Methodology
Where our data comes from
Short version: from the public record, verified one mailbox at a time. No scraped LinkedIn profiles, no purchased dumps, no mystery sources. Here is exactly what that means.
contact records in the corpus
email validations run
of listed addresses verified first
LinkedIn scrapes. Ever.
Counts reflect our database and are refreshed as it grows. You can open the public directory and check the data yourself before spending anything.
What we collect
Public professional records
Career information people publish about themselves on the open web: public profiles, company pages, and professional directories. Names, titles, career history, skills.
SEC filings (XBRL)
Revenue, employee counts, fiscal year data, ticker and exchange for US-listed companies. Pulled straight from filings and reported as-filed, never estimated.
Public reference data
Company facts from openly licensed sources: leadership on record, ownership, subsidiaries, headquarters. Where a fact exists in a public registry, we say so.
Company news feeds
Public RSS feeds per company, so the pages reflect what is happening now: funding, leadership changes, expansions.
How an address earns its place
Nothing is listed because it looks right. Every email on a published profile passed all four gates:
Syntax and domain checks
Every address is checked for valid structure and a live mail domain before anything else happens.
Mailbox-level verification
Multi-stage SMTP verification confirms the specific mailbox exists, without ever sending email to it.
Listed only after it passes
An address reaches a published profile only after verification. If it fails at any stage, it never appears.
Continuous refresh
Records refresh as the corpus grows and profiles show their last-updated date, so stale data identifies itself.
Your data and your choices
We only hold information that is already public, and we honor removal requests without argument. If you want your information removed:
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