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How to find someone's work email
Paste your target account list
Drop in your list of target accounts. Sculptor waterfalls through 150+ providers to find a verified work email for each contact.
Sculptor enriches each row with verified email
Sculptor searches Clay's people database for contacts at each account, then runs waterfall enrichment across 150+ providers in sequence, charging credits only when a match is found. Catch-all and role inboxes are flagged before delivery.
A table with names and verified work emails
The finished table has contact name and verified work email where the waterfall found a match. Push to Smartlead, Instantly, or your sequencer to trigger a campaign the moment a row lands.
Why Clay for finding someone's work email
150+ providers waterfall, credits on match
Get verified work emails for matched contacts across a 150+ provider waterfall. Clay only charges credits when a provider returns a hit, so you pay for coverage, not attempts.
Catch-all and role inbox flagging
Every verified row is checked before it reaches your sequencer, with catch-all domains and role inboxes flagged separately. Toggle "Safe to Send only" to exclude risky addresses and keep bounces low.
Credits refunded when no match found
Clay dynamically moves through the waterfall, refunding data credits for any provider that comes back empty on a given row. You only spend on rows where contact data is actually returned.
Direct push to Smartlead, Instantly, or Outreach
Pipe your finished table of names and verified work emails straight to Smartlead, Instantly, or Outreach with field mapping preserved. Campaigns trigger the moment new rows land, no CSV export needed.
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 someone's work email?
Sculptor takes the company or industry you enter, pulls matching contacts, and runs each one through Clay's email waterfall. The waterfall queries 5+ email-finding providers in sequence and stops the moment one returns a match. Before any paid lookup, a free infer-email step constructs a candidate address from the contact's name and company domain, catching roughly 31% of matches at zero credit cost.
How accurate are the work emails Clay finds?
Clay tested 12 email-finding providers across 4,700+ contacts and found that seven scored above 96% confidence for SMB contacts. Every returned email runs through a validation step you set to conservative, balanced, or aggressive. Conservative mode optimizes for cold-outreach deliverability, so bounces stay low. The waterfall approach lifts overall coverage from roughly 30% with a single provider to 80% or higher.
Can I find work emails for a whole list at once?
Yes. Paste a list of companies or upload a CSV, and Sculptor processes every row through the same email waterfall in bulk. Once each row has a verified work email, push the results directly to HubSpot, Salesforce, or Pipedrive in one step, or export as a CSV to load into your sequencer.
Is it legal to cold email contacts using found work emails?
In the U.S., the CAN-SPAM Act applies to all commercial email, including B2B. It requires accurate sender info, a valid physical address, a working opt-out mechanism you honor within 10 business days, and penalties up to $53,088 per non-compliant message. In the EU, GDPR allows B2B outreach under a legitimate-interest basis, but you must document that interest and stop processing if a recipient objects.
Rules vary by country and state, so check the regulations for your jurisdiction before launching any campaign.