# PeopleSearch.im

> Describe the professionals you need and get real profiles and verified emails. Preview matches free, pay per profile from $5. No subscription.

PeopleSearch.im is pay-as-you-go people search. Describe the professionals you want in plain English (for example "Series B fintech CTOs in London") and get real, masked profiles from a global B2B professional database (data via Icypeas). Reveal a profile's full identity for 1 credit, and fetch a verified professional email for 1 more (refunded if none is found). New accounts get 3 free credits; credit packs start at $5 with no subscription; searching and browsing masked previews is always free. Emails are looked up live at request time and are professional (work) addresses, not personal ones, so they are current rather than a stale cached guess, and are not always found.

## Core pages
- [People search](/): Describe who you want and get real profiles plus verified professional emails.
- [Pricing](/pricing): Credit packs from $5, pay per profile, no subscription. New accounts get 3 free credits.
- [Guides](/blog): Practical, honest guides on finding, verifying, and reaching professional contacts.
- [Find people by role](/find): Landing pages for finding specific roles.
- [Compare](/compare): How PeopleSearch.im compares to Apollo, ZoomInfo, Hunter.io, RocketReach, Lusha, and other sales-intelligence tools.
- [MCP server](/mcp): Use PeopleSearch.im as a Model Context Protocol server: search people, reveal profiles, and fetch verified emails from Claude, Cursor, or any AI agent.
- [Developer API](/developers): The same people search over HTTP, with Bearer auth and per-profile pricing.

## Free tools (single lookups, pay only when a result is returned)
- [Email Format Finder](/tools/email-format): Free email permutator. Enter a name and company domain to generate the most likely work email formats (first.last@, flast@, and more), ranked by how common each pattern is. Generates candidates in the browser, no sign-up and no credits; verify the real one with the Email Verifier.
- [Email Finder by Name](/tools/email-finder-by-name): Enter a person's name and company to find their professional email address, verified before you see it. (2 credits, refunded if nothing is found)
- [Email Verifier](/tools/email-verifier): Verify whether an email address exists and is safe to send to, before it bounces. (1 credit, refunded if nothing is found)
- [Reverse Email Lookup](/tools/reverse-email-lookup): Turn an email address into the real person and their LinkedIn profile. (13 credits, refunded if nothing is found)
- [Company Email Finder](/tools/email-finder): Enter a company or domain and get the role-based email addresses behind it. (2 credits, refunded if nothing is found)
- [LinkedIn Profile Finder](/tools/find-linkedin-profile): Enter a name and company and get the matching LinkedIn profile URL. (2 credits, refunded if nothing is found)
- [LinkedIn Profile Lookup](/tools/linkedin-profile-lookup): Paste a LinkedIn profile URL and get the person's structured profile. (2 credits, refunded if nothing is found)
- [Company Lookup](/tools/company-lookup): Paste a LinkedIn company URL and get firmographic data. (1 credit, refunded if nothing is found)
- [Company Employee Finder](/tools/company-employee-finder): Enter a company's website or name, optionally with a role and a place, and see who works there, or who used to, with their verified work emails. (free to search)
- [Company Search](/tools/company-search): Describe the companies you want, or enter one company's name or website, and get the matches from a global company database. (free to search)

