Company Contact Pipeline

Give it a list of company domains. You get one row per company with the email addresses found on the company's own website, each one MX-checked, plus validated phone numbers and social links when the site shows them. A company where nothing usable is found is returned with its errors and is never charged.

What it does

For each domain the Actor runs three steps and merges the answers into one row:

1. Extract: our website-contact-extractor reads the public pages of the website and returns email addresses, phone numbers, social links and, when a page names one, a contact person.
2. Filter: only addresses on the company's own domain (or a subdomain) are kept. Template placeholders such as email@gmail.com and escaped prefixes such as u003e are cleaned or dropped. Phone numbers are kept only in international format (+ and 8-15 digits).
3. MX check: our bulk-email-verifier checks each kept address at MX level (does the domain have a mail server, is it a throwaway domain, is it a role address like info@).

The helper actors run inside your account with the run's own token. Their charges appear on your Apify bill next to this Actor's fee (see Pricing).

Input

{
  "companies": ["stripe.com", "monzo.com"],
  "maxContactsPerCompany": 3,
  "concurrency": 3
}

Field	Default	Meaning
companies	required	Up to 100 domains or URLs per run, one per line.
maxContactsPerCompany	3	Maximum email addresses returned per company (1-10).
concurrency	3	Companies processed in parallel (1-5).

Accepted lines: example.com or https://example.com/page. A company name on its own (Acme Corp), Name, City and Name | domain.com are not supported: the row comes back as invalid-input with a message asking for a domain, and nothing is charged or spent on helper actors. Private, loopback and link-local addresses (127.0.0.1, 169.254.169.254, names that resolve to them) are refused the same way.

Output

One dataset row per input line. The shape (field names and layout) is below; the values are placeholders, not a recorded result.

{
  "input": "example.com",
  "domain": "example.com",
  "status": "enriched",
  "contacts": [
    {
      "email": "hello@example.com",
      "mxOk": true,
      "status": "risky",
      "score": 63,
      "reason": "role_address",
      "contactName": null,
      "contactRole": null,
      "phone": null
    }
  ],
  "phones": ["+1 555 010 0000"],
  "socials": { "facebook": null, "instagram": null, "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/example", "twitter": null },
  "errors": {},
  "sourceRuns": [
    { "stage": "contacts", "runId": "...", "status": "SUCCEEDED" },
    { "stage": "verification", "runId": "...", "status": "SUCCEEDED" }
  ],
  "charged": true
}

Fields:

• status: enriched (at least one contact passed the MX check), no-data (no own-domain email found, no contact passed the MX check, or a stage failed), invalid-input (the line was rejected, nothing was spent), error (unexpected failure).
• contacts[]: mxOk is true when the domain has a mail server, the address is well-formed and it is not a throwaway domain. status, score and reason come from the email checker. contactName, contactRole and phone are filled only for the best address and only when the website exposes them.
• phones: validated international numbers from the extractor, de-duplicated. Empty when the site shows none in that format.
• errors: one message per failed stage (input, domain, contacts, verification).
• sourceRuns: the run ids of every helper run, so each number can be traced.
• charged: true when this row was billed as company-enriched.

What "mx-ok" means

The check is MX-level only: the domain can receive mail, and the address is not a throwaway or malformed. The mailbox itself is not contacted, so this Actor does not tell you whether a particular address exists. A status of unknown with reason mx_only_by_setting means exactly that.

Pricing

Pay per event.

Event	Price	When
Actor start	$0.001	once per run
Company enriched	$0.012	once per company that returned at least one contact with mxOk: true

Not charged: invalid input, companies with no contact found, companies where a stage failed and no contact passed the MX check.

The helper actors are billed to your Apify account by their own published prices, in addition to the fee above:

Helper	Price	Per company
website-contact-extractor	$0.005 per website	$0.005
bulk-email-verifier	$0.0005 per address	$0.0005-0.0015 (1-3 addresses)

Estimate derived from those published prices (plus the helpers' start fees): about $0.0067 of helper cost per company, so roughly $0.019 per company in total with 3 contacts ($0.012 + about $0.0067). This is an estimate, not a measured invoice. Each helper run is capped (extractor $0.04, email check $0.02), but your own per-run maximum cost setting limits only this Actor's fee, not the helper runs.

Limits you should know

• Domains and URLs only, up to 100 companies per run. Company names are not looked up.
• Public pages only: no logins, no cookies.
• Contacts come from the pages of one website. If the site hides its emails behind JavaScript or contact forms, contacts is empty and the row is no-data (not charged).
• The extractor returns contactName and contactRole rarely; expect them to be null for most companies.
• MX-only: mx-ok means the domain can receive mail and nothing more. No mailbox check is made.
• The helper actors are billed to your account separately from this Actor's fee, and they run on your account's memory allowance. If you hit it, a helper start is retried for about a minute and then reported as an error for that company.

FAQ

Can I give a company name? No. Give a domain or URL. A name-only line is returned as invalid-input and is free.

Why was my company not charged? Either nothing usable was found (no-data), the input was invalid, or a helper failed before any contact passed the MX check. The reason is in errors.

Why are some emails missing from contacts? Only addresses on the company's own domain are kept, up to maxContactsPerCompany. Addresses on other domains, such as a gmail.com address in a footer, are dropped.

Does mxOk: true mean the person will receive my message? No. It means the address's domain has a mail server and is not a throwaway domain. The mailbox is not contacted.

Where do the numbers on my bill come from? This Actor's fee (start + company-enriched) plus the two helper actors' own charges, each listed in your account's usage under the helper's name. The sourceRuns ids let you find each helper run.