CEO & Founder Email Finder - Work Emails by Company Domain

Pay per result: $3.096/1k on the Free plan down to $2.296/1k on Gold. Free Apify plan: up to 100 per run, as many runs as your credit covers. Misses and notices are free.

Domain in, CEO and founder work emails out, in one call. Type one company domain and get the CEO, founders and select leadership with a work email that sits on that exact domain. No LinkedIn URL to collect first, no second tool to find the email, no guessed patterns, no personal Gmail addresses.

Domain to CEO + email in one call | Domain-matched work emails | CEO, founder, President, Managing Partner, Chair | Up to 50 candidates per domain | JSON/CSV export

Strict by design. A row is written only when a work email is on record AND it ends in your domain (or a subdomain of it). No match, no row, no charge. Not affiliated with LinkedIn.

See all 10 actors by b2bdata

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💳 Pricing and plans

Pay per result, see the Pricing tab. Free Apify plan: up to 100 results per run, as many runs as your Apify credit covers. Paid plans have no per-run limit. Normal Apify platform usage applies.

A result is one delivered row. Candidates without a matching work email never become rows, so they are not charged.

Success-only billing

You pay for delivered rows only. A failed lookup, an empty search or a notice row is free: failed lookups are free. Each delivered contact is one contact event, charged right after the row is saved. Higher Apify plans pay less per result: Bronze 5% off, Silver 10% off, Gold and above 15% off. Exact numbers are on the Pricing tab.

Add-ons (charged extra)

Add-ons are opt-in inputs, off by default, each charged as its own event and only when it returns data for that row. The primary event is the only charge on a default run.

Lead score and minLeadScore

Every row gets a leadScore from 0 to 100, built only from signals that are really on the row: email domain matching the input domain, title match (CEO, founder, President, Chair), and a domain-matched work email being present. The formula is written out in AGENTS.md. Set minLeadScore (default 0) and rows below it are not pushed and not charged.

Compatible output

Set outputFormat to compatible to get common LinkedIn scraper field names instead of ours, so existing pipelines keep working. The default is default, unchanged. The mapping table is in AGENTS.md.

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⚖️ This vs. the alternatives

	This actor	LinkedIn URL scrapers	Email-pattern guessers	Contact-database subscriptions
You start with	One company domain	A profile URL per person	A name + domain	Seat login
Finds who the CEO or founder is	Yes	No, you supply the person	No, you supply the name	Filters
Returns the email in the same call	Yes	Varies by tool	Yes (guessed)	Database record
Email must match your domain	Yes, enforced	Varies	Yes, by construction	Varies
"Product Owner" or "Talent Partner" sold as a decision maker	Never: strict leadership titles only	n/a	n/a	Common
Personal emails returned	Never	Sometimes	Never	Sometimes
Rows with no email	Never written	Written anyway	Written anyway	Written anyway
Email on your domain	Always, or no row	Varies	Sometimes	Sometimes
Pay for empty lookups	No	Varies	Varies	Subscription
Cost per result	Pay per result, see Pricing tab	Per profile	Credit-based	Per-seat plan

Every email returned ends in the domain you asked for. We also guarantee the address belongs to the domain you asked for and to a person with a leadership title there.

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⚡ Why this actor?

• Domain in, founder out. One field. Paste openai.com or https://www.openai.com/about and it normalizes to the host.
• Founders get their own search. Founder rows are pulled first, then CEO and other leadership, so a company with a long exec list does not crowd out its founders.
• Spam profiles are filtered. Roster rows flagged low-signal, profiles with under 10 connections, and assistant, office-of, executive-operations and chief-of-staff titles are skipped before any lookup.
• No false "owners". "Owner" and "Principal" are excluded on purpose, so Product Owner and Principal Engineer do not show up as leadership.
• Retries built in. Lookups retry up to 3 times with backoff on rate limits and server errors. A failed profile is counted and the run continues.

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🎯 Use cases

• Founder-led outbound. Take a list of seed-stage domains and get the founder's work email for each. Pair with company-firmographics-by-domain to confirm the company first.
• Investor and partner outreach. Get the CEO or Managing Partner at a firm from its domain.
• Account-based sales. Reach the top decision-maker, then widen with executive-email-finder-by-domain for VPs and Directors.
• PR and press. Find the president or chair of a company before you pitch.
• CRM enrichment. Fill the missing leadership contact on accounts you already own.
• Partnership scouting. Find the right person at a target company from a company list built with linkedin-company-search.

