Hunter Discover FAQs

Yes! It is certainly possible to find companies or domains using Hunter Discover.

With Discover, you can search for companies that match your ideal customer profile (ICP) and access their email data.

You can refine your search with filters such as:

👉 Learn more about finding companies in Discover here.

Once you’ve identified the right companies, you can view their profiles and access professional emails. Simply click on the orange “Find all People” to retrieve emails associated with these companies.

Here you can add additional filters to target the right leads, such as:

👉 Learn more about how to find emails from Discover here.

If you’d like to save multiple companies at once, you can:

👉Learn how to find emails from saved companies in your leads here.

With Hunter Discover, you can easily find companies by applying a wide range of filters. These filters allow you to refine your search based on specific criteria including industry, location, and much more.

👉 We have a detailed help article that explains how to tailor your research using filters in Discover here.

Using Hunter Discover to identify companies doesn’t cost you any credits.

You can apply as many filters as you like and run multiple searches without being charged. In other words, Discover is free to use.

Credits are only used when you choose to reveal email addresses from the companies you’ve found. Each email revealed costs 1 credit, following the standard credit system.

The difference between free and paid plans lies in the available features and storage limits:

If your Discover search doesn’t return any results—or only a handful—it usually means that your filters are too strict, or we don’t currently have any data in our database that matches the filters you’ve set.

To get the most out of Discover, it helps to start with a clear customer profile in mind. This way, you’ll know which filters are most relevant to apply.

If your customer base includes multiple Ideal Customer Profiles (ICPs), we recommend running separate searches for each ICP to get more tailored results.

Yes, while Discover is meant to identify companies that match your target customers, once you have found your companies, you can easily start finding emails for them and apply additional filters.

Simply click on the orange “Find all People” to retrieve emails associated with these companies.

Here you can add additional filters to target the right leads, such as:

👉 Learn more about how to find emails from Discover here.

Yes, you can export companies found in Discover as a CSV file or save them to your Leads, where you can manage, segment and find emails for them.

For both actions, you need first to save the companies found in Discover to your Leads:

If you need to save multiple companies, select them individually or use the bulk select options by simply clicking on the orange Save all companies button to save them all at once. Create a new company leads list or select an existing list.

The companies will be visible in the Leads Companies section, where you can manage them, find emails or export them.

The Export button will be immediately visible in your Company lists after selecting the companies to export:

Yes, you can! First, start a Discover search for the companies you’d like to target. If you use the Headquarters location filter, it will narrow the results to companies based on where their headquarters are located.

Once you’ve identified the companies, you can begin finding emails. At this stage, you’ll also have access to additional filters that apply to the leads you’re researching. Among these is the location filter, which lets you refine your people search by city, country, continent, economic area, or nation.

AI can help you quickly find the right companies. With the AI Assistant in Discover, you can simply describe your target audience in a sentence (for example, “SaaS companies with 50–200 employees in Europe”), and it will automatically apply the relevant search filters for you.

It can also suggest ways to refine your results, helping you narrow down or expand your search to find more relevant companies faster. You can also manually edit any filters and continue with your research.

Yes, you can exclude already saved companies from your list by selecting the Saved Companies filter and checking the Hide already saved companies option.

This will ensure that the list of companies returned, doesn't include any companies you have already saved to your Company Leads.