TCPA compliance for cold calling (DNC, quiet hours, consent)
TCPA fines run $500–$1,500 per violating call. Scrub against DNC, honour 8am–9pm local quiet hours, and log consent. Here's how to enforce it before the dial, not after.
Short answer: to stay TCPA-compliant on cold calls, scrub every number against the national + your internal DNC list, only dial within the recipient's local 8am–9pm window, and keep an auditable consent/record trail. Penalties are $500–$1,500 *per call*, so enforcement has to happen before the dial.
The non-negotiables
- DNC pre-flight on every number — national, state, and your own suppression list.
- Local quiet hours computed from the lead's timezone, not yours.
- Consent + record-keeping for any prior-express-consent claim.
- STIR/SHAKEN attestation so your calls aren't flagged as spam-likely.
Why "after the fact" is too late
Cleaning up violations post-hoc doesn't undo them — each connected call to a DNC number is already a liability. The economics make it cheaper to enforce at the gate.
How Autocloz enforces it
Every dial runs through evaluate_send() — a compliance gate that checks DNC, computes the recipient's local quiet hours, and blocks with a structured reason before any carrier API is called. The audit log proves it.
> Start free — the dial gate is on for every campaign by default.