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Filter your leads: people and companies

Learn how to filter your leads and companies in the Leads section

Filtering helps you quickly narrow down your saved leads and companies in the Leads section. Instead of scrolling through large lists, you can apply filters to focus on the contacts or companies that match specific criteria.

You can use filters to prepare contacts for email sequences, verify emails, or analyze targeted company segments.

How filtering works

Filters allow you to narrow your People and Company lists based on specific attributes such as company location, job title, verification status, or industry and more.

You can:

  • Apply one or multiple filters at the same time

  • Combine filters to create precise segments

  • Clear all filters at once to reset the list

💡 Filtering is especially useful before adding leads to Sequences or verifying emails.

Learn more about Hunter Sequences and verifying your leads.

Step-by-step guide

Step 1: Open your leads or company list

  1. Go to the Leads section in Hunter.

  2. Select either:

    • People

    • Companies

Step 2: Open the filters panel

  1. Click Filters at the top of the list.

  2. The filter panel will appear with all available filtering options.

Check all available filters for 'People' lists

You can apply these filters to your saved leads in the People section:

  • Company country

  • Company type

  • Confidence score

  • Created at

  • Department

  • Email address

  • Full name

  • Industry

  • Job title

  • Last activity at

  • Last contacted at

  • Last exported at

  • LinkedIn

  • Location

  • Phone number

  • Sending status

  • Sequence

  • Source

  • Static leads list

  • Synchronization

  • Tags

  • Team member

  • Twitter

  • Updated at

  • Verification date

  • Verification status

  • Website

Check all available filters for 'Company' lists

You can apply these filters to your saved Companies:

  • Company name

  • Company type

  • Country

  • Created at

  • Funding amount

  • Funding series

  • Industry

  • Keywords

  • Last exported at

  • Last funding date

  • List membership

  • Location

  • Saved leads

  • Size

  • Source

  • Tags

  • Technology

  • Updated at

  • Website

  • Year founded

Step 3: Apply one or more filters

  1. Select a filter from the list.

  2. Decide between filtering by default filters or Custom attributes you've created.

  3. Configure the filter conditions if needed.

    Text filters, such as Job title or Email address, use these rules:

    • Contains: Show results that include a keyword.

    • Does not contain: Show results that exclude a keyword.

    • Has any value: Show all records with any data in that field.

    • Is empty: Show only records with no data for that field.

  4. Add additional filters to refine your results.

Filter selection panel displaying available filtering options.

Filters that let you pick from a list

Some filters don't need any typing. Open the filter and tick the values you want. You can select several at once.

  • Industry: Search for and select one or more industries from Hunter's industry list, the same one used in Discover and on the Companies tab. Because you're picking exact industries, the results only include leads from those industries, with no partial-word matches.

  • Static leads list: Pick one or more of your static lists by name to see only the leads they contain.

  • Synchronization: Pick one or more CRM sync statuses, for example to find leads that didn't sync to your CRM.

Has any value and Is empty are still available for these filters. For example, Synchronization → Is empty shows the leads that have never been synced to your CRM.

👉 If you saved a view with an Industry filter before this change, it still opens the way it was. You'll see a link to switch it to the new picker.

Filtering by date

Several filters let you choose a relative window instead of a fixed date — for example, leads created in the last 7 days. These filters include Created at, Updated at, Last activity at, Last contacted at, Last exported at and Verification date, plus Last funding date on companies.

A relative window is calculated in your own time zone, so "the last 7 days" always means the last 7 days where you are. This holds whether the filter runs instantly on screen or in the background, such as when you select all results and export them or add them to a sequence.

👉 If you save a filtered view as a list, the window is calculated in the time zone of the list's owner. That way everyone on the team sees the same leads and the same count. Read more in Static vs. Dynamic Lists in Hunter Leads.

How to clear filters

To remove all active filters:

  1. Click Clear all filters at the top right of the page.

  2. This resets the list and displays all saved records again.

Clear all filters option displayed in the Hunter Leads page

How to sort your leads and companies

You can sort your People and Companies lists by the Created at column to see your most recently or earliest added records first.

To enable the column and sort your list:

  1. Click the + icon on the right side of the table header to open the column settings.

  2. Enable the Created at toggle.

  3. Click the Created at column header to open the column options.

  4. Select Sort ascending or Sort descending.

What to expect

After applying filters:

  • Your list updates automatically.

  • Only matching leads or companies appear.

  • You can continue refining results with additional filters.

  • Sync them to your CRM.

Filtered results can then be used to:

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