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Free reverse email lookup: find who owns any business email

Paste any business email. Get the owner's likely name, their company, the email pattern used at that domain, plus deliverability and risk flags. 15 free lookups per IP per day.

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person_search Paste an email above to see who it belongs to.

What does a reverse email lookup do?

A reverse email lookup takes an email address and tries to identify the person and company behind it. Most consumer tools (Spokeo, BeenVerified) focus on personal emails and try to dig up an address, phone, or background record. This tool focuses on business emails, which behave differently and are what most SDRs, recruiters, and founders are actually trying to lookup.

For a business address like jane.smith@acmecorp.com, this tool decomposes the address, infers the likely name from the local part, identifies the company from the domain, detects the email pattern used at that company (so you can find more people there), and runs an SMTP verification to confirm the address is real and accepting mail.

What this tool checks

person

Likely name

Decomposes the local part (the bit before the @) and reverses common patterns like first.last, flast, first into a probable first and last name.

domain

Company + pattern

Identifies the company from the domain. Probes the domain to detect what email pattern they use (so you can find more people there).

verified

Deliverability

Runs a live SMTP handshake to confirm the mailbox exists and accepts mail. Returns deliverable, undeliverable, catch-all, or risky.

block

Risk flags

Flags role-based addresses (info@, sales@), disposable domains (mailinator, tempmail), and catch-all servers so you know what you are dealing with.

Why this is the workflow

You have an email but no context. Maybe it was on a form submission, a Slack channel, an old LinkedIn message, or a vendor contract. You want to know: who is this, what company are they at, are they still there, and is this address actually working?

The classical answer is to Google the email, hope something shows up, and guess from context. The faster answer is to decompose the address itself. A business email contains most of the answer already. The local part is a function of the person's name. The domain is the company. The pattern at the domain tells you how the rest of the team's emails look.

This tool does that decomposition in one call and adds a real-time SMTP check on top. If the result says "deliverable", you can email it confidently. If it says "risky" or "catch-all", you know to add a manual verification layer.

Pricing

Free

$0

100 verified lookups per day, forever. No card.

Monthly

$9.99/mo

300,000 credits per cycle.

Lifetime

$249 once

2,000,000 credits, lifetime pool.

FAQ

Does this work on personal Gmail / Yahoo addresses? expand_more
It does the deliverability check on any address, but the company and pattern detection only work on business domains. Personal email providers (Gmail, Yahoo, Outlook personal) do not have a meaningful "pattern" since users pick whatever local part they want.
Can it tell me the person's address, phone, or social profile? expand_more
No. That kind of personal data lookup is the territory of people-database tools like Spokeo, BeenVerified, or TruePeopleSearch. This tool focuses on B2B context: who owns the address, what company, can I send mail to it. We do not store or sell personal data.
How accurate is the name guess? expand_more
For emails in first.last or flast patterns, name guess is ~80% accurate. For more obscure patterns (firstl, lastf, custom), accuracy drops because the local part is ambiguous. Cross-reference with LinkedIn to confirm the guess.
What's the difference between this and the email verifier? expand_more
The verifier just tells you whether an email is deliverable. This tool also decomposes the address, infers the name, identifies the company, detects the domain's email pattern, and surfaces risk flags. Use the verifier when you have a list to clean. Use this tool when you have one address and want full context.
Does the tool store the emails I look up? expand_more
No. Each request goes through a proxy that records only your IP for rate limiting, not the email itself. The lookup call is stateless.

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