How to find and verify work emails with Dropcontact

You find and verify work emails with Dropcontact by giving it enough information to identify each person and their company, and letting it find and check the address in one step. Dropcontact accepts several starting points for each person:

• A first name, a last name, and the company's website
• A first name, a last name, and the company name
• A full name and the company name
• A LinkedIn profile URL
• An email address you already have, which Dropcontact checks rather than looks up

Dropcontact's own guidance names a first name, last name, and company name as the best combination, and it also accepts the company's website or domain in place of the name. A name with no company at all can't be enriched, since there's no domain to work from.

Dropcontact doesn't look addresses up in a stored database. It works out the likely address from the person's name and the company's domain, then tests it in real time on its own servers, checking the syntax, the domain's mail setup, and whether the mailbox accepts mail. That's why finding and verifying happen together. Every address it returns comes with a qualification that tells you what kind of address it is and how sure Dropcontact is. A nominative@pro address belongs to a named person at a company domain and has passed Dropcontact's checks. A catch-all address sits on a company mail server that accepts every message, and Dropcontact gives it this label when it can't confirm that the specific mailbox exists. A generic address, such as one beginning with contact or info, reaches a shared inbox rather than a person.

You can run Dropcontact several ways on your own. You can upload a CSV or Excel file in its web app, use its Google Sheets add-on, connect its native sync with HubSpot or Pipedrive, or call its API through Zapier, Make, or n8n. In each case, Dropcontact charges a credit when it finds an address, and checking an address you already have costs one credit. Dropcontact also recommends against running a second verification tool on its results, because other verifiers often mark its valid catch-all addresses as risky and throw away good contacts.

Those routes find and verify addresses well, but they leave two jobs with you. Before the run, someone has to add the company websites, remove people who have changed jobs, and pick the best starting point for each row. After the run, someone has to read the qualifications and decide which addresses go straight into a sequence, which ones need a softer approach, and which ones stay out. A good result is a list where every person either has a work address with its qualification beside it or is clearly marked as not found, and where the addresses headed into outreach belong to people who still hold the job.

Kite does both of those jobs for you. It prepares the list, runs it through your Dropcontact account, and sorts the results before anything reaches your outreach tool.

Start by telling Kite which people you want emails for. You can share a list in the conversation:

"Find and verify work emails for everyone in this spreadsheet with my Dropcontact account, then add the good ones to our outbound sheet."

Or you can point Kite at people it already found for you:

"Run the prospects you pulled this morning through Dropcontact and tell me which ones are ready to email."

Kite is an AI marketer. It researches your business, builds a growth strategy, and ships the work that brings you new customers. You can work with it in the Kite web app or in Slack. It can read a CSV or spreadsheet you share in the conversation, work from a list it built earlier, or read contacts from a spreadsheet or CRM you've connected.

To use Dropcontact, connect your Dropcontact account to Kite by adding its API key. Kite then runs every lookup on your own Dropcontact plan, so the credits come from your account.

Before it submits anything, Kite tells you its plan. It says how many people are on the list, how many rows it can send to Dropcontact, how many already have an address that Dropcontact will check, and which rows it is setting aside and why. Confirm the plan and Kite starts.

Kite gives Dropcontact the strongest starting point it has for every row, because the quality of what goes in decides how many verified addresses come out. Before it submits anything, Kite reads your list and works out what each row contains.

For a row with a name and a company name but no website, Kite looks up the company and adds its website, so Dropcontact has both the company's name and its domain to work from. When a company uses a different domain for email than for its website, Kite notes it so the right domain is tested. For a row with only a LinkedIn profile URL, Kite sends the URL as it is. Dropcontact accepts standard LinkedIn profile URLs but not Sales Navigator links, so when a row has a Sales Navigator link, Kite sends the person's name and company website instead.

Kite sets aside rows that Dropcontact can't work from, such as a first name with no company. It lists those rows in its report so you can fill them in rather than spend credits on them.

Kite confirms that each person still works at the company on your list before it asks Dropcontact for an address. It checks their public professional profile or the company's own pages, and it updates the row when someone has moved to a new company. An address that passes every check is still no use if its owner left six months ago, and Dropcontact can only verify that the mailbox exists, not that the right person still reads it.

When someone has changed jobs, Kite tells you and asks whether to look them up at their new company instead. That person is often worth more to you than the original row, because a new role is a good reason to get in touch.

Kite submits your list to Dropcontact in batches of up to 250 people and collects the results as each batch finishes. For each person, it sends their first name, last name, company, and company website, or their LinkedIn profile URL when that's the better starting point. It asks Dropcontact to return results in English, since Dropcontact replies in French by default.

When your list already includes email addresses, Kite sends those too. Dropcontact checks each one and gives it a qualification, and if an old address no longer works, Dropcontact looks for a current one. This is the right way to check a list you inherited or haven't emailed in a while.

A batch usually finishes in under a minute. Kite checks for the results and picks up partial results when part of a batch is still running, so a large list keeps moving. For a French company, Kite can also ask Dropcontact for French company registry details, such as the company's SIREN number, its activity code, and its VAT number.

Kite sorts every address by the qualification Dropcontact gave it, because each qualification calls for a different next step. It keeps Dropcontact's label exactly as Dropcontact returned it and adds a plain note about what to do with the address:

• Nominative addresses belong to a named person and passed Dropcontact's checks. Kite marks these as ready for outreach.
• Catch-all addresses sit on a company mail server that accepts every message. Kite keeps them on the list but flags them, so you can send to them in a smaller batch and watch for bounces.
• Generic addresses, such as those beginning with contact or info, reach a shared inbox. Kite keeps them apart from your personal outreach, because a message written for one person reads oddly in a shared inbox.
• People with no address stay on the list marked as not found, along with the reason, such as no company website or no result from Dropcontact. Kite never fills the gap with a guessed address.

Kite takes Dropcontact's verification as the final word on each address and doesn't run a second verifier over it, which follows Dropcontact's own advice. When Dropcontact replaces an old address on your list with a new one, Kite keeps both on the row so you can see what changed.

Dropcontact also returns the person's LinkedIn profile, job title, and location, along with company details such as its website and size. Kite adds those to each row, so the list carries what you need to write a relevant email.

When the run finishes, Kite saves the list where you asked for it and reports what happened in the conversation. It can add the results to a connected spreadsheet, update the contacts in your connected CRM, or add them to your connected outreach tool. It matches rows by name and company so each person's email lands on the right record.

The report says how many people Dropcontact found addresses for and how many addresses fall under each qualification. It lists who is still missing and why, and who Kite set aside before the run. The full list comes with it as a table you can scan in the conversation.

From there, Kite can write a personalized outreach email for each ready-to-send contact, using research on their company to give it something relevant to say. It shows you the emails before anything is sent. If you add new people to a list every week, ask Kite to run the same job on a schedule, and it will post each run's summary in the same place.

When Kite finishes, you have one list in which every person either has a work address with Dropcontact's qualification beside it or is clearly marked as not found.