Work Email Finder: Find Email by Name and Domain

Work email finder by name and company domain: find a person's work email from a first name, last name and a company domain. The Actor learns the company's email format from its own website, builds up to 3 candidates, checks MX and verifies them with MillionVerifier. From $0.003 per email found. Nothing found, nothing charged. No account with an email data vendor needed.

What you get

• A work email per person, with a status: deliverable, published, catch-all-guess, unverified-guess or not-found.
• A confidence from 0 to 100, the format the company uses ({first}.{last}, {f}{last}...) and how many published addresses support it.
• Sources. The pages of the company website that show the address or the format. Every row says verifiedBy, so a guess is never presented as a fact.
• A published address when there is one. If the company itself shows the person's address on its site, you get that one, no guessing.
• Three candidates at most, checked in order. The first deliverable one wins. Catch-all domains are labelled, not sold as verified.
• Free rows for what could not be found, with errorCode, message and howToFix.
• Dataset input for CRM exports and scraper results.

How it works

1. The Actor opens the company website once per domain, reads robots.txt and the sitemap, and reads the team, press, contact, impressum and about pages. It learns the email format from the addresses the company itself publishes, using the person names printed next to them. robots.txt is always respected.
2. If the website shows this person's address, that address is returned (published).
3. Otherwise it builds the candidate from the format: Anna Meier at a {first}.{last} company is anna.meier@company.com. German umlauts get both spellings (mueller, muller). Without a pattern, a verifier lets it try the most common formats.
4. DNS gives the MX hosts. A domain with no mail server is not-found at once.
5. With a MillionVerifier key, the candidates are checked one by one. A mailbox that exists is deliverable. A domain that accepts everything is catch-all-guess. Each address is checked once per run.
6. Without a key you get the best candidate as unverified-guess with the label unverified-pattern-guess.

Sources are limited to the company's own website. No GitHub commit mining, no LinkedIn or other social network, no login, no CAPTCHA or bot bypass.

Verification: what works today

Mode	What you get
Your own MillionVerifier key (millionVerifierApiKey)	Up to 3 candidates per person are checked on your MillionVerifier account. Results: deliverable, catch-all-guess, unverified-guess if the server gives no clear answer. You pay MillionVerifier directly, and this Actor charges the plain found price.
No key	Published addresses from the company site, or the best pattern guess labelled unverified-pattern-guess. A guess is only returned when the website shows a clear format (confidence 50 or more).
Hosted verification	Built in, not switched on yet. When it is, verified emails are billed at the prices in the table below and you need no key. The status message of each run says which mode is active, and verifiedBy on every row tells how the address was checked.

The public test keys API_KEY_FOR_OK, API_KEY_FOR_CATCH_ALL, API_KEY_FOR_INVALID, API_KEY_FOR_UNKOWN and API_KEY_FOR_DISPOSABLE from MillionVerifier work in millionVerifierApiKey. They return fixed answers and are never charged. Use them to see every result type.

Quick start

1. Open the Input tab.
2. Add people to People, one object per person: first name, last name and company domain. The prefilled rows use placeholder names. Replace them with real people.
3. Optional: paste your MillionVerifier key to get verified results.
4. Press Start. The prefilled example with 3 people finishes in about a minute.
5. Open the Output tab. Overview shows the email per person, Sources the pages behind it, Not found why a row has no address.

From a contact scraper run to emails in 2 steps

1. Run Website Contact Scraper: Emails, Phones & Social Links with Include named people on. It lists the named people the companies publish on their own sites.
2. Copy the Dataset ID of that run into Dataset with people here and press Start. Every named person who has no personal work email yet becomes one row. People who already have one are skipped.

