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SalesIntel at a glance

Vendor
SalesIntel, Inc.
Headquarters
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026
Data hosting
Outside the EU by default source, captured 3 Nov 2026
Free plan
Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026
Panel verdict
The AI panel rates SalesIntel 2/5, the mean of 6 judges. SalesIntel, a lead generation vendor, scored highest on visitor identification, CRM sync and export, and data coverage, all ranging 4 to 6. how scores are made
As of
Vendor pages captured 3 Nov 2026; evaluated by the panel 3 Nov 2026. all sources

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The Data Protection Officer

Weighted verdict

Knows the company becomes controller the moment a list is exported. Wants the source and legal basis of every record stated, the Art. 14 notice actually sent, a removal route for the people in the database, and a visitor script that does not fire before consent.

Same scores as the panel view — this lens weights them the way this judge cares.

Scored by The Data Protection Officer

Panel median The Data Protection Officer This judge’s scores over the panel median. Each label opens its reasoning below.
Scores per criterion, in stars out of 5
Criterion Panel median The Data Protection Officer
Coverage, accuracy & freshness 2.5 of 5 2.5 of 5
Data sources & lawful basis 2 of 5 2.5 of 5
Visitor identification & intent signals 2.5 of 5 2.5 of 5
Prospecting workflow & outreach rules 2 of 5 2 of 5
CRM sync, enrichment & export 2.5 of 5 2.5 of 5
European sovereignty 1.5 of 5 1.5 of 5

Coverage, accuracy & freshness

How this is scored

How much of the target market the database actually covers — judged on DACH and EU coverage as much as North American — and what the vendor documents about verification and refresh, because accuracy claims cannot be checked from outside.

0 — Not a data product: the tool supplies no contact or company data and only manages leads the customer brings.

3 — Total record counts for the database with the data types offered (email, phone, company data) and email verification mentioned.

5 — Coverage stated by country or region with Europe or DACH included, email verification described, firmographics beyond name and domain (industry, size, revenue), and a refresh cadence or last-verified date stated.

8 — Coverage broken down by country, industry and data type (email, direct dial, mobile), verification method and refresh cadence documented, company data drawn from official registers where available, and a bounce or credit-back guarantee with stated terms.

10 — The vendor is accountable for its data: per-country coverage and accuracy methodology published, every field carrying a last-verified date visible to the user, register-sourced company data, and credit-back terms that make inaccuracy the vendor's cost rather than the buyer's.

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The Data Protection Officer

Verified totals are published — 200M+ verified contacts, 54M+ verified mobile numbers, and a 90-day verification cycle described as AI plus human researchers at a claimed 95% accuracy — with coverage stated by region including EMEA and firmographics and technographics per company. However, we found no public information on country-level breakdowns, register-sourced company data, per-field verification dates visible to the user, or refund terms for inaccurate records, and the privacy policy describes the Leads database as profiling decision makers based in the United States while the data pages claim US, Canada, EMEA and APAC coverage — the captured pages give different scope claims for the same database. 1 2 3 4 5

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Data sources & lawful basis

How this is scored

Where the personal data in the database comes from and on what legal basis it is processed — as evidenced on the vendor's own pages. Covers Art. 6(1)(f) legitimate interest, the Art. 14 notice to the people in the database, and whether they can find, object to and remove their record.

0 — The vendor states that it leaves the legal basis for the personal data it sells entirely to the buyer, or that records are collected without the people in them being able to object.

3 — Sources described in general terms (public sources, partners), a GDPR legal basis named, and an opt-out or removal route for people in the database.

5 — Source categories named (registers, company websites, contributory networks, licensed partners), legitimate interest under Art. 6(1)(f) stated as the basis for EU records, a privacy notice addressed to the people in the database, and a self-service opt-out or removal process.

8 — The above plus an Art. 14 notification practice described (people informed when added), contributory or browser-extension collection disclosed as such, a legitimate-interest assessment summarised publicly, and EU records handled differently from US records where the law differs.

10 — Provenance is traceable per record: the source and collection date available for each contact, Art. 14 notices sent and documented, the balancing test published, objections honoured across the whole dataset and suppressed permanently, and no data sourced by scraping behind logins or from contributors' address books without their contacts' knowledge.

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The Data Protection Officer

Sources are described only in general terms — hundreds of researchers on the web plus a proprietary data feed, with three sources merged into each record but no source named per record — and the policy lists consent, contract, legal obligation and legitimate interest without stating which basis covers EU records; we found no public information on an Art. 14 notification practice or a published balancing test, and the policy states SalesIntel is a U.S. company governed by U.S. law operating as an opt-out service provider. What is real is the removal route: people in the database can view, hide, delete and correct their record at the opt-out page with identity verification, and published metrics show 761,431 deletion requests complied with, zero denied, at a median one-day response. 1 2 5 8

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Visitor identification & intent signals

How this is scored

Identifying companies behind website visits and surfacing buying intent — scored on what is identified (company or person), how the tracking works, and whether the vendor states that its script needs consent under §25 TDDDG and how it behaves without it.

