Find, don’t invent: why guessed mailboxes poison your sequences

Most “email finder” products optimize for a cell that is never empty. A guessed local-part plus the company domain looks like a hit. It is a tax: bounces, spam folders, and a domain that slowly dies.

BharatGuru AI’s contract is narrower. A mailbox is returned when a public page, directory index, or harvest of /about /team /contact actually shows it — then MX and SMTP checks confirm it can receive. If the web is quiet, the row stays empty. That is a feature.

For named people, we only attach an address when the local-part matches the person. A generic sales@ on the contact page is not Jane’s inbox. Role mailboxes belong to the company directory, not the individual lead.

If you run volume, treat empty as “research again,” not “fill with a pattern.” Patterns belong in catch-all experiments you opt into — never as the default finder result.