The people search can return 1 matching prospect record with name, company, job title, location, and LinkedIn URL, which is enough to validate a known contact.
What was measured
People Search
Whether the platform can locate a specific prospect and return enough profile information to validate the contact before outreach.
decisive for this rankingtransformation
Locating a specific prospect and validating that contact is a core outreach capability. (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
Clay people search with one matching profile.
Also checked on this input — same tool, 1 other criterion
Provenance
- Observation
- ea74fe2b-30b8-450f-945d-ab1405a7d146
- 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: "clay",
scenario: "prospect-search"
})MCP · mcp.aidemos.com/api/mcp
Free with attribution.
Same input, same check — 4 other tools
measured on People Search
Apollo✓ WorkedApollo can find a named prospect and return a validated contact record; searching "Tytus Golas" produced 1 result with title CEO, company Tidio, and work email tytus@tidio.net.Hunter✗ 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.Saleshandy✓ WorkedSaleshandy can return a validated prospect record with job title, company, and contact access; in this case it surfaced a matched Aditya Nichite record at FutureSmart AI with a work email and phone access path.Snov.io✗ FailedCan also fail completely on a fully specified person query, returning 0 matches and no usable prospect record for a known individual.
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