Fill the gaps in
your existing data
ApifyForge helps sales ops and data teams fill gaps in CRM records by combining waterfall enrichment, email pattern finders, and contact scrapers. Best for enriching 500-50,000 partial records with emails, phones, and company metadata. Less suitable when you need real-time enrichment inside a CRM workflow. Costs $0.03-$0.20 per contact.
The problem
Your CRM has 5,000 company names but half are missing emails, most lack phone numbers, and none have social profiles. Data enrichment services like ZoomInfo charge $15,000+/year. Manually researching contacts takes your team hours per day and produces inconsistent results.
The solution
Apify actors automate enrichment at a fraction of the cost. The waterfall approach tries multiple data sources in sequence — if one source fails to find an email, the next one tries. Website scrapers extract contact pages. Email pattern finders generate likely addresses. Verification actors confirm deliverability. The result: complete records at pennies per contact.
How it works
Prepare your input data
Export company names, domains, or partial contacts from your CRM. The more you have (even just domain names), the better the enrichment results.
Choose an enrichment strategy
For emails: use the email pattern finder or website contact scraper. For full business data: use the waterfall enrichment actor. For lead qualification: use the B2B lead qualifier.
Run and merge results
Actors return structured data — emails, phones, social links, company metadata. Results are ready to merge back into your CRM or spreadsheet.
Verify and clean
Run the bulk email verifier on extracted emails to remove invalid addresses. This step alone can save your email deliverability from tanking on bad data.
Actors we recommend
These Apify actors are listed on ApifyForge with real-time pricing, usage stats, and quality scores.
Waterfall Contact Enrichment — Email & Phone Lookup
Find business emails, phones, and social profiles from a name + company domain. Cascades through MX validation, website scraping, pattern detection, and SMTP verification with confidence scoring.
Email Pattern Finder - Discover Company Email Formats
Detect the email naming convention any company uses (first.last, flast, first-last, etc.) from 5 public sources. Generate verified email addresses with MX checks. Catch-all domain detection. 18 format templates. $0.10/domain.
Bulk Email Verifier — MX, SMTP & Disposable Detection at Scale
Verify email deliverability in bulk — MX records, SMTP mailbox checks, disposable detection (55K+ domains), role-based flagging, catch-all detection, domain health scoring (SPF/DKIM/DMARC), and confidence scores. $0.005/email, no subscription.
Website Lead Intelligence — Find the Right Person, Verified
Turn company websites into ready-to-email decision-makers. Verified emails, named contacts ranked by seniority, buying-committee classification, A/B/C decision tiers, and optional scheduled monitoring + CRM auto-push to HubSpot/Salesforce. $0.15/site.
What does it cost?
Enriching 1,000 contacts with waterfall enrichment costs $5-15 in PPE charges. Email verification adds $1-3 per 1,000. Total: $6-18 per 1,000 enriched, verified contacts — vs $150+ from ZoomInfo.
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Deep dives
How to find work emails with name and company
Email enrichment from minimal data using waterfall verification
B2B Lead Gen Suite pipeline
Chain website scraping, pattern detection, and lead scoring
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