How to Use Findymail: From Signup to an Exported Verified List

To use Findymail, create a free account, find emails one at a time or upload a list, let Findymail verify them in the same step, then export a CSV or push the contacts to your CRM or sequencer. The whole flow takes minutes once your list is clean, and Findymail is not a sender, so you still need a tool like Instantly or Smartlead to run the campaign. For what the tool does well and where it falls short, see our Findymail review.

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How this guide was built (and what to double-check)

We did not test Findymail hands-on, and we could not read Findymail's help center, because it blocks automated access. Every step below comes from a page we could read: Findymail's product, integration and blog pages, its API docs, Clay's docs, or Instantly's help center. Each step says which one.

Buttons and menu names change. Where we give a click path, it is the one the source documents, and you should check Findymail's help center for the current UI before you rely on it.

What you need before you start

• [ ] A Chrome browser, if you plan to use the extension
• [ ] Your target list, or at least a clear ideal customer profile
• [ ] For bulk finding: a CSV or XLS with full names plus company domains, or profile URLs, or domains plus job titles
• [ ] A sending tool (Instantly, Smartlead, lemlist, PlusVibe or similar) and warmed mailboxes
• [ ] A rough idea of volume, so you can pick a plan (see our Findymail pricing breakdown)

Step 1: Create your Findymail account

Go to Findymail's signup page at app.findymail.com/register, or start a free Findymail account here. Findymail's pricing page says the free account comes with 10 credits and needs no credit card.

Ten credits is a test, not a campaign. Use them on a handful of people whose emails you already know, so you can judge the results. Findymail's terms say trial data may be deleted at the end of the trial if you do not buy, so download anything you want to keep.

Step 2: Pick the right plan

Findymail has two pricing structures, as of November 2026:

Findymail aims the credit plans at resellers and products that embed its data, and the usage plans at teams prospecting for themselves. Rows per uploaded file are capped by plan: 5,000 on Individual, 25,000 on Team and 50,000 on Scale.

Step 3: Find a single email

Findymail's email finder page describes two inputs for a single lookup:

1. A person's full name plus their company website (or company name), or
2. A social profile URL, such as a LinkedIn profile.

Findymail says finding and verifying happen in one step, so the email you get back has already been checked. It also says it does not return personal addresses such as Gmail. If nothing verified is found, a credit-based plan charges nothing for that lookup.

Check Findymail's help center for the exact screen where you enter a single search, since we could not confirm the current layout.

Step 4: Install and use the Chrome extension

These steps come from Findymail's own blog post on exporting leads from Sales Navigator (published October 2, 2026, updated October 12, 2026):

1. Install the Findymail extension from the Chrome Web Store. The listing is called "Findymail - Email & Phone Finder."
2. Pin it using the puzzle piece (extensions) icon in Chrome.
3. Click the extension and log in to your Findymail account.
4. Go to the lead's profile and activate the extension. Findymail says it returns a verified address "within a few seconds."

Findymail's email finder page calls this the "Single Search Chrome Extension," built for one-by-one lookups. Its integrations page describes it as a way to "Find emails from LinkedIn and more as you browse." We go deeper on the extension in our guide to the Findymail Chrome extension.

Getting a phone number

Findymail's phone finder page says you click "Get phone" on a social profile. A phone lookup needs a profile URL as the input, costs 10 credits on credit plans, and is not available for EU contacts. Findymail's API docs go further and describe the phone field as US numbers only, so check coverage for your market first.

Step 5: Export leads from a Sales Navigator search (third-party steps)

Findymail's current pages do not describe a bulk Sales Navigator export. Instantly's help center does, in an article marked "Updated over 10 months ago." The steps it gives are:

1. Install the Findymail extension.
2. Log in with your Findymail API key.
3. Run your search in LinkedIn Sales Navigator.
4. Click "Export to CSV" in the extension.
5. Save the CSV.
6. Import it into Instantly.

Treat this as documented by Instantly, not confirmed as a current Findymail feature. Check Findymail's help center for whether the button still exists and how many leads one export can include, because neither is stated on the pages we could read.

Step 6: Find emails in bulk from a file

This is where most of the volume happens. Findymail's email finder page says you can upload a CSV or XLS with any of these inputs:

Before you upload, clean the file:

• [ ] One person per row, with first and last name in full
• [ ] Domains without "https://" or "www." if you can (a tidy column is easier to map)
• [ ] Remove duplicates and anyone already in your CRM
• [ ] Stay under your plan's row cap per file (5,000, 25,000 or 50,000)

The "Bulk from domains" flow (third-party steps)

Instantly's help center documents a domain-based bulk search inside Findymail. From the Findymail dashboard you open "Bulk from domains," upload your CSV, select the Website column, enter the job titles you want, click Start, then download the enriched CSV from the results.

Those labels come from Instantly's article and may have changed. Check Findymail's help center for the current names before you build a process around them.

Step 7: Build a list with Intellimatch (if you have no list yet)

If you do not have names or domains yet, Findymail's AI lead finder, Intellimatch, is the starting point. Its product page describes this flow:

1. Describe your ideal customer in plain English.
2. Choose broad mode (adjacent companies) or targeted mode (exact matches).
3. Pick the job titles you want.
4. Choose whether to find emails, phones or both.
5. Add an exclusion list, such as current customers.
6. Export a CSV or push results to your CRM or sequencer.

