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Lead finding and verification

One row, in depth: what each tool does, the verified numbers, and who each suits.

Expandi details read from its pricing page, FAQ, home page and help centre on 19 October 2026.

Warmerly, both channels

Company database search, an email finder and email verification, plus LinkedIn people search.

Expandi

Audience searches on LinkedIn; Sales Navigator and Recruiter searches need those subscriptions. Email verification is not listed.

The short answer

Lead finding and verification, in one look.

They find leads from different places. Warmerly searches its own database of companies, finds and verifies email addresses, and can search LinkedIn for named people through a connected account. Expandi builds lead lists from LinkedIn: a search URL, Sales Navigator, Recruiter, a post, a poll, a group, an event, company followers, people you may know, a CSV, a CRM app or its MCP. Its help centre lists 13 such sources and names no email finder or verifier. Last checked 19 October 2026.

Warmerly, both channels

Company database search, an email finder and email verification, plus LinkedIn people search.

Expandi

Audience searches on LinkedIn; Sales Navigator and Recruiter searches need those subscriptions. Email verification is not listed.

The picture

Drawn side by side.

Where each one gets its leads

Press or focus a node for what it does. Dashed nodes are things we could not find

Warmerly, both channelsExpandi
Warmerly, both channels5 listed
Leadsown database and finders
Company database

Describe the companies in a sentence, or use filters. Searching is free; exporting and adding leads to a campaign use your monthly allowance. These are companies, not named people.

Expandi13 listed
Leadsbuilt from LinkedIn
LinkedIn Search URL

"Useful if you do not have a paid subscription". Leads come from a LinkedIn search.

Warmerly: Lead finder, Email finder and Email verification help pages and its plan allowances. Expandi: its Lead Lists help collection and overview article, read 19 October 2026. Expandi lists 13 lead-list types and, in the pages we read, no email finder or verifier.

Lead sources
ProductSourceWhat it does
WarmerlyCompany databaseDescribe the companies in a sentence, or use filters. Searching is free; exporting and adding leads to a campaign use your monthly allowance. These are companies, not named people.
WarmerlyEmail finderFrom a domain, website or LinkedIn URL, or a name plus a company. Shows a status, a confidence score and how it was found. A lookup counts only when an address is found.
WarmerlyEmail verifierSafe to send, Send with caution, Do not send or Unknown, for one address or a bulk list. A standard check does not send a message.
WarmerlyLinkedIn searchSearches LinkedIn for named people through your own connected account. A LinkedIn slot is $19 a month per account.
WarmerlyCSV importBring leads in from a CSV file.
WarmerlyPosts, groups and eventsWe found no way to build a list from a post's reactions, a group or an event in the code or docs.
WarmerlySales Navigator or Recruiter listWe found no import from a Sales Navigator or Recruiter search in the code or docs.
ExpandiLinkedIn Search URL"Useful if you do not have a paid subscription". Leads come from a LinkedIn search.
ExpandiSales Navigator URLMore filters than a LinkedIn search URL. Needs a paid Sales Navigator plan.
ExpandiRecruiter URLBuilt from Recruiter Lite or Pro, another paid LinkedIn subscription.
ExpandiUpload CSV"The only column you really need is the profile link."
ExpandiPost Engagement URLRetrieve those who have interacted with a public post.
ExpandiPoll URLA Poll URL lead list. It is listed in the Lead Lists collection; the overview article does not describe it.
ExpandiGroup URLLoad the members of a LinkedIn group.
ExpandiEvent Attendees URLLoad the attendees of a LinkedIn event.
ExpandiPeople You May KnowUp to 1000 people at one go. "This search allows you to warm up your account."
ExpandiCompany FollowersOnly followers of the company page that you own.
ExpandiCRM and AppsLeads imported from a third-party application. Smartlead is the one named, for leads that have a LinkedIn profile URL.
ExpandiLead qualificationAutomatically identifies and groups leads in your LinkedIn account that match your ideal customer profile.
ExpandiGenerated by MCP, betaCreated through Expandi's MCP using a connected AI tool such as ChatGPT or Claude.
ExpandiEmail finderNot found in the help-centre pages we read.
ExpandiEmail verifierNot found in the help-centre pages we read.

