Key takeaways
- Start from the roles your deal needs, not from the company's whole staff list.
- Searching one company for several roles in one run gives you a set of contacts you can work as one account.
- Stop adding people once each role in the buying decision has a name and a reason to hear from you.
- Pebbles Ai finds people by role and location at companies you name; it does not look up a specific person by name.
Who works at a company, and which of them do you need
Of everyone who works at a company, you need the few people who use, pay for or approve what you sell, so name those roles before you search. Everyone else is noise in your list.
Write the roles as functions and levels, such as a head of finance operations, a finance systems manager and the chief financial officer for a finance tool. Titles vary between companies, so give each role two or three common wordings. A small company may fold three of your roles into one person; a large one may split one role across regions.
Where can you find employees of a company without a paid tool
You can find employees of a company from its own website, its LinkedIn company page and what it publishes about itself. Each source shows only the people who chose to be public, and job titles on profiles drift when people change roles, so note when you read each one.
- The team, leadership or about page on the company's site.
- The people listed on its LinkedIn company page, filtered by function or location.
- Press releases and annual reports that name executives and new hires.
- Conference speaker lists, webinars and podcasts featuring its staff.
- Job adverts that name the hiring manager or describe the team.
How do you find several contacts at one account in a single run
Find several contacts at one account by searching the company once for every role on your list, so the results arrive together and can be worked as one account. In Pebbles Ai, Find fresh leads sits in the CRM contacts toolbar: name the company, add each role and at least one location, and set how many leads you want, from 1 to 100. Optional filters cover seniority, keywords and keywords to exclude.
The leads come from Pebbles Ai's own growing B2B contact database, which is GDPR compliant, and each lead found uses one lead from your wallet. Each person lands as a CRM contact in one segment for the run, with a work email where one is found, a confidence score and a catch-all flag, plus personalisation angles from their public LinkedIn posts, falling back to role and company. There are no phone numbers, and you cannot ask for a particular person by name.
When should you stop adding people from one company
Stop adding people from one company once every role in the buying decision has at least one name and a reason to hear from you. Beyond that point, each extra contact is another message to write, another reply to track and a greater chance that colleagues compare notes on emails that do not agree.
A useful test is whether you could write a distinct first message to each person. If two would get the same email, keep one. When a contact later moves on or a new team appears, run a narrow search for the one role you are missing rather than refilling the account.
What do you do with the contacts once you have them
Once you have the contacts, check them and give each person a reason to talk to you before anything is sent. Open the run's segment, remove anyone whose role does not fit and look at each email's confidence score; a catch-all flag means the domain accepts any address, so a delivered email proves little.
Then ask an assistant in chat for a first message to each person, drawing on that person's angles and your Company Intel. Generated emails are saved as drafts in your connected Gmail or Outlook mailbox, where you read them before they go.
How to find people who work at a company, step by step
Plan the roles before you search, so the run returns the people you will actually contact.
- List the roles involved in buying what you sell, with two or three title wordings for each.
- Check the company's own site and LinkedIn page to see how it names those teams and where they are based.
- Open Find fresh leads in the CRM contacts toolbar, name the company, add every role and a location, and set the number of leads.
- Start the run, approving it on the card if you work in Manual mode, and let the segment fill.
- Review each contact's role, email confidence score and catch-all flag, and remove anyone who does not fit.
- Ask an assistant for a distinct first message to each remaining person, saved as drafts in your mailbox.
Where Pebbles Ai fits
- CapabilityProspecting & customer recordsFind fresh leads searches 1 to 10 named companies by role and location, 1 to 100 leads a run, and saves the people as CRM contacts in a segment. Work emails come with a confidence score where found; there are no phone numbers.
- CapabilityOutreach contentAssistants draft a first message for each contact in chat, and the emails are saved as drafts in your connected Gmail or Outlook mailbox.
Common questions
Can I search for a specific person by name?
Not in Find fresh leads, which searches by role and location at the companies you name. If you already know the person, add them to the CRM yourself or import them from a CSV.
How many contacts should I find at one company?
Enough to cover each role in the buying decision, which is often a handful at a mid-sized company. Add more only when each new person would get a genuinely different message.
Does Pebbles Ai give phone numbers for employees?
No. Leads carry a work email where one is found, with a confidence score and a catch-all flag, and personalisation angles, but no phone numbers.
Where do the contacts come from?
From Pebbles Ai's own growing B2B contact database, which is GDPR compliant.
About this page. Written by the Pebbles Ai team for people who run sales, marketing and growth. Last updated .