Generect
Generect is a B2B lead search engine that finds companies and people matching an ideal customer profile, then finds and validates their work emails and direct phone numbers. Searches run against a cached database refreshed by live lookups across the platform, with no record older than 12 months, or in real time mode against LinkedIn at the moment of the request, taking 5 to 60 seconds. Teams can paste a LinkedIn or Sales Navigator search link to carry over its filters, describe a target in plain language for an AI filter to translate, build lookalike lists and track signals such as hiring, funding and job changes.
Email validation checks syntax, mail servers, catch all behavior and past deliverability, scoring catch all addresses in bands and charging only for valid results, and phone numbers come from Generect's own data plus outside providers. Results export as CSV or Excel, push to HubSpot or Salesforce, or flow through an API with signed webhooks, a remote MCP server for Claude and other AI assistants, and connections to Zapier, Make, n8n, Instantly, lemlist and Smartlead.
Pricing is pay as you go from one dollar balance across the app, API and MCP, with no subscription or seats. Searches are free, a valid email costs 3 cents in the app, an export 2 cents and a phone number 40 cents, and API calls run from half a cent to 4 cents, with discounts of up to 50 percent as lifetime spend grows. Generect, Inc. is registered in Delaware and led by chief executive Andrii Kolpakov, runs its application on Hetzner servers in the EU, and sells to sales teams, agencies, founders and enterprises.
Capability Axes
Capability grades
17 of 17 axes rated · 8 graded A or B
An AI filter turns a plain language brief into search filters, Azure OpenAI generates filters and search names, and email addresses are predicted from patterns before validation. Retrieval, real time lookups and SMTP validation, which carry the product, are not described as AI, and an MCP server lets outside AI assistants run searches.
Auto refresh triggers, self updating CRM records and daily background searches are promised, but no scheduler, overwrite rules, previews or approvals are described, and CRM writes in practice run through the customer's own agent. Through MCP, bulk jobs run to completion even if the balance reaches zero, with a recommended sequence of count, preview, search and then email lookup.
Azure OpenAI is named in the DPA as the provider behind filter and search name generation, and the MCP server works with OpenAI, Claude and Mistral clients. The model that predicts email patterns is not named, and lookalike matching gets a single sentence with no method.
Results appear only in testimonials, such as BrightWave reporting a 73 percent email find rate with a 2 percent bounce rate and LeadSync citing 98 percent validity, and there are no case studies or customer count. Accuracy claims run from 95 percent deliverability to 98 percent validity, and the phone finder's find rate of 70 percent or more has no stated basis.
Generect treats itself as controller of business contact data on legitimate interest and acknowledges that disclosing it may count as a sale or sharing under California law. People can ask by email to be removed within 30 days and are then placed on a suppression list so they are not collected again, while notice to individuals relies on public notice for disproportionate effort. No data broker registration, legitimate interest assessment or Do Not Call handling for the phone numbers it sells is described.
Privacy terms and a DPA commit to breach notice within 72 hours, rely on standard contractual clauses with supplementary measures and list subprocessors including Hetzner, Cloudflare, Google Workspace, Stripe, PostHog, Sentry, Intercom and Azure OpenAI. Most subprocessor locations are not given, and the DPA names LLC Generect as processor while the contracting company is Generect, Inc.
Sources span more than 100 public and private sources, including LinkedIn, company websites, public registries and job boards, plus licensed providers that are not named. The database is a cache built from live searches across the platform and kept no older than 12 months, and phones come from Generect's own data and outside providers. The legal footing for collecting from these sources is not addressed, and coverage is put only at tens of millions of companies and hundreds of millions of contacts.
Real time mode runs a live LinkedIn lookup at the moment of each request, Sales Navigator search links are parsed for their filters, and enrichment add ons return LinkedIn posts, comments, reactions and people also viewed. Whose LinkedIn access powers those lookups is not stated, customers describe the service as real time LinkedIn scraping, and nothing addresses LinkedIn's terms, which prohibit scraping.
Whether customer searches or data train models is not addressed. Bulk and webhook results are kept for 24 hours, customer data is deleted or returned at termination without undue delay, and contact data is kept while it remains relevant and reasonably accurate.
Nothing is sent to prospects, and the data goes into the customer's own outreach tools. Notice to the people in the data relies on public notice, and no position on Article 50 of the EU AI Act is taken.
Native HubSpot and Salesforce connections push results from the app, though sync direction and overwrite behavior are not described. The API has an OpenAPI spec, token authentication, test keys that return fictional data, a default of 10,000 requests a month with per endpoint concurrency caps, and signed webhooks retried five times.
A remote MCP server with OAuth works as a Claude connector and with OpenAI's Agent Builder, a local version installs from npm, and Zapier, Make, n8n, Instantly, lemlist and Smartlead connect through the API.
The application and database run on Hetzner in EU data centers, email verification runs on Generect's own EU infrastructure, and static assets and some logs sit in the US. No residency options are offered.
Generect states plainly that it holds neither SOC 2 nor ISO 27001 and answers security questionnaires on request. Passwords are hashed with PBKDF2, tenants are isolated, API keys are revocable and traffic uses TLS, while encryption at rest, single sign on and multi factor sign in are not listed and there is no trust center.
Pricing is pay as you go from a $20 top up with no subscription or seats, and new accounts get up to $10 of free credit. In the app, searches are free, a valid email costs 3 cents, validation 3 cents per address checked, an export 2 cents and a phone number 40 cents; through the API, database results cost 2 cents, real time results 4 cents and validation half a cent. Discounts of up to 40 percent in the app and 50 percent through the API grow with lifetime spend, and enterprise buyers can agree fixed prices and pay by invoice. Refund terms conflict.
Results export as CSV or Excel files of up to 10,000 rows, and accounts can be cancelled in settings or deleted, after which search history is not returned. The terms still describe a monthly renewing subscription although pricing is pay as you go, license the data only for the period of paid use and do not say whether exports may be used after the account closes. Delaware law governs with optional arbitration, liability is capped at twelve months of fees, and accounts can be suspended without notice for unusual usage.
Validation checks syntax, SMTP response, catch all behavior and historical deliverability, and catch all addresses get a confidence band from 30 to 95 percent that carries no guarantee. Only valid emails are charged and invalid email credits are refunded automatically, but no bounce guarantee is offered.
Sales teams, marketing and lead generation agencies, startups and enterprises are the buyers, across software, managed services, recruiting, financial services, consulting and manufacturing, with coverage in North America, Europe, APAC, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. No customer story or named account stands behind the segment claim.
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Pricing
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- ›Generect charges per result with no subscription: searches are free, a valid email costs 3 cents in the app and a phone number 40 cents, and API results cost between half a cent and 4 cents. Credits are bought from $20, and discounts grow with total spend.
How the price works
What you are charged for, and what makes the bill go up.
Pay per result with no subscription or seats; valid email $0.03 in the app, phone $0.40; API from $0.005 to $0.04 per call; enterprise quoted
What the contract says about your data
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No BAA tier listed; a DPA is accepted with the terms.
Getting started
What it costs and what is included before the product is running.
No setup fee listed.
What to watch for
Where this pricing can surprise a buyer who has not read it closely.
New accounts get $5 at signup and $5 after the first search, which cannot buy phone numbers. Lifetime spend discounts reach 40 percent in the app and 50 percent through the API, and auto top up starts at $50. Refunds are ruled out in the terms, though invalid email credits are refunded automatically.