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🔗 Pipeline guide: from keyword to contact

This actor is step 3 (top of the org chart). Chain four b2bdata actors and you go from a keyword to a contact:

keyword: "fintech", countries: "uk, de"
        |
        v
 [1] linkedin-company-search        -> company page URL, name
        |
        v
 [2] company-firmographics-by-domain  -> company domain + firmographics
        |
        v
 [3] ceo-founder-email-finder-by-domain  <-- you are here
     (or executive-email-finder-by-domain for VP / Director)
        |            -> name, title, contactType, work email
        v
 [4] email-phone-finder             -> phone for the chosen person

All of them are on the publisher page: See all 10 actors by b2bdata. Each step reads the previous step's dataset, so a Make or n8n scenario chains them without code. This actor takes one domain per run, so loop over your domain list from the scenario.

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🚀 Quick start

Open the actor, type a domain, press Start. Or send JSON. Three examples:

1. One company, everything we can find

{
  "domain": "openai.com"
}

2. Paste a URL, it still works

{
  "domain": "https://www.stripe.com/about",
  "maxCandidates": 25
}

3. Cheap test run

{
  "domain": "notion.so",
  "maxCandidates": 5
}

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⚙️ Inputs

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
domain	string	Yes	none (prefill openai.com)	One company domain. A URL is accepted and reduced to its host (scheme, www. and path are stripped).
maxCandidates	integer	No	50	How many leadership candidates to inspect, 1 to 50. It caps lookups, not billing: you pay only for rows that come out. Values outside 1 to 50 are rejected.

Tip: maxCandidates is the number of people we look up, not the number of rows you get. Many candidates have no matching work email, so ask for more than the rows you want.

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Advanced inputs (API users)

These fields are hidden in the Console form and meant for API and automation use.

Field	Type	Default	What it does
maxChargeUsd	number	0 (off)	Stops the run when this run's charges reach the amount. The run ends SUCCEEDED with the rows already delivered and one free explanation row (max_charge_reached). The check runs after each charge, so a run can exceed the amount by one result.
sourceTag	string, up to 100 characters	empty	Copied onto every result row as sourceTag and into the OUTPUT record, so a CRM or Clay table can match results to the request that produced them. Explanation rows never carry it.

Match fields

Every result row carries matchMethod (how the row was matched) and confidence (high, medium or low). The exact rule for this actor is written out in AGENTS.md. Confidence is derived only from evidence the actor really has; where it has none, the row says medium or low instead of guessing.

📤 Output

One dataset row per leadership contact with a matching work email.

{
  "inputDomain": "openai.com",
  "fullName": "Jane Doe",
  "title": "Co-Founder and CEO",
  "contactType": "founder",
  "country": "US",
  "location": "San Francisco",
  "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/example",
  "workEmail": "jane.doe[at]openai.com",
  "retrievedAt": "2026-10-11T08:30:00.000Z"
}

The sample is illustrative. Real rows carry a normal email address (shown with [at] here). contactType is ceo, founder or leadership (President, Managing Partner, Chair). A person who is both CEO and founder is labelled founder.

Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML from the Output tab, or read the dataset over the API.

Run summary

Each run also writes an OUTPUT record to the key-value store with the counts: candidatesFound, leadershipCandidatesSelected, selectedWithWorkEmailFlag, profilesEnriched, matchedWorkEmailRecords, skippedWithoutMatchedWorkEmail, skippedLowSignalProfile, failedProfileEnrichments, plus the requested and effective candidate limits and a status (completed, max_charge_reached or free_plan_limit). Use it to see why a domain returned few rows.

Timestamp

Every row carries retrievedAt (ISO 8601). There is no scrapedAt field; retrievedAt is the same idea.

What is NOT returned

• ❌ Personal email addresses (Gmail, Yahoo and the like)
• ❌ Work emails on a different company's domain
• ❌ Candidates with no matching work email (no placeholder rows)
• ❌ Phone numbers (use email-phone-finder)
• ❌ VPs and Directors (use executive-email-finder-by-domain)
• ❌ "Owner" and "Principal" titles

Fields with no value come through as null on the optional fields (country, location, linkedinUrl).

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🛡️ Reliable results

Our data promise. We work to keep every contact current, and we stand behind it. If a record is outdated, an email bounces or a person has moved on, open the Issues tab with your run link. We review every report and sort it out with you, case by case.

