How Findy finds a work email.
Most companies build addresses from a few common patterns. The hard part is knowing which one is real, and that is the part we check.
What happens when you search
- We work out the addresses this person is likely to have at that company.
- We ask the company’s mail provider whether each one exists. No message is sent, so the person is not contacted.
- We stop at the address that is confirmed, and tell you we found it. If none is confirmed, we tell you that instead.
What each answer means
The mail provider says this address exists. You see it once you have credits, and it uses one credit.
None of the likely addresses could be confirmed. The person may use an unusual address, or may not work there. No credit is used.
Some companies set up their mail so that it will not confirm who has an address. We cannot verify these, so we do not guess. No credit is used.
Some companies accept mail for any name at all, so nothing can confirm who really works there. We do not guess, and no credit is used.
The domain has no mail service. It is often a typo. No credit is used.
What Findy will not do
Findy does not give you a guessed pattern and call it found, and it does not list people. There is no directory to browse: you search for one person you already know about. Anyone can remove their address.