Starts with
HoundA business outcomeDatabasesFirmographic filters
/// Why Hound
The lead search engine for the market your database misses.
Ask for a niche, place, signal, or gap. Hound searches live, scores the fit, and shows you why now.
Ask Hound
Independent cafés in Leeds with strong reviews and no website
Maps
live
Registry
checked
Open web
scanned
Example result
94 fitIndependent café
No website4.7 rating212 reviews
Why now: trusted locally, invisible online.
01 / start with the job
What is slowing growth right now?
Pick the task. The right category reveals itself.
Best fit
Hound
Who needs what I sell right now?
Run a fresh hunt across Maps, registries, Reddit, social, and the open web.
02 / follow the lead
From question to qualified lead.
Hound owns discovery and qualification, then hands clean leads to the tool that should send.
Hound / live discoveryClean handoff
- 01
Ask
Name the niche, place, signal, or gap.
Hound
- 02
Hunt live
Sweep the sources that fit the question.
Hound
- 03
Qualify
See the fit, evidence, and why now.
Hound
- 04
Route
Push clean leads to the tool that sends.
Handoff
03 / compare your way
One difference at a time.
Choose a category. See only the contrasts that change the workflow.
Looks for
HoundNeed, timing, and gapsDatabasesStored contacts and accounts
Gives you
HoundScored live leads + why nowDatabasesA contact list
The honest choice: Choose a database when you want contacts from a large, known index.
See the full six-point comparison
Starts with
Hound
An outcome in plain English
Databases
Firmographic filters
GTM builders
A workflow or table
Senders
An imported lead list
Data model
Hound
Fresh public-source sweep
Databases
Stored contact index
GTM builders
Provider waterfalls + CRM
Senders
Imported or bundled contacts
Best signal
Hound
Visible need, timing, and gaps
Databases
Role, company, firmographics
GTM builders
Custom logic you design
Senders
Replies and campaign behaviour
UK and local
Hound
Maps + Companies House + FSA
Databases
Limited to indexed contacts
GTM builders
Depends on connected providers
Senders
Not the job
Qualification
Hound
0 to 100 fit, reasons, and opener
Databases
Contact and account filters
GTM builders
Scoring workflow you build
Senders
Analytics after sending
Next step
Hound
Push to CRM or sequencer
Databases
Varies; some include sequences
GTM builders
Orchestrate actions across tools
Senders
Sequence, warm, deliver
04 / the honest answer
Know when to use Hound.
Start with Hound
You need to discover who is worth contacting.
Start elsewhere
You already have the list and only need to automate it.
/// your market, live
Give Hound a question, not a list.
See the sources and cost before the hunt runs.