• Retry with backoff. Up to 3 attempts per lookup on HTTP 429 and 5xx, with a 30 second timeout per request. Client errors such as a removed profile are not retried.
• One bad profile does not stop the run. It is counted in failedProfileEnrichments and the next candidate is processed.
• Paced lookups. About 1.5 seconds between profile lookups, so 50 candidates take a couple of minutes.
• Free plan. Free Apify accounts get up to 100 results per run, as many runs as their Apify credit covers. Results are charged as usual. A run inspects at most 50 candidates, so in practice free and paid runs return the same rows.
• Bad input fails fast. A domain that is not valid, or maxCandidates outside 1 to 50, stops the run with a plain message before any lookup.

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🤖 For AI agents

This section is written for an LLM agent that calls this actor as a tool, through the Apify MCP server or the API. Humans: it doubles as a one-screen contract.

When to use this actor, and when to use a sister actor

• Use b2bdata/ceo-founder-email-finder-by-domain when you have ONE company domain and want the CEO, founder or top-leadership work email.
• executive-email-finder-by-domain: same input, but C-suite, VP and Director levels.
• company-firmographics-by-domain: you need to confirm what the company is, or get firmographics for up to 100 domains.
• linkedin-company-search: you have a company name, not a domain.
• email-phone-finder: you already have a person and need a phone or more contact details.
• linkedin-person-search: you know a person's name and company and want the profile.
• linkedin-employee-search and linkedin-people-search: you want people by company or by role, with no email requirement.
• linkedin-leads-verified-work-emails: you want a lead list built by title and seniority, not a single domain.

Input contract

Field	Type	Default	Notes
domain	string	required	One domain or URL. Not a list. Not a company name.
maxCandidates	integer 1-50	50	People inspected, not rows returned. Out of range is rejected.

Required: domain only. Send only the fields you need.

Output contract

Each item: inputDomain (string), fullName (string or null), title (string or null), contactType ("ceo", "founder" or "leadership"), country (string or null), location (string or null), linkedinUrl (string or null), workEmail (string, always on the input domain or a subdomain), retrievedAt (ISO string). Nothing else is returned. Every dataset item is a real contact: there are no status rows, an empty dataset means no match. The OUTPUT record in the key-value store holds the counts.

Cost per call

You pay per row delivered, plus Apify platform usage. A domain with no matching work email costs no result charge. Free Apify plans get up to 100 results per run; paid plans have no per-run limit. Test with maxCandidates 5 first.

Idempotency and rate advice

Same input, similar run, but results can change as the underlying records change, so two runs may differ. Deduplicate on workEmail. One domain per run: for a list, launch a separate run for each domain from your scenario, a few at a time. Do not re-run a domain that returned an empty dataset more than once.

Chaining

Take workEmail, fullName and linkedinUrl from each row. For phone or more detail on the person, pass the email to email-phone-finder. If the dataset is empty, try executive-email-finder-by-domain on the same domain for VP and Director levels before giving up.

Error cases and what to do

Situation	What you see	What to do
No leadership contact has a matching work email	Run SUCCEEDED, empty dataset, OUTPUT.matchedWorkEmailRecords is 0	Read OUTPUT for the reason. Try the sister actor for VP and Director. Do not retry the same domain more than once.
Invalid domain	Run fails with "domain must be a valid company domain."	Pass a real domain such as openai.com. A company name is not a domain.
maxCandidates out of range	Run fails with "maxCandidates must be between 1 and 50."	Use 1 to 50.
Free Apify plan, 100 results per run reached	Run SUCCEEDED with the first 100 results plus one free explanation row (free_plan_limit)	Run again for more; a paid Apify plan removes the limit.
Upstream busy or slow	Warnings in the log, run still finishes	Rows already delivered are kept. Retry later if the dataset is short.
Few rows for a big company	skippedWithoutMatchedWorkEmail high in OUTPUT	Normal. Raise maxCandidates toward 50.

Minimal call

{
  "domain": "openai.com",
  "maxCandidates": 10
}

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🔌 Integrations: send results anywhere

Every run writes to an Apify dataset. Dataset items from CEO, Founder & Leadership Email Finder by Domain carry inputDomain, fullName, title, contactType, country, location, linkedinUrl, workEmail, retrievedAt. Actor id for all recipes: b2bdata/ceo-founder-email-finder-by-domain (in API URLs, write it as b2bdata~ceo-founder-email-finder-by-domain). Everything below uses the public Apify API and your own Apify token. Native means an Apify integration exists; CSV and automation routes are marked as such.

