# ContactOut

```json
{
  "name": "ContactOut",
  "slug": "contactout",
  "url": "https://composio.dev/toolkits/contactout",
  "markdown_url": "https://composio.dev/toolkits/contactout.md",
  "logo_url": "https://logos.composio.dev/api/contactout",
  "categories": [
    "hr & recruiting"
  ],
  "is_composio_managed": false,
  "updated_at": "2026-09-12T05:32:59.398Z"
}
```

![ContactOut logo](https://logos.composio.dev/api/contactout)

## Description

Securely connect your AI agents and chatbots (Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, etc) with ContactOut MCP or direct API to discover contacts, enrich profiles, verify emails, and manage outreach campaigns through natural language.

## Summary

ContactOut is a professional profile enrichment and contact discovery API.
Find and verify email addresses to power recruiting, sales, and outreach.

## Categories

- hr & recruiting

## Toolkit Details

- Tools: 25

## Images

- Logo: https://logos.composio.dev/api/contactout

## Authentication

- **Api Key**
  - Type: `api_key`
  - Description: Api Key authentication for ContactOut.
  - Setup:
    - Configure Api Key credentials for ContactOut.
    - Use the credentials when creating an auth config in Composio.

## Suggested Prompts

- Find contact emails for Acme marketing team
- Enrich profile for John Smith, CEO
- Verify emails for this candidate list

