Hunter Changelog

Find leads faster with an improved AI Assistant and stop seeing companies you've already saved.

Improved AI Assistant

We've improved the AI Assistant in Discover to make it easier to go from a simple description to a ready-to-use lead list.

Type "sales managers at SaaS companies in Germany" and the Assistant sets the right filters, finds matching companies, and surfaces the contacts you need, no manual filter configuration required.

Here's what's improved:

• Describe your audience, skip the filters: tell the Assistant who you're looking for, or describe your own business, and it translates your words into a precise Discover search
• Go from companies to contacts: mention job titles in your search and the Assistant goes straight from company results to the people you need to reach
• Refine in one click: after every search, the Assistant analyzes your results and suggests how to improve them: narrowing a list that's too broad, expanding one that's too small, or sharpening targeting with filters like recent funding or specific job functions. Every suggestion is one click to apply.

Exclude saved companies from search results

Also new in Discover: you can now filter out companies you've already saved to Leads. When this filter is active, companies that are already part of your saved leads won't appear in your search results.

This means you only see new opportunities: no more scrolling past companies you've already found or accidentally adding duplicates to your lists.

Example searches to try

Copy any of these directly into the AI Assistant:

• When you know your target: "Sales Managers at SaaS companies in Germany"
• When you know your offer: "I am a Founder of a small engineering company helping with waste management in the United Kingdom"
• When you want similar companies: "Show me companies similar to AMC"

However you think about your audience, the Assistant meets you there.

👉 Try it now in Discover

Progressive Sending

Starting a new inbox or restarting one after a period of inactivity? Sending too many emails too fast is one of the most common reasons emails land in spam. Progressive Sending is a new native feature that takes care of this for you.

When enabled, Hunter automatically and gradually increases how many emails your inbox can send per day in Sequences, until it reaches your target daily sending limit. No manual adjustments needed.

How it works

• Set a target daily sending limit for your inbox
• Hunter starts with a small number of emails per day and increases the volume progressively
• The limit only goes up when you've hit the previous day's cap and your bounce rate stays healthy
• Once the target is reached, Progressive Sending completes automatically

Example progression (target: 50 emails/day):

• Days 1–3: 2–3 emails/day
• Days 4–7: 3–10 emails/day
• Week 2: 10–25 emails/day
• Week 3+: gradual increase until 50/day is reached

What it's not

Progressive Sending is not an email warm-up tool. It doesn't send warm-up emails, build reputation through artificial activity, or monitor inbox health. It controls volume pacing: helping you avoid the sudden spikes that trigger spam filters.

Who can use it

Progressive Sending is available on all All-in-One Outreach plans (including free) for:

• Newly connected email accounts in Sequences
• Email accounts that haven't sent via Hunter for 30+ days

Active inboxes won't see the option: it's designed specifically for the ramp-up phase.

Why we built this

New inboxes are the most vulnerable to deliverability issues. Jumping from 0 to your full daily limit on day one is risky, email providers flag sudden volume increases as potential spam. Until now, managing this meant manually adjusting your sending limit every few days.

Progressive Sending removes that manual work and gives every new inbox a safer start.

👉 Progressive Sending — full help article

👉 Manage your email account settings

Manage all your sender accounts in one place, and know exactly how healthy your sending setup is.

Email Accounts Center

We've redesigned how you manage your connected sender accounts in Sequences. Everything now lives in the new Email Accounts Center, accessible directly from the Sequences navigation panel.

From one page, you can:

• See every connected account with its status, daily sending progress, scheduled emails, health score, and Inbox Protection status
• Filter and search across accounts by email address, status, or health
• Take bulk actions — run health checks, edit sending limits, update sender names, enable Inbox Protection, or disconnect accounts across multiple accounts at once
• Manage your domains from a dedicated Domains tab, with per-domain health scores and detailed reports

The overview bar at the top gives you an at-a-glance snapshot: your Global Health Score, overall sending limits, and any active Deliverability Guard warnings that need attention.

Global Health Score

Also launching alongside the Email Accounts Center: Global Health, a score out of 100 that reflects the overall sending health of all your connected accounts.

The health report breaks down into three areas:

• Authentication — SPF, DKIM, and DMARC configuration
• Reputation — blacklist status, domain age, and website signals
• Email account — sending activity and inbox protection factors

Health checks run automatically when you connect a new account, and you can re-run them at any time directly from the table. If something fails, the report links you to the exact fix.

