, and that is when a new provider gets a chance to prequalify.
Our terms
Why companies hand us the phones
Program commitments
Program expectations and commitments are defined in your agreement. Before launch we agree on what a qualified meeting is, who we call and how results are reported.
Exclusive to your territory
One NDT client per territory. We will not run the same program for your direct competitor in your territory.
A U.S.-based SDR team
Your SDR works under your company's name from our St. Louis campus, home to 500+ U.S.-based team members.
Every meeting graded
Every booked meeting is graded on a 25-point scorecard before it reaches your calendar. Grade a sample call yourself.
Straight answers
What we hear before a program starts
“Our best work comes from referrals.”
Keep every one of them. Referrals close well, but they do not arrive on a schedule and they never reach the accounts that have not heard of you. Outbound adds a source you control, under your name, so a slow referral quarter does not turn into a slow year.
“Our buyers do not answer cold calls.”
Most do not, the first time. That is why your SDR works phone, email and LinkedIn together and keeps going after the first no. Meetings come from persistence and a specific reason to talk, not a clever script.
“We tried an appointment setter and the meetings were junk.”
Then nobody pinned down what a meeting was. Before launch we agree on the definition with you: right company, right contact, right timing. Every meeting is graded on our 25-point 5 Star Scorecard before it reaches your calendar.
“We could hire our own SDR.”
You can. Then the recruiting, training, data, dialer and management are yours, and a hire that does not work out costs months before you know it. With us the SDR, the data and the management come with the program. Program expectations and commitments are defined in your agreement.
Customer results
Client results, published only with approval
We publish a client result after the client approves it and the figure has a period. There is no approved NDT story yet, so we are not showing one. The Success library has approved stories from other industries, and a strategist can introduce you to a current client on request.
Calculate my opportunity
What a NDT pipeline takes, in your numbers
Set a monthly meeting goal and your own conversion rates. Green tags are Abstrakt history, yellow is a broader cross-industry benchmark, gray tags are your inputs. Value appears once you enter your own average.
Illustrative math from your inputs. It updates as you type.
- 1,000dials a month
- 48dials every working day
- 2proposals a month
- 0.4wins a month, on average
- 4.8wins from 12 months at this pace
- 96meetings over 12 months
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Enter your average first-year deal value to see contract value. We do not fill in a number for you.
First-year deal value won each month
First-year deal value from 12 months of wins
How this works: appointments x dials per appointment = outreach, spread over 21 working days. Appointments x your proposal rate x win rate = wins. Wins x your value = contract value: what signed work is worth, not revenue recognized. Fractions are monthly averages. Not a forecast, a quote or a promise.
Decide with the facts
See how Abstrakt works for NDT and Inspection
Abstrakt at a Glance answers the five questions buyers ask before they sign: how it works, what clients got, what calls sound like, what reviewers say and what it costs.
Program commitments
Program expectations and commitments are defined in your agreement. Before launch we agree on what a qualified NDT meeting is, who we call and how results are reported.
Exclusive to your territory
One client per trade per territory: we will not run the same program for your direct competitor in your territory.
Pricing
Outbound BDR programs: starting at $5,000 per month. See what a program includes.
Beyond the calls
What your NDT buyers see after the first conversation
Our SDRs open the door. Our creative and inbound teams make sure what a buyer finds next, your website and the material your reps send, closes the gap.
Sales collateral Sell sheets, case studies and decks for inspections The one-pager in the follow-up email, the case study they forward upstairs, the deck for the first meeting. See the collateral portfolio →
Websites and inbound A website that turns NDT searches into calls Inbound SDR builds the site, content and search presence that turn interest into conversations your team can work. Shown: Meyer Tree Services. See Inbound SDR →
Questions
NDT and Inspection appointment setting, answered
What types of NDT work can outbound support?
UT, MT, PT, RT and VT, advanced methods like PAUT, TOFD and digital radiography, weld inspection and QA/QC, tank, piping and pressure vessel inspection, and structural or special inspection on construction projects.
How do you qualify inspection leads?
By asset type, methods needed, project or outage timing, qualification and safety requirements, and whether the contact can approve or influence the contractor choice.
Can you reach plants that already have an inspection contractor?
Yes. Most have more than one. The goal is to get prequalified and known to the planner before the next outage, so you are asked when scope is assigned.
Do you offer exclusivity?
Yes. We take one NDT and inspection client per territory, so a competing provider will not get the same list or the same messaging.
One partner. Multiple ways to grow.
Sales development is the core of what we do. Search and sales collateral support it, so the buyer hears the same story on the call, on your website and in the follow-up.
Core sales development
- This service is part of
Outbound BDR
A BDR team that builds the target list for your trade and territory, runs phone, email, direct mail and LinkedIn as one campaign, and grades every meeting before you get it.
Pricing starting at $5,000 per month See Outbound BDR -
Enterprise SDR/BDR
Dedicated SDR/BDR teams for Fortune 1000 and large enterprise sales: named accounts, new markets and channel partner recruitment, backed by research from Abstrakt Intelligence.
Custom pricing See Enterprise SDR/BDR
Supporting growth solutions
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Inbound SDR
A website of up to 100 pages, local SEO and a new blog every business day, built to get you found on Google and cited in AI answers.
Packages starting at $1,000 per month See Inbound SDR -
Brand Boost
Sell sheets, case studies, pitch decks, trade show materials, video and direct mail that tell the same story as the call.
Packages starting at $500 per month See Brand Boost
Get Outbound BDR, Inbound SDR and Brand Boost together, starting at $6,500 per month
One team runs the outbound calls, the website and search, and the sales collateral, so every touch tells the same story. Enterprise SDR/BDR is priced custom, to the size of the dedicated team.
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