2 resources from Ahrefs Blog we point founders to, and the questions each answers.
📄 Article
✓ Link checkedFreeBeginner
Why we picked it
A clear rundown from a company that does outreach at scale for its own work, covering lookup tools, pattern guessing, and newsletter sign ups as a backdoor route to a personal address. It also shows a free way to sanity check a guess yourself before you touch a paid tool.
Why we picked it
Written from the recipient's side of the inbox by someone who gets hundreds of cold emails a week. It makes the case that finding the right address is only half the job: a generic, templated pitch sent to a correct email still gets deleted, so what you say once you've reached someone matters as much as how you found them.