The slowest part of business development is rarely the conversation. It is everything that happens before the conversation: finding the email, checking it will not bounce, tracking down a number, correcting a name that imported as "Jsmith", and filing the person somewhere you will actually see them again.

Done one record at a time, that work eats hours. Done across a selection of 300 people in a single click, it becomes background noise. That is the difference bulk actions make, and it is why they sit at the centre of how most Kolvera users work their lists.

Why per-record admin quietly destroys BD capacity

Recruitment and B2B sales teams both suffer the same structural problem: the volume of records grows faster than the time available to maintain them.

Bullhorn's 2025 GRID Industry Trends Report identifies administrative work and manual data entry as one of the leading constraints on recruiter productivity, with agencies consistently ranking it among their top operational challenges. Bulk actions attack this directly by applying one instruction, such as email enrichment or verification, across an entire selected list rather than record by record.

The arithmetic is simple. If enriching a single contact takes 40 seconds of clicking, waiting and copying, then 300 contacts takes over three hours. The same selection processed as a bulk job runs while you do something else, and the results land back in the list as they arrive.

What you can run across a selection

Before a bulk action, review the selected records, available preview and applicable costs. Confirmation and result handling depend on the action; do not assume every workflow has identical safeguards.

The actions available on a selection are:

  • Find Email: Email enrichment costs 2 credits per new valid-email contact found. Check current confirmation and results.
  • Find Phone - runs phone enrichment. Fresh results cost 2 cr, cached company lines cost 1 cr.
  • Verify Email - checks email validity. Free, using your monthly verification allowance.
  • Fix Names - finds and corrects missing or low-quality contact names. Free, no credits charged.
  • Enrol in Campaign - adds the selection to a chosen campaign.
  • Add to Hot List - copies the selection to a Hot List.
  • Add to Desk as Prospect (buyer) - links people to a client Desk as buyer-side prospects.
  • Add to Talent Pool - pools candidates against a client Desk.
  • Make Prospect / Make Candidate - assigns a role, moving people off the Unassigned tab.

Because People merges contacts, prospects and candidates into one list with role tabs, a bulk action can span all three populations at once. Enrich a contact while prospecting and the same number is there when you call them as a candidate, since every person has a single shared detail file at /people/<id>.

Find Email and Verify Email: protecting the sender reputation

Email enrichment searches multiple sources automatically, including public records, company registries, professional networks, company websites and pattern matching. Country-specific sources are used where available, which for Australian tenants means AU company registries feed the result.

Found emails are auto-verified before you are charged. Each one comes back as Valid, Catch-all, Unverified, Unknown, New or Invalid. Invalid addresses are blocked from sending outright, and by default the People and Leads pages hide invalid and unknown emails so your working list stays clean.

Review a representative sample and delivery feedback before enriching a large batch. No universal invalid-address or bounce-rate benchmark is established here.

Verify Email as a bulk action is free and draws on your monthly verification allowance. It is the natural step before a campaign enrolment, particularly for records imported by CSV, which arrive with a status of New until checked. You can read more about how this works in our guide to contact enrichment.

Find Phone and result costs

Use Kolvera to discover companies and organise the next research or outreach step. Coverage varies by source, company and contact; review the evidence and available results. Company discovery, contact enrichment and calling are separate actions with their own access and cost requirements. See the current workflow guides.

Phone costs depend on the result: an eligible number already on the account costs 0 credits; a cached direct dial costs 2 and a cached company line costs 1; fresh direct or company finds cost 2. Review the current credit guide and the confirmation before running the batch.

New email enrichment costs 2 credits per valid contact found. Fresh direct-dial and company-line phone finds cost 2 credits; cached company lines cost 1 credit, while an eligible number already on the account or a supported BYOK lookup may cost no Kolvera credits. Availability and plan gates apply. Check the current credit guide before running enrichment.

Fix Names: the free bulk action most teams forget

Review contact names before campaign activation. Use the available name-cleanup action where appropriate, then inspect proposed results rather than treating an automatic change as guaranteed correct.

Keep the original context when reviewing a name correction. Handle uncertain or unusual names manually before relying on personalised outreach.

Progress pills, live cells and per-item results

The part that changes how bulk work feels is the feedback. Rather than a spinner and a vague completion message, results update in the cells as each item resolves. You watch the list fill in. Progress is visible at a glance, and per-item results tell you which records found something and which did not.

This matters operationally. If you run Find Email across 200 prospects and 140 return valid addresses, you can select those 140 and enrol them in a campaign immediately, without exporting anything or waiting for a batch report. The next action starts from the result of the last one.

Kolvera bulk actions display progress pills and update result cells in real time as each item resolves, with per-item outcomes shown rather than a single batch summary. This allows operators to chain actions immediately, for example selecting only the contacts that returned a valid email and enrolling that subset into a campaign in the same session.

Chaining bulk actions into a repeatable routine

Most teams settle into a weekly rhythm. Import or scrape a fresh batch, run Fix Names across the lot for free, run Find Email on the selection, verify anything that came in as New or Unverified, run Find Phone on the shortlist you intend to call, then split the results: buyers get Add to Desk as Prospect, talent gets Add to Talent Pool, and the best of both go onto a Hot List that feeds a campaign.

Use the current developer documentation for actions exposed through each supported interface. Availability, parameters and permissions can differ; no complete web, CLI, API and MCP parity is promised.

Credits, cost control and what to select

Compare current Kolvera plans using the same billing term, seat requirements and expected usage. Pro and Scale have different allowances and feature gates. Annual rates require annual billing; Monthly plan credits reset each billing period; purchased top-up credits remain available until used.

The discipline worth building is selection discipline. Filter first by provider, email status, source or state, then select. Running Find Email across an unfiltered list of 1,000 people when 400 already have valid emails wastes both time and money. The filters above the table exist for exactly this reason.

Frequently asked questions

Which bulk actions in Kolvera are free?

Check each bulk action's current plan gate, allowance and credit treatment. Verification, name cleanup, list organisation and paid enrichment have different rules; use the credit guide.

How much does bulk email enrichment cost?

Email enrichment costs 2 credits per new valid-email contact found. Review the batch results and current confirmation; do not treat an invalid or unsuccessful result as a promised paid success.

Will Fix Names overwrite names I have already entered?

Review name-cleanup results and manually verify ambiguous names. Formatting assistance does not establish a person's correct name or guarantee that every original field is preserved.

Can I bulk-add people to a Desk or Talent Pool?

Yes. Add to Desk as Prospect (buyer) links the selection to a client Desk as buyer-side prospects. Add to Talent Pool pools selected candidates against a client Desk. Reverse Market Profiles are built from the Talent Pool using Take to market.

Do I get charged for phone numbers already in the system?

Using a number already on the account costs no lookup credits. Fresh direct-dial or company-line finds cost 2 credits, cached company lines cost 1, and eligible BYOK lookup treatment can differ. Confirm the expected outcome before running a phone search.

Try it on your own list

The fastest way to judge bulk actions is to point them at a messy list you already have. Import a CSV, run Fix Names, and see how much of your data was quietly unusable. Book a demo or read more on the Kolvera blog about how AU teams are working their desks.