<b>Contact-Discovery Waterfall</b>

<b>Contact-Discovery Waterfall</b>
A broken link is worthless without a reachable human. Run contacts through a fixed cascade.

1. Check the referring page itself for an author byline + contact.
2. Run the domain through an email-finder API (Hunter/Snov).
3. Validate the returned email (bounce-check before sending).
4. If no verified email: check the about/contact page for a form, fall back to one named social DM.
5. No contact after all steps = drop the prospect, don't guess-spray.
6. Automation fits at steps 2-3: chained finder + verifier API call per domain.

Definition of done: every prospect has either one verified contact method or a 'dropped — no contact' status.