How-to · 3 steps
How to run people search
with Monid.
Give this to your agent
$set up https://monid.ai/SKILL.md, then find the head of platform engineering at <company>.com and get me a verified work email
and let it take it from there.
#PersonTitleWork email
1EricHead of Core Platforme••••.l•••••@vercel.com ✓
2LakshmiHead of Financial Infrastructure
3YuryDirector of Engineering
4JonDirector of Engineering
5SebastienDirector of Engineering
6JimmyEngineering Director, Next.js
7ZahraDirector of Design Engineering
Apollo found it · Hunter says valid · one address handed backagent running$0.062
Real run, 2026-09-21. Name and address masked.
Step 1
Set up Monid.
One line. It installs the CLI and asks for an API key from app.monid.ai. New accounts start with $1.00.
Say this to your agent
>set up https://monid.ai/SKILL.md
Step 2
Pick what you need. Say it in one sentence.
Click a job. Paste the sentence, fill in the brackets.
Get a verified work email
Say this to your agent
>find <name> at <company>.com with apollo people search on monid ($0.00 a call), match them on the apollo id, then check the address with hunter email-verifier. the search may say has_email false and the match may label the address extrapolated; that is expected, hunter's verdict is the one that counts
What the agent runsdone
apollo /mixed_people/api_search$0.00
apollo /people/match$0.05
hunterio /email-verifier$0.012
hunterio /email-finder$0.024
clay /enrichment/work-email$0.071
ploid /enrichfrom $0
What came backvercel.com · 2026-09-21
apolloe••••.l•••••@vercel.com · email_status extrapolated
huntervalid · deliverable · score 92 · not catch-all
handed backone address, verified · $0.062
$0.062per verified address
Who runs platform at a company?
Say this to your agent
>use monid to search apollo for people at <company>.com with platform, infrastructure or director of engineering in the title, seniorities c_suite, vp, head and director, 10 per page. the search bills $0.00 but only returns first name, masked last name, title and an apollo id, so pull that list first and pick who to enrich before spending anything
What the agent runsdone
apollo /mixed_people/api_search$0.00
hunterio /discover/people$0.00
apify /harvestapi/linkedin-company-employees$0.018 / profile
ploid /search$0.01 / result
orbit /v3/search$0.01 / result
pdl /v5/person/search$0.30 / result
What came backvercel.com · 2026-09-21
matches18 at vercel.com · 10 on the first page · 954 ms
1Eric · Head of Core Platform
2Lakshmi · Head of Financial Infrastructure
3Yury · Director of Engineering
$0.00for the list
Brief me on this company
Say this to your agent
>before I write, enrich <company>.com with apollo organizations enrich, then pass the returned organization id to apollo job postings. tell me headcount, last round, and whether the platform team is hiring
What the agent runsdone
apollo /organizations/enrich$0.05
apollo /organizations/{id}/job_postings$0.05
the-companies-api /enrich_company_from_domain$0.01
crunchbase /get_organization_profile$0.02
pdl /v5/company/enrich$0.10
akta /v1/company/enrichment$0.125
What came backvercel.com · 2026-09-21
companyVercel · 580 people · San Francisco
funding$863M raised · Series F $300M · Aug 2025
hiring10 roles returned · 2 platform engineers · 1 agentic infra
$0.10per company
Watch for buying signals
Say this to your agent
>for <company>.com, run apollo organizations enrich, then pass the organization id to apollo job postings. use the funding_events in the enrich response for round dates and amounts. tell me what changed in the last 30 days and which change is the reason to reach out
What the agent runsdone
apollo /organizations/enrich$0.05
apollo /organizations/{id}/job_postings$0.05
wellfound /get_company_jobs$0.02
fundable /company/deals$0.06 / result
surf /search/events$0.006
akta /v1/news$0.0005 / result
What came backvercel.com · 2026-09-21
30 days40 new postings · 4 platform or infra engineering roles, Sep 16 to 18
fundingno change · last round Series F $300M, Aug 2025
reasonthe platform team is hiring this week
$0.10per company
Enrich this email
Say this to your agent
