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You are measured on meetings, not on list-building

How do SDRs find work emails without leaving LinkedIn?

An SDR is measured on meetings, and every one of them starts with an address that arrives. Cuvy works down the search you already ran, keeps the addresses two sources agree on in their own file, and hands the single-source ones over separately. One credit per person found. Nothing for a miss, and nothing sent from your account.

Measured on
Meetings booked
Charged per person found
1 credit
Charged for a miss
Nothing
Goes to your sequencer
Confirmed file only

50 addresses free every month · no card

The scorecard

Meetings are the number. The list is the tax.

Nobody has been promoted for building one, and nobody has booked a meeting without one.

Above the number you are graded on sits a chain nobody grades: sends that land, replies, calls that get booked. The list is at the top of that chain and it is the only link on it that is pure administration. An hour spent assembling one produces no activity, no reply and no meeting, and it recurs — the patch moves, the titles change, and next Monday there is another one.

Bounces are your problem in a way they are not anybody else's. It is your sending domain, or the subdomain with your name in the reply-to, and reputation is scored on what you sent rather than on what you meant to send. A list full of pattern guesses does not cost you that list. It costs the next one, when the good addresses you finally built arrive somewhere quieter than the inbox.

Which leaves two things worth changing, and only two: how long the hour takes, and what is in the file at the end of it.

Two Mondays

The same morning, with and without the copy-paste

A Monday list built by hand, compared with one built from the search page
RowCuvyBuilt by hand
Where the addresses startThe results page you already have openA second tab, a pattern guess, a spreadsheet column
What you are doing while it runsWhatever you would rather be doingYou are the loop
The people nobody can placeNamed in their own file, unbilledYou meet them again in the bounce report
What reaches the sequencerThe confirmed fileEverything, cleaned afterwards if there is time
What next Monday costsOnly the people who are new on the searchThe same morning again
The right-hand column is the manual version of this job — a search, a finder, a spreadsheet — not a named product. It is what most SDRs are actually comparing against.
Three numbers

What the run itself is worth

One argument each: coverage, wait, and what a month of it costs the team.

74%
of a typical B2B search comes back with an address

The rest are handed back named rather than dropped, so a gap in the patch is something you can see instead of something you infer.

3.8s
of processing for 400 people

It keeps going with the tab shut, which is the difference between a task and a wait.

$0.019
an address on the $29 plan

1,500 addresses a month across 2 seats, drawn from one balance rather than metered per person.

Questions

What an SDR asks in week one

What bounce rate should I expect if I only send to the confirmed file?

We do not publish a bounce-rate promise, because the figure depends far more on how long a list sits before you send it than on where it came from. What we will state plainly is what confirmed means: two independent sources agreed, or a verifier reached the mailbox. Addresses with a single sighting are kept in their own file with that sighting shown, so they do not reach your sequencer unless you move them there.

Can I run it on a Sales Navigator lead list somebody else built?

Yes. Cuvy reads whichever results page is open — a lead list your manager saved, a search you narrowed this morning, page four of either — and does not need to know who assembled it. Sales Navigator and Recruiter pages are covered from Starter upwards; a plain LinkedIn people search works on every plan, including the free one.

The search has 2,000 people and I only want the first 200. Can I stop it?

You can stop a run at any point and keep everything found up to then. You are also shown what the whole run would cost before it starts, so the more common answer is to tighten the filters rather than to stop it halfway. If you do stop it, you are charged for the people already reached and nothing else.

What is in the export besides the email address?

The row carries what was already on the result you ran it from — name, title, company, profile link — plus the address and its confidence. Where an address has only one sighting, the export names that sighting, so the decision about whether to send is one you make with the evidence in front of you.

What do I need to ask IT for before installing it?

Usually nothing beyond permission to install a Chrome extension. Cuvy never signs in to LinkedIn from its own side, sends no messages or connection requests from your account, and reads only the page you have open. If your security team wants the detail rather than the summary, the platform security page is written for them.