📧 Email Pattern Finder Actor

Discover the exact email naming format (e.g., first.last, f.last, firstlast) used by any company domain with confidence scores and example generated emails.

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🚀 What it does

1. Detects Corporate Email Formats: Identifies the primary naming pattern (first.last, f.last, firstlast, first_last, etc.) used by employees at any domain.
2. Filters Out Generic Role Addresses: Excludes generic role and department emails (info@, sales@, support@, jobs@) to ensure accurate personal name pattern mining.
3. Generates Ready-to-Use Examples: Automatically produces a sample structured email address (e.g. john.doe@company.com).
4. Provides Statistical Confidence Scores: Calculates a normalized confidence ratio (e.g., 0.92) based on verified employee email samples.

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💼 What people use it for

• Cold Email Prospecting: Instantly construct valid direct-dial email addresses for prospect names across target accounts.
• Lead Enrichment & Verification: Append missing email addresses to lead lists using confirmed corporate naming rules.
• Sales Pipeline Automation: Automate personalized outbound email sequence generation inside CRMs (Salesforce, HubSpot).
• Recruitment Outreach: Contact candidates at specific companies using verified email formatting logic.

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🧠 Decision Rule

Check if the domain's email pattern has a confidence score of >= 0.70. If matched, dynamically generate prospect email addresses from full names (First Name + Last Name) and route to active cold email cadences.

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⚖️ What problem does this solve?

Most outbound teams waste time by:

• "Manually guessing whether a prospect is j.doe@company.com or john.doe@company.com."
• "Experiencing high email bounce rates that damage sender domain reputation."
• "Paying hundreds of dollars per month for manual email lookup seats."

Email Pattern Finder Actor solves this by delivering instant, algorithmic pattern detection and example generation via a single execution.

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❓ Queries this actor answers

• How do I find what email format a company uses?
• How can I construct an employee's email address from their name and company domain?
• What is an affordable alternative to Hunter.io and RocketReach email pattern tools?
• How do I check if a domain uses first.last@domain.com or flast@domain.com?

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📦 Canonical Usage

Given a target domain (e.g. stripe.com or apple.com), run the Actor to discover the corporate email naming pattern, confidence score, and sample formatted email.

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🧭 Input Schema (fields you can use)

• domain (string, required) — The target domain name to scan (e.g., stripe.com).

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📤 Output Schema (what you get)

Results are written to the run's Dataset in this clean structure containing strictly the email pattern discovery data:

{
  "domain": "stripe.com",
  "pattern": "firstlast",
  "example": "johndoe@stripe.com",
  "confidence_score": 0.44
}

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💳 Monetization & Cost

This Actor utilizes the Pay-Per-Event (PPE) pricing model on the Apify Store:

• Base Pricing: Only $1.00 per 1,000 successful pattern lookups ($0.001 per event).
• Pay as You Go: If a pattern lookup fails, no billing charges occur.

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⚠️ Failure Context & Error Handling

If an invalid domain is supplied or the target website is unindexed, the Actor handles it gracefully:

{
  "success": false,
  "domain": "invalid-domain.test",
  "error": "Failed to discover email pattern for target domain."
}

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🏷️ Keywords

email pattern finder, corporate email format, email permutator, hunter.io alternative, snov.io alternative, b2b lead generation, email format lookup, cold outreach, sales intelligence, lead enrichment.