Decision-Maker Email Finder — Verified B2B Contacts

Find decision-makers (CEO, founder, C-level, VP, director) at any company domain with high-confidence B2B email addresses — built for outbound teams, lead-gen agencies and AI agents.

Give it a list of domains. It crawls each company's homepage plus team / leadership / about / contact pages, extracts people and their roles, infers the company's email pattern from any published addresses, checks the domain's mail (MX) records, and returns ranked contacts with an honest confidence score for every email.

No LLM calls, no proxies needed, fully deterministic.

Honest confidence labels on every email — on-site, pattern-observed, MX-confirmed or guess. No fake "verified" claims; you decide what is safe to send.

AI agent quick start

Actor tool ID: dev-hoss/decision-maker-email-finder

• Send domains (1–200). Filter dataset items by type === "contact" for people; type === "domain-summary" gives coverage (people found, pattern, MX, provider).
• Rank by emailConfidence (on-site > high > medium > low) — the Actor already orders contacts by role seniority, then confidence, capped by maxContactsPerDomain.
• JavaScript-rendered team pages may yield no role-matched people: that is a no-role-match summary, not a failure.

How confidence works (no fake "verified" labels)

Confidence	Meaning
on-site	The company itself published this exact email next to the person
high	The email pattern was observed in ≥2 emails published on the site
medium	The standard first.last@ pattern + the domain has mail (MX) records
low	A pattern guess without corroboration
generic	Role inbox (info@, contact@) — only if you enable generic emails

We deliberately do not claim "verified deliverable" for pattern-based guesses — anyone promising that from a crawler is guessing too. Confidence ranks are honest so you can decide what to send.

Quick start

{
    "domains": ["basecamp.com", "automattic.com"],
    "maxContactsPerDomain": 3
}

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
domains	array (required)	—	1–200 company domains or URLs. A URL path is used as a hint (e.g. https://acme.com/team).
roles	array	senior list	Role keywords to match (case-insensitive, plurals handled). Edit to target departments or specific titles.
maxContactsPerDomain	integer	3	Contacts returned per company, ranked by seniority + confidence.
maxPagesPerDomain	integer	6	Homepage + team/about/contact pages per company.
includeGenericEmails	boolean	false	Also return info@-style inboxes when no person matches.
concurrency	integer	5	Domains processed in parallel.
proxyConfiguration	object	off	Optional. Public pages only — rarely needed.

Output (default dataset)

contact — one per decision-maker:

{
    "type": "contact",
    "company": "basecamp.com",
    "name": "Jason Fried",
    "role": "co-founder",
    "email": "jason.fried@basecamp.com",
    "emailConfidence": "medium",
    "pattern": "first.last",
    "linkedinUrl": null,
    "mxFound": true,
    "mailProvider": "other",
    "sourceUrl": "https://basecamp.com/about",
    "checkedAt": "2026-09-12T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Plus domain-summary (coverage: people found, emails on site, pages fetched, pattern, MX), error (unreachable domains) and info records. Contacts are ranked by role seniority, then email confidence.

Honest limitations

• JavaScript-rendered team pages (e.g. Zapier, GitHub) may yield no role-matched people — the run reports no-role-match instead of pretending. Static HTML sites (most SMB and mid-market companies) work best.
• Emails are pattern-inferred unless published on-site — sendability is never guaranteed. MX + provider checks catch dead domains and webmail, not full SMTP validation.
• Only public pages are visited. No logins, no scraping of LinkedIn member data.

How much does it cost?

Pay per event: a small fee per domain checked plus a fee per contact found (the result itself). Compare: dedicated email-finder SaaS charges $30–$100+/month, and verified-contact actors charge ~$0.14 per contact.

Who is this for?

• Outbound / SDR teams — find the right person at target accounts with a defensible email guess
• Lead-gen agencies — bulk domain lists in, ranked contacts out
• Recruiters & journalists — reach founders and executives directly
• AI agents — enrichment tool calls with structured, schema-documented output

Use with AI agents

Documented JSON input schema, one stable record per contact, no auth beyond the caller's own Apify token. Simplest integration:

POST https://api.apify.com/acts/dev-hoss~decision-maker-email-finder/run-sync-get-dataset-items?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN
Content-Type: application/json
{"domains": ["basecamp.com", "automattic.com"], "maxContactsPerDomain": 3}

Also works with Apify's hosted MCP server (mcp.apify.com).