# Lead lists from public data > Build lead lists from public sites and registers. Check emails, phones and VAT numbers. Send clean rows to your CRM. Pay per result on Apify. URL: https://cliqtomedia.com/actors/use-cases/lead-generation/ Collect companies and their public contacts from websites, directories and official registers. Check emails and phones. Get one clean row per lead, ready for your CRM. ## The task Most sales and marketing teams build lead lists by hand. Someone opens a directory, copies a company name, finds the website, looks for an email and pastes it into a sheet. It takes hours. Some emails may be old or wrong. Our Actors do the copy and paste. They read public pages and official registers, find contacts, and check them. You start your day with a list, not with a blank sheet. | By hand | With our Actors | |---|---| | Copy companies from directories by hand | Companies from directories and registers in one table | | Guess emails and hope they work | Every email checked for format and mail domain | | No way to know the company size or stack | Tech stack, country and register data in each row | | Old lists with dead contacts | Run again every month to keep the list fresh | ## How it works 1. **Find companies**: Directories, startup lists and company registers 2. **Get contacts**: Public emails, phones and social links from each website 3. **Check them**: Email, phone and VAT checks remove bad rows 4. **Send to CRM**: HubSpot, Google Sheets, Airtable or a CSV file ## Tools for this use case - [Website Contact Scraper](https://cliqtomedia.com/actors/website-contacts-scraper/) (live): Add a list of company websites. - [Bulk Email Verifier: MX, Disposable, Role & Typo Check](https://cliqtomedia.com/actors/email-verifier/) (live): Paste email addresses or pick a dataset from a lead scraper. - [Phone Number Validator & Formatter - Bulk E.164, No Login](https://cliqtomedia.com/actors/phone-number-validator/) (live): Paste phone numbers in any format. - [Website Tech Stack Detector: CMS, Versions & CDN, No Login](https://cliqtomedia.com/actors/tech-stack-detector/) (live): Paste a list of websites. The tool checks each live page against 7,600+ technology fingerprints. You get one row per site with CMS, shop… - [EU VAT Number Validator (VIES) - Bulk Check, No Login](https://cliqtomedia.com/actors/vat-number-validator/) (live): Paste a list of EU VAT numbers. - [Europages Scraper: B2B Suppliers & Certificates (No Login)](https://cliqtomedia.com/actors/europages-companies-scraper/) (live): Search Europages by product and country. - [YC Companies Scraper: Founders & Jobs, No Login](https://cliqtomedia.com/actors/y-combinator-companies/) (live): Pick a YC batch, industry or region. - [France Company & SIRET Search](https://cliqtomedia.com/actors/france-sirene-company-search/) (live): Check French companies by SIREN, SIRET or VAT number. - [Norway Company Register (Brreg) & Updates](https://cliqtomedia.com/actors/norway-brreg-company-register/) (live): Look up Norwegian companies by organisation number, or search the register with filters. - [Domain WHOIS (RDAP) & DNS Lookup, No Login](https://cliqtomedia.com/actors/domain-whois-dns-lookup/) (live): Paste a list of domains. For each one, you get registrar, dates and days until expiry from the official registry. You also get live DNS… - [Bulk Email List Validator: Clean CSV, No Login](https://cliqtomedia.com/actors/bulk-email-validator/) (coming soon): Upload your email list as a CSV or Google Sheet link. - [Finland Company Register (PRH YTJ)](https://cliqtomedia.com/actors/finland-ytj-company-register/) (coming soon): Check Finnish companies by Business ID (Y-tunnus), or search by name and town. - [LEI Lookup & Change Monitor (GLEIF)](https://cliqtomedia.com/actors/lei-gleif-lookup/) (coming soon): Paste LEI codes or a company name. ## Example workflow 1. **Pick your market**: For example: software companies in Norway, or new Y Combinator startups. 2. **Collect the companies**: Run a register or directory tool. You get names, websites and register IDs. 3. **Add contacts**: Give the websites to Website Contact Scraper. It finds public emails, phones and social profiles. 4. **Clean the list**: Run Email Verifier and Phone Number Validator. Keep only the rows that pass. 5. **Send and repeat**: Send the rows to your CRM with Make, Zapier or n8n. Schedule the run every month. Example result row: company = Example Apps AS, website = example.com, email = hello@example.com, email_status = deliverable, phone = +47 …, tech = WordPress, HubSpot, country = NO Send the data to: HubSpot, Google Sheets, Airtable, Make, Zapier, n8n. ## Who uses it - **Sales teams**: Fill the pipeline with fresh, checked contacts every week. - **Agencies**: Build lead lists for each project. - **Founders**: Build a list of your first 100 prospects in one evening. ## Questions ### Do you sell lead lists? No. We make tools. You run them and you own the data. This way the list is always fresh and fits your market. ### Is it legal to collect business contacts? Our tools read only public pages and open registers. Laws like GDPR still apply to how you use the data. Read [our note on web scraping and the law](/faq/#is-web-scraping-legal). ### How do I avoid bounced emails? Run every list through Email Verifier before you send. It checks the format, the domain and its mail (MX) records. It does not check the mailbox itself, so a few emails can still bounce. Bulk Email Validator for CSV lists is coming soon. ### Can I get leads for one country only? Yes. Use a company register for that country, or filter directory results by country. ## More use cases - [Reach out when the company is ready](https://cliqtomedia.com/actors/use-cases/buying-signals/) - [Find the right creators, fast](https://cliqtomedia.com/actors/use-cases/creator-outreach/) - [Know what your competitors do](https://cliqtomedia.com/actors/use-cases/competitor-monitoring/)