# Email Finder API: Find Work Emails by Name — Ravn

Canonical: https://askravn.com/features/email-finder-api

Email finder API

# Name + company in. Verified email out.

Give it "Jane Smith" and acme.com. Ravn works out how Acme writes its addresses, tries the likely ones and returns the one that checks out, with a confidence and the pattern it used.
[Start free: 1,000 lookups](https://askravn.com/#start) [Read the docs](https://askravn.com/docs#search_business_email_by_name)

How it works
## What happens on every call.
The same tool answers over the REST API, the MCP server and the CLI.

- / 01
### Read the company’s own site
Public addresses on the company website reveal its pattern: first.last, flast, first and so on.
- / 02
### Build candidates
We generate the likely addresses for the name you gave, most likely first.
- / 03
### Verify each one
Each candidate goes through the same checks as `validate_email`. Catch-all domains are marked as such, not passed off as certain.
- / 04
### Return one answer
You get the best address, its risk score, the pattern and a confidence. If nothing checks out you get `not_found` and pay nothing.

Call it
## One request. One answer shape.
Branch on `status`. A miss returns `not_found` and costs nothing. In Claude, just ask in plain English and it picks `search_business_email_by_name` for you.

```
curl https://api.askravn.com/v1/tools/search_business_email_by_name \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $RAVN_API_KEY" \
-d '{"name": "Jane Smith", "company": "acme.com"}'

{ "status": "ok",
"results": { "email": "jane.smith@acme.com", "pattern": "first.last",
"confidence": 0.97, "status": "valid", "risk_score": "A" } }
```

FAQ
## Questions about search_business_email_by_name.
[All questions →](https://askravn.com/faq)
Do I pay when no email is found?No. A miss returns `not_found` and the lookup comes straight back.Can I run it over a spreadsheet?Yes: `npx ravn enrich leads.csv --tool search_business_email_by_name --map name=Name,company=Website --dry-run`, then drop `--dry-run`.Does it scrape LinkedIn?No. It uses the company’s own website and mail servers. For people profiles, see [people search](https://askravn.com/features/people-search-api).Is it accurate on catch-all domains?On catch-all domains no service can prove a mailbox exists. We return the best pattern match and mark it risky so you can decide.

## More tools, same key.
Every tool shares one account, one plan and one answer shape. [See pricing →](https://askravn.com/pricing)

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