Prospector – Overview

Prospector is SalesQL's lead search tool. Define who you're looking for and apply filters — Prospector returns a list of matching contacts with verified emails, phone numbers, LinkedIn profiles, and company data, without leaving your dashboard.

How to use it

1. Open Prospector

Go to your SalesQL dashboard and click Prospector in the left menu.

2. Select a folder

Before adding contacts, select the folder where you want to save them (e.g., “My first folder”). This helps you organize leads by project, campaign, or region.

3. Apply your filters

Here’s where you define who you’re looking for. You can filter by Contact Full Name, Location, Contact Details, Job Title, Past Job Title, Total Years of Experience, Years in Current Position, Industry, Company Name, Past Company Name, Year Founded, Company Location, Headcount, Company Industry, Company Type.

Prefer to describe it in your own words? Type a description of the prospects you're looking for in the box at the top of the filters panel and click Search. The AI sets the filters for you.

💡 AI Search overwrites any filters you've already set, so use it before adding filters manually.

One tip: before adding contacts, check the Contact Details filter. It lets you require that results include an email, a phone, or both, and whether they need to be verified. If you used AI Search, set it afterwards, since it replaces any filters you’d already set. If you skip it, you might end up with contacts you can’t actually reach.

Once your filters are set, Prospector shows you all matching contacts instantly.

Each result shows the contact’s work email, direct email, and direct phone in separate columns. Before you reveal a contact, emails are partially hidden so you can still see the domain. A +1 next to an email means more than one was found.

Verified emails show an A+ badge. Emails without it are unverified.

Note: The A+ badge is only used in Prospector. In the Chrome extension and your Contact List, verified emails still show a blue mark, and unverifiable ones show a warning sign.

Want to learn how to combine filters to build precise, targeted lists? 👉 How to use Prospector filters to find the right leads fast

4. Add contacts — one by one or in bulk

One by one — hover over an email to preview it and click Show details to reveal the contact.

Or click Show in the Actions column. Once revealed, you'll see the full contact details and the button changes to Saved.

Or click their name to open their full profile and use "Show details" from there

5. Selecting large batches across multiple pages

Click the dropdown arrow next to the select-all checkbox to choose how many profiles to add in one action:

• Select all from this page — every profile on the current page
• Select all — every profile matching your filters, up to 10,000
• Select from this page on — una cantidad personalizada que definís vos, a partir de la página actual

Click Apply. A bar at the top shows how many contacts are selected. Click Show details to reveal them all in one action.

Large selections use one credit per profile with an email found — make sure your filters reflect exactly who you want before using "Select all" or a high custom number

6. Export, sync, or work from your AI tools

Once saved, your contacts are ready to:

• Export to CSV
• Sync with your CRM via Zapier

Prospector in your AI tools (MCP)

Prospector search is also available through the SalesQL MCP. Connect SalesQL to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, or any other MCP-compatible tool, and your assistant can search for leads, reveal verified emails, and enrich contacts for you — without opening your dashboard.

It uses the same account and the same credit balance as your dashboard.

👉 MCP — Enrichment inside your AI tools

7. Send an email campaign

The contacts you save go to the folder you chose in step 2. To email them from SalesQL, click Create campaign on the home page, or open Campaigns from the left menu and select New campaign. When you open Add recipients, pick that folder.

You can narrow the list by tags, email status (verified or unverified), and email type (work or direct).

Campaigns are sent from your own Gmail, Google Workspace, or Outlook account and don’t use your data credits. Each plan has its own recipient limit per billing cycle.

💡 Choosing only verified emails helps keep your bounce rate low.

👉 Campaigns

How credits work

• 1 credit = 1 contact with at least one email found
• Multiple emails for the same contact still count as 1 credit
• No email found = no credit charged
• Phone numbers don't cost credits on paid plans

The more targeted your filters, the fewer irrelevant contacts you add — and the further your credits go.

👉 Full details on how credits are charged

Who is Prospector for?

SDRs and BDRs doing outbound, growth marketers running targeted campaigns,

founders and recruiters looking for specific contacts, and agencies building lead lists

for clients.

Unlike tools that cap how many profiles you can select or reveal in a single action,

Prospector doesn't add an extra limit on top of your plan's credits — if you have the

credits, you can act on the full batch in one go.

💬 "We built Prospector because our users wanted a faster way to find qualified leads

— without leaving their dashboard."

Ready to go deeper?

Once you know the basics, filters are where things get precise. Learn how to combine them to find exactly who you need in just a few clicks.