Getting started

New to AdaptLeads? These short guides take you from creating your account to running your first search and exporting a verified list — everything you need in your first session. You can do all of it on the free plan, with no card.

Creating your AdaptLeads account

Getting set up takes under a minute and you don't need a payment card. A free AdaptLeads account gives you unlimited search and filtering across all 3.4 million UK businesses, plus 50 verified-contact exports every month — the same data our paid plans use, just with a smaller export allowance.

1. Go to the sign-up page.
2. Enter your work email address and choose a password. A business email helps us keep the platform B2B and makes any future support quicker.
3. Submit the form — there's no card to enter and nothing to configure. Your account is ready straight away.
4. You'll land in the app with the full database open. Start searching immediately, or read Running your first search below.

Already have an account? Sign in any time at app.adaptleads.co.uk. If you later want a larger export allowance, you can move to a paid plan from inside your account without losing any saved lists or searches.

Running your first search

A search in AdaptLeads comes down to two decisions: who you want (a sector or industry) and where (a postcode, town or region). The result count updates live as you add filters, so you can size a list before you export a single contact.

1. Open the app and pick a sector or industry from the filter rail — for example accountants, dental practices or building firms.
2. Add a location: a postcode or postcode area, a town, or a wider region. Combine the two to focus on, say, café businesses in a single city.
3. Watch the live result count. If it's huge, add another filter; if it's thin, widen the location or relax a filter.
4. Open any record to inspect it — its 1–5★ quality grade, whether it has a verified email or a direct phone, and its sector and location. Viewing records is free and unlimited.
5. When the list looks right, export the records you want. Only new verified contacts you export count against your monthly allowance.

Everything except the export step is unlimited on every plan, including the free plan, so you can refine a search as many times as you like at no cost. To go deeper on filters, see Searching & filtering.

Understanding your search results

Every row in your results is a single UK business. At a glance, each one shows what you need in order to decide whether it's worth exporting:

• Quality grade (1–5★) — our confidence in the record. A 5★ record is a registered company with a named director and a verified email. Lower grades still have value; they simply have fewer proven links in the chain.
• Contact availability — whether the business has a verified, deliverable email, a direct phone, or both. More than 90% of our businesses carry a direct phone, and every email we mark verified has been checked against the receiving mail server.
• Sector and location — the industry and where the business trades, so you can confirm relevance before you export.

Opening a record to read any of this is free and unlimited — the export meter only moves when you take a verified contact out of the platform. To understand exactly how a grade is built, see Quality grades & verification.

What's included on the free plan

The free plan is a genuine working account, not a locked demo. You get:

• Unlimited search, filtering and quality grades across all 3.4 million UK businesses.
• 50 verified-contact exports every month, with no card required to start.
• The same underlying data as our paid plans — the only difference is the size of your monthly export allowance.

That's deliberate: we'd rather you size the coverage for your own sectors and postcodes before you pay anything. When 50 exports a month isn't enough, paid plans start at £99/month for 2,500 exports (Starter), then £249 for 15,000 (Growth) and £499 for 50,000 (Scale), with a Custom plan for unlimited volume and API access. See Pricing for the full breakdown.

Finding your way around AdaptLeads

The app is built around one simple loop: filter, review, export. Here's where each part lives:

• Filter rail — where you build a search from sector, location, quality grade, contact availability, company size and company type.
• Results list — the businesses that match, with a live count and each record's grade and contact signals.
• Record detail — open any business to see its full profile: grade, verified-email and direct-phone status, sector and location. Always free to view.
• Saved lists — collect prospects into named lists you can return to and export in one go.
• Saved searches — store a filter set and re-run it in a click to catch newly added or newly verified businesses.
• Account & billing — manage your plan, see your monthly export allowance and update payment details.

If a control isn't where you expect, the fastest route is always to start from the filter rail and let the live count guide you. For deeper filtering technique, see Searching & filtering.

Getting value in your first week

You don't need to export thousands of records to see whether AdaptLeads works for you. A focused first week beats a big, untargeted pull every time. Here's a plan that works:

1. Pick one sector and one area. A tight, relevant list is far easier to test and act on than a broad national one.
2. Set the quality filter to 4★ and above. This keeps you to well-evidenced records with strong contact data.
3. Filter to a verified email (and a direct phone if you'll be calling) so every record you export is genuinely reachable.
4. Save the list so you can refine it and come back without rebuilding the search.
5. Export a small first batch — well within your free 50 — and run it through your own outreach or CRM tool.
6. Check the results for deliverability, answer rate and relevance, then widen or tighten your filters based on what you see.