Hunter Discover helps you find and connect with companies more efficiently, whether you’re prospecting for clients, partners, or researching new markets. Using powerful filters and an AI Assistant, you can discover companies that match your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP) and find verified professional emails—even if you’re starting from scratch.
Getting started
Hunter Discover allows you to search for companies using multiple filters that can be combined to match your ICP.
💡 Searching for companies is completely free—credits are only used when you reveal email addresses. This means you can explore, test, and refine your searches without any cost.
Discover is available directly from your Hunter dashboard, accessible via the main menu or by clicking here.
Company search filters in Discover
You can use one filter or combine several to narrow your results precisely. Available filters include:
Company name: Find a specific company by entering its full name
Companies similar to: Find lookalike companies (paid plans only)
Headquarters location: City, country, continent, or region
Industry: Filter companies by industry sector
Company size: Based on number of employees
Company type: Public companies, nonprofits, educational institutions, and more
Year founded: Exact year or date range (paid plans only)
Keywords: Terms describing a company’s products, services, or offerings
Technologies: Companies using specific technologies (paid plans only)
Funding: Filter by funding round, amount, or date (paid plans only)
Saved companies: Hide already saved companies to focus on new findings.
💡 Some filters offer an Include and Exclude option.
Using filters to find companies using Discover
You can apply filters manually or use the AI assistant in Discover.
Using the AI Assistant ✨
The AI Assistant in Discover helps you quickly find companies by turning a simple description of your target audience into the right search filters.
Instead of manually selecting filters, you can type what you’re looking for in a sentence, and Discover will automatically apply the relevant filters for you.
For example, you could search for:
“Accounting companies in Germany”
“Fintech startups in the UK”
“SaaS companies with 50–200 employees in Europe”
To use it, type the companies you're targeting or describe what your company is doing in the centre of the Discover page. Enter your request and click the orange button; Discover will generate the corresponding filters automatically. You can still adjust or add filters manually afterwards if needed.
Feel free to also select one of the suggestions below the text field to seen an example.
After your results appear, the AI Assistant may also suggest simple ways to improve your search.
For example, it might recommend narrowing your results if there are too many companies, or broadening your search if there are very few matches.
These suggestions appear below your filters and can be applied with one click, helping you quickly refine your search and find more relevant companies. Simply select Apply to use the suggested filter, or type what you want to use to refine your results.
Using manual filters
You can also build searches manually by entering filters for company name, location, industry, size, keywords, technologies, and more.
You can use one or a combination of filters to refine your search results to match your specific needs.
Each filter offers Include and Exclude options, allowing you to apply a filter to include a certain industry, location, or keyword or to exclude them from your search specifically.
For the Keywords and Industry filters, you can select whether the filter should match All of the keywords or technologies you've added or Any of them. This gives you more flexibility in refining your search.
Find similar companies
If you already know a company that fits your ICP, you can use the Companies similar to filter to find lookalike businesses. Simply enter the company you want to find lookalikes for, and Hunter will return a list of similar companies.
💡 The Companies similar to, Year founded and Technologies filters are available on all paid plans.
Save filters for quick access
Once you’ve configured your filters, you can save them as a search.
To save a search
Add your desired filters
Click on Save this search at the bottom of your filters.
Load saved searches
To access your previously saved searches
Click on the small folder icon at the bottom of your filters
Select the saved search
You can also manage your saved searches by clicking Manage saved searches. This will take you to a separate page where you can view all your saved searches. From there, you can run a search again or delete it by selecting the searches, clicking on the three dots and selecting Delete.
Exploring company profiles
Viewing company details
Click on any company result to expand its profile. You’ll see:
Company description
Industry and size
Headquarters location
Detected technologies
Finding professional emails
Inside each company profile, you’ll find associated professional email addresses. Click Reveal to access an email.
👉 Revealed contacts are automatically saved to your Leads section.
You also have an option to filter by Decision Makers only, Generic emails or see All people's emails, and you have the option to add additional filters such as:
Job title: filter by specific job titles
Verification status: Valid, Accept all or Unknown
Type: generic or personal emails
Department: Select specific departments
Show only results with: phone numbers, full names, or positions.
Location: refine by city, country, continent, economic area or nation
People per company: choose all, decision makers, or a specific number
Saved leads: Hide existing leads
Following companies
Each company profile includes a Signals tab showing updates such as:
New job openings
Newly found email addresses
Click Follow this company to create a Company Signal.
💡 Creating Signals is completely free and helps you reach out at the right time.
Save single companies
Click Save company from a company profile to add it to a new or existing company list in your companies Leads section.
Save multiple companies in bulk using Discover
To save multiple companies at once:
Select companies individually or use bulk selection not selecting any
Click Save all companies
Choose an existing list or create a new one
💡 Save company limits:
Free plan users can save up to 100 companies at a time.
Paid plans have no saving limits.
The companies will be visible in the Leads Companies section, where you can manage, segment them and later find emails for them.
Find email addresses in bulk using Discover
To find emails for multiple companies:
Select individual companies from your results or
Click Find all people without selecting any companies
ℹ️ If no companies are selected, by clicking directly on the "Find all people " button:
Free plan: Bulk search runs for up to 100 companies
Paid plan Bulk search runs for up to max 25,000 companies.
You can apply additional filters such as:
Job title: filter by specific job titles
Verification status: Valid, Accept all or Unknown
Type: generic or personal emails
Department: Select specific departments
Show only results with: phone numbers, full names, or positions.
Location: refine by city, country, continent, economic area, nation
Saved leads: Hide existing leads
People per company: choose all, decision makers, or a specific number
All people: All leads
Decision makers: filter only by decision makers
Generic emails: filter to only return generic emails such as info@ or support@
You’ll see:
Estimated number of emails found
Credit cost before revealing
Emails can be revealed:
One by one
In bulk - using the Reveal All button
Best practices
Refine your searches: Combine multiple filters to improve relevance
Explore broadly: Testing wider criteria can uncover new opportunities
Check back regularly: Company data and emails are frequently updated
Need help?
If you have suggestions or need assistance with the Hunter Discover feature, our Support team is here to help you. Email us at contact@hunter.io or start a new chat.