What is ContactOut?
ContactOut is an email finder and contact data platform that helps sales teams, recruiters, and marketers find verified email addresses and phone numbers for professionals across 300 million profiles and 30 million companies. Users access contact data through a Chrome extension that surfaces emails and phone numbers directly from LinkedIn profiles, or through a search portal with 20+ filters for targeted prospecting. The platform also includes email campaign tools and AI-powered personalization.
Features & Benefits
- Chrome extension – Retrieve verified email addresses and phone numbers directly from LinkedIn profiles without leaving the browser. Works on individual profiles and supports bulk extraction from search results.
- Search portal – Access ContactOut’s full database using 20+ filters including job title, company, industry, location, company size, and seniority level. Build targeted prospect lists without Sales Navigator.
- Triple-layer email verification – Validate contact data through a three-step verification process to minimize bounce rates and improve email deliverability.
- Email campaigns – Build and send multi-stage email sequences directly within the platform. Import prospects with a single click and personalize emails at scale.
- AI Email Writer and Personalizer – Generate hyper-personalized outreach emails using AI based on prospect profile data, reducing manual research time.
- GitHub data enrichment – Enrich contact data sourced from GitHub profiles in addition to LinkedIn — useful for recruiting and technical sales targeting.
- Bulk export – Export contact lists in bulk for use in CRM systems or outreach tools.
- List builder and lead organization – Save, tag, and organize prospects into lists within the platform for campaign management.
- CRM and ATS integrations – Sync contact data with Salesforce, HubSpot, Greenhouse, and other major CRM and applicant tracking systems.
- API access – Retrieve contact data programmatically for teams building custom prospecting or enrichment workflows.
Real-World Applications
Sales development representatives building outbound pipelines can use ContactOut’s Chrome extension to pull verified contact details from LinkedIn profiles as they prospect — eliminating the manual process of cross-referencing email addresses across multiple tools. The search portal allows reps to build targeted lists by job title, company size, and industry without requiring a Sales Navigator subscription.
Recruiting teams sourcing passive candidates can use ContactOut to find personal and professional email addresses and phone numbers for individuals whose LinkedIn InMail quota has been exhausted or who don’t respond to platform messages. The GitHub enrichment feature is particularly relevant for technical recruiters sourcing software engineers and developers.
Marketing teams running account-based campaigns can use the platform to build contact lists for specific target accounts, verify email addresses before launch to protect sender reputation, and use the AI personalizer to generate tailored opening lines at scale without manual research per contact.
Agencies and growth teams managing high-volume prospecting workflows can use the API to integrate ContactOut’s database directly into existing tools and pipelines — pulling verified contact data into CRM records, enrichment workflows, or outreach sequences without manual exports.
