Ask: find companies and contacts in one sentence

01How to ask

1. Open Ask from the menu.
2. Under What companies do you want?, describe them, for example SaaS companies in the US with 50 to 200 people that sell to finance teams.
3. Pick how many Companies: 10, 20, 30 or 50.
4. Switch on Find emails too if you want work emails as well.
5. Read the line under the box, then press Ask.

It usually takes a minute or two, and you can leave the page and come back.

02What it costs

1 credit per company, plus 1 per contact, plus 1 more per email found if you switched emails on. Under the box, before you press anything, it says what the Ask can cost at most and how many credits you have. The full amount is held while it runs, and whatever it didn't use comes back. If an Ask doesn't finish, nothing is charged.

If you don't have enough, it says so: ask for fewer companies, or wait for the plan's credits to come back on the date shown.

03What comes back

Each company comes back with a contact and their title where one was found, and a match: Strong, Plausible, Not a fit or Not scored. The ones that fit are kept and saved to your lists; the others are shown faded, with the reason. A company is only kept with a person on LinkedIn to write to.

Every Ask is listed under Earlier asks, so you can open it again.

04Add them to a campaign

Under a finished Ask, press Add to campaign (and pick the agent if you have two). The agent reads each person on LinkedIn, runs them through the same buyer check as every lead, and contacts the ones who fit. The list is also under Contacts, then Lists.

05Limits

Up to 5 Asks a day, and up to 50 companies per Ask. Ask is part of the plan: before you've paid, the screen says so instead of taking your question.