Find email address by name and company domain
You know who you want to reach and where they work. That is enough. Give us the name and the company domain and we resolve the address, then confirm the mailbox before you put it in a sequence.
Two fields, one confirmed address
The name can be the full name from a profile, a signature or a conference list. The domain is the company's main website domain.
| Address | Pattern | Confidence | Checks | Status |
|---|
- MX hosts
- Provider
- Receives mail
- Catch-all
Companies use a handful of patterns
Almost every corporate mailbox follows one of a small set of naming rules. We generate the candidates for your name on that domain and rank them by how often companies use each form.
| Pattern | For a person named Dana Ellis at a company domain |
|---|---|
| first.last | dana.ellis at the domain |
| flast | dellis at the domain |
| first | dana at the domain |
| firstlast | danaellis at the domain |
| first_last | dana_ellis at the domain |
| lastf | ellisd at the domain |
| f.last | d.ellis at the domain |
Ranking is not the answer, confirmation is
A ranked guess is where most tools stop, and a ranked guess is what bounces. We take the ranking further:
- We read the domain MX records and detect the mail provider, so we know the domain receives mail at all.
- We check whether the domain already reveals its pattern through addresses published on it.
- We ask the receiving server about the specific mailbox and record what it answered.
- We count how many independent places the address was seen, which is the difference between a confirmed address and a lucky pattern match.
- If the domain is catch-all, we say so, because a catch-all server confirms nothing.
The cases that break naive pattern matching
Real names do not fit a template, and a finder that ignores that returns addresses that do not exist.
We generate the variants these cases produce and verify them, rather than returning the first template that fits.
- Compound and hyphenated surnames, where a company may keep the hyphen, drop it or use only the first part
- Accented and non Latin characters, which most mail systems flatten, but not always the same way
- Middle names and initials that appear in a profile but never in the mailbox
- Two people with the same name at one company, where the second one usually carries a number or a middle initial
- Nicknames in a signature against the legal first name in the directory
- A company whose mail runs on a different domain from its website
One name at a time, or a few thousand
Upload a CSV with a name column and a domain column and the same process runs across the whole file. Only the addresses that come back deliverable count against your monthly limit, so the names you cannot resolve cost you nothing.