How to find work emails with Hunter

You find a work email with Hunter by entering a person's first and last name and their company's domain into the Email Finder. Hunter works out the address from the email pattern the company uses, such as first name dot last name, and from addresses it has found on public web pages. It returns the most likely address with a confidence score from 0 to 100 and a status, and it lists the public sources where it found the address when it has them. You can do this one person at a time in Hunter's web app, or upload a spreadsheet of names and domains as a bulk task.

When you know the company but not the person, Hunter's Domain Search is the better starting point. Enter the company's domain and Hunter lists the addresses it knows there, with names and job titles where it has them. You can narrow the list by department, by seniority, or to people whose name and position Hunter knows. Hunter also has an Email Verifier, which checks whether an address can receive mail and returns a status such as valid, invalid, accept-all, or unknown.

Those tools do the finding well. What they can't do is check the question you asked. Hunter takes the name and domain you give it at face value, so a few common mistakes produce addresses that look right and fail:

• The person moved on. Hunter can still find the old address of someone who left the company, and it may still carry a decent score.
• The domain is wrong. Many companies send email from a different domain than their website, or from a parent company's domain.
• The status gets lost. An address marked accept-all means the company's mail server accepts everything, so Hunter can't confirm the mailbox exists. Once that address is pasted into a spreadsheet next to confirmed ones, nobody can tell them apart.

A good result, then, is more than a column of email addresses. It's a list of people who still hold the role you want, each with the address Hunter found, its confidence score and status, and a clear mark on which addresses are ready for outreach and which need a decision.

Kite does that work for you. It checks each person and domain before spending a Hunter search, runs the list through your Hunter account, verifies what needs verifying, and hands back a list your team can send from.

Start by giving Kite the people you want to reach, in the Kite web app or in Slack. You can share a list you already have:

"Here's the speaker list from last month's conference. Find work emails for everyone with Hunter and add the good fits to a Hunter list."

Or you can ask Kite to find the people first:

"Find the heads of customer success at the 30 accounts in this sheet and get their work emails from Hunter."

Kite is an AI marketer. It researches your business, builds a growth strategy, and ships the work that brings you new customers. From that research, it already knows your ideal customer profile, your current customers, and your competitors. That means it can tell you which people on your list are worth a Hunter search and which ones it would skip, such as people at your existing customers. Confirm the plan or adjust it, and Kite starts.

You'll need to connect your own Hunter account by adding an API key from that account, because Hunter isn't one of Kite's built-in sources. The lookups and verifications Kite runs count against your Hunter plan, just as your own searches do. Kite can check how many searches and verifications your plan has left, and it tells you when your list is bigger than what remains.

Kite starts by reading the list you shared, whether it's a spreadsheet, a file in the conversation, or the leads already saved in one of your Hunter lists. If you asked it to find the people, it uses its built-in research to search by company, job title, and seniority, and it can use Hunter's company search to find accounts that match your profile.

Before it spends a single Hunter search, Kite confirms that each person still holds the role at that company. It checks their public professional profile or the company's own pages, and it drops or flags anyone who has moved on. It also removes your current customers, your competitors, and anyone who has asked not to hear from you. A Hunter search on someone who left six months ago costs a search and returns an address that will bounce, so this check saves both.

Kite works out the domain each company actually uses for email, because the domain is half of what Hunter needs. It starts from the company's website and checks for the common traps: a company that sends email from an older or shorter domain, a brand that belongs to a parent company, or a regional site with its own address. When a company runs more than one domain, Kite can ask Hunter how many addresses it has on each one and use the domain where Hunter actually knows people. That count doesn't use a search.

Kite also cleans up each name, so a nickname, a middle initial, or an accent in the source list doesn't send Hunter looking for someone who doesn't exist.

Kite sends each person's name and company domain to Hunter's Email Finder, one person at a time across the whole list. For every person, it records the address Hunter returns, the confidence score, and the status. It doesn't run the same person twice, because each lookup uses a search on your plan.

When Hunter can't find someone, Kite marks that person as not found rather than guessing an address from the company's pattern. It then decides whether there's a better route. If the goal is to reach the right person at the company rather than that exact person, Kite runs a Domain Search filtered by department and seniority, and it reads the job titles Hunter returns to find someone else in the role. If you want a second source, it can try Kite's built-in email research for the people Hunter missed.

Kite sorts every address into ready to send, needs a decision, or not found, based on Hunter's own results. An address with a high confidence score and a valid status goes into the ready group. An address with a lower score, or one that hasn't been checked, goes through Hunter's Email Verifier before Kite places it.

Addresses that come back accept-all or unknown go into the needs-a-decision group. Hunter can't confirm those mailboxes exist, so Kite keeps them apart and tells you how many there are. You can include them in a send, leave them out, or have Kite look for the person another way. Kite reports Hunter's verdict as Hunter gives it, so you always know how sure the result is.

Kite saves the finished list wherever your team needs it. In Hunter, it creates a named list and adds each person as a lead with their email, first and last name, position, company, company size and industry, LinkedIn profile, and Hunter's confidence score. It writes into the lead's notes why the person fits and where Kite confirmed their current role. When someone is already a lead in your Hunter account, Kite updates that record by email address instead of adding them twice.

Kite can also create custom attributes in Hunter, which are extra fields your team defines, and fill them in. A field for Kite's one-to-five fit score, for example, lets your team sort Hunter leads by fit. If your team works from a CRM or a spreadsheet instead, Kite can create or update the contacts in a connected CRM such as HubSpot, or save the list to a connected Google Sheet with one row per person.

When the work is done, Kite posts a summary in the conversation where you asked. It says how many people were on the list, how many it dropped before searching and why, and how many addresses landed in each group. It also says how many Hunter searches and verifications the job used. The full list comes with it as a table, so you can scan it without opening Hunter.

From there, Kite can research each person's company and write a personalized email for each one. Once you approve the campaign, it sends from your team's Kite address or a connected email product and reports which messages were delivered, which failed, and who replied. If you get new names regularly, such as each month's event list, you can ask Kite to run the same job on a schedule.

When Kite finishes, you have a list of people you can actually reach, with the evidence behind every address and a clear line between what's ready and what isn't.