Founder Email Finder by Domain — Hunter.io Alternative $1.5/1k

Give it a domain or website, and get the founder's or owner's name and email (labelled published on site or guessed), plus the best company email, phone numbers and LinkedIn: one row per company. It also reads a Google Maps dataset (the websites your Maps scraper found) and can find companies by industry in the Singapore registry (ACRA; UK Companies House too).

Use this when you want a Hunter.io-style founder email finder by domain without a subscription, when your Google Maps scrape came back with no emails or only info@ addresses, when you want a contact details scraper that returns one clean row per company, or when you need a Singapore company list by industry with contacts.

How it differs from Hunter.io: it reads the company's own website (home, contact, about, team pages) for the people it names and the addresses it shows; it does not have a database of emails collected elsewhere, and it never checks a guess by sending mail.

Price per 1,000, compared honestly

	Price	What you pay for
This Actor, websites or Google Maps dataset	$1.50 per 1,000 companies with contacts	Only rows with an email, phone or social profile. Sites that fail or have nothing are free. Owner/founder name and email included
This Actor, find by industry (Singapore, UK registry)	$5 per 1,000 companies with contacts	Registry search, verified website and contacts; registry rows without contacts are free
Google Maps email add-ons (e.g. aurelix/google-maps-scraper)	$1.50 per 1,000 contact results (plus $0.85 per 1,000 places)	Emails and socials found on the site; no owner or founder field advertised
compass/crawler-google-places, contacts add-on	$2 per 1,000 places enriched, on top of $4 per 1,000 places	Company emails and socials; owners only through a $100 per 1,000 leads add-on
Most-used contact details scraper (vdrmota/contact-info-scraper)	$2 per 1,000 pages read; about $30 per 1,000 websites in our test (15 pages each)	Every email on every page, one row per page

Same price band as the cheapest Google Maps email extractors, but with the owner or founder's name and email when the site names them.

Measured, not promised

On 63 real small-business websites (dentists in London, plumbers in Austin, agencies in Pune, tax advisers in Munich, bakeries in Toronto), next to the most-used contact scraper in the Store on its default settings: emails for 57 vs 51, phones for 54 vs 40, emails belonging to other organisations 5 vs 22, 81 seconds vs 416 seconds. Founder emails, checked against 189 real people: 70% exactly right, 76% when the site shows its email format; every one is labelled published or guessed, and guesses are never sent mail.

Three ways in:

1. Paste websites, get contacts. You already have a list (a directory, a CRM export, a spreadsheet).
2. Google Maps dataset. You ran a Google Maps scraper and got places with websites but no emails. Give its dataset ID; the place name, phone, address and category are kept on each row.
3. Find companies by industry and country. You don't have a list yet. Pick an industry and a country; the Actor searches the official company registry (Singapore ACRA, UK Companies House), finds each company's verified website and reads it for the same contacts.

Filter on ownerFound (true/false) to keep only the companies where an owner, founder or director was named.

1. Paste websites, get contacts

Fill Websites, one per line. Each line can be a domain (acme.com), a full link (https://www.acme.co.uk/about) or an email (jane@acme.io, its domain is used). Duplicates are removed.

{
  "websites": ["uventures.com.sg", "decodehr.com", "plausible.io", "buffer.com", "biggsplumbing.com"],
  "maxPagesPerSite": 5,
  "checkEmailDomains": true,
  "includeTechnologies": true
}

