Best Email Validation Tools for Waterfall Enrichment on Clay

ZeroBounce had been working perfectly for me

Nice! I’ve been using them as well but noticed a handful of others and wanted to see if anyone had experience using the others. Do you accept the “catch-all” emails from Zerbounce or leave them out?

If you created your list with Apollo, then I think search leads might be your best bet for Validation regardless of the approach to you want to use it for On Clay.

Yeah, i am currrently pulling lists from Apollo. I have it on my agenda to look for a better data scraper for my specific ICP (local businesses) so if you have any recommendations for getting company data as well as contact data (even just name and I can enrich through clay) feel free to send it here and I’ll give it a try.

Also, are you recommending using Clay’s built-in “find people” function?

Then you definitely should try out searchleads.co. You'll get both company and contact data. They filter like a huge chunk of unverified data cause they verify leads in real time unlike Apollo, so you're getting the most recent verified data and they do enrichment too just like Clay and very cheap, I think it's like $3 for 1000 leads. For Clay's built-in "find people" function, it's pretty decent but I mean you can definitely combine it with a more enriched list.

I’m not a huge fan of Clay’s built-in “find people” to bo honest. Leaves out way too much data (i.e. only pulls a fraction of the actual contacts at any given company) Will take a look at searchleads. Thanks Manouel

You're welcome......I'm not a big fan either. It does leave out way too much data, especially the one you need more often than not.

You can use Million Verifier API's inside clay. Fast and easy.

Do you all have experience with Smartlead vs. Instantly? Switched to smartlead because they said deliverability was better, warmup was better, and they had ability to send based on recipient timezone. Turns out:

I’m more concerned with warmup and deliverability. My first week with Smartlead has been a nightmare and I’m wondering if I should try to stick with it to see if things will get better or if I’m better off going back to Instantly. Do you all have any thoughts?

Enrichley (integration in Clay) does both regular validation and catch-all validation

Debounce and BounceBan for catchalls 🙂 Usually getting below a 0.5% bounce rate with this setup.

Sean W. Findymail

I find all emails via multiple providers then veryfiy all via instantly - they verify catch-all and give the best coverage https://www.linkedin.com/posts/oleg-tomenko_that-waterfall-icypeas-finds-95-of-emails[…]m=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAU8KZQBPFUIFTcON7DzobzzuxvtgGlj1ys