## For AI agents (Model Context Protocol server)
PeopleSearch.im is a remote MCP server: connect it to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Windsurf, or any MCP client and an agent can run these tools directly, billed to the caller's prepaid credits (searching is free; most lookups cost 1 credit, refunded when nothing is found).
- MCP endpoint: /api/mcp (Streamable HTTP transport). Auth: OAuth 2.1 (MCP authorization spec; discovery at /.well-known/oauth-protected-resource/api/mcp), so Claude, ChatGPT and other OAuth-capable clients connect with the URL alone; or `Authorization: Bearer sk_sift_…` (create a key at /developers).
- Try it without an account: people_search and company_search over MCP, and POST /api/v1/search over REST, answer a caller with no key or connected account (up to 3 results per search, up to 10 searches a day). Revealing a person and every other tool need a free account.
- Search by URL: GET /api/v1/search?q=Heads+of+Marketing+at+SaaS+companies+in+New+York runs the same search and answers with JSON, with no key and the same limits, for a browser or an assistant that can only open links. A key, for more results and paging, goes in the Authorization header, never in the URL.
- Exact search: people_search, find_people and POST /api/v1/search take `filters` (job_titles, companies, company_ids for a LinkedIn company page, the most exact way to name a company, company_domains, past_companies, exclude_companies to leave a current employer out (with past_companies: people who have left), locations, industries, company_keywords for a kind of employer no industry names, schools, skills, languages, keywords, company size and years of experience) as well as a plain-English query; filters are applied as given, so agents should prefer them. A search that finds nobody broadens itself and says how (`relaxed`, `broadened`). Schema: PeopleFilters in /openapi.json.
- Company search over REST: POST /api/v1/search with `entity: "company"` returns whole company records (name, website, LinkedIn page, industry, employees, headquarters, description, specialties) by a plain-English query or exact `filters` (names, websites, company_ids, industries, locations, keywords, types, exclude_types, size_min, size_max); free, up to 100 a page with a key. A website is answered with the company that owns it, not the pages that link to it (`unmatched` lists websites no company owns). Schema: CompanyFilters in /openapi.json.
- Machine-readable API: /openapi.json (OpenAPI 3.1). Discovery: /.well-known/mcp.json.
- Zapier (beta): Find Work Email, Verify Email Address, Find People, Get Work Email as Zap steps, on the same credits; add the integration with https://zapier.com/developer/public-invite/247361/360c7ffbff98a2af0809e34771f99dcb/ (details: /developers#zapier).
- Make: Search people, Find people, Get a profile, Get a work email, Find a work email by name, Verify an email address, Search companies and Make an API call as scenario modules, on the same credits; install the app with https://www.make.com/en/hq/app-invitation/d06c41c4de8b8c3dcd3c1bfc28b7f48a (details: /developers#make).
- Apify Store, People Search & Email Finder: an Actor that finds people from a plain-English description, with verified work emails, paid to Apify per result ($0.006 a person, $0.02 a verified email), no PeopleSearch.im account needed: https://apify.com/peoplesearch/people-search-email-finder (callable by agents through Apify's MCP server).
- Apify Store, Company Employees Finder: an Actor that lists the people who work at the companies you give (websites, LinkedIn company pages or names), by job title and place, with verified work emails, paid to Apify per result ($0.004 an employee, $0.02 a verified email), no PeopleSearch.im account needed: https://apify.com/peoplesearch/company-employees-finder (callable by agents through Apify's MCP server).
- Apify Store, B2B Leads Finder: an Actor that builds lead lists of up to 1,000 people a run from job titles, places, industries, company size and keywords, with verified work emails, paid to Apify per result ($0.0015 a lead, $0.02 a verified email), no PeopleSearch.im account needed: https://apify.com/peoplesearch/b2b-leads-finder (callable by agents through Apify's MCP server).
- Apify Store, Decision Maker Finder: an Actor that finds each listed company's founder, CEO or owner, or its sales, marketing, HR, IT, finance or operations leader, most senior first, with verified work emails, paid to Apify per result ($0.006 a decision maker, $0.02 a verified email), no PeopleSearch.im account needed: https://apify.com/peoplesearch/decision-maker-finder (callable by agents through Apify's MCP server).
- Apify Store, B2B Company Search: an Actor that finds companies by industry, headquarters, size and keywords, or looks companies up by website or LinkedIn page, paid to Apify per result ($0.0015 a company), no PeopleSearch.im account needed: https://apify.com/peoplesearch/b2b-company-search (callable by agents through Apify's MCP server).
- Overview and use cases: /mcp. Setup and copy-paste client configs: /developers.
- LinkedIn MCP servers compared (LinkedIn's official API, servers that drive your logged-in session, and a people-data provider), and using this server for people search and LinkedIn profile data without a LinkedIn login: /mcp/linkedin.
- people_search: Search people. Free.
- reveal_profile: Reveal a person. 1 credit.
- find_people: Find & unlock a batch of people. 1 credit.
- fetch_email: Fetch a verified work email. 1 credit, refunded if nothing is found.
- find_work_email: Find a person's work email. 2 credits, refunded if nothing is found.
- verify_email: Verify an email address. 1 credit, refunded if nothing is found.
- find_company_emails: Find a company's emails. 2 credits, refunded if nothing is found.
- reverse_email_lookup: Reverse email lookup. 13 credits, refunded if nothing is found.
- find_linkedin_profile: Find a LinkedIn profile. 2 credits, refunded if nothing is found.
- lookup_linkedin_profile: Look up a LinkedIn profile. 2 credits, refunded if nothing is found.
- lookup_company: Look up a company. 1 credit, refunded if nothing is found.
- company_search: Search companies. Free.
- check_credits: Check credit balance. Free.