What Warmerly allows each month

Verifications, email lookups and lead exports by plan. Expandi states none of these

Warmerly, both channelsExpandi
Verifications a month0
Email lookups a month0
Lead exports a month0
Verifications a monthNot stated
Email lookups a monthNot stated
Lead exports a monthNot stated

Starter: 5,000 verifications, 1,000 email lookups and 500 lead exports a month.

Each bar is drawn against the Agency figure for that row. Warmerly: plan limits in its billing code. A lookup counts only when an address is found. Expandi's pages do not state an allowance for finding or verifying.

Warmerly monthly allowances
PlanVerifications a monthEmail lookups a monthLead exports a month
Free25050100
Starter5,0001,000500
Growth25,00010,0005,000
Agency150,000100,00050,000

What each one lists

A tick means we found it in the code, docs or help pages. It does not mean the other cannot do it

Warmerly, both channelsExpandi
Warmerly, both channelsExpandi
Companies by business type and townListedNot found
An email address for a name and companyListedNot found
Check an address before you sendListedNot found
People from a LinkedIn searchListedListed
Leads from a CSVListedListed
A Sales Navigator or Recruiter listNot foundListed
People who engaged with a postNot foundListed
Members of a group, attendees of an eventNot foundListed

Showing all 8 rows.

How Warmerly does it

Warmerly, in detail.

Companies from Warmerly's own database found by sentence or filter, an email finder, an email verifier with monthly allowances by plan, and a LinkedIn people search that needs a connected account.

01

Search a company database in plain words

Lead finder turns a sentence such as 'dental practices in the UK' into filters, shows the matching companies, and lets you export a CSV or add them to a campaign. Searching is free. Only exporting and adding leads to a campaign use your monthly lead allowance. The AI step never touches the database: it only produces filters.

Warmerly product, checked 19 October 2026

02

Companies, not named people

The companies come from Warmerly's own database, built by reading the public websites of businesses. They are companies with a published way to contact them, not a list of named individuals. Filters include country, town, business type, technology used, email provider, company size, founding year and signals such as hiring now.

Warmerly product, checked 19 October 2026

03

An email finder

Email finder takes a company website, domain or LinkedIn URL, or a person's name plus their company. It shows the address with a status, a confidence score and how it was found. A lookup counts against the monthly allowance only when an address is actually found.

Warmerly product, checked 19 October 2026

04

An email verifier

Email verification checks one address or a bulk list and answers Safe to send, Send with caution, Do not send or Unknown, with a confidence score and a plain reason. A standard check does not send a message to the address.

Warmerly product, checked 19 October 2026

05

Allowances by plan

Verifications, email lookups and lead exports a month: Starter 5,000, 1,000 and 500; Growth 25,000, 10,000 and 5,000; Agency 150,000, 100,000 and 50,000. The Free plan has 250 verifications, 50 email lookups and 100 lead exports.

Warmerly product, checked 19 October 2026

06

LinkedIn search for named people

A second tab, LinkedIn search, searches LinkedIn itself for named people using your own connected LinkedIn account and a Warmerly LinkedIn slot. That is a paid add-on at $19 a month per account. Leads imported this way carry LinkedIn member ids.

Warmerly product, checked 19 October 2026

07

CSV import and the API

Leads can also be imported from a CSV, and lead search, email finder and email verification each have an API reference.

Warmerly product, checked 19 October 2026

08

Where Warmerly is behind

Warmerly cannot build a list from a LinkedIn post's likers, a poll, a group, an event's attendees or a company page's followers, and it has no Sales Navigator or Recruiter list import that we found in the code or docs.

Warmerly product, checked 19 October 2026

How Expandi does it

Expandi, in detail.

Lead lists are built from LinkedIn activity and LinkedIn searches, plus a CSV, a Smartlead import and an MCP route. We found no email finder, verifier or enrichment in its help centre.