1. Fetch results over the API (native)

Send the token in a header, never in the URL. Latest successful run, as JSON, CSV or Excel:

curl -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/b2bdata~ceo-founder-email-finder-by-domain/runs/last/dataset/items?format=json&clean=true&status=SUCCEEDED"

Swap format=json for format=csv or format=xlsx (jsonl also works). clean=true drops empty items and hidden fields. Pick fields with jq:

curl -s -H "Authorization: Bearer $APIFY_TOKEN" "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/b2bdata~ceo-founder-email-finder-by-domain/runs/last/dataset/items?format=json&clean=true&status=SUCCEEDED" | jq '.[] | {name, url}'

Replace name and url with any field names from the output list above. For a specific run, use https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/<datasetId>/items?format=json.

One-shot call (start a run and wait for its items, limited to 300 seconds): POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/b2bdata~ceo-founder-email-finder-by-domain/run-sync-get-dataset-items?format=json&clean=true with the Actor input as the JSON body and the same Authorization header. For longer runs, start the run normally and fetch the dataset afterwards.

2. Webhook on run success (native)

In the Actor's Integrations tab (or via the API) add a webhook with event type ACTOR.RUN.SUCCEEDED and your own endpoint as the request URL. Apify sends a POST with the default payload, which contains the run under resource. Your endpoint reads resource.defaultDatasetId and calls the dataset items URL from recipe 1 with it. To send a smaller body, set a custom payload template: a JSON object whose values are Apify variables in double curly braces (resource, eventType, userId, createdAt, eventData), with nested values by dot, for example the run id as resource.id and the dataset id as resource.defaultDatasetId. Switch on "Interpolate variables in string fields" in Apify Console when you quote them.

3. n8n (native node)

Apify node, operation "Run an Actor and get dataset" (or "Run an Actor", then "Get dataset items" from the Datasets resource). Select b2bdata/ceo-founder-email-finder-by-domain, paste the Actor input as JSON, and connect your Apify token as a credential. Each dataset item becomes one n8n item, so map inputDomain, fullName, title, contactType, country, location, linkedinUrl, workEmail, retrievedAt straight into the next node. The Apify node also has an "On new Apify event" trigger for run-finished events.

4. Make (native app)

Apify app: module "Run an Actor" with b2bdata/ceo-founder-email-finder-by-domain (or the trigger "Watch Actor Runs" for scheduled or manual runs), then the search module "Get Dataset Items" using the run's default dataset id. Each returned bundle is one row, so map inputDomain, fullName, title, contactType, country, location, linkedinUrl, workEmail, retrievedAt into your destination module.

5. Zapier (native app)

Apify app: trigger "Finished Actor run" (or action "Run Actor" with b2bdata/ceo-founder-email-finder-by-domain), then the search "Fetch dataset items" with the run's default dataset id. Map inputDomain, fullName, title, contactType, country, location, linkedinUrl, workEmail, retrievedAt into your destination step. Add a Looping or similar step if your Zap needs one action per item.

6. Google Sheets

Apify's Store has a "Google Sheets Import & Export" Actor that you add on this Actor's Integrations tab, then choose append or replace mode and paste your spreadsheet URL. This needs a one-time Google login. Alternative with no extra Actor: Make or Zapier recipes above with their own Google Sheets module.

7. Clay (HTTP API)

In Clay, create an HTTP API request with method GET, URL https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/b2bdata~ceo-founder-email-finder-by-domain/runs/last/dataset/items?format=json&clean=true&status=SUCCEEDED, and a header Authorization: Bearer <your Apify token>. Treat each returned item as a row and chain your enrichment columns after it.

8. Airtable, HubSpot, Salesforce

No native Apify connector is used here. Two routes:

• CSV: download with format=csv (recipe 1) or from the dataset's Export button, then use the tool's own import (Airtable CSV import, HubSpot Import, Salesforce Data Import Wizard or Data Loader). Use a unique field such as the URL as the dedupe key.
• Automation: use the n8n, Make or Zapier recipe above and the CRM's module there. Their setup and field limits are theirs to define.

9. Map the fields

CEO, Founder & Leadership Email Finder by Domain returns inputDomain, fullName, title, contactType, country, location, linkedinUrl, workEmail, retrievedAt. Typical placement in a CRM (create custom properties where your CRM has no match):

Output field type	Typical CRM placement
Person name	Contact name (first and last)
Job title or role	Contact job title
Company name	Company or account name
Website or domain	Company website or domain
Profile or page URL	Custom text field, also your dedupe key
Location (city, country)	Contact or company location fields
Email, phone (if returned)	Contact email, phone
Industry, size (if returned)	Company industry, employee count
Run date	Custom date field ("Sourced on")

All recipes use the public Apify API; nothing is stored by the publisher.

