ScoutLayer
API that live-scans company websites to extract public business contact information — emails, phones, social profiles — especially for newly launched businesses.
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Description
Contact databases like ZoomInfo or Apollo are great until the company you're trying to reach launched three months ago — they simply haven't been indexed yet. ScoutLayer solves that specific problem by scanning a company's own website live, right now, and pulling out whatever public contact information (emails, phones, social profiles) actually exists there instead of relying on a stale, pre-built database.
ScoutLayer is a contact-discovery API that extracts public business information from websites via live scanning, returning structured JSON with source-linked evidence for each data point. It supports REST API access, MCP integration, a web playground for testing, and LLM-assisted clustering to match related contacts, targeting teams building outreach or enrichment workflows aimed at newly launched or smaller businesses not yet covered by traditional contact databases.
💬 Our review
The short version: a legitimately different approach to contact enrichment — live scanning instead of a static database — that's genuinely useful for one specific gap, at a price that only makes sense if you actually hit that gap often.
Against database-style providers like Apollo or ZoomInfo, ScoutLayer's edge is coverage of businesses too new or small to be indexed yet, plus source-linked evidence so you can verify where a contact came from. The trade-off is real: live scanning only surfaces what's publicly published, so coverage is inconsistent, and at $7.60 per 1,000 contacts on the entry tier it's not cheap for casual use. If your outreach targets recently launched startups or small businesses, it fills a genuine gap the big databases miss; for mainstream enterprise prospecting, a traditional contact database will have broader, cheaper coverage.
💰 Pricing
📊 Global score
🤖 AI-enriched data
Crédits non expirables : Starter 19$/2500 crédits, Pro 49$/10 000 crédits, Scale 199$/50 000 crédits.
Pros
Scan en direct du site, données plus fraîches que les bases de contacts statiques
Cible aussi les petites entreprises récentes absentes des bases traditionnelles
Crédits non expirables, pas de charge pour contacts invalides
Support MCP et playground web pour tester avant d'intégrer
Cons
Uniquement des informations publiques, pas de données propriétaires enrichies
Dépend de ce qui est publié sur le site scanné, couverture variable
Coût élevé aux petits volumes (7,60$/1000 contacts sur Starter)