You have a name and a company. You need their verified work email. Here's how to find it in 5 seconds — with or without LinkedIn.
Quick answer
To find someone's work email from their name and company: use an email finder tool that generates common corporate email patterns (first.last@company.com, flast@, first@), queries multiple data providers, and runs real-time SMTP verification against the company's mail server. The whole lookup takes 3-5 seconds. If you also have the person's LinkedIn URL, accuracy improves to 90%+ because the tool can cross-reference profile data. Without LinkedIn, name + company domain still achieves 65-80% hit rate. Pay-as-you-go tools charge $0.01-0.03 per verified email — failed lookups are free.
Step by step
5 steps — about 10-15 minutes end-to-end.
Open the email finder tool (web app or Chrome extension). Enter: first name, last name, and company name or domain (e.g. "Sarah Chen", "vectrix.io"). If you have the LinkedIn URL, paste that instead — it's the strongest matching key.
Common B2B email patterns: first.last@company.com (most common, ~60% of companies), flast@ (~15%), first@ (~10%), first_last@ (~5%). The tool generates all likely patterns for the given name at the given domain.
The tool queries 5+ email data providers for any known email associated with this person at this company. If a match is found in a provider database, it's cross-verified. If no database match, the tool falls back to pattern-generated candidates.
Each candidate email is verified in real time against the company's mail server (SMTP RCPT TO check). The server responds: 250 = valid (email exists and accepts mail), 550 = invalid (no such mailbox), 452 = temporary failure (try later). Only confirmed-valid addresses are returned.
Result: verified email address with confidence grade (A = SMTP confirmed, B = pattern match with partial verification, C = catch-all domain). Grade A is safe for cold email. Grade C should be used cautiously.
Pro tips
Company domain > company name. If you know the person works at "Acme Corp", find the domain first (acme.com or acmecorp.com). The email finder needs the domain to generate patterns. Use a company domain lookup tool if you only have the name.
LinkedIn URL gives the best accuracy. Name + company alone is ambiguous ("John Smith at Microsoft" could match dozens of people). The LinkedIn URL uniquely identifies the person. Always include it when available.
Catch-all domains are tricky. Some companies accept all email at their domain — test@company.com returns "valid" even though it doesn't go to a real person. The tool flags these as catch-all / Grade C. Send to them at reduced volume.
For bulk lookups, use CSV upload. Paste 500+ name + company pairs into a CSV, upload to the bulk enrichment tool, and get verified emails back in 5-10 minutes.
FAQ
You need at minimum: name + company (or company domain). Name alone is not enough — "John Smith" could be millions of people. Name + company narrows to a specific person at a specific domain. Hit rate with name + company: 65-80%. With LinkedIn URL: 85-95%.
Most email finder tools offer a free tier (5-50 lookups/month). Pay-as-you-go plans charge $0.01-0.03 per verified email. Failed lookups (no email found) are free. No subscription required.
SMTP-verified emails (Grade A) have 90-95% deliverability. Pattern-matched emails (Grade B) have 70-85%. Overall, typical bounce rate on verified results is under 5%.
Some companies use employee IDs (j.smith123@company.com), nicknames, or non-Latin characters. Pattern generation covers the 10 most common formats. For unusual formats, database lookup (checking data providers) is the primary method — if the email has ever been seen publicly, it'll be in a provider DB.
The tool is designed for professional/work email addresses. Personal emails (Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook) can sometimes be found but are lower priority — cold-emailing personal addresses has lower reply rates and higher spam risk. Always prefer work email for B2B outreach.
LinkedIn email finder starts from a LinkedIn profile URL. This tool starts from a name + company — no LinkedIn required. They use the same email waterfall under the hood. If you have the LinkedIn URL, use the LinkedIn email finder for higher accuracy.
Finding publicly-inferable business email addresses is legal in the US (CAN-SPAM) and EU (GDPR legitimate interest for B2B). You must include opt-out in every email, only contact professional addresses, and honor unsubscribe requests.
Use the company name → domain lookup tool first. Enter "Acme Corp" and get back "acme.com". Then use the email finder with name + domain.
Free Chrome extension. Pay-as-you-go: 1 credit per scraped lead, 1 credit per verified email or phone. No credit card to start.