# Qualify an inbound lead from one email address. Before you reply Inbound qualification tells you who wrote, whether their company fits, and why they might be looking now. With Agentik, your AI finds and reads the person and their company with Icypeas, reads the company’s technology and traffic with DataForSEO, and its news with Serper. - For: SDRs, founders and account executives - Providers: 3 (Icypeas, DataForSEO and Serper), 6 tools - Example (One inbound email, the profile and company, the company’s technology and traffic, one news search): at most $0.32, computed from the live catalog - Updated: 2026-10-10 ## Each provider does one part No single provider covers this job. Through Agentik your AI calls each one for its part, from one connection and one prepaid balance. - **Icypeas** (3 tools, at most $0.23): The person behind the email, their profile and their company page. - **DataForSEO** (2 tools, at most $0.08): The company’s website technology and estimated search traffic. - **Serper** (1 tool, at most $0.01): The company’s recent news. ## Give this to your agent ```text Use my connected Agentik MCP server for this job: inbound lead qualification. Qualify an inbound lead. First ask me for the email address and my ideal customer profile. Find the person’s LinkedIn profile with icypeas/reverse-email-lookup, then read it with icypeas/scrape-profile and their company with icypeas/scrape-company. Read the company’s website technology with dataforseo/domain-analytics-technologies-domain-technologies and its estimated organic traffic with dataforseo/dataforseo-labs-google-domain-rank-overview. Search its news with serper/news. Finish with a qualification note (who they are, company size and stack, fit with my profile, a reason they may be looking now) and a suggested reply. Before running anything, inspect each tool with inspect_tool, ask me for any input you don’t have instead of inventing it, and tell me the total price. Wait for my go. At the end, tell me what Agentik charged. ``` ## You provide - The lead’s email address - Your ideal customer profile ## What you get: a qualification note and a suggested reply - Who the person is and their role - Company size, stack and traffic - Fit against your profile - A suggested reply ## How to qualify an inbound lead in Claude or ChatGPT Prices are the most each call can reserve for this example: One inbound email, the profile and company, the company’s technology and traffic, one news search. ### 1. Find the person Icypeas finds the LinkedIn profile behind the email, then reads the person’s profile and their company page. - [Icypeas reverse email lookup](/tools/icypeas/reverse-email-lookup.md) `icypeas/reverse-email-lookup` (Icypeas, 1 email): at most $0.19 - [Icypeas LinkedIn profile](/tools/icypeas/scrape-profile.md) `icypeas/scrape-profile` (Icypeas, 1 profile): at most $0.03 - [Icypeas LinkedIn company page](/tools/icypeas/scrape-company.md) `icypeas/scrape-company` (Icypeas, 1 company): at most $0.0095 ### 2. Size the company DataForSEO reads the company website’s technology and estimates its organic traffic. - [Website technologies of a domain](/tools/dataforseo/domain-analytics-technologies-domain-technologies.md) `dataforseo/domain-analytics-technologies-domain-technologies` (DataForSEO, 1 domain): at most $0.04 - [Google domain rank overview](/tools/dataforseo/dataforseo-labs-google-domain-rank-overview.md) `dataforseo/dataforseo-labs-google-domain-rank-overview` (DataForSEO, 1 domain): at most $0.04 ### 3. Read the news Serper searches the company’s recent news. - [Google News search](/tools/serper/news.md) `serper/news` (Serper, 1 search): at most $0.01 ### 4. Write the note and reply Your AI writes the qualification note and a suggested reply. Example total: at most $0.32. Each call is billed for measured usage; unused reservations are released. ## Ask it your way - Who is jane.doe@prospect-co.com, and is her company a fit for us? - Qualify this demo request before I reply. - What does this company use on its website, and how big is it? - Write a reply to this inbound lead based on what you found. ## Why through Agentik - Profiles, company data, technology, traffic and news come from three providers through one connection. - The reverse email lookup is the largest share, billed only when a profile is found. ## Good to know - A reverse email lookup costs ten Icypeas credits and is billed only when a profile is found. - Personal email addresses rarely resolve to a work profile. ## When to use something else To enrich every form fill automatically in your CRM, use an enrichment integration. This playbook qualifies the leads you care about, with a reply ready. ## Inbound lead qualification: questions ### Does it work with personal emails? Rarely. Personal addresses seldom resolve to a work profile. ### Can I run it on every form fill? Yes, from your agent’s automations if your client supports them; each lead costs at most $0.32. ### What does the example cost? At most $0.32, reserved before each call and settled at the measured usage. ## Keep going - [Account research](/account-research.md): Their site, latest news, official filings and the profiles of the people you’ll meet, in a one-page brief with sources. - [B2B lead list](/b2b-lead-list.md): People who match your buyer, emails found by two providers and verified, and a recent news hook for each company. - [Cold email first lines](/cold-email-first-lines.md): For each prospect on your list, their LinkedIn profile, their company’s latest posts and news, turned into a first line that shows you looked. - [B2B data and enrichment tools for your agent](/tools/enrichment.md) - [Company data tools for your agent](/tools/company.md) - [News tools for your agent](/tools/news.md) [All playbooks](/playbooks.md) · [Connection guides](/docs/clients.md) · [Billing](/docs/billing.md) --- [HTML page](/inbound-lead-qualification) · [Agent index](/llms.txt)