# Lead Verification API: Email, Phone & Company — Ravn

Canonical: https://askravn.com/features/lead-verification-api

Lead verification API

# Is this lead real?

`verify_lead` checks everything you know about a lead in one call: the email (or finds it from a name and company), the phone number, whether the company’s website is live, and whether the person is listed on it. You get a verdict of good, review or bad, with every reason.
[Start free: 1,000 lookups](https://askravn.com/#start) [Read the docs](https://askravn.com/docs#verify_lead)

How it works
## Four checks, one answer.
Send any mix of email, phone, name and company. It runs only the checks your input allows and charges one lookup per check.

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### The email
Full [email verification](https://askravn.com/features/email-verification-api). No email but a name and company? It [finds the work email](https://askravn.com/features/email-finder-api) from the company’s address pattern.

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### The phone
Checks the number is real for its country and line type, and whether the company publishes the same number on its own website.

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### The company
Reads the website: live or parked, closed notices, copyright year, published phones, emails and socials. A gmail.com address is never mistaken for a company.

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### The person
Looks for the name on the company’s team and about pages and returns the title the company publishes.

Call it
## Reasons, not just a score.
`reasons` lists what is wrong and `signals` lists what checks out, so an agent can explain its decision or fix the lead.

```
curl https://api.askravn.com/v1/tools/verify_lead \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $RAVN_API_KEY" \
-d '{"name": "Maria Lopez", "company": "acmeplumbing.ca",
"phone": "416 555 0123", "country": "CA"}'

{ "status": "ok",
"results": { "verdict": "review",
"reasons": ["email_risky"],
"signals": ["website_live", "phone_matches_website",
"person_listed_on_website"],
"email": { "email": "maria@acmeplumbing.ca", "status": "risky", … },
"phone": { "phone": "+14165550123", "line_type": "landline_or_mobile", … },
"company": { "name": "Acme Plumbing", "live": true, … },
"person": { "name": "Maria Lopez", "title": "Owner" } },
"metadata": { "lookups_used": 3 } }
```

FAQ
## Questions about verify_lead.
[All questions →](https://askravn.com/faq)

What makes a lead bad?An invalid email, an invalid phone number, a parked or for-sale website, or a closed-business notice. Anything uncertain, like a catch-all domain or a person not listed on the site, is review, not bad.
How much does it cost?One lookup for each check it runs: email, phone and company, so at most three. Ravn is $24 a month with 10,000 lookups included, then $1 per 1,000. A check that can’t run isn’t charged.
Can I verify a spreadsheet of leads?Yes: `npx ravn enrich leads.csv --tool verify_lead --map email=Email,phone=Phone,company=Website` adds the verdict, reasons and signals as columns and resumes if it stops.
Does it call or text the number?No. It never contacts anyone. For a live carrier check, use [phone_to_carrier](https://askravn.com/features/phone-validation-api).

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

- [People Search API: Find B2B Contacts by TitleSearch people by title, company, location, seniority and company size, with verified work emails.](https://askravn.com/features/people-search-api)
- [Phone Validation & Carrier Lookup APIValidate phone numbers and check the live carrier and line type: mobile, landline or VoIP.](https://askravn.com/features/phone-validation-api)
- [Reverse Email Lookup API: Email to PersonTurn an email into a business profile: name, title, company, location and LinkedIn.](https://askravn.com/features/reverse-email-lookup)
- [Website Scraper API: Company Data as JSONRead any company website into JSON: emails, phone numbers, socials, team members with titles, address, tech stack and whether it's live..](https://askravn.com/features/website-scraper-api)
- [Company Enrichment API: Domain to Company DataEnrich a domain into a company profile: size, industry, founded year, location, socials and tech stack.](https://askravn.com/features/company-enrichment-api)
- [Email Finder API: Find Work Emails by NameFind a work email from a name and company domain.](https://askravn.com/features/email-finder-api)