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🕐 Schedule examples

Use Apify Schedules (cron) on a saved task, one task per domain.

• Weekly watch on one account: 0 6 * * 1, domain of a target account, maxCandidates 10. Compare workEmail against last week's dataset to spot a new CEO or founder.
• Monthly refresh of a priority list: 0 6 1 * *, one task per domain, results sent to your CRM through a webhook.
• Pre-event sweep: the day before a trade show, run the exhibitor domains you care about.

Keep scheduled runs small. A schedule you forget is still billed.

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🔗 Related actors

More from the publisher: See all 10 actors by b2bdata

• executive-email-finder-by-domain: C-suite, VP and Director contacts by domain.
• company-firmographics-by-domain: firmographics for a domain.
• linkedin-company-search: find company pages by name.
• linkedin-employee-search: employees of a company.
• linkedin-person-search: find a named person.
• linkedin-people-search: people by role and keyword.
• linkedin-leads-verified-work-emails: lead lists.
• email-phone-finder: phone and details for a person.

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❓ FAQ

Data & coverage

Q: How do I find a CEO's email from a domain? A: Put the domain in domain and press Start. If a CEO or founder has a work email on record at that domain, you get a row with workEmail.

Q: Why did I get zero rows? A: No eligible leadership person had a work email on that domain. Read the OUTPUT record: it shows how many candidates were found, how many were skipped and why. Small companies often have no email on record.

Q: Why not just guess first.last at the domain? A: Guesses bounce. This actor only returns an address that is on record for the person and ends in your domain. Every email returned ends in your domain.

Q: Which titles count as leadership? A: CEO, Chief Executive Officer, Founder, Co-founder, President, Managing Partner and Chair (Chairman, Chairwoman, Chairperson). Vice presidents are not included. "Owner" and "Principal" are excluded on purpose.

Q: Why not match "Owner" or "Partner" like cheaper finders do? A: Because it fills your list with the wrong people. We ran a popular cheap decision-maker finder on a well-known software company: 3 of its 8 "CEO / founder / owner" rows were a Junior Product Owner, a Product Owner and a Talent Acquisition Partner. That is 38% of the list you would email by mistake. We only match CEO, founder, co-founder, President (not VP), Managing Partner and Chair, so every row is someone who can actually say yes.

Q: Does it return personal emails? A: No. Only work emails on the domain you passed or one of its subdomains.

Q: Can I pass a list of domains? A: One domain per run. Start one run per domain from Make, n8n or the API.

Q: What if the person left the company? A: Titles come from records that can be out of date. Emails are returned only when they end in your domain; confirm the person's current role before a high-stakes send.

Q: Am I charged for failed lookups? A: No. Failed lookups are free. You pay one contact event per delivered contact; empty results and notice rows cost nothing.

Q: What are add-ons and are they on by default? A: Add-ons are opt-in inputs, off by default. Each is its own billed event, charged only when it returns data for that row.

Q: What is the lead score and can I filter on it? A: leadScore is 0 to 100, built from signals really on the row. Set minLeadScore and lower-scoring rows are not pushed and not charged.

Q: Can I keep my existing field names? A: Yes. Set outputFormat to compatible for common LinkedIn scraper field names. Default output is unchanged.

Legality & compliance

Q: Is this legal? A: Not legal advice. The actor uses publicly available data only and does not sign in anywhere. Leadership names and work emails can count as personal data under privacy laws, which means you must have a lawful reason to contact them. Send any legal claim or removal request to Apify support (https://apify.com/contact), which forwards it to us.

Q: Is the output personal data? A: Yes. A named person with a work email is personal data under GDPR and similar laws. If you hold it, you are the data controller.

Q: Is it GDPR and CCPA compliant? A: The duties sit with you as controller: lawful basis, notices, opt-outs, deletion. The Master Terms below explain who does what.

Q: Can I use the emails for cold outreach? A: Cold email is regulated differently in each country. B2B outreach is allowed in some places and needs consent in others. Follow the anti-spam and privacy rules of every country you contact, and honour opt-outs.

Q: Do you store my results? A: No. We keep no copy of your result data. It lives in your Apify account.

