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Find and verify work emails with your AI agent
Ask your agent who to email at a company and check the address before you write. A real run for link outreach, with what the verification meant.
Clay MCP alternative
Enrich companies and people, find verified work emails and read LinkedIn from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor. Waterfall email finding, paid per result, with no Clay plan or table.
The tools your agent gets
What each tool returns, and what a call costs.
People and company tools in the docsSearch companies
Companies matching a name, keywords, location or headcount.
leads_search_companiesFrom 1 creditGet a company profile
The full firmographic record of one company, by domain.
leads_get_companyFrom 1 creditSearch people
People matching title, seniority and company filters.
leads_search_peopleFrom 1 creditGet a person profile
The full record of one person: real name, title, company, location, LinkedIn, employment history and education.
leads_get_personFrom 3 creditsFind a person's work email
Find and verify the work email of one named person.
leads_get_emailFrom 7 creditsVerify an email address
Whether an email address the user already has will deliver.
leads_get_email_statusFrom 1 creditGet a LinkedIn profile
One LinkedIn person: their about text, location, followers, companies and latest posts.
linkedin_get_profileFrom 1 creditGet a company page
One LinkedIn company page: headcount, industry, location and website.
linkedin_get_companyFrom 1 creditGet a domain's email addresses
Email addresses known for a website's domain, with name, role, confidence and where each was seen.
leads_get_domain_emailsFrom 31 credits
Things to ask
Plain questions in any connected client. The agent picks the tools.
Enrich this list of 100 domains with headcount, industry and location.
Find the VP of Sales at each of these companies and their work emails.
Check these 40 emails and tell me which will bounce.
Read each founder’s LinkedIn and write one line on what they post about.
Find companies like this one in Germany with 50 to 200 staff. [company.com]
Who wrote about switching CRMs on LinkedIn this week, and what are their emails?
Enrichment in your agent, not a table
Clay’s own MCP server brings a Clay workspace into Claude or ChatGPT, priced in Clay’s data credits and actions, with rep controls on paid plans. Manifold gives your agent the lookups themselves, charged per result, beside every other source. To set up Clay’s own server instead, follow our guide to the Clay MCP.
| Clay’s MCP | One provider’s API | Manifold | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly plan | A paid Clay plan | Per provider | No, pay per call |
| Waterfall email finding | Yes | One source | Yes, verified |
| Tables, formulas and CRM sync | Yes | No | No, your agent does it |
| Social posts and Reddit beside it | Some | No | Yes |
| Works in Cursor and Claude Code | Claude Code listed, not Cursor | Your own code | Yes, hosted |
| Free to try | 500 credits, 14-day trial | Varies | Free credits every month |
Pay per call. Start free.
One balance pays for every tool, with nothing else to subscribe to. Every account gets 250 free credits a month, and an answer already in the cache costs 25% of the price or less.
- Search companies
- From 1 credit
- Get a company profile
- From 1 credit
- Search people
- From 1 credit
- The same answer again, from the cache
- 25% or less
On the same server
The same server URL and credit balance reach every source. Switch off what you don’t need.
All MCP servers- Apollo MCP alternativeCompanies, people and verified work emails.
- LinkedIn MCPPosts, profiles and company pages.
- Reddit MCPThreads, comments and subreddits.
- SEO MCPKeywords, rankings, backlinks and audits.
- AI visibility MCPWhat ChatGPT, Gemini and others say and cite.
- YouTube MCPVideos, channels, comments and transcripts.
- Facebook MCPPages, posts, groups and comments.
Questions about the Clay MCP alternative
How does the email waterfall work?
A work email is looked for through multiple sources, and verified before it is returned. The first verified hit stops the search. People and company tools in the docs
Do I need a Clay account?
No. You spend credits from one Manifold balance. There is no table: your agent does the lookups and gives you the result in the chat, or as a file.
What does it cost?
A found, verified email is 7 credits and a miss is 0 credits. People search is 12 credits a page of 100 and a company record is 1 credit. Plans and pricing
Which clients does it work with?
Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI, Grok, OpenCode and any other client that connects to a remote MCP server. Sign in with OAuth, or use an API key from the dashboard for scripts. Setup guides for every client
Can it push results to our CRM?
Not directly. Your agent hands you the enriched list, and your CRM’s own import or connector takes it from there. HubSpot’s own MCP server can write the records if your agent has both connected. HubSpot MCP setup guide
See it in use
Further reading
- 10 min read
Clay MCP: set up Clay's official server
Clay's official MCP server brings Clay's people search, enrichment and Functions into Claude and ChatGPT. This guide covers what it costs, the admin setup in Clay, connecting each client, prompts to start with, and the gotchas in Clay's docs.
- 12 min read
Instantly MCP: how to set it up in Claude and Cursor
Instantly hosts an MCP server at mcp.instantly.ai. This guide covers the API key, setup in Claude, Cursor, Claude Code and n8n, what the tools can do, prompts that work, and the community package on GitHub.
- 12 min read
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