Email Finder — Name + Domain to Verified Email

Find anyone's business email address from their name and company domain. Uses smart pattern matching with real SMTP verification — no database lookups, no stale data. Just upload your leads and hit Start.

How it works

1. You provide: first name, last name, company domain
2. The actor generates common email patterns (firstname.lastname@, f.lastname@, etc.)
3. Each pattern is verified via real SMTP handshake
4. The first pattern that verifies as deliverable is returned as the result

Unlike database-based tools (Hunter, Apollo), this actor finds emails in real-time. No stale data — if the email exists right now, it finds it.

Why this Actor?

• Zero setup — no API keys, no external accounts, just upload leads and go
• Real-time verification — not pulled from a pre-scraped database that might be months old
• Smart CSV parsing — auto-detects columns from any CSV format (Vayne.io, Sales Navigator exports, custom sheets)
• Smart pattern ordering — tries the most common patterns first for faster results
• Catch-all detection — identifies domains where any address appears valid
• Works with any domain — not limited to a specific database of companies

Output

{
    "first_name": "John",
    "last_name": "Doe",
    "domain": "company.com",
    "found": true,
    "email": "john.doe@company.com",
    "confidence": "high",
    "pattern": "{first}.{last}",
    "status": "safe",
    "api_calls": 1
}

Confidence levels:

• high — Email verified as deliverable via SMTP
• low — Catch-all domain; pattern is a best guess but can't be confirmed
• null — No working email found

Input

Option A — Upload a CSV file: Upload any CSV with name and domain columns. The actor auto-detects columns by header name, so it works with exports from Vayne.io, Sales Navigator, Apollo, or any custom format.

Recognized column names:

• First name: first_name, first, voornaam
• Last name: last_name, last, achternaam
• Domain: corporate_website, company_website, website, domain

If your CSV has an email column, leads that already have an email address are automatically skipped. Social media URLs (linkedin.com, etc.) are filtered out.

Option B — Paste leads (one per line):

John,Doe,company.com
Jane,Smith,startup.io

Patterns tried (in order)

Pattern	Example
{first}.{last}	john.doe@
{first}	john@
{f}{last}	jdoe@
{first}{last}	johndoe@
{first}{l}	johnd@
{f}.{last}	j.doe@
{last}.{first}	doe.john@
{first}_{last}	john_doe@

The actor stops as soon as one pattern verifies successfully — saving time and cost.

Configuration

Parameter	Default	Description
concurrency	5	Parallel workers (1-20)
maxPatterns	8	Max patterns to try per lead (3-15)
timeoutSeconds	30	Timeout per verification call (5-120)

Use Cases

• LinkedIn lead enrichment — scrape names + companies from Sales Navigator, then find their emails
• Outbound prospecting — build verified email lists from prospect data
• CRM enrichment — fill in missing email addresses for existing contacts
• Chain with scrapers — LinkedIn Scraper → Email Finder → Cold Email

Pricing

$1.00 per 1,000 leads processed — includes verification of each pattern attempt.

Performance

• Average 2-4 API calls per lead (stops at first match)
• ~50-100 leads/minute at default concurrency
• Typical hit rate: 60-80% for B2B domains with standard email patterns
• Catch-all domains are identified and handled gracefully