Hunter

Hunter is one of the oldest and most reliable email finders on the market. Most teams know it as the Chrome extension that pulls an email off a LinkedIn profile. That's a fraction of what it does. The real value shows up when it sits behind your CRM and sequencer as the deliverability layer for every contact your team touches.

What Hunter Does

Hunter is built around a database of over 100 million public professional email addresses, refreshed continuously from public web sources. The product wraps that database in tools for finding, verifying, and reaching the right person at the right company.

• Email Finder, pulls a verified email by name and company domain, with a confidence score and the source URL where it was found.
• Domain Search, returns every known email at a given company, organised by department and seniority.
• Email Verifier, checks deliverability against SMTP, MX records, and known bounce patterns before you send.
• Discover, an ICP search tool that surfaces target companies based on industry, size, tech stack, and other firmographic filters.
• Campaigns, a built-in cold email sequencer with deliverability tooling and personalisation, designed for small teams that don't yet need a dedicated platform.
• Chrome Extension and Google Sheets add-on, lets you find and verify emails directly inside LinkedIn, any company website, or a spreadsheet.
• API and bulk tasks, lets you embed Hunter into Clay, Make, n8n, your CRM, or your warehouse for high-volume discovery and verification.

Hunter's AI

Hunter is not pitched as an AI product, and that's a feature, not a bug. The intelligence is in the data. Confidence scoring uses machine learning across the source URLs, pattern detection, and verification signals to grade every email it returns. Discover applies similar logic to firmographic and technographic matching when you describe an ICP. For most outbound use cases, that grading is what matters, not a chatbot wrapper. AI personalisation lives further down the stack in Smartlead, Instantly, or whatever sender you connect.

Automations We Build with Hunter

Hunter is rarely the headline tool in an outbound stack. It's the layer everything else relies on. These are the plays we build for mid-market clients running real outbound or RevOps motions.

• Account-list-to-sequencer pipeline, target companies flow from Clay or Apollo, get role-based emails pulled from Hunter, verified, then pushed into Smartlead or Instantly with the right copy variant per persona.
• CRM hygiene loop, every new contact in HubSpot or Salesforce passes through Hunter's verifier on create, with risky addresses flagged or quarantined before they reach any sequence.
• Inbound form enrichment, when a lead submits a form with a partial or personal email, an n8n flow calls Hunter to find their work email and append company data, then routes the lead to the right owner.
• LinkedIn-to-CRM one-click, the Hunter extension finds a verified email on a LinkedIn profile and a small wrapper pushes it into the CRM with the correct lifecycle stage, source, and assigned rep.
• Reactivation list cleanup, the dormant contact list runs through Hunter's bulk verifier before any win-back campaign so the send list is clean and the domain stays out of the spam folder.
• Champion tracking, when a customer's champion changes companies, Hunter detects the new domain and the system creates a fresh opportunity record in the CRM with the prior relationship context attached.

Why Teams Choose Hunter

• Deliverability quality, the verifier is among the most accurate on the market, which directly protects sender reputation and reply rates.
• GDPR posture, Hunter's database is built from public sources with documented compliance, which matters for European mid-market buyers.
• API quality, the endpoints are stable, well documented, and easy to drop into Clay, n8n, Make, or any internal pipeline.
• Modular pricing, you can use Hunter purely as an API behind your stack, or as a full outbound platform with Campaigns built in.

Hunter plugs into HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive, Zoho, Zapier, Make, Clay, and Google Workspace natively, with API hooks for everything else. Pricing starts free at 50 credits per month, with paid tiers from around 49 euro per month for 2,000 credits up to 299 euro per month for 25,000 credits, plus enterprise options. We build the layer that turns Hunter into your team's email infrastructure. That's the work.