Short answer: most companies use one of a handful of predictable email patterns based on the person's name and the company domain — firstname.lastname@company.com, firstname@company.com, or first initial + lastname@company.com are the three most common. Find the pattern once, from any email you already have for that company, and it applies to almost everyone else there.
Step 1: Get the person's full name and the company's domain
LinkedIn gives you the name and current title. The domain is whatever the company's actual website uses for email — check their "Contact" or "Team" page, or a press release, since some companies use a different domain for email than their marketing site.
Step 2: Find one confirmed email to establish the pattern
- A company's public support or press-contact email (support@, press@, careers@) confirms the domain but not the naming pattern for individuals.
- A team or "About" page sometimes lists individual emails directly — check before guessing.
- A press release or conference speaker bio occasionally includes a direct email.
- If you already have one working email at the company (from a referral, a prior application confirmation, or a public GitHub commit), that single example tells you the pattern for everyone else.
Step 3: Verify before you send, not after
Guessing wrong doesn't just waste a message — a bounced email can quietly hurt your own sending reputation if you're doing this at any volume. A free SMTP/mail-verification check (many exist as simple browser extensions or web tools) confirms a mailbox exists without actually sending anything, before you spend effort writing the message itself.
Why this alone isn't the hard part
Finding the address is genuinely the easy 20% of this. The harder part — the part that actually determines whether you get a reply — is finding the right person in the first place (not just any employee, but the one actually hiring for the role) and writing something worth their five seconds of attention. That's the part AutoReached AI automates: it identifies the actual hiring contact at a target company for your specific target role, not just a generic "someone at the company," and drafts outreach grounded in your real background rather than a name-swapped template.