>who is <email>? on monid, try hunterio people find first (about half a cent; a 404 means no profile and bills nothing), then apollo people match on the email, which is $0.05 whether or not it adds anything
What the agent runsdone
hunterio /people/find$0.005
apollo /people/match$0.05
context-dev /people/enrich$0.018
pdl /v5/person/enrich$0.30
What came backvercel.com · 2026-09-21
hunterno profile for this address · 404 · $0.00
apolloEric L. · Head of Core Platform · Vercel · Austin, TX
$0.005 to $0.055cheapest first · a miss is free
Find their mobile number
Say this to your agent
>get a mobile number for <name> at <company> with clay enrichment mobile-phone on monid. it is $0.94 per hit and a miss bills nothing, so confirm with me before you run it
What the agent runsdone
clay /enrichment/mobile-phone$0.94
apollo /people/match · reveal_phone_numbertiered
What it returnsshape of the answer
returnsmobile number · direct dial
returnsthe vendor that had it · confidence
a missno number, no charge
$0.94per hit · catalog rate
Verify this email list
Say this to your agent
>verify every address in this list with hunterio email-verifier on monid, one call per address unless you already verified it in this session, and give me the list back with status and score for each row
What the agent runsdone
hunterio /email-verifier$0.012
api.strale.io /x402/email-validate$0.036
What came backvercel.com · 2026-09-21
row 1e••••.l•••••@vercel.com → valid · 92 · deliverable
row 2hello@vercel.com → valid · 91 · deliverable
each rowstatus · score · smtp check · catch-all flag
$0.012per address
Find lookalike companies
Say this to your agent
>find companies like <company>.com with apollo companies search on monid: use two or three keyword tags from the organizations enrich response, the same headcount range, funded in the last 24 months, 25 per page. one page first; expect investors and media in the noise and tell me if it is worth a second page
What the agent runsdone
apollo /mixed_companies/search$0.05
hunterio /discover$0.00
fundable /company/search$0.01
blockrun.ai /api/v1/exa/find-similar$0.012
clutch /search_companies$0.01
What came backvercel.com · 2026-09-22
matches206 · 25 on the first page
peersCursor · Replit · Scale AI · dbt Labs · Framer · Airtable
noiseabout a third of page 1 is investors and media; not worth page 2 as written
$0.05per page of 25
Step 3
Build your own waterfall pipeline with Monid.
Cheapest source first, stop at the first hit, verify. A miss bills $0.00.
Look
Apollo search$0.00flags
Hunter count$0.00addresses per domain
Find · first hit stops
Context.dev enrich$0.018
Hunter finder$0.024
Apollo match$0.05
Clay work-email$0.071
PDL person enrich$0.30
Verify
Hunter verifier$0.012
Strale validate$0.036syntax · mx · disposable
Back to you
rowsourcecost
1Hunter finder$0.036
2Apollo match$0.062
3already had one$0.00
4Context.dev enrich$0.03
5PDL person enrich$0.362
5 of 5 rows$0.49
Say this to your agent
>get a work email for everyone on this list, cheapest source first, keep only the ones that come back verified, and show the cost per row: <paste names and companies>
“cheapest source first”the agent orders the sources by Monid's prices
“verify before you hand it back”a found address is a guess until a verifier says deliverable
“cost per row”the receipt ends up in the file
“do not skip anyone”most misses bill $0.00, so a long list costs little more than a short one
“price the misses too”Apollo's match bills $0.05 whether or not it finds an address
“unverified is not a miss”a low-confidence guess still bills the full price, so say what to do with it
One key. 1,700+ tools.
People search is one aisle.
People searchapollo · $0.00 / call
Email verifyhunterio · $0.012 / check
Identity resolvecontext.dev · $0.018 / person
LinkedIn profileploid · $0.01 / profile
Work email cascadeclay · $0.071 / person
Company from domainthe-companies-api · $0.01
Funding roundscrunchbase · $0.02 / call
Company employeesapify · $0.018 / profile
Person enrichpdl · $0.30 / match
Open roleswellfound · $0.02 / company
Deals and investorsfundable · $0.06 / result
Call the leadsaperly · $0.005 / unit
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