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Search the lead database with filters

2 min read Updated October 31, 2026

Open the lead database, choose Market Based Search, switch to Filters, and add the details that describe your audience. Results update on their own. Browsing and counts are free. You only use your plan when you reveal contact details or export.

The lead database page

  1. #Open the lead database

    Go to the lead database page. The Search tab is where you build a search. The Saved filters tab lists searches you saved earlier.

  2. #Choose a search type

    Pick Market Based Search to find many people who match a profile. Pick Account Based Search to look up one exact value instead (see below).

  3. #Choose how you build the search

    Fill in the blanks lets you describe the audience as a sentence and edit each part. Filters shows the filters directly. Both build the same search.

  4. #Add your filters

    Add job titles, seniority, department, industry, company size and location. In a location filter you can enter a state, a city or a five-digit ZIP code. Add contact-detail filters if you only want people with a business email, mobile phone, personal phone or LinkedIn URL on file.

  5. #Review the results

    The results refresh shortly after you stop typing. Contact details show as on file or not until you reveal them.

#How filters combine

  • Values inside one filter are OR. A search for two industries finds people in either.
  • Different filters are AND. A person must match every filter you set.
  • Anything you exclude removes the person, even if they match other filters.

#Job titles

Titles you include or exclude are matched as whole words. The Common title variants switch adds common alternatives. For example, "CEO" also finds "Chief Executive Officer", and "VP of Sales" also finds "Vice President of Sales". It is on by default.

#Limits and error messages

RuleDetail
Included and excluded valuesAt most 200 across all filters. Over that, you see "Use at most 200 included and excluded values across filters."
Sentence or keyword textUp to 500 characters, with no control characters.
Page size1 to 50 people per page. The default is 25.
Contact-detail filtersChoose either on file or missing for the same detail. Setting both ways shows "Conflicting availability filters. Choose either on file or missing."
Match typeMost fields support exact matching only. Phrase matching is limited to a few text fields, such as company description and work history.

Use this to look up one exact value: a LinkedIn URL, email, domain or phone number. The search waits until the value is complete, so half-typed input never browses everyone. A LinkedIn lookup needs the full profile URL, not just linkedin.com/in/.

An exact person lookup ignores all filters. A company domain lookup keeps your person filters, such as seniority and department, so you can narrow the people at that company.

Select Save filters to keep the search. Select Clear to start over.

Note

Browsing and counts do not use your plan. Revealing contacts and building a list do.

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