# Changelog of Decision Maker Finder | Find CEOs, Founders, Emails (`aurelix/decision-maker-finder`) Actor

- **URL**: https://apify.com/aurelix/decision-maker-finder/changelog.md
- **Full Actor documentation**: https://apify.com/aurelix/decision-maker-finder.md

## Changelog: Decision Maker Finder

### 0.1

- Rival inputs are read as-is (domain, decision_maker_category, max_leads_to_find, domainList, company_domains), seniority and function values such as 'CEO' or 'tech' are understood, and company names or LinkedIn pages in the domain list are skipped and named in the status message.
- Each decision-maker now carries the LinkedIn and X profile linked on their own team card (linkedin_url, twitter_url); free-mail work addresses shown with the person are kept.
- A work email is returned with a person only when the mailbox names that person; an address shown beside a different person is left empty, and a phone number the site also shows as its main line is no longer given to one person.
- Price $0.90 per 1,000 decision-makers ($0.70 on paid plans), was $2.00 ($1.40).
- The prefilled example reads 6 pages and returns up to 10 people per company, to keep a first run cheap.
- Use-case pages are no longer read as team pages, so customer quotes there are not returned as employees.
- Titles naming a role at another organisation are dropped while titles naming the company's own department or region are kept, French board chair titles are excluded, and section headings are never returned as people.
- Store page corrected: detection is described as best-effort, with a note to verify names and titles before outreach.
- CEOs with uncommon first names are found on team cards, a chief of staff is classed as director, companies cut short by the run timeout are reported as stopped early, and a timed-out connection is retried once.
- Reachable sites with slow pages are no longer dropped as timed out.
- Board members, advisors and investors are excluded, and removal requests also match names written with or without apostrophes and hyphens.
- Partner, customer and case-study pages and customer quotes are skipped.
- Removal requests match name variants: middle initials, reversed order, honorifics, suffixes and accents.
- The run stops before its timeout and keeps the decision-makers found so far.
- Dead or unreachable domains fail fast, so they add almost no run time.
- People are taken only from team, leadership and about pages, no longer from the homepage or contact page.
- The company LinkedIn link comes only from company accounts, never from a person's profile.
- A domain that redirects to a domain on the removal list is now withheld as well.
- First release: decision-makers from team, leadership and about pages with seniority and function, published work email and phone, seniority and function filters, suppression list, robots.txt always obeyed.