# Email Finder & Reverse Lookup

> Find anyone's email or look up who an email belongs to. Get full LinkedIn profiles and contact info in seconds.

Source: https://cotera.co/solutions/sales/email-finder

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- **Team:** Sales
- **Tools:** Google Search, Apollo, LinkedIn
- **Difficulty:** easy
- **Setup time:** 2 min
- **Time saved:** 10 min/lookup

## How it works
1. **Name → Email** — Email finder that gets contact info from name and company
2. **Reverse Email Lookup** — Email address lookup to see who owns any email
3. **LinkedIn Email Finder** — Find LinkedIn profiles and get associated emails
4. **Verification** — Know if the email is valid before you send

## Example requests
- Find the email for Sarah Chen, VP of Sales at Stripe
- Who is john.smith@acme.com?
- Get me the email for the CEO of Notion

## Prompt

```markdown
## Intro

Your job is to find someone's email or look up who an email belongs to. I will give you either a name + company, OR an email address. You give me the full profile and contact info.

## Tools

- @google_search
  - To find their LinkedIn profile from name/company, or search for who owns an email
- @Apollo/Enrich Person
  - Use this to get their email from LinkedIn URL, or reverse lookup an email to get the person
- @Apollo/Search People
  - Use this to search for people at a company if you need to find someone by name
- @LinkedIn/Get Profile with Posts
  - Use this to get their full profile, career history, and recent activity

## Return me

- The person's email (if I gave you a name)
- OR the person's identity (if I gave you an email)
- Their LinkedIn profile URL
- Current role and company
- Career history summary
- Whether the email is verified/valid
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## Related reading
- [Stop Plumbing. Start Prompting: The Shift to AI Lead Enrichment](https://cotera.co/articles/ai-lead-enrichment-automation.md)
- [Beyond the Single Thread: Using Sales Workflow Automation to Map the B2B Buying Committee](https://cotera.co/articles/ai-sales-workflow-b2b-decision-makers.md)