## Supported Tools

| Tool slug | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `CONTACTOUT_ADD_CAMPAIGN_RECIPIENTS` | Add Campaign Recipients | Add 1-100 recipients to an existing campaign. This consequential write immediately changes the campaign's recipient set and may lead to outreach when the campaign is active. A successful request can still contain failed recipients, so inspect every result and both counts. Production Campaigns entitlement and mutation behavior are not live-verified. |
| `CONTACTOUT_CHECK_LINKEDIN_CONTACT_AVAILABILITY` | Check LinkedIn Contact Availability | Check whether a LinkedIn profile has a personal email, work email, or phone without revealing it or consuming credits. Requires a paid ContactOut production entitlement. |
| `CONTACTOUT_COUNT_PEOPLE` | Count People | Estimate matching people and available personal emails, work emails, and phones from substantive People Search filters without consuming credits. This endpoint requires a paid ContactOut production entitlement; sandbox sample access does not confirm production access. |
| `CONTACTOUT_CREATE_BULK_EMAIL_VERIFICATION_JOB` | Create Bulk Email Verification Job | Queue asynchronous deliverability verification for 1-100 email addresses, optionally delivering results to an HTTP or HTTPS callback URL; may consume verifier credits. |
| `CONTACTOUT_CREATE_LINKEDIN_CONTACT_INFO_BATCH_JOB` | Create LinkedIn Contact Info Batch Job | Queue asynchronous contact discovery for 1-1000 LinkedIn profiles, optionally delivering results to a callback URL; may consume credits per profile. |
| `CONTACTOUT_ENRICH_COMPANIES_BY_DOMAIN` | Enrich Companies by Domain | Return company profiles for 1-30 domains; each found company consumes a search credit. |
| `CONTACTOUT_ENRICH_LINKEDIN_PROFILE` | Enrich LinkedIn Profile | Return a professional profile for a regular LinkedIn profile URL, optionally including contact data; may consume search, email, and phone credits. |
| `CONTACTOUT_ENRICH_PERSON` | Enrich Person | Find and enrich one person using a LinkedIn URL, email, or phone; alternatively, provide a name plus employer, education, location, or job-title evidence. May consume search and requested contact-data credits. |
| `CONTACTOUT_ENRICH_PERSON_BY_EMAIL` | Enrich Person by Email | Return a professional profile matched from an email address, optionally requesting real-time work-email verification. A successful match may consume email and phone credits. |
| `CONTACTOUT_FIND_LINKEDIN_PROFILE_BY_EMAIL` | Find LinkedIn Profile by Email | Resolve an email address to its matching LinkedIn profile URL. A successful match consumes one email credit. |
| `CONTACTOUT_GET_API_USAGE_STATS` | Get API Usage Stats | Return ContactOut API credit usage and quotas for a billing month. Remaining and over-quota fields are available for postpaid accounts, while prepaid accounts report remaining balances in quota fields. ContactOut sandbox responses contain fixed illustrative samples; never present those values as the connected account's real balances. |
| `CONTACTOUT_GET_BULK_EMAIL_VERIFICATION_JOB` | Get Bulk Email Verification Job | Get the status and available per-email results of an asynchronous bulk email-verification job. |
| `CONTACTOUT_GET_CAMPAIGN` | Get Campaign | Return one campaign's sequence steps and optionally its performance statistics. Production Campaigns entitlement depends on the connected ContactOut account. |
| `CONTACTOUT_GET_HASHED_EMAIL_IDENTIFIERS` | Get Hashed Email Identifiers | Return unordered SHA-256 hashes of normalized personal emails found for 5-100 distinct LinkedIn profiles. Hashes are not mapped back to profiles and may consume email credits. |
| `CONTACTOUT_GET_LINKEDIN_CONTACT_INFO` | Get LinkedIn Contact Info | Reveal email and optionally phone contact information for one regular LinkedIn profile URL; consumes credits when data is found. |
| `CONTACTOUT_GET_LINKEDIN_CONTACT_INFO_BATCH` | Get LinkedIn Contact Info Batch | Synchronously reveal contact information for 1-100 LinkedIn profiles; may consume email and phone credits per profile. |
| `CONTACTOUT_GET_LINKEDIN_CONTACT_INFO_BATCH_JOB` | Get LinkedIn Contact Info Batch Job | Get the status and available results of an asynchronous LinkedIn contact-info batch job. |
| `CONTACTOUT_LIST_CAMPAIGNS` | List Campaigns | Return one page of email campaigns and their lifecycle statuses. Production Campaigns entitlement is unverified; the connected API token may require additional ContactOut plan access. |
| `CONTACTOUT_LIST_DECISION_MAKERS` | List Decision Makers | Return one page of key decision makers for the best-matching company. For the first page, provide a company LinkedIn URL, domain, or name. Returned profiles consume search credits; reveal_info may also consume email and phone credits. |
| `CONTACTOUT_REMOVE_CAMPAIGN_RECIPIENTS` | Remove Campaign Recipients | Destructively remove 1-100 recipients from an existing campaign by email. The request can partially succeed, so inspect every result and both counts. Production Campaigns entitlement and this mutation remain unverified without an isolated campaign fixture. |
| `CONTACTOUT_SEARCH_COMPANIES` | Search Companies | Return one page of companies matching identity, size, location, industry, technology, revenue, or founding-year filters. Each returned company consumes a search credit. |
| `CONTACTOUT_SEARCH_PEOPLE` | Search People | Return one page of professional profiles matching person, role, employer, education, location, and contact-availability filters. Returned profiles consume search credits; reveal_info may also consume email and phone credits. |
| `CONTACTOUT_START_CAMPAIGN` | Start Campaign | Start a draft ContactOut campaign or resume a stopped campaign. This can immediately begin sending real outreach to the campaign's recipients and is an irreversible external side effect; confirm the campaign ID and intent before calling. Calling it for an already-active campaign is an idempotent success. Production Campaigns entitlement depends on the connected account. |
| `CONTACTOUT_STOP_CAMPAIGN` | Stop Campaign | Stop a running ContactOut campaign, interrupting its outreach. This is a consequential lifecycle change; use only with an explicitly selected active campaign. Repeating the request for an already-stopped campaign is treated as an idempotent success when ContactOut returns success. |
| `CONTACTOUT_VERIFY_EMAIL` | Verify Email | Check one email address for valid, invalid, accept-all, disposable, or unknown deliverability. A valid, invalid, or accept-all result may consume one verifier credit. |

## Supported Triggers

None listed.

## Installation and MCP Setup

### Path 1: SDK Installation

#### Path 1, Step 1: Install Composio

Install the Composio SDK
```python
pip install composio_openai
```

```typescript
npm install @composio/openai
```

#### Path 1, Step 2: Initialize Composio and Create Tool Router Session

Import and initialize Composio client, then create a Tool Router session
```python
from openai import OpenAI
from composio import Composio
from composio_openai import OpenAIResponsesProvider

composio = Composio(provider=OpenAIResponsesProvider())
openai = OpenAI()
session = composio.create(user_id='your-user-id')
```

```typescript
import OpenAI from 'openai';
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';
import { OpenAIResponsesProvider } from '@composio/openai';

const composio = new Composio({
  provider: new OpenAIResponsesProvider(),
});
const openai = new OpenAI({});
const session = await composio.create('your-user-id');
```

#### Path 1, Step 3: Execute ContactOut Tools via Tool Router with Your Agent

Get tools from Tool Router session and execute ContactOut actions with your Agent
```python
tools = session.tools
response = openai.responses.create(
  model='gpt-4.1',
  tools=tools,
  input=[{
    'role': 'user',
    'content': 'YOUR_SPECIFIC_PROMPT_HERE'
  }]
)
result = composio.provider.handle_tool_calls(
  response=response,
  user_id='your-user-id'
)
print(result)
```

```typescript
const tools = session.tools;
const response = await openai.responses.create({
  model: 'gpt-4.1',
  tools: tools,
  input: [{
    role: 'user',
    content: 'YOUR_SPECIFIC_PROMPT_HERE'
  }],
});
const result = await composio.provider.handleToolCalls(
  'your-user-id',
  response.output
);
console.log(result);
```

