Question about waterfall enrichment and unexpected charges

Hey guys, for the waterfall enrichment finding emails. I thought the second one is only supposed to run if the first one can't find it? However, the first column is sometimes finding the email successfully, yet the second, third and fourth are running anyway. It says I'm being charged for it too. Is it me doing something wrong?

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4 comments

Clay Team
APP
·over 1 year ago·
Hey hey! Can you drop the URL for your table here? (if applicable) 🫶 Don't worry, only admins will be able to open your table 😉
Jacques S.
·over 1 year ago·
https://app.clay.com/workspaces/187905/tables/t_E0clhJRG2T3A/views/gv_EbYtxac5PpVk
Clay Team
APP
·over 1 year ago·
Hi Jacques, thanks for getting in touch! The waterfall gives you the option to add a validation provider to check results from each email finder. When the validation tool determines the email is invalid, the next email finder tries to find a new one, but if it finds the same email as the previous column it won't try to validate it again because it already tried to validate once before, and this could result in no final output because none were valid. We automatically hide validation columns helping keep tables clean and that's why it's not evident at first glance. Let me know if you still have any questions though! Example and explanation: https://www.loom.com/share/e79acd92841a4706b1710c4ce1bddaa4
Jacques S.
·over 1 year ago·
Makes sense! Thank you 🙂

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