Q: Does it break LinkedIn's terms of service? A: The actor does not sign in to LinkedIn or use any account. Profile URLs in the output are plain links to public pages. Making sure your use is allowed under the rules that apply to you is on you.

Q: Can my account be blocked? A: Your Apify account can be limited if you break the Terms below. Nothing of yours is used on any third-party site.

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🛟 Support

Use the Issues tab on this actor's Apify page for bugs, questions and feature requests. We answer within 24 hours on working days. Please include the run ID and the domain you used.

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📜 Legal

Use for B2B prospecting only. Comply with all applicable laws including GDPR, CCPA, and CAN-SPAM.

Not affiliated with LinkedIn. The LinkedIn name belongs to its respective owner. This actor returns work contact records for people with leadership titles at the company domain you provide. It does not log in, use cookies, access private pages or bypass authentication. Published on Apify by b2bdata as proprietary software.

📜 Master Terms of Service

Publisher: b2bdata (the "Publisher"), an independent developer publishing on the Apify platform. Applies to: CEO, Founder & Leadership Email Finder by Domain (the "Actor"). Version: 1.0.

Acceptance by use

By running the Actor, calling it through the Apify API, the Apify MCP server or any integration, or letting a schedule or an AI agent run it for you, you accept these Terms. This is acceptance by use. No signature is needed.

If you run the Actor on behalf of a company, you confirm you may bind that company. If you do not accept these Terms, do not run the Actor. Continued use after we update the Terms is acceptance of the update. Anonymous or automated use does not remove your responsibility: the Apify account that starts the run is the accountable party.

Preamble: how the Actor is built

The Actor is a thin wrapper over an independent search index. It does not log in to anything, does not use cookies or accounts, and does not fetch pages from the source platform. We are a software vendor. We ship code that turns a query into a structured result. We do not own, host or curate the underlying data.

You / your agent
      |  input (query, filters)
      v
  The Actor (the Publisher's code, runs on Apify)
      |  search request
      v
  An independent search index of publicly indexed data
      |  public result rows
      v
  The Actor (normalises, deduplicates, saves to your dataset)
      |
      v
  Your Apify dataset (you control it)

Each party has one job. The index holds publicly indexed data. The Actor reshapes it. You decide what to search for, what to keep and what to do with it. We keep no copy of your queries or your results once the run ends, beyond what Apify itself stores in your account and what we need for billing and abuse prevention.

1. Nature of the service

1.1 What the Actor is

A software tool that searches publicly indexed data and returns structured rows to your Apify dataset. It is a data-discovery utility, nothing more.

1.2 What the Actor is not

It is not a scraper of the source platform, not an official integration, not a credit bureau, not a background-check service, not an employment or tenant screening tool, and not a source of legal, financial or compliance advice. Results are leads and pointers. They are not verified facts.

1.3 The publisher's limited role

We write and maintain the code. We do not review individual runs, individual results or individual users. We do not guarantee that a result is accurate, current, complete or lawful to use for your purpose.

1.4 Third-party infrastructure

The Actor depends on the Apify platform and on an independent search index. We do not control either. Their availability, rules and changes can affect the Actor at any time.

2. Who may use the Actor

2.1 Eligibility

You must be at least 18, have the legal capacity to contract, and not be barred from using the Apify platform or from receiving services under applicable sanctions or export laws.

2.2 Your representations

By running the Actor you represent that you have a lawful purpose, that you will follow the laws that apply to you and to the people whose data you handle, and that the information on your Apify account is accurate.

3. Permitted uses

Lawful business uses, including market research, account and lead discovery, competitive analysis, recruiting research done in line with local law, investment research, data enrichment of records you are entitled to hold, and building your own internal tools. Any use must comply with Section 4 and Section 6.

4. Prohibited uses

4.1 Illegal activity

Any use that violates a law or regulation that applies to you, to us or to the people in the data.

4.2 Harassment, stalking and personal targeting

Locating, monitoring, intimidating or pressuring a private individual.

4.3 Discrimination

Using results to exclude or disadvantage people on a protected characteristic, including in hiring, lending, housing or insurance decisions.

4.4 Spam and unsolicited commercial communication

Sending bulk messages in breach of anti-spam, e-privacy or telemarketing rules (for example CAN-SPAM, PECR, CASL, GDPR consent rules).

4.5 Fraud and deception

Phishing, impersonation, social engineering, fake profiles or any scheme to mislead.