### Path 2: MCP Server Setup

#### Path 2, Step 1: Install Composio

Install the Composio SDK for Python or TypeScript
```python
pip install composio claude-agent-sdk
```

```typescript
npm install @composio/core ai @ai-sdk/openai @ai-sdk/mcp
```

#### Path 2, Step 2: Initialize Client and Create Tool Router Session

Import and initialize the Composio client, then create a Tool Router session for ContactOut
```python
from composio import Composio
from claude_agent_sdk import ClaudeSDKClient, ClaudeAgentOptions

composio = Composio(api_key='your-composio-api-key')
session = composio.create(user_id='your-user-id')
url = session.mcp.url
```

```typescript
import { Composio } from '@composio/core';

const composio = new Composio({ apiKey: 'your-api-key' });
const session = await composio.create('your-user-id');
console.log(`Tool Router session created: ${session.mcp.url}`);
```

#### Path 2, Step 3: Connect to AI Agent

Use the MCP server with your AI agent (Anthropic Claude or Mastra)
```python
import asyncio

options = ClaudeAgentOptions(
    permission_mode='bypassPermissions',
    mcp_servers={
        'tool_router': {
            'type': 'http',
            'url': url,
            'headers': {
                'x-api-key': 'your-composio-api-key'
            }
        }
    },
    system_prompt='You are a helpful assistant with access to ContactOut tools.',
    max_turns=10
)

async def main():
    async with ClaudeSDKClient(options=options) as client:
        await client.query('YOUR_SPECIFIC_PROMPT_HERE')
        async for message in client.receive_response():
            if hasattr(message, 'content'):
                for block in message.content:
                    if hasattr(block, 'text'):
                        print(block.text)

asyncio.run(main())
```

```typescript
import { openai } from '@ai-sdk/openai';
import { experimental_createMCPClient as createMCPClient } from '@ai-sdk/mcp';
import { generateText } from 'ai';

const client = await createMCPClient({
  transport: {
    type: 'http',
    url: session.mcp.url,
    headers: {
      'x-api-key': 'your-composio-api-key',
    },
  },
});

const tools = await client.tools();
const { text } = await generateText({
  model: openai('gpt-4o'),
  tools,
  messages: [{
    role: 'user',
    content: 'YOUR_SPECIFIC_PROMPT_HERE'
  }],
  maxSteps: 5,
});

console.log(`Agent: ${text}`);
```

## Why Use Composio?

### 1. AI Native ContactOut Integration

- Supports both ContactOut MCP and direct API based integrations
- Structured, LLM-friendly schemas for reliable tool execution
- Rich coverage for reading, writing, and querying your ContactOut data

### 2. Managed Auth

- Built-in OAuth handling with automatic token refresh and rotation
- Central place to manage, scope, and revoke ContactOut access
- Per user and per environment credentials instead of hard-coded keys

### 3. Agent Optimized Design

- Tools are tuned using real error and success rates to improve reliability over time
- Comprehensive execution logs so you always know what ran, when, and on whose behalf

### 4. Enterprise Grade Security

- Fine-grained RBAC so you control which agents and users can access ContactOut
- Scoped, least privilege access to ContactOut resources
- Full audit trail of agent actions to support review and compliance

## Use ContactOut with any AI Agent Framework

Choose a framework you want to connect ContactOut with:

- [ChatGPT Work](https://composio.dev/toolkits/contactout/framework/chatgpt)
- [Claude Cowork](https://composio.dev/toolkits/contactout/framework/claude-cowork)
- [Hermes](https://composio.dev/toolkits/contactout/framework/hermes-agent)

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## Frequently Asked Questions

### Do I need my own developer credentials to use ContactOut with Composio?

Yes, ContactOut requires you to configure your own API key credentials. Once set up, Composio handles secure credential storage and API request handling for you.

### Can I use multiple toolkits together?

Yes! Composio's Tool Router enables agents to use multiple toolkits. [Learn more](https://docs.composio.dev/tool-router/overview).

### Is Composio secure?

Composio is SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliant with all data encrypted in transit and at rest. [Learn more](https://trust.composio.dev).

### What if the API changes?

Composio maintains and updates all toolkit integrations automatically, so your agents always work with the latest API versions.

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