📧 B2B Email Finder

Find and validate professional email addresses for any prospect — just provide a name and company domain.

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🔍 Overview

B2B Email Finder is an Apify Actor designed to find and verify professional email addresses specifically for B2B outreach. By inputting a prospect's first name, last name, and company domain, this actor works to find and confirm their email address. It performs various checks, including format validation, disposable email detection, webmail identification, and live SMTP verification.

No more guessing john.doe@company.com or wasting time on bounced outreach. This actor gives you a validated, deliverable email address.

What It Can Do

• ✅ Generate professional email address suggestions based on popular naming patterns
• ✅ Validate the format and structure of email addresses
• ✅ Identify disposable (temporary) email providers
• ✅ Recognize webmail addresses like Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook, and others
• ✅ Conduct live SMTP verification to ensure the mailbox is real
• ✅ Flag any gibberish or auto-generated-looking addresses

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🚀 How to Use It

Step 1 — Sign up for Apify

Go to apify.com and create a free account. New users get $5 in free credits — enough to validate hundreds of emails right away, with no credit card required.

Step 2 — Open the Actor

Find B2B Email Finder in the Apify Store and click Try for free.

Step 3 — Fill in the input

Provide the prospect's first name, last name, and their company's domain (e.g., apify.com, not the full URL).

Step 4 — Run and collect results

Click Start and within seconds you'll see validated email results in the output dataset. You can download results as JSON or CSV, or connect them directly to your CRM or workflow.

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📥 Input Example

{
  "firstName": "Jane",
  "lastName": "Doe",
  "companyDomain": "apify.com"
}

Field	Type	Required	Description
firstName	string	✅	Prospect's first name
lastName	string	✅	Prospect's last name
companyDomain	string	✅	Company website domain (e.g., apify.com)

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📤 Output Example

{
  "email": "jane.doe@apify.com",
  "smtp_status": "valid",
  "is_valid_format": true,
  "is_disposable": false,
  "is_webmail": false,
  "is_gibberish": false
}

Field	Type	Description
email	string	The email address that was validated
smtp_status	string	SMTP check result: valid, invalid, or unknown
is_valid_format	boolean	Whether the email has a valid format
is_disposable	boolean	Whether it belongs to a disposable/throwaway provider
is_webmail	boolean	Whether it's a webmail address (Gmail, Yahoo, etc.)
is_gibberish	boolean	Whether the address looks auto-generated or like gibberish

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🤖 How to Integrate It in an AI Agent

Apify makes it easy to plug this actor directly into your AI agent workflows — no custom backend needed.

Option 1 — Apify MCP Server (for Claude, GPT, and other AI agents)

Apify provides a native MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that lets AI agents like Claude call Apify actors as tools in real time.

1. Go to your Apify Console → Integrations → MCP Server
2. Copy your MCP endpoint URL
3. Add it as an MCP tool in your AI agent setup
4. Your agent can now call B2B Email Finder as a live tool — passing a name and domain, and getting back a validated email mid-conversation

Option 2 — Apify API

Read more about the API documentation

Option 3 — Zapier, Make, or n8n (no-code automation)

Use Apify's native Zapier or Make integrations to trigger the actor from any workflow — for example, when a new lead is added to a spreadsheet, automatically find and validate their email.

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💰 Pricing

Volume	Cost
1,000 emails validated	$8.00
Per email	~$0.008

Note: The above is the actor usage cost. Apify platform compute costs apply separately based on your plan. New users receive $5 in free credit upon signup — no credit card required.

For high-volume use (10,000+ emails/month), consider the Apify Scale or Business plan for the best cost efficiency.

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👥 Who Can Use This Actor?

This actor is built for anyone who does professional B2B outreach or lead research:

• Sales Development Representatives (SDRs) — Build targeted prospect lists with verified contact emails
• Growth hackers & marketers — Fuel cold email campaigns with deliverable addresses
• Recruiters — Reach hiring managers and candidates at their work emails
• Founders & entrepreneurs — Contact potential partners, investors, or clients directly
• Data engineers & analysts — Enrich CRM or lead database records with validated email fields
• AI agent builders — Give your sales or research agent the ability to find contact info autonomously

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✅ What Can You Do With This Actor?

Here are common real-world use cases:

Cold outreach campaigns — Validate a list of prospects before sending, so your bounce rate stays low and your sender reputation stays healthy.

CRM enrichment — Have a name and company but missing the email? Run it through this actor to fill the gap automatically.

Lead generation pipelines — Pair this actor with a LinkedIn scraper or company list to build full contact profiles at scale.

AI sales agents — Let your AI agent autonomously research a prospect and find their verified work email before drafting an outreach message.

Recruitment outreach — Find direct work emails for hiring managers or candidates instead of relying on generic contact forms.

Account-based marketing (ABM) — Identify and validate emails for specific decision-makers at your target accounts.

Data cleaning — Pass existing email lists through the validator to flag invalid, disposable, or webmail addresses before your next campaign.

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