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Swordfish
A recruiter-focused contact data platform that finds direct dial numbers and professional emails for recruiting and sales teams.
Swordfish describes itself as a recruiter-focused contact intelligence platform for finding direct dial numbers and professional email addresses. It also offers a Chrome extension, an API and contact enrichment.
At a glanceChecked Oct 12, 2026
APIYes
From Swordfish’s own siteSources
- swordfish.ai/llms.txtproduct, checked Oct 12, 2026
Found numbers in Swordfish? See who will pick up before you dial.
High chanceLow chanceBad data
Try on 250 contacts for freeOn this page
What is Swordfish?
Swordfish describes itself as a recruiter-focused contact intelligence platform for finding direct dial numbers and professional email addresses. It also offers a Chrome extension, an API and contact enrichment.
Because its main product is the number itself, it sits upstream of the calling step. Whatever it returns still has to be dialed, and not every direct dial it finds will lead to a conversation.
Who it’s for
Swordfish names recruiters, healthcare recruiters, staffing agencies, executive search firms, talent acquisition teams and B2B sales teams as its users. It is a data source, so you pair it with a dialer or a CRM to do the actual calling.
Key features
Direct dial lookup
Professional email lookup
Chrome extension and API
Swordfish core capabilities
- Direct dial lookup
- Professional email lookup
- Chrome extension and API
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Where Swordfish fits in your calling
Swordfish supplies direct dial numbers, but a number existing is different from the person answering it. Checking the numbers it returns shows which are worth a call attempt first.
- Step 1Find the numberBuild the list and fill in mobilesSwordfish
- Step 2See who will pick upCheck the list before you dialWill This Person Answer
- Step 3DialCall the high chance contacts
- Step 4Log the callRecord the outcome and follow up
Frequently asked questions
Swordfish is a recruiter-focused contact intelligence platform that finds direct dial numbers and professional email addresses for people you want to reach. It supplies data and enrichment rather than doing the calling itself.
The vendor names recruiters, healthcare recruiters, staffing agencies, executive search firms, talent acquisition teams and B2B sales teams. Because it is a data source, teams usually pair it with a dialer or CRM to place the calls.
We could not confirm this. The vendor's pricing page was behind a bot check when we tried to read it on Oct 12, 2026, so no plan names or prices are stated here. Check swordfish.ai/pricing directly for current figures.
We could not confirm this. The vendor's pricing page was behind a bot check when we read it, and its llms.txt file does not mention a trial. Look at the pricing page before signing up, and treat any trial terms you find elsewhere as unverified.
Yes. The vendor describes direct dial discovery and professional email enrichment as its core. It does not say how accurate a number is for a given person, so a found number still needs checking before you spend call time on it.
No. It is a contact data provider, not a dialer. You take the numbers it finds into your own dialer, phone system or CRM to make the calls.
Not natively, and we found no vendor documentation of a link. You move data by file: export contacts from Swordfish, upload the CSV here, then sort by the result. Non-US numbers are not checked, and 250 contacts are free.
A mobile number being on file does not mean the person answers unknown callers. Each contact comes back High chance, Low chance or Bad data, so reps can lead with the people most likely to pick up.
Try them later in the day, use the professional email Swordfish also returns, or send a message first. They are not worth leading a calling block with, but they are not wasted either.
Upload your whole Swordfish export as one CSV. One credit checks one contact, and the first 250 contacts are free with no card. Will This Person Answer checks US phone numbers only, so remove non-US numbers first.
WILL THIS PERSON ANSWER
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Ask your AI tool who on your list will pick up. Every contact comes back High chance, Low chance or Bad data, with the best way to reach them.
No card required. US phone numbers only.