4.6 Source platform abuse

Using the Actor to evade a block, rate limit or enforcement action by the source platform, or to build a service that competes with the source platform by copying its data wholesale.

4.7 Reselling the Actor's service

Reselling or sub-licensing access to the Actor, or republishing raw output as a competing data product, without our written permission.

4.8 AI training without authorization

Using raw output to train a model that identifies or profiles individuals, without a lawful basis and without checking the source platform's terms.

4.9 Sensitive targeting

Building lists based on health, religion, ethnicity, political opinion, sexual orientation, union membership, immigration status, criminal history or any other special category of data.

4.10 Privacy law violations

Any processing of personal data without a lawful basis, without required notices, or in breach of a data subject's rights.

5. Source platform terms: your responsibility

5.1 Acknowledgment

The source platform named in the Addendum has its own terms. We have no contract with you about them and we do not interpret them for you.

5.2 Your sole responsibility

You alone are responsible for checking whether your use of results is allowed under the source platform's terms and under the law of your jurisdiction. Running the Actor is not a statement by us that your use is allowed.

5.3 Cease-and-desist compliance

If the source platform, a rights holder or a regulator sends us a valid cease-and-desist or takedown notice about specific use of the Actor, we will act on it. If we forward such a notice to you, you must stop the named use within 48 hours of receipt and confirm in writing. We may suspend your access immediately while we assess the notice.

6. Data protection

6.1 Roles under privacy law

For the data you collect with the Actor, you are the data controller (or business, under CCPA). Apify and its infrastructure act for you as processor or service provider under their own terms. We, as the publisher of the code, do not decide the purposes or means of your processing and do not receive your result data.

6.2 No data retention by the publisher

We do not retain your result data. We do not build a database from your runs. We keep only what is needed for billing, security and abuse prevention, such as run metadata and support correspondence.

6.3 Your obligations as data controller

You must have a lawful basis (GDPR, UK GDPR), give required notices, honour access, deletion and objection requests, respect opt-outs and "do not sell or share" rights (CCPA/CPRA), keep records, protect the data, and delete it when you no longer need it.

6.4 Sensitive data targeting

You must not use the Actor to target special-category data (see 4.9). If sensitive data appears in results, you must delete it or handle it under the stricter rules that apply.

6.5 Data subject requests

If a person contacts us about data you collected, we will refer them to you and may ask you to confirm you have handled the request.

7. Intellectual property

7.1 Actor code

The Actor, its code, schemas, documentation and branding belong to the Publisher. This is proprietary software. No licence is granted except the right to run the Actor under these Terms.

7.2 Output data

We claim no ownership of the output. Rights in underlying data belong to their owners. You are responsible for how you use it.

7.3 Restrictions

No reverse engineering, copying of the Actor, or removal of notices, except where the law gives you that right regardless.

7.4 Feedback

If you send feedback or bug reports, we may use them freely to improve the Actor, without payment, and without crediting you.

8. Pricing and payment

8.1 Apify platform billing

Charges are set on the Actor's Pricing tab and billed by Apify. Platform usage costs may also apply, as shown by Apify. We do not handle your payment details.

8.2 Pricing changes

We may change prices. For any increase we give at least 14 days' notice through the Apify platform's change-notification process before it takes effect.

8.3 No refunds for misuse

Results delivered as described are billable. Charges for runs you configured wrongly, repeated by a schedule you forgot, or started by an agent you control are your responsibility. Refund requests for platform or Actor faults go through Apify support or to us.

9. Service availability and changes

9.1 No uptime guarantee

We give no uptime, latency, volume or coverage guarantee. Runs can return fewer results than you asked for, or none, because the underlying index changes.

9.2 Service discontinuation

We may change, limit or stop the Actor at any time. We will try to give notice on the Actor page when practical.

10. Disclaimers

10.1 "As is" service

The Actor is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, including merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy and non-infringement.

10.2 No representation of lawfulness

We do not represent that your intended use is lawful.

10.3 No endorsement of source content

Results are not endorsed, verified or vouched for by us. Names can be wrong, profiles can be outdated and similarly named entities can be mixed up.

11. Limitation of liability

11.1 Aggregate cap

To the maximum extent the law allows, our total liability for all claims relating to the Actor is limited to the greater of USD 100 or the fees you paid for the Actor in the 3 months before the event that gave rise to the claim.

11.2 Excluded damages

We are not liable for indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, or for lost profit, lost revenue, lost data or lost goodwill, even if advised of the possibility.

