The LinkedIn extension does not complete contact discovery in place; it replaces the profile view with a prompt to use Email Finder, adding an extra workflow step instead of returning a contact inline.
What was measured
Ease of Use
Whether a creator with no design or technical background can complete the workflow without external help.
context, not decisivecapability
Ease of use affects adoption, but a harder workflow does not mean the tool is worse at the outreach task itself. (3 of 3 judges)
What was given, what came back
Test input: Aditya Nichite prospect lookup · text · group: prospect-search
Input — what we sent
The exact prompt
Aditya Nichite
Direct people/prospect search for Aditya Nichite to test known-prospect retrieval and compare how well tools return validated contact records.
Output — unretouched
Hunter popup on LinkedIn saying the extension is no longer available there.
Also checked on this input — same tool, 4 other criteria
Ability to locate email✓ WorkedA direct name-and-domain lookup can return a usable person email address; the search produced ajay.vekhande@futuresmart.ai for Ajay Vekhande.Job information✓ WorkedThe result includes the person’s role, Software Tester, so users can validate the contact before outreach.People Search✗ FailedHunter can fail to validate a known prospect entirely when its data is thin; for this lookup it returned no email address and explicitly said it did not have enough data for tidio.com.People Search✓ WorkedHunter can resolve a known-prospect query into a contact record with validation context: one people search returned a contact record with additional details and confidence signals.
Provenance
- Observation
- 021dd042-2f05-4960-8f84-d53627a415c8
- Evidence run
- 9e5960d0-1a72-4f29-9e1e-c7fc96120e61
- Study
- AI Outreach
- Research task
- 86ba3udqq
- Tested at
- Jun 15, 2026
- Source
- first-party
- Evidence state
- verified
- Proof shown
- input + output shown
- Cost / latency
- not captured
- Repeat run
- not captured
- Tester
- not captured
The last three rows are honest blanks, not placeholders — our capture has no field for them yet.
Query this
get_evidence({
tool: "hunter",
scenario: "prospect-search"
})MCP · mcp.aidemos.com/api/mcp
Free with attribution.
Same input, same check — 1 other tool
measured on Ease of Use
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