What you get

Field	Example
companyName, domain, website	Biggs Plumbing Company, biggsplumbing.com
bestEmail	sales@biggsplumbing.com: a shared inbox on the company's own domain is picked first; never noreply@, privacy@ or jobs@
emails, emailDetails	Each email with type (role = info@, sales@…; personal = jane.smith@…), onCompanyDomain, domainAcceptsMail and the page it was found on
phones, phoneDetails	+15128375955, with the number as written and its country
linkedinUrl, xUrl, facebookUrl, instagramUrl, youtubeUrl, tiktokUrl, githubUrl, pinterestUrl, threadsUrl, whatsappUrl, telegramUrl	The company's own profiles, not share buttons, single posts or the web agency's account
address, country, language	1 High Street, London, EC1A 1BB, GB
foundedYear, foundedYearSource	2015, UEN 201531216Z: from the site's schema.org data, a Singapore company registration number (UEN) printed on the site, or wording like "Established in 2015" or "Since 2015". Copyright years are never used. Empty when the site does not say
founderName, founders, ownerFound	Jane Tan; each person the site names as founder, CEO, managing director, director, owner or principal, with their title and the page it was found on. On German, Austrian and Swiss sites the Impressum is read for the legal representative (Geschäftsführer (Managing Director), Inhaber (Owner), Vertretungsberechtigt (Legal representative), Vorstand, Gesellschafter): a name for 44 of 48 small-business sites tested, against 2 before. Client testimonials are skipped; empty rather than a guess. ownerFound is true when a name was found, for filtering
founderSource, npiNumber	website or US NPI Registry: where founderName came from. For US dental and medical practices the Actor also checks the free federal NPI Registry (see below); a match is added to founders with the registry's title (Owner, President, Medical Director…), source: "US NPI Registry" and the practice's npiNumber (1952809964), and is used as founderName when the website names nobody
npiProviders, doctorsOnSite	When no organisation record matches: individual dentists or doctors registered in the NPI Registry at the practice's own street address (source: "US NPI Registry (individual)", their own npiNumber, specialty, practiceAddress). role is owner only when the website names them owner or the practice is named after them; otherwise dentist at practice, and they are not used as founderName. doctorsOnSite lists the doctors the website names ("Dr. Jane Doe")
founderEmail, founderEmailStatus, founderEmailAlternatives, emailPattern	jace@uventures.com.sg, guessed (common format). The founder's own address when the site publishes it (published on site); otherwise a guess from the company's email format seen on the site (guessed from site email format) or the most common small-business format (guessed (common format)), with other likely addresses. Guesses are not checked by sending mail; only for companies that use their own email domain
founderEmailConfidence, founderEmailReason	low, "No personal address on the website shows the company's email format, so this is the most common small-business format…". How far to trust founderEmail: high = shown on the website for this person; medium = built from the format other people's addresses on the site use (right about 72% of the time in testing); low = no format seen on the site, so the most common format (first name only; about 1 in 5 right, and one of the three addresses including the alternatives about 2 in 3). The reason says in one sentence where the address came from
technologies, technologyDetails	Shopify, Klaviyo, Google Tag Manager, Meta Pixel, Intercom… each with a category
contactPageUrl, pagesVisited	Where the details came from
mapsPlaceName, mapsPhone, mapsAddress, mapsCategory, mapsPlaceId, mapsUrl	Only for websites from a Google Maps dataset: the place as Maps lists it
status, error	ok, no_contacts_found, unreachable (with the reason) or invalid_input

Why this one

• One row per company. Ready to import into a CRM or a spreadsheet; no merging page-by-page results.
• Clean emails. Image names like logo@2x.png, template placeholders, tracking ids and other companies' addresses (the web designer's credit in the footer) are removed. Hidden addresses are recovered: name [at] company [dot] com and Cloudflare-protected emails.
• Emails that can receive mail. Domains without mail servers are dropped (turn off with Drop emails whose domain cannot receive mail).
• Real phone numbers only. Numbers are checked against each country's numbering rules and formatted internationally; fax numbers and order numbers are skipped.
• Tech stack included. Filter leads by the tools they use: find Shopify stores without Klaviyo, WordPress sites without a chat widget, companies running Google Ads.
• Predictable cost. $1.50 per 1,000 companies with contacts, whatever the number of pages read.