## Find people by role
- [Find Recruiters and Their Emails](/find/recruiters): Find Recruiters and talent acquisition professionals and their verified professional emails.
- [Find Software Engineers & Developers](/find/software-engineers): Find Software engineers and developers and their verified professional emails.
- [Find Founders and CEOs](/find/founders-and-ceos): Find Founders and CEOs and their verified professional emails.
- [Find CTOs & Heads of Engineering](/find/ctos): Find CTOs and heads of engineering and their verified professional emails.
- [Find VPs and Heads of Sales](/find/sales-leaders): Find VPs and Heads of Sales and their verified professional emails.
- [Find CMOs and Heads of Marketing](/find/marketing-leaders): Find Marketing leaders (CMOs and Heads of Marketing) and their verified professional emails.
- [Find Investors and VCs](/find/investors): Find Investors and VCs and their verified professional emails.
- [Find Account Executives and SDRs](/find/account-executives): Find Account Executives and SDRs and their verified professional emails.
- [Find Product Managers](/find/product-managers): Find Product Managers and their verified professional emails.
- [Find HR Leaders and Their Emails](/find/hr-leaders): Find HR and People leaders and their verified professional emails.
- [Find Data Scientists & ML Engineers](/find/data-scientists): Find Data scientists and ML engineers and their verified professional emails.
- [Find Product and UX Designers](/find/designers): Find Product and UX designers and their verified professional emails.
- [Find CFOs and Finance Leaders](/find/finance-leaders): Find CFOs and finance leaders and their verified professional emails.
- [Find COOs and Operations Leaders](/find/operations-leaders): Find COOs and operations leaders and their verified professional emails.
- [Find Customer Success Leaders and CSMs](/find/customer-success-leaders): Find Customer success leaders and CSMs and their verified professional emails.
- [Find Consultants and Advisors](/find/consultants): Find Consultants and advisors and their verified professional emails.
- [Find Lawyers and Legal Counsel](/find/lawyers): Find Lawyers and legal counsel and their verified professional emails.
- [Find Accountants and Bookkeepers](/find/accountants): Find Accountants and bookkeepers and their verified professional emails.
- [Find Real Estate Agents and Brokers](/find/real-estate-agents): Find Real estate agents and brokers and their verified professional emails.
- [Find Decision-Makers to Email](/find/cold-outreach-leads): Find Decision-makers and buyers to email and their verified professional emails.
- [Find Candidates to Source and Recruit](/find/candidates-to-recruit): Find Candidates to source and recruit and their verified professional emails.
- [Find Decision-Makers at Target Accounts](/find/decision-makers): Find Decision-makers at target accounts and their verified professional emails.

## Comparisons (honest, pay-per-profile vs subscription tools)
- [PeopleSearch.im vs Apollo.io](/compare/apollo-io): Sales intelligence + engagement platform. A pay-per-profile, no-subscription alternative; the page states where each tool genuinely fits best.
- [PeopleSearch.im vs ZoomInfo](/compare/zoominfo): Enterprise B2B sales intelligence platform. A pay-per-profile, no-subscription alternative; the page states where each tool genuinely fits best.
- [PeopleSearch.im vs Hunter.io](/compare/hunter-io): Email finder + verifier. A pay-per-profile, no-subscription alternative; the page states where each tool genuinely fits best.
- [PeopleSearch.im vs Seamless.AI](/compare/seamless-ai): Sales intelligence platform. A pay-per-profile, no-subscription alternative; the page states where each tool genuinely fits best.
- [PeopleSearch.im vs ContactOut](/compare/contactout): LinkedIn contact finder (sales + recruiting). A pay-per-profile, no-subscription alternative; the page states where each tool genuinely fits best.
- [PeopleSearch.im vs Lusha](/compare/lusha): B2B contact database. A pay-per-profile, no-subscription alternative; the page states where each tool genuinely fits best.
- [PeopleSearch.im vs RocketReach](/compare/rocketreach): Contact database / email + phone finder. A pay-per-profile, no-subscription alternative; the page states where each tool genuinely fits best.
- [PeopleSearch.im vs Clearbit (Breeze Intelligence)](/compare/clearbit): B2B data enrichment (inside HubSpot). A pay-per-profile, no-subscription alternative; the page states where each tool genuinely fits best.

## Guides
- [How to Give AI Agents Access to People Data (2026)](/blog/how-to-give-ai-agents-access-to-people-data): A practical guide to connecting AI agents to real people and company data through MCP and APIs: how it works, the tools, the hard parts, and how to stay compliant.
- [Why Your Cold Emails Go to Spam (and How to Fix It)](/blog/why-cold-emails-go-to-spam): A deep, honest guide to how mailbox providers decide inbox vs spam, why list quality sits upstream of everything, and how to get back to the inbox.
- [How to Verify an Email Address Before You Send](/blog/how-to-verify-an-email-address): What email verification actually checks, from MX records to the live SMTP handshake, and how to read deliverable, risky, and unknown before you hit send.
- [How to Find Anyone's Professional Email Address](/blog/how-to-find-anyone-professional-email-address): A practical, honest guide to finding a professional email address, verifying it before you send, and staying on the right side of CAN-SPAM and GDPR.
- [How to Build a B2B Prospect List That Converts](/blog/how-to-build-a-b2b-prospect-list): A practical playbook for building a targeted B2B prospect list from a precise ICP, keeping it fresh and verified, and staying compliant, without buying a stale list.

## Notes
- Data comes from Icypeas, a B2B people-data provider. Profiles are real; professional emails are verified live at the moment of the request, so a no-result is possible and the email credit is refunded when that happens.
- The product finds professional work profiles, not private individuals, and returns work email addresses, not personal ones.
- Pricing is one-time credit packs, never a subscription. Searching and browsing masked previews costs nothing.