# Prospecting

**Prospecting APIs:** Filter-based search for contacts and companies.

Use prospecting to find new records that match your Ideal Customer Profile (ICP). Apply rich filters across:

- **Contact attributes:** title, seniority, location, signals
- **Company attributes:** size, revenue, industry, technologies, intent

Results are paginated: up to **1,000 pages x 50 results = 50,000 results** per query.

> **Billing:** Uses the capture/charge model with `api_search` actions. Signal charges apply additionally.


## Prospecting Contacts

 - [POST /v3/contacts/prospecting](https://docs.lusha.com/apis/openapi/prospecting/prospectingcontacts.md): Search for contacts that match your Ideal Customer Profile using rich filter criteria.

Filter by contact attributes:
- Job title, seniority, department
- Location (city, state, country, continent)
- Existing data points (e.g. only contacts with a known work email)
- Signal activity (promotion, job change)

Filter by company attributes:
- Size, revenue, industry, technologies
- Location, intent topics, funding

Results are paginated up to 50,000 total (1,000 pages × 50 results). Use the returned contact id values with Enrich Contacts to reveal emails and phones.

> Billing: Charged per result via api_search. If signals are requested, an additional charge applies per matched signal per result.

## Prospecting Companies

 - [POST /v3/companies/prospecting](https://docs.lusha.com/apis/openapi/prospecting/prospectingcompanies.md): Search for companies that match your target market using rich filter criteria.

Filter by:
- Size, revenue range, industry, sub-industry
- Technologies in use
- Locations (HQ country, state, city)
- SIC and NAICS codes
- Buyer intent topics
- Signal activity (headcount changes, hiring surges, news events)

Results are paginated up to 50,000 total. Use the returned company id values with Enrich Companies to get full firmographic data.

> Billing: Charged per result via api_search. If signals are requested, an additional charge applies per matched signal per result.