The database is huge — 700M contacts — but finite. For the fresh, niche, long-tail leads no static index holds yet, Live Search dispatches an AI agent to find them on the open web in real time, verify them, and hand them back enriched.
Brand-new startups, ultra-niche roles, regional players that no pre-indexed database has caught up to yet. When a static search comes back thin, the agent goes and finds the accounts nobody has listed.
Describe exactly who you want — "Series A fintechs in Berlin hiring their first AE" — and the agent interprets the intent, hunts across live sources, and assembles a matching list. No boolean gymnastics.
Every live-found lead runs the same verification as a database reveal, then arrives enriched with title, company, and context — ready to sequence, not a raw scrape you have to clean up.
They aren’t rivals — they’re a pair. Use the index for the leads it already holds, and send the agent after the ones it doesn’t.
Type your target in plain English — the industry, stage, geography, role, and any real-time criteria that matter. The more specific, the sharper the agent’s search.
An AI agent works across live web sources in real time — finding companies, matching people, and verifying contact details as it goes, the same way a researcher would.
Matches arrive verified and enriched with title, company, and context — dropped straight into your workspace, ready to export or sequence.
Live lead search dispatches an AI agent to find leads in real time across the open web, rather than querying a pre-built database. You describe who you’re looking for in plain English, and the agent searches live sources, matches people to your criteria, verifies their contact details, and returns them enriched. It’s built for the leads that no static database has indexed yet — brand-new companies, ultra-niche segments, and very specific real-time criteria.
Database search queries Bunlead’s 700M+ pre-indexed contacts instantly — it’s the fastest path for common, well-covered profiles. Live search doesn’t rely on that index at all; it sends an AI agent to go find leads on the live web right now. That makes it slower than an instant lookup, but it surfaces fresh and long-tail leads a static database simply doesn’t contain yet. The two are complementary: database for breadth and speed, live search for reach.
Start with database search — for common titles, industries, and geographies, its 700M-contact index returns matches instantly. Reach for live search when the database comes back thin or empty: a company too new to be indexed, a hyper-specific niche, or criteria tied to something happening right now. If a static database would struggle to have the answer, that’s exactly when the agent earns its keep.
Longer than an instant database query, but still fast — a live search typically returns in seconds to a few minutes, depending on how niche the criteria are and how many sources the agent has to work through. It’s real-time research, so it trades a little speed for reach into leads no index holds. You watch the agent work as it goes rather than waiting on a black box.
Yes. Every lead the agent finds runs through the same verification Bunlead applies to database reveals — contact details are checked before they reach you, not returned as raw guesses. Live search widens where leads come from; it doesn’t lower the bar on quality.
Yes — like other contact reveals, verified live-search leads draw from your credit balance, while unlimited features such as signals and alerts stay free. You’re charged for verified results, not for the agent’s effort, so an empty search doesn’t burn credits. See the pricing page for how credits work across your plan.