01

13 lead-list sources in the help centre

The Lead Lists collection has an article for each of: LinkedIn Search URL, Sales Navigator URL, Recruiter URL, Upload CSV, Post Engagement URL, Poll URL, Group URL, Event Attendees URL, People You May Know, Company Followers, CRM and Apps, Lead Qualification, and Generated by MCP (beta). That is 13 source types.

help.expandi.io/en/collections/3042098-lead-lists · read 19 October 2026

02

Free LinkedIn search or paid LinkedIn tools

"A LinkedIn search URL in Expandi is useful if you do not have a paid subscription". A Sales Navigator URL gives "more filters to use in comparison to a LinkedIn search URL" and needs that paid LinkedIn plan. Recruiter Lite or Pro is another paid LinkedIn subscription.

help.expandi.io/en/articles/5405289-what-do-all-the-different-lead-list-options-do · read 19 October 2026

06

CRM and Apps, and Lead qualification

CRM and Apps "allows users to create lead lists using data (leads) imported from a third-party application", and the article names Smartlead only, for leads that have a LinkedIn profile URL. Lead qualification "automatically identifies and groups leads in your LinkedIn account that match your ideal customer profile".

help.expandi.io/en/articles/5405289-what-do-all-the-different-lead-list-options-do · read 19 October 2026

What Expandi does not say

We looked, and found no statement on these. That is about its published pages only, not about the product.

  • An email finder
  • An email verifier or any statement about checking addresses
  • A database of companies or contacts to search inside Expandi
  • List-size limits for sources other than People You May Know
  • Whether the pricing page's plan includes every lead-list source

Where the sources disagree

We report each version rather than pick one.

  • Expandi's overview article lists 12 lead-list options and leaves out the poll list. Its Lead Lists collection has a Poll URL article, so we count 13 source types.
  • Expandi's pricing page does not say which lead-list sources each plan includes.
The numbers

Only what we could verify.

Lead finding and verification: Warmerly and Expandi side by side. Warmerly is in the first column.
MeasureWarmerly, both channelsExpandi
Lead finding and verificationCompany database search, an email finder and email verification, plus LinkedIn people search.Audience searches on LinkedIn; Sales Navigator and Recruiter searches need those subscriptions. Email verification is not listed.
Lead sources documented4 (company database, email finder, LinkedIn search, CSV)13 lead-list types
Named people from LinkedIn posts, groups or eventsNot foundYes
Email verifications a month5,000 on Starter, 150,000 on AgencyNot stated
Email lookups a month1,000 on Starter, 100,000 on AgencyNot stated
Free plan allowance250 verifications, 50 lookups7-day trial, no figures
Needs a paid LinkedIn toolNo for the company database; yes for LinkedIn searchFor Sales Navigator and Recruiter lists
In practice

What it means for you.

Our reading of the facts above. Not a promise, and not the only reasonable reading.

1

Different jobs, so check which one you need

Expandi finds people on LinkedIn by what they did there. Warmerly finds companies from its own database and then an email address for them. Neither replaces the other.

2

Expandi is ahead on LinkedIn-native sources

Posts, polls, groups, events, followers and Sales Navigator lists have no Warmerly equivalent that we found.

3

Warmerly is the only one of the two with an address finder and verifier we could read about

If your sequence sends email, finding and checking the address before sending is something Expandi's pages do not describe.

Who it suits

Pick the one that fits.

Warmerly, both channels

Warmerly is the better fit if

  • You need email addresses found and checked before an email campaign
  • You want to search a company database in plain words
  • You want allowances for finding and verifying that are listed by plan
Expandi

Expandi is the better fit if

  • Your leads come from LinkedIn searches, Sales Navigator, posts, groups or events
  • You want to build lists from who engaged with a post or attended an event
  • You already use Smartlead and want its leads in a LinkedIn flow
Questions
Does Expandi find email addresses?

We found no email finder or verifier in the pages we read. Its lead lists are built from LinkedIn, a CSV, Smartlead or its MCP.

What does Warmerly's lead database contain?

Companies that publish a way to contact them, built from reading public websites. It is not a list of named individuals.

How many lead-list types does Expandi have?

Its help centre has articles for 13 lead-list sources. The overview article lists 12 of them, without the poll list.

Sources

Expandi pages were read on 19 October 2026. Plans and wording change, so check the vendor's own page before you decide. Warmerly details come from the product as it runs today.

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