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Hunter

MKT AUTODEVOPS
Velocity0.0

Email finder and verification tool for sales prospecting and outreach campaigns.

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Hunter moves prospecting into AI assistants, with a ChatGPT app and MCP setup for every client.

sales prospectingemail outreachmcpai assistantsdeliverability
◆Current state
Hunter is an email-finding and outreach platform. Its late-September releases put the product inside AI assistants: a ChatGPT app on every plan including Free, native setups for Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, and a hosted MCP server for Cursor and other clients. Saved searches now flag new matching companies. Earlier in the year it built out Sequences with A/B testing, managed domains and inbox warm-up.
◆Where it's heading
Hunter is splitting into two surfaces: Sequences as a full outbound stack (provisioning, warm-up, pacing, testing) and the data layer exposed to assistants through MCP. Metrics changes such as recipient-based engagement rates apply to the API and MCP tools too, so both surfaces stay in step.
◆Prediction
Expect more of the Sequences workflow reachable from assistants, since the ChatGPT app already launches sequences while ChatGPT limits email-finding requests there.

◆Recent moves

  1. 1mo ago

    Saved searches tell you what's new

    Saved searches in Discover now show how many new companies match and pre-select them, with a bulk selector for the first 100. It turns Discover from a one-off search into a recurring lead feed.

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  2. 1mo ago

    Hunter is now available in ChatGPT

    A ChatGPT app with 30+ tools runs search, verification, leads and sequences in conversation, on every plan including Free. ChatGPT currently limits email finding inside apps, so the full toolset still needs the direct MCP connection.

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  3. 1mo ago

    Hunter connects to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and MCP clients

    Native setups for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Perplexity plus a hosted MCP server for Cursor, VS Code and others. This is the distribution layer behind the ChatGPT app.

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  4. 4mo ago

    Engagement rates are now recipient-based

    Open, click and reply rates now count people, not emails, across the app, exports, API and MCP. Multi-step sequence rates will rise; a 2.6% message rate becomes the 10% of people who actually replied.

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  5. 6mo ago

    Buy domains, create email accounts, and protect your sender reputation

    Users can buy domains and get pre-configured mailboxes with SPF, DKIM and DMARC inside Hunter, plus a warm-up add-on. It removes the external setup that sat in front of Sequences.

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  6. 7mo ago

    Sequences: A/B testing is here

    Sequence steps can run two variants and switch remaining sends to the winner. Standard outreach tooling that brings Sequences closer to dedicated tools.

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