Input example

{
    "people": [
        { "firstName": "Jane", "lastName": "Doe", "domain": "acme.com" },
        { "fullName": "Anna Meier", "companyWebsite": "https://www.example.org" },
        "Peter Müller, firma.de"
    ],
    "millionVerifierApiKey": "your key, optional"
}

Field	Default	Description
people		Objects with firstName and lastName (or fullName) plus domain (or companyWebsite). Lines like "Jane Doe, acme.com" also work. Duplicates are removed.
datasetId		Dataset of another run or a CRM export with names and company websites.
firstNameField, lastNameField, fullNameField, domainField	auto	Fields to read in that dataset. Dot paths work.
millionVerifierApiKey		Optional. Your own MillionVerifier key for verified results.
hunterApiKey		Optional. Your own Hunter.io key adds Hunter's format of the domain as one more vote.
suppressionList		Emails, domains or SHA-256 hashes. Suppressed domains are skipped, suppressed addresses never returned.
maxCandidates	3	Candidates checked per person, 1 to 3.
maxPagesPerDomain	8	Pages read per domain, shared by all people at that domain.
maxConcurrency	10	People looked up in parallel.

Output sample

{
    "inputRow": 1,
    "firstName": "Anna",
    "lastName": "Meier",
    "domain": "acme.com",
    "email": "anna.meier@acme.com",
    "status": "deliverable",
    "confidence": 97,
    "pattern": "{first}.{last}",
    "patternConfidence": 87,
    "supportingExamples": 7,
    "evidence": "site-pattern",
    "verifiedBy": "millionverifier-byok",
    "verification": "ok",
    "label": null,
    "catchAll": false,
    "sources": [{ "type": "pattern-evidence", "url": "https://acme.com/team" }],
    "candidatesTried": 1,
    "mx": { "found": true, "hosts": ["aspmx.l.google.com"], "provider": "Google Workspace", "note": null },
    "note": null,
    "error": false,
    "errorCode": null,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-07T09:30:00.000Z"
}

A row with no address is free:

{
    "inputRow": 2,
    "firstName": "Jane",
    "lastName": "Doe",
    "domain": "small-shop.com",
    "email": null,
    "status": "not-found",
    "error": true,
    "errorCode": "no-pattern",
    "message": "The company website shows no clear email format and no verifier is available to try common ones.",
    "howToFix": "The site shows too few named email addresses to learn its format. Add your own MillionVerifier key to try the most common formats, or raise \"Pages per domain\"."
}

Statuses

Status	Meaning	Billed
deliverable	The mail server confirmed the mailbox.	Yes
published	The company website shows this person's address. Not verified, or the server gave no clear answer.	Yes
catch-all-guess	The domain accepts every address, so nothing can be confirmed. The address follows the format the website shows.	Yes
unverified-guess	Built from the website's format. Nobody checked it. Label: unverified-pattern-guess.	Yes
not-found	No address. Reasons: no-pattern, no-valid-candidate, no-mx, catch-all-no-pattern, disposable-domain, published-address-rejected, robots-blocked, bot-protection, site-unreachable, http-error, suppressed, missing-name, unsupported-name, missing-domain, invalid-domain, webmail-domain.	Free

For an unverified guess the confidence equals the confidence in the domain's format, capped at 85.

evidence says what the address rests on: published-on-site (the company shows it), site-pattern (built from the format the website shows), hunter-pattern (built from the format your own Hunter key reports, with no address on the website behind it) or common-format (a frequent format tried with a verifier, no evidence).

Pricing

Pay per event. You pay for emails found, not for compute time or pages. Discounts apply automatically on paid Apify plans.

Event	Free plan	Bronze	Silver	Gold
Email found (published, pattern guess, or checked with your own key), per 1,000	$3.00	$2.70	$2.40	$2.10
Verified deliverable email with hosted verification, per 1,000	$25.00	$22.50	$20.00	$17.50
Catch-all guess with hosted verification, per 1,000	$5.00	$4.50	$4.00	$3.50
Run start, per run	$0.001	$0.001	$0.001	$0.001

• Not found is free. So are failed lookups, invalid rows and results from the public MillionVerifier test keys.
• The two hosted prices apply only when hosted verification is active. Today a run bills the plain "email found" price.
• With your own MillionVerifier key you pay MillionVerifier for each check on your account. This Actor does not add a verification fee.
• Set Maximum cost per run in the run options to cap spend. The Actor stops when the limit is reached.

