By the end of this guide, you'll know how to search lemlist's People database using filters, push qualified leads directly to campaigns or Contacts, and save searches for future use.

Building targeted lead lists manually is time-consuming. Scraping LinkedIn, verifying emails, and enriching data can take hours or days. lemlist's People Database eliminates this friction by providing:

Instead of spending hours sourcing leads, you can find, filter, and launch campaigns in minutes, allowing you to focus on messaging and outreach strategy.

Before using the People Database:

The People Database is a B2B contact search engine built into lemlist, containing:

✅ 450M+ verified contacts from publicly available LinkedIn profiles

✅ Advanced filtering by job title, location, seniority, and more

✅ Automatic deduplication – Excludes leads already in your campaigns or Contacts

✅ Private searches – Your search results and imported leads are visible only to you

Think of it as LinkedIn Sales Navigator + contact details + direct campaign integration in one tool.

Step 1: Open the People Database and review the layout

From the lemlist sidebar, click People database. On the People Database page, you'll see the search and filter panel on the left, with the results area on the right.

Step 2: Locate Quick access options

At the top of the left panel, use Quick access to open Saved searches or Personas whenever you want to reuse an existing setup.

Step 3: Add a job title filter

In the left filter panel, open Job title & experience, click Current job title, type the title you want to target, and select the suggested option you want to add.

Step 4: Review the applied filters and results

Once your filters are added, they appear inside the filter panel and your results list updates automatically. In this example, Current job title and Years of experience are both applied.

Important disclaimer about selecting “ALL” leads

The People Database displays results in pages of 100 leads per page.

When you click the checkbox at the top of the table to select “all,” it selects only the leads on the current page, not all leads across every result page.

If you want to push more leads, repeat the process page by page.

Step 5: Select leads and choose an action

Use the checkbox at the top of the results table to select the leads on the page. Then choose what you want to do next from the action bar: Push to campaign, Push to contacts, or Enrichment.

Step 6: Push leads to a campaign

If you choose Push to campaign, select the destination campaign or create a new one. Before confirming, you can also enable enrichment options such as Find verified emails or Find phone numbers, depending on your credits and plan.

Step 7: Save the current search

Open Saved searches from Quick access, then click Save this search.

Step 8: Name and confirm your saved search

Enter a descriptive name for your search, then confirm to save it for later reuse.

Step 9: Reuse a saved search later

Go back to Saved searches from the Quick access section and select the saved search you want to re-apply.

Your data is private:

✅ Your searches are visible only to you – Other lemlist users cannot see what you search for

✅ Your imported leads are exclusive – Leads you push to campaigns or Contacts are yours alone

✅ No data sharing – lemlist does not reuse or sell your imported lead data

✅ Public data source – Database is built from publicly available LinkedIn profiles (not private data)

What lemlist does:

What lemlist doesn't do:

Issue: I can't save my search

Root cause: No filters applied, or "Save Search" feature not available in your plan

Fix:

Issue: Search results include leads already in my campaigns

Root cause: The exclusion filter is not applied

Fix:

Issue: I pushed leads but they're not showing up in my campaign

Root cause: Leads were pushed to Contacts instead of Campaign, or the wrong campaign was selected

Fix:

Issue: I tried to select “ALL” leads, but only 100 were pushed

Root cause: The top checkbox selects only the current page of results.

Fix:

Start broad, then narrow: Begin with 2–3 filters (job title + country) and refine from there.

Test small batches first: Push 50–100 leads as a test before scaling.

Save searches for personas: Create separate saved searches for each persona you target so you can refresh lead lists quickly.