What Contact Discovery does
Contact Discovery narrows supported business records into reviewable candidates. It does not promise every contact, a fixed database size, universal geographic coverage, or a fixed accuracy result.
Find the right business contact
Contact Discovery with visible coverage and evidence
Search supported contact and company records by person, company, role, domain, or related business criteria. Results depend on available coverage, source context, and verification state.
Supported input and returned output
Supported inputs
- Person and roleUse an available name, professional role, or title criterion.
- Company and domainUse a company identifier or business domain when supported.
- Business criteriaCombine supported organization and professional filters to narrow candidates.
Returned outputs
- Candidate contactsReceive records that match the available search criteria.
- Company contextReview supported organization fields attached to a candidate.
- Evidence statesSee confidence, source context, and explicit missing or unavailable fields.
Typical workflow
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Set criteria
Choose supported person, company, role, or domain criteria.
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Review candidates
Compare returned records and their match context.
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Check evidence
Inspect confidence, freshness, and field source details.
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Save selected records
Move approved candidates to a permitted workspace list.
Primary use cases
Account research
Identify supported contacts connected with a target business.
Recruiting research
Review professional context for a permitted hiring workflow.
Data operations
Find candidates for a controlled review and enrichment process.
Data confidence and field provenance
Match confidence
Match confidence describes how strongly available identifiers support a candidate. It is not a sales priority or business outcome prediction.
Field provenance
Each supported field can carry safe source context and observation time without exposing protected raw payloads.
Use through Workspace, CSV, or API
Workspace
Review and save permitted candidate records with workspace role checks.
CSV
Use approved contact or company criteria in a controlled CSV workflow when that workflow is available.
API
Use documented, scoped search interfaces only where the current API contract permits.
Product maturity
Contact Discovery
Implemented, not deployedThe local search contract is implemented, but live multi-source discovery is not deployed.
Not included or not currently available
- No universal result promiseA valid query can return no candidates when coverage is absent.
- No fixed coverage claimThe page does not publish unsupported record or country totals.
- No outcome rankingReturned evidence is not converted into a sales priority.
Trust and controls
Explicit missing states
Missing fields remain missing rather than being inferred.
Workspace scope
Saved results remain subject to workspace permissions.
Controlled access
Unavailable execution paths fail closed.
Frequently asked questions
No. Results depend on supported coverage and the supplied criteria.
No. Each field retains its own evidence and unavailable state.
Approved records can be saved through a permitted workspace list workflow.
Related products
Review the current contract
Start with supported discovery criteria
Create a workspace to review permitted capabilities, or log in to continue within your existing scope.