How well it works

Measured on 63 real small-business websites (dentists in London, plumbers in Austin, marketing agencies in Pune, tax advisers in Munich, bakeries in Toronto), run on Apify in November 2026, next to the most-used contact scraper in the Store on its default settings:

Same 63 websites	This tool	Most-used contact scraper
Websites with an email	57 (90%)	51 (81%)
Websites with a phone number	54 (86%)	40 (63%)
Websites with a LinkedIn page	22	19
Emails belonging to other organisations (trade bodies, template filler like info@mysite.com)	5	22
Run time	81 seconds	416 seconds
Cost of the run	$0.09 at today's price (60 companies with contacts)	$1.92 (958 pages)

When a site's main pages show no email, the tool also reads its privacy, complaints or cookie page, where small businesses often put the only address.

Google Maps dataset: emails and owners for your Maps places

Google Maps scrapers give you each place's website but rarely an email, and almost never the owner. Put the scraper run's dataset ID (from its Storage tab, or the whole dataset link) in Google Maps dataset ID:

{
  "datasetId": "aBc123XyZ",
  "onlyWithContacts": true
}

• Works with any Apify dataset that has a website column: compass/crawler-google-places, aurelix/google-maps-scraper, other Maps and directory scrapers. The website is taken from website, site or domain, or from url when it is not a Google Maps link.
• One row per website domain: chains and repeated listings are read once. Places without a website, or with only a Facebook or Instagram page, are skipped (counted in the run log and the SUMMARY record).
• The place's own details are kept on the row: mapsPlaceName, mapsPhone, mapsAddress, mapsCategory, mapsPlaceId, mapsUrl.
• Same price as pasted websites: $1.50 per 1,000 companies with contacts. You can combine it with Websites.

Chain it automatically. Open your Google Maps scraper's task (or Actor), go to Integrations, add Apify Actor, pick this Actor, choose the event Run succeeded, and set the input to:

{ "datasetId": "{{resource.defaultDatasetId}}", "onlyWithContacts": true }

Every time the Maps run succeeds, this Actor runs on its places and your contacts land in its dataset. The same works from Make, Zapier, n8n or the API: pass the Maps run's defaultDatasetId as datasetId.

2. Find companies by industry and country

Leave Websites empty and fill the section Or find companies by industry: a country, industry keywords and/or industry codes, and optional filters for age, location, officer count and status. If Websites has entries, this section is ignored (the run log says so).

Countries:

• Singapore: ACRA, the official company registry, published on data.gov.sg.
• United Kingdom: Companies House (new: speed and website hit rate are still being measured).

Coming next: France, Norway (both publish employee counts).

Who it is for

• Agencies (marketing, web, IT, recruitment) looking for Singapore or UK SMEs in a given industry.
• B2B sellers building a list of accounting firms, clinics, logistics companies, renovation contractors and so on.
• Anyone who wants a list that starts from the official registry, not from whoever happens to be on Google Maps.

What each registry gives

	Singapore (ACRA)	United Kingdom (Companies House)
Industry codes	SSIC: a primary and sometimes a secondary code	SIC 2007: up to four codes
The company's own words for what it does	Yes, when it filled them in (about 29% of live companies)	No
Registration date and status	Yes	Yes (incorporation date)
Officers (directors, secretaries)	Yes, a count for every company	Only when you set "Maximum number of officers" (looked up company by company, so slower)
Address	Registered address	Registered office address, with town and postcode
Registration number on the website	Many Singapore sites show the UEN	UK companies must show their company number on their website, which helps us confirm the right site

What you get

One row per company: the contact fields from mode 1 (bestEmail, emails, phones, the social profiles, founderName, founders, founderEmail, founderEmailStatus, founderEmailConfidence, founderEmailReason, founderEmailAlternatives, emailPattern, foundedYear, technologies, contactPageUrl) plus:

Field	Example
companyName, name	ACME PAYROLL PTE. LTD. (both the registered name)
country, registrationNumber	SG, 201531216Z (the UEN in Singapore, the company number in the UK)
entityStatus, entityType	Live Company, Local Company (as published by the registry; UK: active, ltd)
registeredOn, yearsOperating	2015-03-01, 11
industryCode, industryDescription	69201, Accounting services (the main industry code)
industryCodes	Every industry code with its description, main one first
activityDescription	Singapore only: the company's own words, "PAYROLL AND BOOKKEEPING SERVICES"
officers	2 (directors, secretary and similar; see "Good to know"). Empty when unknown
employees	Empty for now: neither registry publishes headcount
address, postalCode, locality	Registered address; locality is the town (UK)
formerNames	Earlier registered names
matchedBy	Why it matched: industry-code, secondary-code or keyword
website, domain	https://www.acmepayroll.com.sg, acmepayroll.com.sg
websiteConfidence, websiteMethod	high (the site shows the registration number or the registered name) or medium (the brand plus a sign of the right country), and how it was found
status, error	See below

status is one of:

• ok: website found and contacts read (or you did not ask for websites/contacts).
• no_website_found: no website we could verify.
• website_unreachable: website found but it was down or blocked automated visits; error says why.
• no_contacts_found: website found but it had no email, phone or social profile.

How the filters work

• Country: Singapore (default) or United Kingdom.

• Industry codes are the reliable way to search. Every company has one. Use the codes of the country you search; a code can be shortened to its first digits: 692 covers all of 692xx. Common ones:

  Industry	Singapore (SSIC)	United Kingdom (SIC 2007)
  Accounting and auditing	69201	69201
  Bookkeeping	69202	69202
  Management consultancy	70201	70229 (other than financial management)
  HR consultancy	70204
  Marketing and PR consultancy	70205
  HR management, outsourcing, provision	78300	78300
  Employment / placement agencies	78104	78109
  Software development	62011	62012 (business and domestic software)
  IT consultancy	62021	62020
  Advertising	73100	73110 (advertising agencies)

  The UK codes are checked against the official SIC 2007 list. Payroll has no code of its own; try accounting and HR codes.

• Industry keywords match the industry descriptions and, in Singapore, the company's own description of what it does, not company names. In Singapore about 71% of live companies (over 80% of those registered since 2020) left their own description empty, so keywords alone miss most firms. In Singapore, if you give no codes, common keywords (like "accounting") also bring in their matching codes automatically. Codes and keywords are combined: a company matches either.

• Location (optional): Singapore: a postal code or its first digits (079) or words from the address (Anson Road). UK: a town or city (Manchester) or the start of a postcode (EC1).

• Minimum / maximum years operating: counted from the registration date. The default minimum of 2 years skips most brand-new and dormant shelf companies.

• Maximum number of officers (optional): a rough way to favour small companies. See below.

• Only live companies (default on): Singapore keeps "Live", "Live Company" and "Live (Receiver or Receiver and Manager appointed)"; the UK keeps "active". Struck off, dissolved and similar are skipped.

• Maximum companies (default 100): stops after this many registry matches.

• Find websites / Get contacts from the website (both on by default): turn off to get registry rows only, free.

• Search the web for websites guessing missed (default on): when no website is found from the company's name, the Actor searches Google once for it (the name plus the country) and checks the top three results the same strict way. This finds companies that trade under another brand. It calls Apify's Google Search Results Scraper on your Apify account, costing about $0.0045 per company searched, billed by that Actor. All searches go into one run of it. Turn this off to never search.

• Maximum web searches (default: one per company, up to "Maximum companies"): caps how many companies are searched, and so that cost. 0 = no searches.

• Only companies with a website (default off): leaves out companies without a verified website.

• The website settings at the top (Pages to read per website, Drop emails whose domain cannot receive mail, Detect technologies, Only output companies with contacts) apply here too.

