# Email Enrichment Progress

## Current Status (2026-03-26)

**Total Contacts:** 406
- ✅ **Valid:** 251 (61.8%)
- ⚠️ **Catch-all:** 92 (22.7%)
- ❌ **Invalid:** 54 (13.3%)
- ❌ **Other:** 9 (2.2%)

**Improvement:** +36 contacts from 215 → 251 valid (+16.7%)

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## Tools Used

### ✅ Completed

1. **Hunter.io Domain Search** (37 domains)
   - Found: 61 decision-makers
   - Cost: 37 credits (Starter plan)
   
2. **Hunter.io Email Finder** (73 contacts)
   - Found: 10 emails
   - Success rate: 13.7%
   - Cost: 73 credits

**Total Hunter credits used:** 110 / 2,000

### 🔄 Pending (Need API Keys/Signups)

3. **Apify LinkedIn Scraper**
   - Input ready: 28 LinkedIn URLs
   - File: `apify_linkedin_input.json`
   - Expected: 15-20 emails
   - Setup: https://apify.com/curious_coder/linkedin-profile-scraper

4. **Apollo.io People Search**
   - Script ready: `apollo_bulk_search.py`
   - Free tier: 60 searches/month
   - Expected: 40-50 emails
   - Need: API key OR signup at apollo.io

5. **RocketReach**
   - Tier A contacts only: 15 contacts
   - Free tier: 5 lookups/month
   - Expected: 4-5 emails
   - Signup: rocketreach.co

6. **Snov.io**
   - Free tier: 50 credits/month
   - Expected: 20-25 emails
   - Signup: snov.io

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## Remaining Work

**63 contacts** still need emails (invalid/unknown/abuse/do_not_mail)

### By Priority:
- **Tier A:** 15 contacts (high value)
- **Tier B:** 48 contacts

### With LinkedIn URLs:
- **28 contacts** have LinkedIn profiles (ready for Apify)

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## Estimated Final Outcome

If all tools succeed:
- Apify: +18 emails
- Apollo: +45 emails
- RocketReach: +5 emails
- Snov.io: +22 emails

**Total:** +90 emails → **341 valid (84%)**

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## Next Steps

1. Sign up for Apify → Run LinkedIn scraper
2. Get Apollo API key → Run bulk search script
3. Sign up for RocketReach → Search Tier A contacts
4. Sign up for Snov.io → Search remaining contacts
5. Update Excel with all new emails
6. Upload final list to Google Sheets

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## Files

- `PostHarvest_Outreach_Apple_Pear_US_FINAL_HUNTER_UPDATED.xlsx` - Current master file
- `remaining_problematic.json` - 63 contacts needing emails
- `apify_linkedin_input.json` - LinkedIn URLs for scraping
- `linkedin_urls.txt` - Plain text list of URLs
- `apollo_bulk_search.py` - Ready-to-run Apollo script
- `hunter_email_finder_results.json` - Hunter Email Finder results
- `domain_search_results.json` - Hunter Domain Search results (batch 1)
- `domain_search_results_batch2.json` - Hunter Domain Search results (batch 2)