0 — No visitor identification or intent data; the product does not look at website visits.

3 — Reverse-IP identification of the companies behind website visits through a tracking script, with visits listed per company.

5 — Company-level identification with filters and visit history per company, alerts or CRM handover of identified companies, and a stated position on consent for the script or a consent-mode option.

8 — Company-level only for EU traffic by design, cookieless operation documented, integration with common consent management platforms and the §25 TDDDG position stated, intent topics or page-level signals with the source of third-party intent data named, and alerts routed to owners.

10 — Identification that survives a DPO review: no personal data of visitors stored, the TDDDG and GDPR position published and specific, third-party intent data sourced from a named co-op or panel with its consent basis stated, and scoring on intent that the user can trace back to the underlying visits.

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The Data Protection Officer

VisitorIntel matches IP addresses and behavioural signals against a company database to identify visiting organisations, with ICP filters, visit-behaviour scoring, real-time alerts, routing rules, CRM writeback, 60,000+ intent topics and Bombora named as a third-party intent source; the product claims to identify companies, not individual users. We found no public information on a consent position for the tracking script under §25 TDDDG, a consent-mode option, cookieless operation, EU-specific handling, or the consent basis for the co-op intent data — only a generic statement that the product operates in compliance with applicable privacy regulations. 1 7

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Prospecting workflow & outreach rules

How this is scored

Search, list building and outreach — and whether the product helps the buyer stay within UWG §7 and the GDPR once the list exists, rather than leaving the legal risk entirely with the customer.

0 — No search, list building or outreach; the product only stores leads entered or captured elsewhere.

3 — Search with filters on firmographics and job title, saved lists, and export of the contacts found.

5 — Advanced filters (technographics, hiring or funding triggers), saved searches with alerts, a suppression or do-not-contact list, and guidance on GDPR or cold-outreach rules for EU contacts.

8 — Country-aware handling (for example German contacts flagged where cold calls and emails require consent under UWG §7), phone numbers checked against national do-not-call registers where they exist, and opt-outs from outreach synced back to the database.

10 — Compliance is part of the workflow: outreach channels restricted or flagged per country and contact type by default, suppression shared across the whole account and every export, the Art. 14 notice supported at first contact, and a documented record of how each contact entered the buyer's pipeline.

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The Data Protection Officer

Search filters, list building and export are documented, together with serious outreach capability — email, social and calls in one sequence, an AI dialer, and sequences triggered from visit behaviour through Outreach and Salesloft. We found no public information on a suppression or do-not-contact list, screening against national do-not-call registers, country-aware flags for German contacts, opt-outs synced back from outreach, or guidance on GDPR and UWG cold-outreach rules; the only outreach compliance statement is that the company itself is CAN-SPAM compliant, a US regime. 1 2 4 7 10

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CRM sync, enrichment & export

How this is scored

Getting the data into the systems where sales works — CRM sync, enrichment of existing records, API — and what happens to exported data, and to the buyer's access to it, when the subscription ends.

0 — Data can only be viewed inside the product; the vendor states no export and no integration.

3 — CSV export and a push of contacts to at least one named CRM.

5 — Native integrations with the major CRMs (Salesforce, HubSpot or similar) with field mapping or deduplication, enrichment of existing CRM records, and a documented API.

8 — Bidirectional sync with scheduled re-enrichment, update and deletion propagated when a record changes or a person objects, webhook or API access with stated limits and credit costs per call published, and data retention rights after cancellation stated plainly.

10 — The vendor treats the buyer's CRM as the system of record: objections and corrections propagated into synced records automatically, full change history per field, a versioned API with a deprecation policy, and exit terms that say exactly which data the customer may keep and for how long.

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The Data Protection Officer

Native integrations with Salesforce, HubSpot and Marketo are documented alongside Dynamics, Zoho, Outreach and Salesloft, with contact, company and technographic append APIs, real-time CRM writeback of visitor activity, and a documented RESTful API with webhooks and custom export applications in a producer-receiver model. We found no public information on field mapping or deduplication, bidirectional sync, propagation of corrections or objections into synced records, API rate limits and costs per call, or which data the customer may keep and for how long after cancellation — which matters because the buyer becomes controller the moment data leaves the platform. 7 9 10

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European sovereignty

How this is scored

Where a database of EU residents' personal data is held, who the contracting entity and controller are, and which subprocessors see it. Independently sourced by the sovereignty pipeline; weighted heavily here, because the product itself is personal data about people who never chose the vendor.

