Find buyers who are ready.Prove every claim.Send only what you approve.
Foxknock finds companies that look like your best customers, researches each one with sources you can click, and drafts the outreach. You approve every message before it leaves your own mailbox.
500 free credits, one mailbox, and credits that never expire.
Illustration with a fictional company. The real queue shows your accounts, with the same sources and approval step.
- Nothing sends without your approval
- Every claim has a source
- Your own mailboxes and domain
- Credits never expire
- No fake urgency, no dark patterns
How it works
One loop, nine steps, you in the middle
Most tools stop at a list of emails. Foxknock runs the whole loop and shows its work at every step.
- 01
Understand
Paste your website. Foxknock writes your playbook (offer, proof, tone, what it must never claim) and proposes segments. You edit and confirm.
- 02
Discover
Ask in plain English, start from your best customers, or let signals surface accounts. Every candidate is scored against your ICP, with evidence.
- 03
Research
A research agent builds a dossier per account. Output is evidence cards: each fact with its source URL and timestamp.
- 04
Prioritize
Fit, signal strength, freshness and reachability become one short Today queue, so you start the day with a list, not a feed.
- 05
Draft
Emails cite the facts they use. A quality gate checks specificity, AI tells, spam words and unsupported claims.
- 06
Approve
You approve each draft or a batch. Autonomy has to be earned, and nothing ever approves itself on a timer.
- 07
Send
From your own mailboxes, inside daily caps and a ramp, in the recipient's working hours, with one-click unsubscribe.
- 08
Converse
Replies are labelled with a confidence score. Drafted answers come from your knowledge base. Unsubscribes suppress at once.
- 09
Learn
See cost per positive reply and per meeting by segment, signal and mailbox. Your corrections make the next round better.
Product
Everything between a website and a booked meeting
Nine parts that work as one loop. Use all of them, or only the ones you need.
Discover
Lookalikes of the customers you already love
Give Foxknock your best customers and it finds companies that resemble them, and explains each match. Mark lost customers as negative seeds and similar accounts drop down the list.
- Embeddings, neural search and your own criteria, combined
- Every score shows per-criterion evidence, not a black-box number
- Natural-language search too: "Series A fintechs in DACH hiring a first SDR"
Research
Deep research that shows its sources
A research agent reads the website, news and job posts and writes a dossier made of evidence cards. Each card is one fact with the page it came from and when it was read.
- Quick, standard or deep, with the credit cost shown before you click
- Facts expire, so stale news is not quoted back to a prospect
- Works with an Anthropic key alone, using Claude's built-in web search and fetch
Prioritize
Signals and community radar in one ranked queue
Hiring, funding, news, tech changes, competitor mentions, website visits and buyers asking for help in public threads all land in one list, ranked by fit, signal strength, freshness and reachability.
- A short Today queue instead of an endless feed
- Community replies are drafted for you and posted by you, never automated
- Website visitors are identified at company level only, with no raw IPs stored
Approve
Approval levels, and autonomy you have to earn
Each sequence has an approval level. The default is review each. Auto-send unlocks only after a clean track record, and nothing is ever approved by a timer.
- Draft only, review each, batch approve, or auto within limits
- Auto unlocks after 50 approved emails with under 10% edited and under 5% rejected
- A global kill switch pauses every sequence at once
Draft
Cited copy and a quality gate
Every specific claim in an email points to a fact. Claims without a source block sending until you fix them. The gate also scores specificity and flags AI tells, spam words, long copy and stray links.
- Unresolved variables and placeholders can never go out
- Fake compliments ("I love what you're building") are flagged
- Edits you make are tracked and feed the earned-autonomy numbers
Send
Your own mailboxes, with deliverability guardrails
Foxknock sends from your domain over SMTP, not from a shared pool. Caps, a ramp-up and auto-pause are built in, so a bad week does not burn the domain you do business on.
- Connect Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 or any SMTP and IMAP mailbox
- Suppression is checked when a step is queued and again when it sends
- SPF, DKIM, DMARC and MX checks with plain-English fixes
Converse
An AI inbox you can trust
Replies are sorted into 13 classes with a confidence score. Answers are drafted from your own FAQs, objection notes and case studies, so the AI restates what you have said instead of inventing it.
- Out-of-office replies reschedule the next step, unsubscribes suppress at once
- Unsure replies are marked "needs review" instead of guessed
- Corrections are counted, and classifier precision is on your analytics page
Comply
Compliance built in, EU first
Country rule packs, lawful-basis confirmation where consent is expected, a GDPR Article 14 notice in first emails, field-level provenance and a fixed retention window. You stay in charge of who you contact.
- Per-country rules for outreach, editable with your counsel
- Where every contact field came from, for access requests
- Global suppression by email and domain, plus an optional AI disclosure footer
Integrate
API, webhooks and your own keys
A JSON REST API and signed webhooks let Foxknock sit inside the stack you already have, and read-only keys let an assistant like Claude look at your leads. Bring your own provider keys if you would rather have vendor calls billed to your own accounts.
