# 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 Search](/tools/company-search): Describe the companies you want and get a list from a global company database. (0 credits, refunded if nothing is found)

## 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.
- Exact search: people_search, find_people and POST /api/v1/search take `filters` (job_titles, companies, company_domains, past_companies, 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.
- 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).
- 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.