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AI lead generation for small B2B teams and agencies Find buyers who are ready. Prove every claim. Send only what you approve.

Paste your website. FoxKnock finds lookalikes of your best customers, researches each one with sources you can click, and drafts emails that wait for your approval.

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4 leads found for Shorts & Co

To
Anna Mooreanna@riversiderun.example Verified
Subject
Shirts for Riverside Running Club

Hi Anna,

I saw Riverside Running Club hosts 6 races a year, each with its own shirt. We print custom t-shirts in small or large runs, with free design help.

Want me to send a free mockup with your logo?

Jamie, Shorts & Co

Why this lead: Hosts 6 races a year and orders new shirts for each one

Waiting for your approval

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Fictional examples. Paste your website and FoxKnock finds leads for your own business.

  • You approve what sends
  • Every claim has a source
  • Your own mailboxes and domain
  • One meter, seats included
  • Failed lookups are free

How it works

From your website to an approved email in three steps

Most tools stop at a list of emails. FoxKnock runs the whole loop, and you decide what goes out.

  1. 1

    Paste your website

    FoxKnock learns what you sell, who buys it and what it must never claim, then proposes your best-fit segments.

  2. 2

    Review a short list each morning

    Accounts ranked by fit and fresh signals, each with a cited research report and verified contacts.

  3. 3

    Approve, and it sends

    Every draft cites its facts. Approved emails go out from your own mailbox, within daily caps and working hours.

Product

AI prospecting, from a website to a booked meeting

The whole outbound loop, with its work shown at every step. Use all of it or only the parts you need.

Discover

Lookalike companies of the customers you already love

Give FoxKnock your best customers and it finds B2B companies that resemble them, with the reason for every match.

  • Every match explained criterion by criterion, not a black-box score
  • Or search in plain English: "Series A fintechs in DACH hiring a first SDR"
  • Lost customers work as negative seeds and push similar accounts down

More about lookalike companies

Research

Prospect research that shows its sources

A research agent reads each company's site, news and job posts. Every fact it keeps links to its source and the date it was read.

  • Quick, standard or deep, priced before you click
  • Facts expire, so stale news is never quoted back to a prospect
  • Key people found, with verified emails and the source of every field

More about prospect research

Approve

Cited cold emails you approve before they send

Every claim in a draft points to a fact, and a quality gate blocks the ones that do not. Nothing is ever approved by a timer.

  • Four approval levels per sequence, from draft only to auto within limits
  • Auto unlocks only after 50 approvals with under 10% edited and 5% rejected
  • Fake compliments, spam words and leftover placeholders flagged first

More about approvals and the quality gate

Send

Cold email from your own mailboxes, with guardrails

FoxKnock sends from your domain, not a shared pool, with daily caps, a ramp-up and auto-pause to protect it.

  • Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, or any SMTP and IMAP server
  • Sends in the recipient's working hours, with one-click unsubscribe
  • SPF, DKIM, DMARC and MX checks with plain-English fixes

More about sending and deliverability

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How we compare

FoxKnock vs Clay, Apollo, Instantly and Explee

Short, sourced and dated. Where we could not verify something, the table says so, and the last row says where each tool is stronger.

  • Finds people with verified emails

    FoxKnock
    Yes: Waterfall of finders plus a verifier; source of every field recorded
    Clay
    Yes: Waterfall across 150+ data providers that you configure
    Apollo
    Yes: Large built-in contact database plus partner enrichment
    Instantly
    Yes: Built-in lead database (SuperSearch)
    Explee
    Yes: Own company and people database
  • Lookalikes of your best customers

    FoxKnock
    Yes: Explained matches, with lost customers as negative seeds
    Clay
    Partly: Through data partners inside a table you build
    Apollo
    Unknown: Not verified
    Instantly
    Yes: A lookalike domain filter in its lead search
    Explee
    Partly: An example-clients field; no dedicated lookalike tool
  • A source link for each research fact

    FoxKnock
    Yes: Every fact has a source URL and the time it was read
    Clay
    Partly: Research agents in your table; citations depend on your setup
    Apollo
    Unknown: Not verified
    Instantly
    Partly: Its research agent lists sources in drafts; per-claim links not verified
    Explee
    Unknown: Not verified
  • You approve emails before they send

    FoxKnock
    Yes: Approval levels; auto-send only after a clean record; no timers
    Clay
    Partly: An optional review step before its sequencer
    Apollo
    Partly: Manual email steps wait for you; automatic steps do not
    Instantly
    Yes: Its AI Sales Agent waits for approval by default; Autopilot is opt-in
    Explee
    Partly: With Auto-manage on, the lead list is approved automatically when a review window ends
  • Sends from your own mailboxes

    FoxKnock
    Yes: Your mailboxes, with caps, a ramp-up and auto-pause
    Clay
    Yes: Its sequencer with your mailboxes, or ones bought through Clay
    Apollo
    Yes: Connect your mailbox, or buy domains and mailboxes in Apollo
    Instantly
    Yes: Unlimited mailboxes with warm-up
    Explee
    No: Only from Explee's pool of pre-warmed inboxes, per its FAQ
  • How you pay

    FoxKnock
    Yes: One meter: credits at $0.01, seats included. Plan credits expire at cycle end; top-ups never expire
    Clay
    Partly: Actions plus data credits; actions never roll over
    Apollo
    Partly: Per seat, plus credits that reset each billing cycle
    Instantly
    Partly: Separate sending and credits plans; credits expire
    Explee
    Partly: Pay as you go per email sent, charged to your card
  • Where it is stronger

    FoxKnock
    Control and evidence: cited research, and nothing sends until you approve it
    Clay
    The most flexible data workbench, if you have someone to build it
    Apollo
    A very large database, a dialer and a Chrome extension
    Instantly
    High-volume sending across many mailboxes
    Explee
    The fastest start: paste a URL and it runs

Checked against each vendor’s public pages. Tools change often, so check before you decide. “Not verified” means we could not confirm it, not that the feature is missing. We never call Apollo’s API: its terms forbid building competing products.