Use it from code, Make, Zapier or AI agents

Run it through the Apify API, the JavaScript and Python clients, schedules, webhooks, or integrations such as Make, Zapier, n8n, HubSpot and Google Sheets. AI agents can call it through the Apify MCP server at mcp.apify.com.

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/rod_analytics~work-email-finder/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN>" -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"people": [{"firstName": "Jane", "lastName": "Doe", "domain": "acme.com"}]}'

To see only the email format of a company, use Email Format Finder: Company Email Pattern Lookup. It uses the same pattern engine.

GDPR, ePrivacy and responsible use

This Actor is built for B2B use. Read this before you run it on people in the EU or the UK.

• You are the controller. You choose the people and the purpose, so you are the data controller. This Actor acts as your processor and keeps nothing: results go only to your own dataset, nothing is stored on our side, and the log holds counts, never names or addresses.
• You need a lawful basis, for example a documented legitimate interest for B2B contact, and you must give each person a privacy notice (Art. 14 GDPR) at first contact or within one month, name the source, and honour objections and deletion requests. Keep objections in your suppression list.
• Company addresses only. Candidates are built only on the company's own domain. Free mail providers (gmail.com, outlook.com, gmx.de and others) are rejected, so private mailboxes are never guessed. A person's private address is never returned.
• No sensitive inference. Names are only compared with the local part of an address. Nothing about gender, origin, health or other traits is derived.
• Sub-processor. When verification is on, the candidate addresses are sent to MillionVerifier. Name it in your records of processing.
• Suppression list. suppressionList takes emails, domains or SHA-256 hashes. People at a suppressed domain are skipped and suppressed addresses are never returned.
• Country notes. Germany: advertising emails need prior consent, also B2B (UWG section 7). France: B2B outreach is allowed on legitimate interest when it relates to the person's job, with an easy way to object. Lithuania: no prior consent for legal-person subscribers, but an easy opt-out is required. Rules differ elsewhere, so check before you send.
• Mind what a guess is. A pattern guess is not proof that a mailbox exists. Do not send anything sensitive to an unverified guess.
• Polite crawling. robots.txt is respected, at most 2 parallel requests per site, no bot bypass.

This is not legal advice. Check your use case with your data protection officer.

FAQ

How accurate is it? A deliverable result means the mail server said the mailbox exists. A published address is shown by the company itself. An unverified-guess is only as good as the format evidence behind it. Check confidence, patternConfidence and supportingExamples.

Why "catch-all"? Many company domains accept mail for any address, so no check can say whether a mailbox is real. Those rows are labelled catch-all-guess, billed at the lower price when hosted, and never shown as verified.

What if the company website blocks the Actor? Rows for those domains are free. With a MillionVerifier key the Actor still tries the most common formats. It does not bypass bot protection.

Can I feed it a Google Maps or CRM export? Yes, set datasetId. The Actor reads first name, last name or full name, and the company website or domain from each row.

Why does the prefill use placeholder names? The prefilled rows show how the output looks. Replace them with real people before you rely on the results.

What happens if my input is wrong? The run ends SUCCEEDED with one free help row: error, errorCode, message and howToFix. Only the start fee is charged. Codes: no-valid-people, no-people-in-dataset, dataset-unreadable, bad-verifier-key, verifier-no-credits and bad-hunter-key.

Is my key safe? MillionVerifier and Hunter keys are secret inputs. They are only sent to the vendor from your run and are never logged or stored by this Actor.

Found a bug or need a custom field? Open an issue on the Issues tab. Replies usually come within a day.

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