Global Health and Deliverability Guard are available on all paid All-in-one Outreach Platform plans.

👉 Email Accounts Center

👉 Global Health — Check and improve your sender health

What’s new

In Discover’s people finding workflow, you can now reveal as many leads as your current credits allow, even if you don’t have enough credits to reveal the full dataset.

How it works

• If a dataset requires more credits than you have available, we’ll let you reveal the first X leads.
• X is the exact number of credits you can spend at that moment.
• You’ll see a clear prompt letting you either continue with the partial reveal or get more credits (upgrade, or buy an extra credits pack if you’re already on a paid plan).

Why we built this

Previously, being a few credits short could block you from revealing any leads. With partial reveals, you can keep moving and start working with results right away.

Example

If you have 50 credits left and your current results would require 943 credits to reveal, you can reveal the first 50 leads now, and decide later whether to add more credits to unlock the rest.

We’ve shipped a free Company Logo API, so you can fetch company logos instantly from a domain — without adding another provider, signup flow, or auth step.

What’s new

• A free endpoint to retrieve a company logo from any domain
• Simple format: https://logos.hunter.io/{domain}
• Works with a standard GET request and returns the logo URL
• 16M+ company logos available
• No signup, no API key, no setup

Why it matters

This makes it easier to:

• enrich company lists in CRMs and internal tools without extra work
• make onboarding screens and dashboards feel more polished by default
• generate decks, reports, and exports with consistent branding
• ship faster by removing “logo fetching” as a project

Docs + examples

https://hunter.io/api/logo

We’ve improved the source details shown for every email in Hunter, so it’s easier to understand where an email comes from and use your data with more confidence.

What’s new

• Clearer source labels on every email:
  • Email: the email address is visible on the page
  • Mention: the page mentions the person (name + company)
  • Removed: the email/source used to be visible, but it’s no longer available now
• Source URLs are now shown, including URLs for sources that were later removed.

Why it matters

This makes it easier to:

• validate where data comes from
• run outreach more confidently while respecting privacy regulations (GDPR, CCPA, CAN-SPAM)
• reduce “weird surprises” like spam reports and unnecessary unsubscribes

We’ve added new automations in Hunter Campaigns that automatically handle unsubscribe requests and out-of-office replies, so you can keep your outreach cleaner and focus on real conversations.

Automatic unsubscribe and out-of-office detection

Hunter now automatically detects and processes unsubscribe requests and out-of-office replies, saving you time and keeping your campaigns cleaner.

• Messages containing “unsubscribe” within the first 100 characters are automatically added to the Unsubscriptions section.
• Common out-of-office phrases (such as “out of the office,” “away from my desk,” “currently unavailable,” “on vacation,” or “I will respond upon my return”) are also recognized.
• These emails are visible directly in your Inbox, giving you the option to manually pause scheduled follow-ups or keep them as they are.

This automation helps you stay compliant, avoid follow-ups to unavailable contacts, and maintain a strong sender reputation.

Why this matters

These improvements save you time by automatically handling unsubscribes and out-of-office replies.

This update is now live for all Hunter Campaigns users, and you’ll see the automatic detection directly in your Campaign Editor and Inbox.

Email Finder API — LinkedIn handle support

The Email Finder API now supports LinkedIn handles.

You can now find a person’s professional email by simply providing their LinkedIn handle to the endpoint. 

Example request:

Example Response

New API Endpoints

We’ve also recently expanded our API with two new endpoints:

• Enrichment: Retrieve all the information we have about a person, a company, or both, in a single request.
• Discover: Find companies based on different filters like location, industry, keywords, technologies, and more.

These new endpoints give you more flexibility and depth when building your workflows and integrations.

Example: combine endpoints to build contact lists

You can use the new Discover endpoint together with Domain Search and Enrichment to build complete, targeted lead lists. For example:

1. Discover companies that match your criteria (e.g., industry, location, keywords, technologies).
2. Use the Domain Search API on each discovered domain to find email addresses of key contacts.
3. Optionally, use the Enrichment API to add detailed company or person information to those contacts.

This flow allows you to go from a broad company search to fully enriched contact data in just a few API calls.

Example in Javascript:

For more details, check out the API documentation.

If you have any questions or need help optimizing your integration, our team is here to help.