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How to find personal email addresses
Describe the contacts you want to reach
Paste your target account list or describe the market you want to reach. Sculptor waterfalls through 150+ providers to find a verified personal email for each contact.
Sculptor searches and verifies personal emails
Sculptor searches Clay's people database for matching contacts, then chains together multiple personal email providers in sequence, only charging credits when a valid match is found. Catch-all and risky addresses are flagged before delivery.
Get verified personal emails, ready to export
The finished table shows contact name and verified personal email for matched rows. Push to Smartlead, Instantly, or your sequencer to trigger a campaign the moment a row lands.
Why Clay for finding personal email
Waterfall coverage across multiple personal email providers
Reach contacts that any single provider would miss. Clay waterfalls through 150+ providers in sequence, charging credits only when a personal email match is returned.
LinkedIn input lifts per-provider match accuracy
Get higher-confidence results on each row. Passing a LinkedIn profile URL into the waterfall lets providers like People Data Labs match on social identity, not just name and company.
Catch-all and risky addresses flagged before send
Personal emails are validated before they leave Clay, with catch-all and role inboxes labeled separately so you can route safe-to-send addresses first and protect deliverability.
Push verified rows to Smartlead or Instantly
Once matched rows carry a verified personal email, Clay pushes each contact directly to Smartlead or Instantly, triggering your campaign the moment a row is ready.
When one provider doesn’t have it, Clay automatically checks the next one. It really helps our inbound and outbound motions because we can leverage the best source of data. I’ve never seen a tool that was so easy to do this process.
Frequently asked questions
How does Sculptor find personal email addresses?
Sculptor runs your target industry or role through a waterfall of five personal email data sources, querying each one in sequence and stopping the moment it finds a match. Every returned address passes through ZeroBounce validation before it hits your table, so you only see deliverable results. You can toggle "Safe to Send only" to exclude catch-all addresses and protect your sender reputation.
How accurate are the personal emails Sculptor finds?
In Clay's test of 2,354 prospects across five providers, the waterfall returned valid personal emails for 79% of the list at an 88.7% validity rate. ZeroBounce validation runs automatically on every result, filtering out invalid and risky addresses before they reach your table. Coverage varies by role and industry, but stacking multiple sources consistently outperforms any single provider.
Can I find personal emails for a whole list at once?
Yes. Paste a list of target roles or industries into Sculptor, upload a CSV of contacts, or pipe rows from an existing Clay table. Sculptor processes every row through the same five-source waterfall in parallel. Once the enriched list is ready, push it directly to HubSpot, Salesforce, or Pipedrive, or export it as a CSV for outreach.
Is it legal to send cold outreach to personal emails?
In the US, the CAN-SPAM Act permits commercial email to any address, including personal ones, as long as you include a valid physical address, a working opt-out link, and honest sender information. In the EU, GDPR requires a documented legitimate interest basis for B2B outreach, and regulators view personal Gmail or Hotmail addresses as harder to justify than work emails.
Always honor opt-out requests within 10 business days and check the rules for your jurisdiction before launching a campaign.