Hunter Discover helps you find companies that match your ideal customer profile. Once you’ve found the right companies, you can find the people you want to contact, reveal their professional email addresses, and save them automatically to Leads.
Searching for companies in Discover doesn’t use credits, and that includes AI searches (these are limited based on your plan). Credits are only used when you reveal email addresses: 1 credit per email.
Step 1: Find companies that match your target
The fastest way to start is to describe the companies you’re looking for in plain language, for example “SaaS companies in France with 50–200 employees that are hiring salespeople.” Discover turns your description into filters. You can then refine the results with another prompt or adjust the filters yourself.
AI searches are free but limited each month, depending on your plan. You can see how many you have left on your Usage page.
You can also narrow your search with filters:
Headquarters location
Two different location filters:
the Headquarters location filter here targets companies by where they are headquartered, it does not filter contacts by where they personally live or work.
To filter contacts by their personal location, use the Location filter in the Find all people results (Step 3). These are independent filters that work at different stages.
Industry
Keywords
Size
Company name
Companies similar to (all in one outreach paid plans)
Company type
Year founded (all in one outreach paid plans)
Technologies (all in one outreach paid plans)
Job openings
Funding (all in one outreach paid plans)
You can also hide companies you’ve already saved to focus only on new prospects.
👉 Learn more about how to tailor your Discover search using filters.
Before finding emails, you can also save your search to run it again later. You’ll find it under Saved searches.
On the Free plan, Discover shows the first 100 companies that match your search. Upgrade to a paid all in one outreach plan to see all results and unlock every filter.
Step 2: Find email addresses
Once you’ve identified relevant companies, you can find email addresses for one company or for many at once.
Find emails for one company
Click a company in your Discover results to open its profile.
In the Email addresses tab, you can see the professional contacts available for that company and narrow them down with filters. Looking for someone specific? Click Find by Name and enter their full name.
Once you’ve found the right person, click Reveal to access their email address - every email address you reveal uses 1 credit and it's also automatically saved to your Leads.
To reveal several at once, select them and click Reveal in the toolbar that appears.
On the Generic tab, you can click Reveal all generic emails to reveal every generic address for that company for 1 credit.
Find emails for multiple companies
Select the companies you want to include, or leave the selection empty to search across all matching companies.
Click Find all people, or Find people if you selected specific companies.
Hunter shows the contacts available at those companies, so you can refine your results before revealing them.
On the Free plan, Find all people covers the first 100 companies in your results. On all in one outreach paid plans, it covers all matching companies.
Step 3: Target the right people
Before revealing emails, use filters to narrow your results to the contacts that matter for your outreach.
With Find all people, you can filter by:
Department: focus on teams such as Marketing, Sales, HR, Finance, or Engineering
Seniority: focus on contacts at the right level, from junior roles up to executives
Job title: target specific roles or keywords
Verification status: Valid, Accept all, or Unknown
Show only results with: a full name, a job title, or a phone number
Location: include or exclude continents, business regions, countries, states, or cities
Saved leads: hide contacts you’ve already saved (turned on by default in Find all people)
Limit people per company: set the maximum number of contacts returned for each company (1 to 100)
Email source: show all emails, only emails found publicly, or only inferred emails (built and verified from the person’s name and the company’s domain)
On a single company’s profile, you can filter by department, job title, verification status, location, saved leads, and “Show only results with.”
Use the tabs to switch between:
People: all contacts associated with a person
Decision makers: contacts identified as decision makers at their company
Generic: role-based addresses such as
info@orsupport@
👉 Learn more about finding decision makers.
Step 4: Reveal and save your contacts
Once you’ve refined your results in Find all people, you can:
Click Reveal to reveal one email at a time
Select contacts and click Reveal selected
Click Reveal all to reveal every contact matching your filters
Before you reveal in bulk, Hunter shows how many credits it will use. When you reveal all results, this is an estimate.
Revealed contacts are saved automatically to your Leads. You can also choose Save in a specific list to add them to an existing leads list or a new one. Once a contact is revealed, you can add them to a sequence directly from the results.
Contacts already saved in your Leads are skipped, so you’re never charged for them again. If a contact can’t be revealed, you aren’t charged for it either.
ℹ️ You can follow the progress of larger reveals in Bulk Status.
What if you don’t have enough credits?
You don’t need enough credits to reveal every contact in your results.
In Find all people, if your balance is lower than the cost of your reveal, you can choose to:
Proceed with available credits: reveal as many contacts as your credits cover
Get more credits: upgrade your plan or, on eligible all in one outreach paid plans, buy a credit pack
Save companies and find their emails later
You don’t have to find contacts right away.
Select the companies you want and click Save (the button shows how many you’ve selected), or leave the selection empty and click Save all companies to save every company matching your search. You can add them to an existing company list, create a new one, or save them without a list under All companies.
Saved companies appear in Leads > Companies. When you’re ready, select them and click Find people to see their contacts. It works the same way as Find all people in Discover.
👉 Learn more about managing your Company lists.
On the Free plan, you can save up to 100 companies at a time. All in one outreach paid plans have no limit.
Save a company to be updated on it
To keep an eye on a company open its profile and click on Save Company.The company will be added to your Companies in Leads and you’ll get updates when it has new email addresses, job openings, funding rounds, or technology changes.
Export your revealed contacts
Once contacts are revealed they are saved automatically to your Leads. To export them as a CSV:
Go to Leads at hunter.io/leads.
Select the contacts you want to export using the checkboxes, or use the bulk-select to choose all.
Click Export and download the CSV file.
👉 For a full walkthrough of export options, see Export your saved leads and companies.