Overview
The Companies section in lemlist is your central hub for managing accounts in an account-based prospecting strategy. Located in the left sidebar, it gives you visibility into company details, associated contacts, and team activity for each account.
What Companies Section Shows
Each company profile displays:
Company details:
Company name
Added date
CRM sync status
LinkedIn page
Company status
Owner
Website
Industry
Location
Associated contacts:
All people from the company in your database
Quick access to contact profiles
Option to add new contacts
Activity timeline:
Complete history of team interactions
Emails sent and opened
Other logged company activities
Timeline view by date
Find contacts with AI (beta)
AI contact sourcing recommends the people to prospect in each company and can add them as contacts automatically. See Find the right contacts in your target companies with AI contact sourcing.
Activity Timeline Features
Clean, Structured Layout
Timeline organized chronologically with clear visual hierarchy
Easy to scan through past company interactions
Includes activity cards with more detailed context when available
Expand or Review Activities
Use the Activities tab to review interaction history for a company in one place.
This helps your team understand what has already happened before reaching out again.
Use Timeline Context for Collaboration
From the timeline, your team can:
Review recent activity before contacting an account
See engagement history in chronological order
Coordinate next steps with better context
Filter and Sort Companies
Quickly find companies using filters.
To add a filter, click Filters, then click Add a filter. You can then choose the field you want to filter by, such as Specialties, Tagline, Type, Description, Founded on, Headquarters, Company Domain, Salesnav URL, LinkedIn, or Owner.
Import Companies
Access Import
From the Companies section, click Import new companies.
Import Methods
Choose your import source from the available options.
CSV import
Click CSV import from the import source options.
Upload your CSV file and map each CSV column to the correct lemlist company field.
If needed, choose whether existing values should be overwritten, then click Push to Companies to confirm the import.
Personal email domains and company domains
lemlist never uses a personal email domain (gmail.com, yahoo.com, outlook.com and other common providers) as a company's domain. The rule applies everywhere a company is created or matched.
The rest of the row is kept. If the row also carries a company name, the company is created or matched on the name alone, with no domain stored. If the personal domain is the only company information in the row, there is nothing left to identify the company: the row is skipped on CSV import, and the public API rejects the call with MISSING_REQUIRED_FIELD.
Contacts are unaffected: the contact is created with its personal email intact, and enrichment runs normally.
Two companies that share a personal domain are auto-matched as duplicates only when their names are identical. The domain on its own is no longer proof that they are the same company.
This applies automatically to every team, with nothing to turn on. It affects newly created companies only. Companies already created from a personal domain are not changed. Editing a company's Domain field manually, including through a CRM field change, is not covered.
Best Practices
Use for account-based prospecting - Focus on company-level strategy, not just individual contacts
Assign owners - Designate team members responsible for each account
Review timelines regularly - Check activity before reaching out to coordinate with team
Use company fields - Keep important company information organized and up to date
Filter strategically - Create views for different account segments
Coordinate with team - Check who's already engaged with the company before making contact