ContactOut MCP for AI Agents. Build verified B2B outreach lists effortlessly.
ContactOut MCP finds verified emails and direct phone numbers for professionals listed on LinkedIn. This tool lets your AI client build highly targeted B2B outreach lists by enriching existing contacts, searching massive professional databases, or finding a person's profile using just an email address.
Give Claude and any AI agent real-world access
Input a LinkedIn URL and retrieve verified email addresses and direct phone numbers for that professional.
Query a massive database of professionals using advanced filters like skills, job titles, or locations to find potential contacts.
Take an existing email address and locate the associated professional profile on LinkedIn to verify identity.
Enrich corporate data by adding detailed attributes, helping you maintain a high-fidelity view of your target accounts.
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What AI agents can do with ContactOut: 7 Data Enrichment Tools
These tools allow your AI client to perform specific data actions, such as enriching company records or finding a profile from an email address.
Make your AI actually useful.
Add this MCP to Claude, Cursor, or Windsurf and your AI stops guessing. It gets real tools to look things up, take action, and handle the stuff you keep doing by hand.
Start using ContactOut MCPEnrich Company
Adds detailed attributes, like industry or employee count, to existing company records.
Enrich Contact
Takes basic contact information and adds richer professional details like job title...
Find Email By Linkedin
Finds a person's verified email address using their public LinkedIn profile URL.
Find Linkedin By Email
Locates the associated professional LinkedIn profile when given only an email...
Get Api Usage
Checks your current API credit balance and usage statistics for budgeting purposes.
Search Companies
Performs broad searches across the database to find companies matching specific criteria.
Search People
Searches the professional database for individuals using advanced filters like skills, titles, and locations.
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The headache of building prospect lists manually Solved with Vinkius AI Gateway
You know the drill. You find a promising company on LinkedIn, click through to the employees tab, and copy five names. Then you have to open up another tab for each person, try to guess their email format (is it first.last@ or f.l@?), and hope that works. If they don't show up, you spend ten minutes going down rabbit holes, filling out a spreadsheet with 'Unknown' or 'N/A'. It's slow, tedious, and frankly, exhausting.
With this MCP connected to your agent, the process flips entirely. You give your client a list of URLs, and it handles the data extraction and verification in seconds. The result isn't a messy spreadsheet; it's an organized stream of actionable contacts you can immediately use for outreach.
ContactOut MCP delivers verifiable contact details
The manual steps that vanish are the endless copy-pasting, the multiple browser tabs, and the guesswork involved in validating a single email address. You stop spending time trying to find *if* someone works there; you start focusing on *what* you want to say.
You're no longer collecting data; you're building campaigns. The MCP turns hours of painful manual scraping into instant, reliable intelligence.
What your AI can actually do with this
Connecting ContactOut to any agent gives you the intelligence layer needed for serious lead generation and talent sourcing. Forget guessing email formats or spending hours on manual profile scraping; your AI client handles that work instantly. You can programmatically pull verified contact details straight from LinkedIn URLs, giving you emails and direct phone lines for decision-makers.
Need to vet a company? Enrich their data with attributes like job titles and locations. Or maybe you have an email address but no name? Use the MCP to find the associated professional profile on LinkedIn. It's all designed so your AI client acts less like a simple query tool and more like a dedicated sales associate, allowing you to build better lists faster than ever before, right through the Vinkius catalog.
019dd0d6-622a-72ce-9982-27d37fce1315 Here's how it actually works
The bottom line is that you tell your AI client what information you need, and it handles the complex data retrieval process using professional-grade sources.
Subscribe to this MCP and grab your API Key from the ContactOut dashboard.
Direct your AI client (like Cursor or Claude) to use the specialized tools within the Connection.
Your agent executes the necessary calls—for example, running a search query or enriching a contact record—and returns verified data directly into the chat.
Who is this actually for?
This MCP serves anyone whose job depends on finding specific, verified B2B contact details. It's for SDRs tired of bad email bounces, and Recruiters who waste time searching LinkedIn manually.
Build highly accurate outreach lists by running targeted searches that retrieve verified contact info directly from profiles or large databases.