Findymail says Intellimatch analyzes company websites and explains why each one fits, and it contrasts this with "checkbox filters." It is not a classic filterable contact database like Apollo. If you want that kind of database, our Apollo prospecting guide shows the other approach.

Findymail claims "95% match accuracy" for Intellimatch but does not explain how it measures that. The full Findymail review covers Intellimatch claims and limits in more detail.

Step 8: Verify a list you already have

If your emails came from somewhere else, such as an old export or a scraped list, run them through Findymail's Email Verifier. Its product page describes the flow as: upload a CSV or XLS, then download the results as a CSV split into deliverable and risky.

Findymail says the verifier checks syntax, SMTP and spam traps and runs its own catch-all validation, without sending any message to recipients. It flags disposable, invalid, risky and role-based addresses. Per the API docs, each check costs 1 verifier credit whatever the result.

The exact menu clicks are not on any page we could read, so check Findymail's help center for the current verifier screen. You do not need this step for emails Findymail found itself; Findymail says its found emails are already verified.

Step 9: Export or sync your verified contacts

You have four documented ways to get contacts out of Findymail.

Option A: Download a CSV

Findymail's email finder page lists CSV download for found emails, and you can download your results from Findymail once a bulk job finishes. This works with any sender, including ones without a native integration, such as PlusVibe.

Option B: Push straight to Instantly or Smartlead

Findymail's Instantly and Smartlead integration pages both say: "Connect your API key once, pick a campaign, and every contact you find goes straight into your sequence." Contacts arrive with their properties attached, so you skip the CSV step.

Instantly's own help center documents the CSV route instead: export from Findymail, import into an Instantly campaign. It also says Findymail emails are already verified, so no extra verifier is needed. Our Findymail to Instantly workflow walks through both routes.

Option C: Push to your CRM

Findymail's HubSpot and Pipedrive pages describe the flow: sign up, connect the CRM "in a few clicks," then "Find verified contacts and push them to [CRM] in one click." Findymail also lists integrations with Salesforce, Zoho, Close and Copper. Field mapping details are not on the pages we read.

Option D: Google Sheets, Zapier or Make

Findymail's email finder page mentions a Google Sheets Apps Script formula, plus Zapier and Make. On Zapier, Findymail's app offers a "New Contact" trigger and "Find Email" (full name and domain) and "Verify Email" actions.

Step 10 (optional): Use Findymail inside Clay

Findymail is a data provider in Clay. Clay's docs describe the setup:

1. In a Clay table, click "Add enrichment."
2. Search for Findymail and choose an action, such as Find Work Email or Verify Email.
3. Pick a Findymail account, or click "+ Add account" and paste your Findymail API key, or use Clay's provided key.
4. Optionally set "Only run if" conditions and auto-update.

On Clay's managed account, Clay lists Find Work Email at 2 Clay credits per cell and Find Mobile Phone at 9. With your own key, lookups count against your Findymail plan instead.

Step 11 (optional): Call the Findymail API

Findymail's API docs say you create a token on the API tokens page (app.findymail.com/user/api-tokens) and send it as a Bearer header. This is the documented request shape for finding an email from a name and domain:

POST https://app.findymail.com/api/search/name
Authorization: Bearer {YOUR_AUTH_KEY}
Content-Type: application/json

{ "name": "John Doe", "domain": "website.com" }

Concurrency limits depend on your plan and the endpoint (Individual 25, Team 50, Scale 150 simultaneous requests), and a 429 response tells you to retry. The same docs list the other endpoints, including verify, phone, reverse email and company lookups, with the credit cost of each.

Before you hit send: a checklist

Findymail ends at the export. Results depend on what happens next.

• [ ] Remove anyone who opted out or is already a customer
• [ ] Spot-check a sample of emails, especially at catch-all domains
• [ ] Load contacts into a warmed sending setup, not a fresh mailbox (see our cold email infrastructure guide)
• [ ] Keep daily volume per mailbox modest and ramp slowly
• [ ] Track bounces; Findymail claims a bounce rate under 5%, with a credit refund if it is higher, after a support bounce analysis

If you are ready to run your first list, log in to Findymail and start with a small file so you can check the output before scaling.

Rather not build the list yourself?

Finding, verifying and loading lists every week is real work, and it is only half of outbound.

Nerdy Joe is owned by Agency Growth Partners (AGP), and AGP builds verified lists and runs outbound for agencies. If you would rather hand that off, book a call with David.

Wrapping up

Using Findymail comes down to three moves: get emails (single, extension, bulk or Intellimatch), make sure they are verified, and get them into your sender or CRM. Findymail documents those moves clearly on its product pages, while detailed click paths live in a help center you should check for current screens.

To decide whether it is the right finder for you, read our Findymail review. To try the steps above, create your free Findymail account and run your first 10 lookups.

Sources

• Findymail homepage
• Findymail pricing
• Findymail email finder
• Findymail phone finder
• Findymail email verifier
• Findymail AI lead finder (Intellimatch)
• Findymail integrations
• Findymail: Instantly integration
• Findymail: Smartlead integration
• Findymail: HubSpot integration
• Findymail: Pipedrive integration
• Findymail blog: How to export leads from Sales Navigator
• Findymail terms and conditions
• Findymail API docs
• Findymail help center (could not be read by our tools; check it for current UI)
• Findymail on the Chrome Web Store
• Instantly Help: How to use Findymail to scrape the leads from LinkedIn
• Instantly Help: Using Findymail for scraping leads and enrichment from LinkedIn
• Clay: Findymail integration overview
• Zapier: Findymail integrations