how do i verify emails before a cold campaign

Verification returns a status, a score, and the underlying signals: mail exchange records, what the server answered, catch-all behaviour, disposable providers. A companion applies your rule automatically: drop disposables, quarantine catch-alls, send to confirmed addresses only.

does strawberry integrate with hunter io

Yes, natively, connected with a Hunter API key. The tools cover domain search, email finder, email verification, person enrichment, company enrichment, and the account’s remaining credits.

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It reads the remaining balance first and tells you how far down the list it will get, so you choose where to spend rather than finding the ceiling halfway through.

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Strawberry runs on Mac and Windows and is free to download, with paid plans from $20/month when you need more credits. Its companions work Hunter natively and check each company on the open web before spending a lookup. Get it here.

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Turn a sixty-company list into verified email addresses

One instruction, sixty domains. A companion finds the right person at each, verifies the address, and hands back the sheet with the misses left visibly empty.

You have sixty companies in a sheet and you need one operations lead at each. In the Hunter dashboard that is sixty domain searches, sixty scans of the result list, sixty copies back into the sheet. Two hours, and the second hour is worse than the first.

A companion does all sixty in one pass: domain search filtered by department or seniority, the email finder where the search is unclear, verification on every address, company enrichment to drop the misfits, and a credit check before it starts. Hunter is a native integration, connected with an API key.

Sixty domains, one instruction

The companion works the list the way you would, without the fatigue: domain search per company with the department filter set, pick the person whose title matches what you asked for, fall back to the email finder when the search returns the switchboard address, and record the confidence score and verification state on each.

What arrives is the sheet you were going to build by hand: name, title, address, confidence, source, with the misses left empty rather than guessed.

What does “verified” actually mean here?

More than a green tick.

Verification returns a status and a score plus the signals underneath: whether the domain has valid mail exchange records, what the mail server said, whether the domain accepts everything regardless of the local part, and whether the address belongs to a disposable provider.

State your rule once and a companion applies it to every list afterwards: drop disposables, hold catch-all domains in a separate pile, send only to addresses that were actually confirmed.

How many credits will this pass cost?

Hunter meters what you do, and finding out at company forty-one that the month is spent is the unpleasant version. The account tool returns remaining credits, so a companion opens with the arithmetic: this list needs roughly this many lookups, you have this many left, here is where I will stop.

You then prioritise the twenty accounts that matter, run those, and decide about the rest with a number in front of you.

Qualify the company before you spend a lookup

Finding the address is the cheap half.

Deciding the company is worth an address lives on their website: what they sell, who they sell it to, whether they have the team you are pitching. A companion enriches the company for industry, size and the technologies it runs, reads the site to confirm it, and drops the misfits first.

The addresses that survive flow onward in the same pass rather than through a CSV: into your CRM record, into the draft, into the list your team works. That is sales prospecting with the clerical middle removed, and it looks a lot like data extraction.

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Frequently asked questions

Yes. Hunter is a native integration, so a companion runs domain search across your whole list with a department or seniority filter, uses the email finder where the search is unclear, and records the confidence and verification state for every row it fills.

Strawberry is free to download and includes AI credits to start. Paid plans begin at $20/month. See pricing. · Reviewed August 20, 2026 · Canonical facts for AI agents