0 — Vendor, contracting entity and processing of EU residents' contact data all shown to be outside the EU, with no transfer basis stated.

3 — A named contracting entity and a privacy policy or data processing agreement; a non-EU entity with an EU representative under Art. 27, or EU hosting offered while the hosting location of the database is not stated.

5 — EU hosting stated as standard, together with an EU contracting entity or a published subprocessor list, and a data processing agreement offered.

8 — EU contracting entity and controller, EU hosting on named infrastructure, subprocessor and data-partner list published, and any non-EU transfer named with its legal basis.

10 — Sovereign end to end and evidenced: vendor, controller, hosting, data partners and every subprocessor European, certification published, and a DPA covering both the customer's data and the database records the customer exports.

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The Data Protection Officer

The contracting entity is SalesIntel Research, Inc., a Delaware corporation with its registered office in Vienna, Virginia; the policy states the company is a U.S. company governed by U.S. law and that personal information may be stored and processed on servers in the United States. Transfers are addressed through EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework compliance, the UK and Swiss extensions, and Standard Contractual Clauses where applicable, and a small set of processors (Stripe, Mailgun, MailChimp, Customer.io) is named as based in the EU and US; we found no public information on EU hosting, an Art. 27 EU representative, a full subprocessor and data-partner list, or a data processing agreement. 2

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Pricing transparency not rated — the vendor publishes no price

How this is scored

Whether a buyer can compute the real annual cost from public pages alone — including credits per email, phone number and mobile, credit expiry, seat pricing, visitor-identification tiers and the API — in a category where the unit of billing is often invented by the vendor.

0 — No public prices at all; every tier is a sales conversation.

3 — A public "from" price, a free tier or one priced tier, while what a credit buys or the other tiers are not stated.

5 — Prices public per tier with the billing period and the credits or contacts included per tier; extras such as mobile numbers, additional seats or API access may still be on request.

8 — Every tier priced publicly with credits per data type, credit expiry and rollover, per-seat costs, overage rates, minimum term and VAT treatment stated.

10 — Complete price computability: the annual invoice derivable for a given number of seats, exported contacts by data type, identified companies and API calls, with every credit cost and the refund rule for inaccurate data published.

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The Data Protection Officer

No price is published for any tier — the pages show a free trial, but we found no public figure, no "from" price and no per-seat cost — and the developer documentation notes the contract may support different rates between tiers of data. The billing model itself is described publicly as one fee, unlimited data, no credit counting and no per-seat gatekeeping, which tells a buyer the structure, but the real annual cost cannot be computed from public pages alone. 1 6 7

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European sovereignty — proven facts

1 of 6 dimensions proven

Built only from facts shown on the vendor's own pages. A dimension we could not prove is left open, not scored as zero.

Hosting location Outside the EU ⚠ unverified 0/4 pts 2 Report an error
Hosting options Not determined — uncited Report an error
Open source Not determined — uncited Report an error
Data processing agreement Not determined — uncited Report an error
Transfer impact assessment Not determined — uncited Report an error

Questions about SalesIntel

Is SalesIntel European?

Not determined: the vendor’s pages as captured do not say where SalesIntel is based.

Where does SalesIntel store data?

SalesIntel stores customer data outside the EU by default, per the vendor’s page captured 3 Nov 2026.

Does SalesIntel have a free plan?

Not stated on the vendor’s pages as of 3 Nov 2026.

What are the best alternatives to SalesIntel?

As of 3 Nov 2026, the panel rates Cognism (3/5), Dealfront (3/5) and Vainu (3/5) highest among the other 40 Lead Generation products evaluated. Ratings that look equal are rounded to half stars; the order uses the unrounded rating, then the name. The highest-rated European alternative is Cognism (UK / wider Europe). Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made. The full list, with European products first: SalesIntel alternatives.

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What we left out

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Sources (10)

The pages every claim on this page was read from — each one checked, dated, and kept verifiable.

  1. 1 Vendor page www.salesintel.io Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  2. 2 Privacy policy — found from the homepage salesintel.io Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  3. 3 Coverage, accuracy & freshness — found from sitemap salesintel.io Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  4. 4 Coverage, accuracy & freshness — found from sitemap salesintel.io Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  5. 5 Data sources & lawful basis — found from sitemap salesintel.io Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  6. 6 Data sources & lawful basis — found from sitemap developer.salesintel.io Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  7. 7 Visitor identification & intent signals — found from sitemap salesintel.io Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  8. 8 Prospecting workflow & outreach rules — found from sitemap salesintel.io Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  9. 9 CRM sync, enrichment & export — found from sitemap salesintel.io Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →
  10. 10 CRM sync, enrichment & export — found from sitemap salesintel.io Checked 3 Nov 2026 Details →