Decision Maker Finder + Verified Emails (by Domain)

Give a list of companies and get, for each one, the person who decides for what you sell: its founder, CEO or owner, or its sales, marketing, HR, engineering, IT, finance, operations, product or procurement leader. You get the most senior person in that role first, as a clean row with name, job title, seniority, location and LinkedIn profile URL, plus a verified work email.

There is no LinkedIn login, no cookie and no browser session involved. The people come from a licensed B2B people database, so nothing can get an account restricted and a company takes seconds.

What it does

• Takes companies the way you have them: a website (stripe.com), a LinkedIn company page (linkedin.com/company/stripe) or a name. Up to 100 companies per run, pasted from a CRM export, a Google Maps list or a spreadsheet.
• Finds the most senior person in the role. Each role is a ladder searched from the top. For sales: a Chief Revenue Officer or Chief Sales Officer, then a VP or Head of Sales or Sales Director, then a Sales Manager. For the founder, CEO or owner: a CEO, Founder, Owner, President, Managing Director, Managing Partner or Executive Director, then a General Manager or Proprietor. The first level that has anyone at that company is delivered, and each row says which level it came from (seniority).
• Falls back to the person in charge. A small company often has no sales or HR leader of its own, and its owner decides for it. When a role finds nobody, you get the company's founder, CEO or owner instead, marked fallbackFor. Switch Fall back to the founder, CEO or owner off to get only the role you asked for.
• Leaves out lookalike titles. Assistants, interns, coordinators and trainees are never delivered, even when their title holds the words ("Executive Assistant to the CEO"). A bare President or Owner never means a Vice President or a Product Owner.
• Reads names the way companies' own pages carry them: a legal form (Inc., Pvt Ltd, GmbH) and a listing's tagline after a dash or a pipe, as Google Maps titles have, are left out. A website or a LinkedIn page is the most exact way to name a company.
• Never pads the list. A company with nobody in the role (and no founder, CEO or owner on record) delivers nobody, and the run says so.
• Finds verified work emails. Each address is looked up live, not guessed from a pattern, and you pay only for an email that is found.

Which companies it covers best

It finds people who list their employer on LinkedIn. That covers most companies with a team: on a real buyer's list of 25 company websites, 20 had people on record and 12 had a founder, CEO, owner or general manager, 9 of them among the 15 software and services firms. Very small local businesses (a motel, a vacation rental, a single shop) often have nobody on record at all; those deliver nobody and cost nothing.

How to use it

1. Put one company per line in Companies.
2. Pick the Decision makers to find (up to 5 roles).
3. Optionally set Decision makers per company and role (1 to 10) and Locations for companies present in many countries.
4. Run it, then download the dataset as CSV, Excel or JSON, or read it through the Apify API.

Input

Field	What it is
companies	Websites, LinkedIn company pages or names, up to 100. Required.
roles	owner_ceo, sales, marketing, hr, engineering, it, finance, operations, product, procurement. Default owner_ceo.
maxPerCompany	People per company and role, most senior first, 1 to 10. Default 1.
fallbackToTop	When a role finds nobody, deliver the founder, CEO or owner instead. Default on.
locations	Countries, states, regions or cities. Optional.
includeEmails	Look up each person's verified work email. Default on.

{
    "companies": ["stripe.com", "notion.so", "https://www.linkedin.com/company/hubspot"],
    "roles": ["sales", "marketing"],
    "maxPerCompany": 1,
    "includeEmails": true
}

Output

One row per decision maker. The values below are placeholders that show the shape.

{
    "name": "Jane Doe",
    "firstName": "Jane",
    "lastName": "Doe",
    "title": "VP of Sales, North America",
    "company": "Example Payments",
    "companyWebsite": "https://example.com",
    "companyIndustry": "Financial Services",
    "companySize": 8200,
    "location": "New York, New York, United States",
    "linkedinUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jane-doe-example",
    "email": "jane.doe@example.com",
    "emailStatus": "found",
    "emailCertainty": "ultra_sure",
    "inputCompany": "example.com",
    "matchedBy": "website",
    "role": "sales",
    "roleLabel": "Sales leader",
    "seniority": "head",
    "rank": 1,
    "fallbackFor": null
}

role is the role the row answers and seniority the level of its ladder the person came from (top or general manager for the founder, CEO or owner; chief, head or manager for the other roles). rank orders the people of one role at one company. fallbackFor names the role a founder, CEO or owner stands in for, and is empty otherwise. emailStatus is found, not_found (no verified address exists; not charged), or empty when emails were not requested. The run's OUTPUT record lists every company with how it was matched, what each role found at which level, and why a company delivered nobody.

What it costs

You pay per result, nothing per month:

What	Price
One decision maker delivered as a full profile	$0.006
One verified work email found	$0.02
An email lookup that finds nothing	Free
A company where nobody is found	Free
The run start	$0.00005

So 100 decision makers with their verified emails cost at most $2.60. Set a maximum cost per run in the run options and the Actor stops delivering at that amount.

On Apify's free plan a run delivers up to 10 decision makers in total and does not look up emails. Paid plans get up to 10 per company and role, and verified emails.

Use it from an AI agent

Every Apify Actor can be called as a tool through Apify's MCP server, so an AI agent can pass a list of companies to this Actor and read the decision makers back.

Questions

Does this scrape LinkedIn? No. It never opens LinkedIn and never needs your LinkedIn account. The profiles come from a licensed B2B people database (Icypeas), and a person's public LinkedIn URL is part of the profile you receive.

I asked for the sales leader and got the CEO. Why? Nobody at that company holds a sales leadership title, so its founder, CEO or owner, who decides for it, was delivered instead. The row says fallbackFor: "sales". Switch off Fall back to the founder, CEO or owner to get only the role itself.

I gave a big company's website and got someone at another company. Why? A website finds the people whose employer lists it on its LinkedIn page, and some large companies list another site there (Amazon lists aboutamazon.com). Give the company's LinkedIn company page (linkedin.com/company/amazon) to get exactly its people.

How is this different from the Company Employees Finder? The Company Employees Finder lists everyone at a company who holds the titles you type. This one answers whom to write to: it walks a ladder of seniority for the role and delivers the most senior person found, one per company unless you ask for more.

Can a person be removed from results? Yes. Anyone can ask to be left out at peoplesearch.im/opt-out, and the request applies to every search and lookup.

Using the data

The results are business contact data about real people. You are responsible for having a lawful basis for how you use them, including the rules on unsolicited email where your recipients live (for example GDPR and the ePrivacy rules in Europe, CAN-SPAM in the United States and CASL in Canada).