- Create companies and contacts, start research, enroll people in sequences
- Webhooks for replies, meetings and sends, signed and retried
- Read-only and full-access API keys, shown once and stored as a hash
- Per-workspace provider keys, encrypted at rest
How we compare
Where Foxknock is different
Honest, short and sourced from public information. Where we do not know, the table says so.
| Explee | HeyCatch | Clay | Apollo | Foxknock | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Finds real people with emails | Yes: Own index plus a 6-provider email waterfall | No: Social threads, not contacts | Yes: Waterfall across 150+ providers | Yes: Large built-in contact database | Yes: Multi-provider waterfall, provenance per field |
| Lookalikes of your best customers | Partly: Example clients; the dedicated tool was removed | No: None | Partly: Via a partner (Ocean.io) | Unknown: Not noted in our research | Yes: Explained matches, negative seeds |
| Sources for the claims it makes | Partly: Strong profiles, criteria scored with reasoning | No: Researches you, not prospects | Yes: Strong research columns; you build the table | Partly: Light research | Yes: Every fact has a source URL and timestamp |
| Buyer intent in one queue | Partly: Weak signals; no intent or visitor data | Partly: Social threads only | Partly: Build your own from providers | Partly: Job posts and news | Yes: Hiring, funding, news, visitors, community |
| You approve before it sends | Partly: Users report sends without approval | Yes: Manual copy-and-paste | Unknown: Not noted in our research | Unknown: Not noted in our research | Yes: Approval levels; autonomy is earned |
| Sends from your own domain | No: Shared pre-warmed pool only | No: Not an email tool | Yes: Own infrastructure, or buy domains | Unknown: Not noted in our research | Yes: Your mailboxes, caps, ramp, auto-pause |
| Reply handling | Partly: Classifier; any open reply counts as hot | No: No inbox | Partly: Reply flows in its sequencer | Unknown: Not noted in our research | Yes: 13 classes with confidence, grounded drafts |
| How pricing works | Partly: Pay as you go per email | Partly: Intro price, then a higher renewal | Partly: Credits and actions, two meters | Partly: Per user plus credits | Yes: One meter, credits never expire, hard cap |
Based on public information and user reports we reviewed in October 2026. Competitors change plans and features often, so check their sites before you decide. “Not noted” means our research did not cover it, not that the feature is missing. We never call Apollo’s API: its terms forbid building competing products.
Pricing
One meter, no surprises
Credits cover everything that costs us money. You see the price before you click, and unused credits roll over forever.
Free
500 credits, one time, when you verify your email
- 500 one-time credits
- AI onboarding from your URL
- Discovery + standard research
- 1 mailbox
Starter
5,000 credits a month
- 5,000 credits / month (roll over)
- Sequences + AI inbox
- Community intent radar
- 3 mailboxes
Growth
20,000 credits a month
- 20,000 credits / month
- Signals + automated plays
- Website visitor ID
- CRM sync + API
- 15 mailboxes
Agency
60,000 credits a month
- 60,000 credits / month
- 25 client workspaces
- White-label reports
- Unlimited seats + mailboxes
Enterprise
Credits, retention and support to fit
- Custom credits
- SSO + audit exports
- Dedicated deliverability support
- DPA + custom retention
Credits never expire
Unused credits roll over every month, on every plan.
Failed lookups are free
You are charged when a result is found, not when we look.
Bounces are refunded
If a verified email hard-bounces, the credits come back automatically.
A monthly cap you set
Set a hard limit on credits per month. When it is reached, spending stops.
Cancel in one click
No call, no retention flow. Your plan runs to the end of the period.
Price shown before you spend
Every action that uses credits shows its cost before you click.
FAQ
Questions people ask before they sign up
Does Foxknock send emails without asking me?
No. Every sequence has an approval level, and the default is review each: a draft waits in your queue until you approve it. Auto-send exists, but it only unlocks after a track record (50 approved emails with under 10% edited and under 5% rejected), and nothing is ever approved by a timer. A global switch pauses all sending.
Where does the data come from?
From a waterfall of providers (search and web data, company data, email finders, verifiers), plus Claude's built-in web search and fetch for research. Every enriched field records where it came from. You can bring your own provider keys and pay those vendors directly. Foxknock does not scrape LinkedIn and does not use Apollo's API, because its terms forbid competing products.
How do I know a claim in an email is true?
Each specific claim in a draft points to a fact, and each fact carries the source URL, the quote and the time it was read. If a claim has no source, the quality gate blocks the email until you edit or remove it. You can still be wrong about your own offer, so the knowledge base and policies you write are what the AI is allowed to restate.
Which mailboxes can I send from?
Your own. Connect Google Workspace, Microsoft 365 or any SMTP and IMAP mailbox. Foxknock enforces daily caps, a 21-day ramp, spacing between sends and recipient-time windows, and pauses a mailbox that crosses 2% bounces or 0.1% complaints.
What does a credit buy, and do credits expire?
One credit is $0.01. A verified email costs 11 credits (10 to find it, 1 to verify it), a standard research report 225. Credits never expire, failed lookups are free, and a verified email that hard-bounces is refunded. You set a monthly cap, and every action shows its cost before you click.
Is it GDPR-compliant?
Foxknock gives you the tools: country rule packs, lawful-basis confirmation where consent is expected, an Article 14 notice in first emails, field-level provenance for access requests, suppression lists and a retention window. Compliance is still your responsibility as the sender, and the rule packs are a starting point, not legal advice.
Which AI does it use?
Claude, from Anthropic, for research, scoring, writing and reply handling, with the effort tuned per task. Your content is sent to Anthropic to produce those results, and Anthropic is listed on our security page with the other sub-processors.
Can I cancel any time?
Yes, in one click from Billing. Your plan runs to the end of the period you paid for, and your credits stay on the account.
See what Foxknock finds for you
Start with 500 free credits. No card, no call, and nothing sends until you approve it.