Example input

Singapore:

{
  "country": "SG",
  "industryKeywords": ["payroll"],
  "industryCodes": ["69201", "78300"],
  "minYearsOperating": 3,
  "maxOfficers": 5,
  "liveOnly": true,
  "maxCompanies": 100,
  "findWebsites": true,
  "searchForWebsites": true,
  "maxSearches": 50,
  "includeContacts": true,
  "onlyWithWebsite": true
}

United Kingdom, accountants in Manchester:

{
  "country": "GB",
  "industryCodes": ["69201", "69202"],
  "location": "Manchester",
  "minYearsOperating": 3,
  "maxCompanies": 100
}

The old input name ssicCodes still works and means the same as industryCodes.

How long it takes

• Registry search, Singapore: data.gov.sg limits how fast it can be searched. A search capped by "Maximum companies" takes about 20 to 80 seconds; a search for every match takes 2 to 4 minutes.
• Registry search, United Kingdom: to be measured. Setting "Maximum number of officers" makes it slower, because officers are looked up company by company.
• Websites: about 7 seconds per company in Singapore (UK: to be measured), several at once (see "Websites (or companies) at the same time").
• Web search: one search run for all the companies that still need it, about 40 to 60 seconds in total, then a few seconds per company to check the results.

Pricing

Pay per event, two events, one per way in. Each company row is charged at most once.

• website-company, $0.0015 ($1.50 per 1,000): pasted websites and Google Maps datasets. You pay for each company row with at least one email, phone number or social profile. Rows for sites that could not be loaded or had nothing are free.
• company, $0.005 ($5 per 1,000): find by industry. You pay for each company whose verified website gave at least one email or phone number. Registry rows without contacts (no website found, website down, no email or phone on it) are free.

Examples:

• 63 pasted websites, 60 with contacts: $0.09.
• 1,000 Google Maps places, 700 with their own website, 600 with contacts: $0.90.
• 100 Singapore companies by industry, 50 with contacts: $0.25, plus the web search below.
• 1,000 registry rows only (websites off): free.

Web search cost (separate, billed by another Actor). With "Search the web for websites guessing missed" on, companies whose website was not found from their name are searched with Apify's Google Search Results Scraper (apify/google-search-scraper). It runs on your Apify account and bills you itself, about $0.0045 per company searched (one results page each). Only companies still without a website are searched, so 100 companies of which 60 need a search add about $0.27. Cap it with "Maximum web searches", or turn the search off.

Set a maximum cost per run in the run options. When it is reached, the run stops cleanly and keeps what it already found.

