Contact Enrichment: Phone number discovery for Exa-discovered contacts

[madhavcodez]

Problem

Exa API discovers contacts (names, titles, LinkedIn URLs) but rarely finds phone numbers. Most contacts are created with empty phone fields, making them unusable for cold calling.

Current Flow

Exa search → LinkedIn results → Extract name/title from page title → Store contact
                                                                      └── phone: "" (empty)

Needed

A contact enrichment pipeline that finds phone numbers:

1. Company main line lookup — Search "${company} phone number" via Gemini Search
2. Email-to-phone services — Hunter.io, Apollo, RocketReach (paid APIs)
3. Company directory scraping — Via OpenClaw, scrape company "About Us" / "Contact" pages
4. Switchboard navigation — When calling a company main line, the AI agent navigates the phone tree

Interim Solution

The outreach page has manual contact entry where users can add phone numbers they find themselves. The "Queue for Outreach" button pre-fills the contact form with Exa-discovered name/title.

Labels

feature, contacts, enrichment