Email address verification

Each address can be checked against deliverability signals, such as whether the domain accepts mail and whether the specific mailbox appears to exist, without actually sending a message. A Beam agent runs this check before an address is added to an outreach list or a contact record, applying whatever confidence threshold the account has approved. Addresses that pass are used as is, while the agent skips or flags the ones that clearly fail. Results that fall in an uncertain middle range, neither clearly valid nor clearly invalid, are routed to a person to decide whether to keep or discard the contact.

Domain search for email patterns

Searching a company domain surfaces the email addresses and naming pattern the company appears to use, such as first name dot last name. A Beam agent uses this when it has a company and a contact name but no address, applying the discovered pattern to construct a likely email before running it through verification. This is faster than guessing a format by hand for every new contact. Where a domain returns no clear pattern or too few results to be confident, the agent routes the contact to a person to find the address manually.

Finding an email from a name and domain

Given a person's name and their company domain, the finder returns the most likely email address along with a confidence score for that guess. A Beam agent uses this when a new contact record is missing an email, applying the account's approved confidence threshold before accepting the result and updating the record. This fills in a common gap in outreach lists without a person searching manually for every contact. Low confidence matches, or cases where no address is found at all, are routed to a person to confirm before the contact is used.