How to find emails from companies or contacts in Leads

There are two main ways to find emails from your Leads section, depending on whether you're working with companies or individual contacts.

Starting from company leads
You can bring companies into your Leads section either by saving them directly from Discover, or by importing them via a CSV file. Once your companies are in your Company Leads, you can find email addresses for them individually or in bulk using the Find People function.
Starting from people leads
You can also import individual contacts without an email address, as long as you have their full name and company name or domain. Once those contacts are saved in your People Leads, you can trigger an email search for each of them directly from the People section or in bulk

This article explains how to do both.

How to import companies or contacts into Leads

If you need to import a list of companies or contacts from a CSV file, you can do so directly from the Leads section.

Hunter will guide you through mapping your columns and importing your data.

👉 To save or import a lead without an email, you'll need at least the full name and the company name or domain.

👉 For a full walkthrough, see:

Finding an email for a single person

Once a contact is saved in the People section, without an email address, you will see a magnifying glass inside the Email addresses column.

By clicking on it an Email Finder search will start and return all the avilable data point we have for that lead.

To find emails for multiple contacts at once, select the leads you want, then click Find email addresses from the blue action menu that appears.

Finding emails for company leads

To find emails for a saved company, select it and click Find People. A panel will open on the right showing available email addresses.

To find emails for multiple companies at once, select them and click Find People from the blue action menu.

Once the panel is open, you can apply filters to target the right contacts:

Job title — filter by one or more specific job titles
Department — filter by department (e.g. Sales, Marketing, HR)
Location — filter by city, country, continent, or economic area
Verification status — Valid, Accept-all, or Unknown
People per company — choose All, Decision makers only, or a specific number
Required fields — show only contacts with a phone number, full name, or job title
Hide saved leads — exclude contacts already in your Leads
Email category — use the tabs to switch between All people, Decision makers, and Generic emails

More details on the filtering options available below.

From the results, you can reveal emails one by one by clicking Reveal, or use Reveal All to reveal everything at once. You can also select specific leads and reveal them in bulk.

Once you've applied your filters, Hunter shows an Estimated results count and a Credits breakdown: how many credits are Required, how many you have Available, and how many more you'd still need.

FAQs

What filter attributes are available?

Job title Free-text input — type one or more job titles to filter contacts by their role (e.g. CEO, Head of Marketing, Account Executive).

Department Filter by department. You can select multiple departments. Available options: Executive, IT, Finance, Management, Sales, Legal, Support, HR, Marketing, Communication, Education, Design, Health, Operations.
Location Filter contacts by their personal location, independently from the company headquarters. You can search by city, country, continent, or economic area.
Verification status Filter by the email verification status:
- Valid — the email has been verified and is deliverable.
- Accept-all — the domain accepts all emails, so individual deliverability can't be confirmed.
- Unknown — verification status could not be determined.

People per company Control how many contacts are retrieved per company:

All — retrieve all available contacts
Decision makers only — retrieve only the most senior contacts
Specific number — set a maximum number of contacts per company (e.g. up to 5)
Required fields Show only contacts that have a specific field populated:
- Full name
- Job title
- Phone number — note: phone numbers are linked to personal emails only, not generic ones and results are limited.

Hide saved leads Excludes contacts you've already saved to your Leads. (active by default - can be removed)
Email category Use the tabs at the top of the results to filter by email type:
- All people — all personal email addresses found.
- Decision makers — contacts identified as the most likely decision makers (e.g. C-level, VPs, Directors).
- Generic — role-based addresses such as contact@, info@, or support@.

Will I be charged credits to find emails?

Yes. Each email address revealed costs 1 credit, following the standard Hunter credit system. However, if you've previously revealed the same email through Hunter, revealing it again won't cost additional credits.

Will I be charged for importing companies or contacts?

No. Importing companies or contacts into your Leads section is completely free, regardless of how many you import. Credits are only used when you choose to reveal email addresses.

Will I be charged for exporting leads?

No. Exporting your leads or companies as a CSV file is free. Credits are only used when revealing email addresses, not when managing or exporting your existing data.

Finding emails from the Leads section