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By Nigel Guy · 6 min read
Most people who want "the head of finance at Acme" ask a chatbot with web search, get a plausible name and a guessed email pattern, and send to an address nobody has checked. It feels fine because the answer arrives in a confident sentence. It fails when the message bounces, or lands with someone who left last spring.
The rule: ask a connected data source for the person, make Claude report what the database holds (and what it does not), and treat every email as a lead to check, not a fact.
This guide sets up the Vibe Prospecting connector, which is built by Explorium and gives Claude access to Explorium's B2B company and contact data. It then walks through a role-at-company lookup and a check of your own exposure in the same database.
You need:
Cost at time of writing: the pricing page lists a free tier of 200 credits a month (these do not roll over). Paid packs are one-off, not subscriptions: Plus at $29.90 for 900 credits (about £22 at time of writing), Boost at $89.99 for 3,000 credits (about £67), with larger packs above that. Packs last 365 days, are non-refundable and do not auto-renew. Check the £ price at checkout, as exchange rates and any tax will change the figure. Credit costs listed: 1 credit to find a business or prospect, 2 for a verified email, 5 for a phone number, 1 to 5 for enrichments. One lookup with an email therefore costs roughly 3 credits, so the free tier covers a modest number of tries.
In Claude chat, Cowork or Desktop, following the vendor's instructions:
Menu labels move around between Claude releases. If yours differs, search the connector directory for "Vibe Prospecting".
In Claude Code, run this one line in your terminal:
claude mcp add --transport http vibe-prospecting https://vibeprospecting.explorium.ai/mcp
Then restart Claude Code and run any prompt that uses it. The first call opens your browser to sign in. claude mcp list should show the server as connected. The older local uvx route is marked deprecated in the repository; do not use it.
Naming the connector in the prompt stops Claude answering from web search instead. Fill in the role and company.
You are helping me identify one specific business contact. Use the Vibe Prospecting connector, not general web search.
Goal: find the person who holds [ROLE OR JOB TITLE] at [COMPANY NAME] (company website, if you know it: [COMPANY DOMAIN]).
Steps:
1. Match the company first. Tell me which company record you matched (name, domain, country) before looking for people.
2. Search for people in that role at that company.
3. Show a preview before any export or any credit-costing enrichment, and tell me roughly how many credits the next step will use.
4. For the best match, return: full name, current job title, and a verified work email only if the database holds one.
Output as a small table with columns: field, value, confidence (high, medium, low or not found).
Rules:
- If the company match is ambiguous, or no person matches confidently, say so and stop. Do not guess a name, and do not build an email address from a pattern.
- If I have not given you a role or company, ask me for it.
- Do not search for or return personal (non-work) contact details.
Before answering, check: does every value in the table come from the connector? Mark anything that does not as "not found".
The point is to see what the same database says about you, so you know what a stranger could pull.
Using the Vibe Prospecting connector, check whether I appear in its data.
My details: name [YOUR FULL NAME], company [YOUR COMPANY], job title [YOUR TITLE, OPTIONAL].
Steps:
1. Search for my record using only these details.
2. If found, list exactly which fields are held against my name (for example title, work email, profile links) and flag anything that looks out of date.
3. Then tell me what the connector or the provider documents about removal or opt-out. If you cannot find a documented process, say that plainly rather than inventing one.
Rules: report only what the tool returns. If it returns nothing, say "no record found" and do not speculate. Ask me if any detail above is missing.
Be aware that a "not found" here proves little. It only tells you what this one connector returned for those search terms.
I could not find a removal process inside the connector's own documentation. The data provider's privacy policy says individuals can request access, update or removal by emailing privacy@explorium.ai. It also says California residents can use a do-not-sell page on explorium.ai, and gives an EU representative contact for EU residents. If Explorium is acting as a service provider for another company, it says requests go to that company instead. Send the request yourself, in writing, and keep a copy; do not rely on Claude to submit it for you.