11.3 Time limit

Any claim must be brought within 1 year after it arose.

12. Indemnification

12.1 Your indemnification of the publisher

You will indemnify and hold harmless the Publisher, its owners and contractors from claims, losses and reasonable legal costs arising from your use of the Actor or its output, your breach of these Terms, or your violation of any law or third-party right.

12.2 Defense

We will tell you promptly about a claim. You may control the defense, but you may not settle in a way that admits fault for us without our written consent.

12.3 Scope

This applies whatever the legal theory, and survives termination.

13. Suspension and termination

13.1 Termination by the publisher

We may suspend or end your access at any time, with or without notice, especially for a breach of Section 4 or a valid notice under 5.3.

13.2 Effects of termination

Rights to run the Actor stop. Sections that by nature survive (IP, disclaimers, liability, indemnification, disputes) continue.

13.3 Termination by you

Stop running the Actor and delete your schedules and integrations.

14. Dispute resolution

14.1 Informal resolution first

Before any formal action, raise the dispute through Apify support or the Actor's issue tab on Apify, and allow 60 days for a good-faith resolution. The Issues tab is for product questions only and is not a channel for legal notices.

14.2 Apify's process next

If the informal step fails, raise the matter through Apify's dispute and support channels. Your contractual relationship for payment, refunds and platform access is with Apify, under Apify's Terms of Service.

14.3 No chosen court

These Terms do not select a governing law or a court. Any claim that survives 14.1 and 14.2 is subject to the law and forum that apply by default to a dispute between you and an individual software developer reached through Apify.

14.4 No class actions

Claims may be brought only on an individual basis, not as a plaintiff or class member in a class, collective or representative action.

14.5 Attorneys' fees

The prevailing party may recover reasonable attorneys' fees where the law allows.

15. Miscellaneous

15.1 Entire agreement

These Terms, with the Addendum, are the whole agreement about the Actor. Apify's own terms continue to apply to the platform.

15.2 Severability

If a provision is unenforceable, the rest stays in force.

15.3 Assignment

You may not assign these Terms. We may assign them in a merger, sale or reorganisation.

15.4 Force majeure

Neither party is liable for delay caused by events beyond reasonable control, including outages of the platform or of upstream infrastructure.

15.5 Third-party beneficiaries

There are none, except that the Publisher's owners, contractors and affiliates may enforce the protections in Sections 10 to 12.

15.6 Survival

Sections 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12 and 14 survive termination.

15.7 Language

The English text controls.

15.8 Publisher identification for legal process

All legal notices, takedown requests, cease-and-desist letters, regulator enquiries and data-subject requests must be directed to Apify (https://apify.com/contact), which forwards them to the Publisher. The Publisher operates on Apify under the username b2bdata. The Publisher's identity is held by Apify for billing and is provided to courts and authorities through valid legal process directed via Apify's official channels. We do not publish personal details on the Actor page.

16. Acknowledgment

By running the Actor you confirm you have read these Terms, that you understand you act as the data controller of what you collect, and that you are responsible for lawful use.

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🛡️ Actor-Specific ToS Addendum: CEO, Founder & Leadership Email Finder by Domain

A. Architectural disclosure

The actor sends your domain to a licensed professional-data service and reads back leadership candidates and their contact records. It keeps a row only when a work email on record matches your domain. For this actor, the "independent index" described in the Master Terms is that service. It does not call LinkedIn, does not log in and does not use cookies.

B. Source platform

Profile URLs in the output point to LinkedIn. LinkedIn is not affiliated with, and has not endorsed, this actor. Your use of LinkedIn data is governed by LinkedIn's terms and by the law that applies to you (Section 5 of the Master Terms).

C. Output and accuracy

Titles can be out of date. Every email returned ends in your domain.

D. Personal contact data

Rows contain names and work emails of identifiable people. You act as the data controller of them (Section 6 of the Master Terms). Do not use the output for the prohibited uses in Section 4, in particular spam and sensitive targeting.

E. Limits

Up to 50 candidates inspected per run, one domain per run. Free Apify plans get up to 100 results per run; paid plans have no per-run limit.

F. Feedback

To flag a problem on any b2bdata actor, run b2bdata/supporter-feedback (free, no rewards) or post in the Issues tab here.

G. Takedown

If a person or company asks that their record be removed, or a platform or regulator asks that specific use of this actor stop, send the request through Apify (https://apify.com/contact) or the actor's issue tab. Section 5.3 of the Master Terms (48 hours) applies.