Good to know

• It reads only public pages: the home page and the site's own contact, about, imprint and team pages. It does not log in anywhere and does not visit social networks.
• Sites that show a "checking your browser" page or refuse automated visitors are reported as unreachable (or website_unreachable) with the reason, and not charged.
• Officers are not employees. Officers are the directors and company secretaries in the registry; in Singapore about 70% of companies have 1 to 3. It says nothing about headcount, so use "maximum officers" only as a rough size hint.
• Websites only when we can verify them. A site is accepted only when it shows the company's registration number (UEN or UK company number) or registered name, or its brand name plus a sign of the right country (such as a local address or phone number). A website from a web search must also be the company's own site (its domain or homepage brand carries the name), not a directory, review site, marketplace or a page that merely mentions it. Tested on 70 real Singapore SMEs (UK: to be measured): the right website for 76% from the name alone and 84% with the web search, a wrong website for none. The rest get no_website_found, usually because the site blocks automated visits, the name is too ambiguous to search, or the company has no website at all (common for small registered companies). Those rows are free.
• Expect a website for roughly 1 in 3 of the smallest firms. In a live Singapore run of 15 HR consultancies with 5 or fewer officers, 5 had a website we could verify; most of the rest appear to have none. Larger or older firms have websites more often. For about 50 companies with contacts, start with maxCompanies of 150 or more.
• US healthcare owners from the NPI Registry. For US dentists, orthodontists, clinics, chiropractors, optometrists, therapists and similar practices (not vets: the registry has none), the Actor looks the practice up in the official, free NPI Registry and takes the organisation's authorized official when the title says they own or run it. A record is used only when its registered or "doing business as" name matches the business name and its practice address is in the same city or ZIP code; two records with different people that the street address cannot tell apart are skipped, never guessed. It needs the state, from the Google Maps fields or the address on the site. On 20 Google Maps dentists and orthodontists (Denver, Columbus, Raleigh) an owner was named for 8 instead of 2. Many small practices have no organisation record (the dentist bills under their own individual NPI), so when none matches the Actor looks for individual dentists whose registered practice address is the practice's street address, keeping only the doctors the website names when it names any. The registry does not say who owns such a practice, so these people are labelled "dentist at practice", not owner, unless the website says owner. On the same 20 practices this added a named dentist for 10 more (18 of 20 with a named owner or dentist). Turn off with Look up US healthcare owners in the official NPI registry. No extra charge.
• Founder emails may be guesses, and are labelled. founderEmailStatus says published on site when the address appears on the website. Otherwise it is a guess built from the company's email format (guessed from site email format) or the most common format (guessed (common format)). founderEmailConfidence (high, medium, low) and founderEmailReason say how far to trust each one. In testing on 189 people with known emails, guesses were right about 70% of the time overall, 72% when the site shows its email format, and about 1 in 5 when it does not (then one of the three addresses given is right about 2 in 3 times; for US, UK and Australian companies the second guess is the jsmith@ style, which they use often). They are never checked by sending mail.
• Singapore registry data is a monthly snapshot of ACRA's "Information on Corporate Entities" on data.gov.sg (last updated 2026-10-14, about 624,000 live companies), so changes from the last few weeks may be missing. Contains information from ACRA's Information on Corporate Entities, accessed via data.gov.sg, made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0.
• UK registry data comes from the Companies House API and is current to the day. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
• Personal emails (type: personal) are people's work addresses published on their company's site. If you email the people in the results, follow the rules where you and they are: GDPR in Europe, CAN-SPAM in the US, the PDPA and Spam Control Act in Singapore, UK GDPR and PECR in the UK.

Use it with

• Google Maps or directory scrapers: give the run's dataset ID in "Google Maps dataset ID" (or chain it with an integration, see above) to get owner emails, inboxes and tech stack for each business.
• Job listings: companies that are hiring are buying; look up their contacts and tools.
• Your CRM: export as CSV or Excel, or call it from Make, Zapier, n8n or the Apify API.

Development

npm install
npm test          # unit tests: contact extraction on saved pages, both modes with fake registry, website and contact lookups
npm run dev       # local run; input in storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json
npm run build

Layout:

• src/main.ts picks the mode (src/mode.ts): websites or a dataset given = lookup (src/lookup.ts, with src/maps.ts reading Google Maps datasets), else industry keywords/codes = finder (src/run.ts).
• src/contacts/ reads one website for contacts (both modes). This repo is its only source since 2026-11-14.
• src/registries/ has one adapter per country (sg.ts, gb.ts), picked by getRegistry(country); src/website.ts and src/search.ts find and verify a registered company's website.
• src/pricing.ts names the two pay-per-event events.

Registry API keys come from environment variables (set them as secret environment variables in the Apify console):

• DATA_GOV_SG_API_KEY: optional; raises the data.gov.sg rate limit.
• COMPANIES_HOUSE_API_KEY: required for UK searches; a free key from the Companies House developer hub. Without it, UK runs stop with a clear message before anything is charged.

Deploy with the Apify CLI: apify login, then apify push. It updates the existing Actor company-contacts-tech-lookup. Pricing is pay-per-event with two events: website-company (websites and datasets) and company (find by industry). If website-company is missing from the Actor's pricing, websites mode charges company instead, so code and pricing can be deployed in either order.