Hunter + Ceres
Connect Hunter to Ceres — your AI Growth Officer — so its specialist agents work from your real Hunter data. Find and verify professional email addresses for your outbound campaigns.
What Ceres does with Hunter
Verified professional email addresses for your outbound prospects.
Ceres reads from Hunter to inform its work. It does not write back to Hunter — this connection is read-only.
What Ceres reads from Hunter
- Professional email addresses tied to a company domain, pulled by Hunter's Domain Search for the prospects you're targeting
- The full name, job title, and department attached to each email, so a contact can be matched to the right buyer role
- A specific person's most likely professional email when Ceres has their name and company domain, via Email Finder
- A confidence score on every email address, signalling how likely it is to be correct and deliverable
- Verification status for an address — valid, invalid, accept-all, or risky — from Hunter's Email Verifier
- The deliverability checks behind that status: MX-record and SMTP validation, plus disposable, webmail, and gibberish flags
- The public sources where Hunter found an address, with the page and discovery date, so a contact is traceable to evidence
- Whether an address is a personal, generic, or role-based inbox (e.g. info@, sales@), so outreach targets a real person
How Ceres uses Hunter
Ceres connects to Hunter to find and verify the professional email addresses behind your outbound prospect lists. On a schedule, its agents run Domain Search against the companies you're targeting, use Email Finder to resolve a specific named person to their work email, and pass each address through Hunter's Email Verifier to confirm it's deliverable before it ever lands in a draft. This connection is read-only: Ceres only reads contact and verification data out of Hunter — it never writes, edits, or stores anything back into your Hunter account, and it does not send a single email through it. Hunter is the lookup-and-check step, not the sending step.
Your Sales Development Manager is the agent that puts this to work. When it's building a cold-email campaign, it leans on Hunter to turn a list of target companies into named contacts with verified, deliverable addresses — pulling the right person's email, reading the confidence score, and checking each address so low-quality or risky contacts get filtered out before anyone drafts a line of copy. That means the outreach the Sales Development Manager proposes is grounded in real, validated addresses rather than guessed patterns. Every actual email it then drafts stays approval-gated and is sent through your connected sending tool, never through Hunter — Hunter's role ends once the address is found and verified.
The honest value is a standing contact-research capability that runs for you without you opening Hunter yourself. Instead of manually searching domains and pasting addresses into a verifier, you get clean, deliverability-checked prospect data feeding your outbound work, with every contact traceable to the source Hunter found it on. Because the connection only reads, there's no risk of Ceres altering your Hunter data or burning through it unexpectedly — it looks up and verifies, cites where each address came from, and leaves the rest to your review.
In practice
Before drafting, the Cold Email agent verifies a prospect's address through Hunter — so personalised drafts go to real inboxes, protecting your domain's deliverability.
Agents that use Hunter
Hunter integration FAQ
- Does Ceres integrate with Hunter?
- Yes. You connect your Hunter account and Ceres reads from it on a schedule to find and verify professional email addresses for your outbound prospects. The connection is read-only — Ceres pulls contact and verification data but never writes anything back to Hunter or sends email through it.
- What does Ceres read from Hunter?
- Verified professional email addresses for your prospects, along with the name, job title, and department on each contact, a confidence score, the verification status (valid, invalid, accept-all, or risky) with its MX/SMTP and disposable/webmail checks, and the public sources where Hunter found each address.
- Is the Hunter connection read-only?
- Yes — fully. Ceres only reads from Hunter: it looks up addresses with Domain Search and Email Finder and checks them with the Email Verifier. It never writes, posts, creates, schedules, or changes anything in your Hunter account, and it never sends email through Hunter.
- Which Ceres agents use Hunter?
- Your Sales Development Manager uses Hunter. It finds and verifies the email addresses behind your cold-email prospect lists, so the outreach it drafts is built on real, deliverable contacts. (Any actual sending happens through your connected email-sending tool and stays approval-gated — never through Hunter.)
- How often does Ceres read my Hunter data?
- On a regular schedule whenever your Sales Development Manager is building or refreshing an outbound list, plus on demand when you ask it to find or verify contacts for a specific set of companies. Because the connection only reads, repeated lookups never alter anything in your Hunter account.
- Does Ceres send emails through Hunter?
- No. Hunter is only used to find and verify addresses — Ceres never sends email through it. The cold emails your Sales Development Manager drafts go out through your connected sending tool and only after you approve each one; nothing is sent autonomously.
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