Sources: Clay Pricing, Rollover FAQ, Review step · Apollo Pricing, Data requests · Instantly Pricing, Credit system, AI Reply Agent, AI Sales Agent, SuperSearch · Explee Home and FAQ, Pricing, API docs

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Pricing

AI lead generation pricing: one meter, no surprises

Start free with 500 credits, then $49, $149 or $399 a month. One credit is $0.01, seats are included, and every price shows before you click.

Free

$0no card

500 credits, one time, when you verify your email

  • 500 one-time credits (never expire)
  • AI onboarding from your URL
  • Discovery + standard research
  • 1 mailbox
Start free

Starter

$49/ month

5,000 credits a month

  • 5,000 credits / month (expire each cycle)
  • Sequences + AI inbox
  • Community intent radar
  • 3 mailboxes
Start with Starter

Starts on Free, no card. Upgrade when you are ready.

For teams of up to 5

Growth

$149/ month

20,000 credits a month

  • 20,000 credits / month (expire each cycle)
  • Signals + automated plays
  • Website visitor ID
  • CRM sync + API
  • 15 mailboxes
Start with Growth

Starts on Free, no card. Upgrade when you are ready.

Agency

$399/ month

60,000 credits a month

  • 60,000 credits / month (expire each cycle)
  • 25 client workspaces
  • Separate data and approvals per client
  • Unlimited seats + mailboxes
Start with Agency

Starts on Free, no card. Upgrade when you are ready.

Enterprise

Custom

Credits, retention and support to fit

  • Custom credits and volume pricing
  • Custom retention window
  • Dedicated deliverability support
  • Unlimited seats, mailboxes and workspaces
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  • One meter, seats included

    Every action uses the same credits. No per-seat fees on top.

  • Top-ups never expire

    Plan credits expire each billing cycle. Top-ups and the free 500 stay until used.

  • Failed lookups are free

    You are charged when a result is found, not when we look.

  • Bounces are refunded

    A verified email that hard-bounces gets its credits back.

  • A monthly cap you set

    A hard monthly limit. When it is reached, spending stops.

  • Cancel any time

    Monthly plans, no contract, no retention call. Your plan runs to the end of the period.

  • Price shown before you spend

    Every paid action shows its cost before you click.

See what credits buy and estimate your cost

FAQ

Questions people ask before they sign up

What is FoxKnock?

FoxKnock is an AI lead generation tool for small B2B teams and agencies. It finds companies that look like your best customers, researches each one with cited sources, finds and verifies the right contacts, and drafts outreach you approve before it sends from your own mailboxes. See how it works or what it costs.

Is FoxKnock an AI SDR?

Not in the usual sense. An autonomous AI SDR sends on its own; FoxKnock drafts, you approve, and your mailbox sends. Automatic sending is something a sequence has to earn, and you switch it on. If you want a tool that runs outbound without you, an AI SDR may suit you better: see our AI SDR alternatives for a fair comparison.

Does FoxKnock send emails without asking me?

Not unless you let it. Every sequence has an approval level, and the default is review each: a draft waits in your queue until you approve it. Auto-send 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. The one other automatic message is optional: a reply with your booking link when someone asks for a meeting. A global switch pauses all sending. More about approvals.

How is FoxKnock different from Clay, Apollo or Instantly?

Clay is a data workbench you build workflows in, Apollo is a large contact database with sequences, and Instantly is built for sending at volume. FoxKnock is a finished loop for small teams: lookalike accounts, cited research, verified contacts and drafts you approve, on one credit meter with seats included in the plan price. Each comparison says where the other tool is stronger: Clay, Apollo, Instantly.

Where does the data come from?

From a waterfall of providers (search and web data, company data, email finders, verifiers), plus built-in web search and page fetching for research. Every enriched field records where it came from. You can also add 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. Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 connect with Sign in with Google or Sign in with Microsoft, so FoxKnock stores a revocable token instead of your password; any other SMTP and IMAP mail server connects with its password. 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. More about sending.

Can agencies use FoxKnock for clients?

Yes. The Agency plan lets you run up to 25 separate client workspaces, each with its own data, mailboxes, suppression list and approvals, with unlimited seats. Today each client workspace also has its own credits and billing. See FoxKnock for agencies.

Does it work with my CRM?

FoxKnock syncs companies, contacts, reply notes and deals for interested leads to HubSpot (one way, from FoxKnock to HubSpot). For anything else there is a REST API, signed webhooks and Slack alerts. API and integrations.

What does a credit buy?

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 a monthly plan grants expire at the end of the billing cycle, while top-up packs and the free plan's 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.

Can I use it for GDPR-compliant outreach?

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?

A leading AI model, used for research, scoring, writing and reply handling, with the effort tuned per task. Your content is sent to our AI provider to produce those results, and that provider is listed on our security page with the other sub-processors.

Can I cancel any time?

Yes, any time from Billing, with no call and no retention flow. 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 every email waits for your approval by default.