Search for candidates with specific, niche skills and instantly retrieve their full professional details without leaving the agent workspace.
Automate lead enrichment processes by taking a list of emails or company names and finding corresponding LinkedIn profiles and contact data.
What Changes When You Connect
Stop bouncing off invalid contacts. When you use find_email_by_linkedin, your agent pulls verified contact details, ensuring your outreach efforts hit real people.
Never guess an email format again. Need to find a person's profile from just their work email? Use the MCP to run find_linkedin_by_email and confirm identity instantly.
Go beyond simple searches. Instead of basic queries, use search_people or search_companies to filter massive databases by skills, titles, or specific locations for ultra-targeted results.
Keep your CRM clean. With tools like enrich_contact, you can take a sparse lead record and instantly add rich data—job title, location, social links—making it genuinely useful.
Manage your budget in real time. The MCP includes get_api_usage so you always know your current credit balance and API limits before starting a big campaign.
See it in action
A recruiter needs to find niche talent
The recruiter runs search_people asking for 'Cloud Security Architect' in 'Austin, TX' with 7+ years of experience. The agent returns a list of 20 profiles, and the recruiter then asks it to run enrich_contact on the top three, getting their full details without leaving the chat.
An SDR needs to build a vertical list
The SDR provides a target company name and runs search_companies. The agent returns the company data. The SDR then asks it to run find_email_by_linkedin for the CEO's profile URL, immediately acquiring the verified email needed for the sequence.
A marketer needs to validate a purchased list
The marketer feeds the agent 50 suspect emails and asks it to run find_linkedin_by_email on each one. The agent quickly validates which emails belong to active, identifiable LinkedIn profiles, saving hours of manual cleanup.
A business analyst needs deep competitive insights
The analyst runs a complex search using search_people, filtering for 'Head of Product' at companies in the fintech sector. The agent pulls 10 profiles, allowing the analyst to quickly assess who the key decision-makers are.
The honest tradeoffs
What to watch out for, and the recommended way to handle each one.
Assuming data availability
A user tries to manually search for a person's email on LinkedIn and gets nothing, assuming the tool is broken or that the data doesn't exist.
Don't rely only on surface searches. Use find_email_by_linkedin with a verified URL, or try running search_people first to see if the professional exists in the core database.
Mixing data sources
Trying to combine results from LinkedIn's public search bar with external CRM records manually.
Keep all enrichment within your agent. Use enrich_contact or enrich_company to bring the disparate pieces of information together cleanly in one query.
Forgetting to check usage limits
Running a massive batch search without realizing they've exceeded their credit allowance, resulting in failed queries and frustration.
Always start by checking your balance using get_api_usage. This prevents costly failures mid-campaign.
When It Fits, When It Doesn't
Use this MCP if your primary bottleneck is finding verified professional contact data. Specifically, use it when you need to move from a limited input (like a URL or an email) to rich, actionable output (verified phone/email). Don't use it if you just need general knowledge retrieval or complex document analysis; those are better handled by general-purpose LLMs. If your goal is simply 'write me a cold email,' this MCP isn't the answer. However, if your workflow requires gathering the recipient's verified data before writing that email—like finding their title using enrich_contact or getting their direct line via find_email_by_linkedin—then this is exactly what you need.
Questions you might have
How accurate is the contact information from ContactOut MCP? +
The system provides verified emails and phone numbers because it pulls data directly from professional sources. It's designed to give you actionable, high-fidelity leads right away.
Can I use ContactOut MCP to find a person if I only have their name? +
While the MCP can search people using advanced filters like search_people, providing an email or a LinkedIn URL gives you the most accurate and direct results.
Does ContactOut MCP work with all my AI clients? +
Yes, because this is hosted on Vinkius, your agent can connect to it through any compatible client like Cursor, Claude, or Windsurf. It's an open standard.
What if I want to check my usage limits with ContactOut MCP? +
You simply ask your agent to run the get_api_usage tool. This instantly reports your remaining credit balance, helping you manage your budget throughout your campaign.
Can I use ContactOut MCP for company research only? +
No, it's much broader. You can enrich both companies using enrich_company and individuals using enrich_contact, making it perfect for full-stack B2B research.