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Search-Based Recommendations

Turn your best searches into a daily stream of fresh leads. ✨

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Written by Marine Melamed
Updated this week

Overview

Search-based Recommendations turn your best past searches into a continuous stream of new prospects. By analyzing the criteria from your most valuable recent searches, Lusha’s AI finds new contacts and companies that match, so you keep uncovering high‑fit leads without repeating work.

Use cases

  • Extend your best searches
    Keep getting fresh results from search criteria that already worked well for you.

  • Save time
    No need to rebuild complex searches to find new prospects.

  • Stay on target
    Only see results that match proven successful patterns.

How it works

  1. Lusha reviews your recent search history and identifies the most relevant, high‑value search patterns.

  2. The system runs these searches automatically in the background.

  3. You receive lists of new contacts and companies that match those patterns.

Where to find search-based recommendations

  • Playlist Catalog widget: Search-based Recommendations

Updates

  • Refreshed daily to include newly added relevant prospects

  • Older or less relevant results are replaced automatically

Tips for best results

  • Keep running and refining targeted searches so the system learns what works best for you

  • Regularly check and save valuable prospects to lists so they’re not lost in the refresh cycle

How to act on your recommendations

  1. Review Your List
    Click View all contacts/companies in the widget to open your tailored list.

  2. Reveal Details When You’re Ready

    • Select individual prospects or Select All to reveal up to 25 at once.

    • Revealing uses credits only when you choose Show details for a contact.

  3. Save to Lists

    • Save prospects to your Contact Lists or Company Lists to organize by campaign, segment, or priority.

    • You can save without revealing if you want to keep them for later.

  4. Send to Sequences (if using Engage)

    • Push relevant contacts into automated email sequences to start outreach immediately.

  5. Export to CRM

    • Sync selected prospects directly to your CRM for tracking and further engagement.

  6. Expand Your List

    • Scroll to the bottom and click Generate More Contacts or Generate More Companies.

💡 Note: You can add an extra 25 recommended contacts or companies up to two times per day.

FAQs

Q: What are search‑based recommendations?

A: Search‑based Recommendations are AI‑generated lists of companies and contacts based on your past searches. They help you continuously find new, high‑fit prospects without rebuilding searches from scratch.

Q: How are they different from Recommended Searches?

A: Search‑based Recommendations are actual prospects. Recommended Searches are search queries you can run to get live results.

Q: Where do I see Search‑based Recommendations?

A: You’ll see them in your Playlist Catalog under the Search‑based Recommendations widget.

Q: How often do they update?

A: They refresh daily to include new prospects that match your proven search patterns.

Q: Do I need to set them up?

A: No setup is required. Lusha automatically identifies your most valuable searches and builds recommendations from them.

Q: Can I influence what shows up?

A: Yes. The more targeted searches you run, the better the system can identify patterns and deliver relevant recommendations.

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