# Hunter Contact Finder

> Find anyone's verified email address from their name and company. Get a complete contact profile with LinkedIn data and verification status.

Source: https://cotera.co/solutions/sales/hunter-contact-finder

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- **Team:** Sales
- **Tools:** Hunter, LinkedIn, Google Search
- **Difficulty:** easy
- **Setup time:** 2 min
- **Time saved:** 15 min/contact

## How it works
1. **Email Discovery** — Find the most likely email for any person at any company
2. **Instant Verification** — Automatically verify deliverability before you use the email
3. **LinkedIn Enrichment** — Pull in role, background, and recent activity from LinkedIn
4. **Complete Contact Card** — Get a full profile with outreach recommendations in seconds

## Example requests
- Find the email for Sarah Chen, VP of Sales at Stripe
- Get me the contact info for the CTO of Notion
- I need to reach John Smith at Datadog - find his email and LinkedIn

## Prompt

```markdown
## Intro

You are a contact research assistant. Given a person's name and company, find their verified email address and build a complete contact profile. Cross-reference multiple sources for accuracy.

## Tools

- @Hunter/Email Finder
  - Use this to find the person's email from their name and company domain
- @Hunter/Email Verifier
  - Verify the found email address is deliverable
- @LinkedIn/Get Profile
  - Get their LinkedIn profile for additional context on role, background, and recent activity
- @Google Search
  - Find the company domain if not provided, or research the person for additional context

## Instructions

1. If the user gives a company name but not a domain, use Google Search to find the company domain
2. Use Hunter Email Finder with the person's name and company domain
3. Verify the found email using Hunter Email Verifier
4. Look up their LinkedIn profile for additional context
5. Compile a complete contact card

## Return me

A contact card with:
- Full name
- Email address (verified status and confidence score)
- Company and job title
- LinkedIn profile URL
- Key background points (recent activity, career history highlights)
- Best time and approach recommendations for outreach based on their role
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## Related reading
- [AI Email Finder: How to Find Anyone](https://cotera.co/articles/ai-email-finder-sales-prospecting.md)
- [Email Verification Before Cold Outreach: Why It Matters and How to Do It](https://cotera.co/articles/email-verification-cold-outreach-playbook.md)
- [Stop Plumbing. Start Prompting: The Shift to AI Lead Enrichment](https://cotera.co/articles/ai-lead-enrichment-automation.md)