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Causo

AI prospecting beyond database filters — agents research companies live from almost any public source, find the decision-maker, and draft outreach in your voice, billed per completed action in tokens.

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The research-first option for a niche market: $19 buys 100 completed actions against live public sources, as long as you count a prospect as several tokens, not one.

True solo cost · low$19/mo$19/month (Let Me Try) at about 50 prospects/month — scenario maths: 100 tokens cover, for example, 50 company finds plus 50 decision-maker contacts at one token each, before any research questions or sending tokens are spent.
True solo cost · typical$79/mo$79/month (Founder's Delight) at about 200 prospects/month — scenario maths: 500 tokens cover roughly 200 company finds and 200 contacts (400 tokens), leaving about 100 tokens for sourced answers and sent sequences; top-ups beyond the allowance cost $0.30 per token on this plan.
Rank #12 of 16 in LeadsFree start Free plan availableSetup Same day — describe your market and run a first searchControl Approves before actingNo-code 5/5Checked · prices checked 2026-11-05

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The short version

Causo sends agents across the open web to find and research companies that fit criteria you describe in words, then finds the decision-maker and drafts the outreach — billed one token per completed action.

Buy it if

Your market is niche or hard to filter (a trade, a region, a filing type) and you would rather pay per researched result — $19/month for 100 tokens — than rent a database of the same stale rows everyone else mails.

Skip it if

You need high-volume list pulls from a ready-made database, built-in warm-up and reply handling, or a CRM sync — none of those are published here.

What Causo does — the jobs it finishes

Workflows are built only from verified capabilities in our listing research — no vendor copy, nothing invented.

A niche search a filter cannot run

Starts You describe the companies you want in plain words

  1. Agents research live public sources — websites, filings, job posts, registries, directories
  2. Each match returns with what it does and why it fits, with sources

You get A shortlist built on evidence, not firmographic filters

Markets that do not exist as database filters become searchable

Decision-maker and verified email

Starts A company on the shortlist is worth approaching

  1. Causo finds the person responsible at that company
  2. The contact is returned with a verified email

You get A named contact per company, charged as one token when it delivers

The research-to-contact step happens inside the same search

A sourced answer about one company

Starts You need one specific fact before writing

  1. You ask a question about the company
  2. The answer comes back with the sources it rests on

You get A checkable fact you can safely put in an email

Personalisation rests on cited evidence instead of a guessed merge field

Outreach drafted from the research

Starts You approve the shortlist

  1. Emails are drafted in your voice using what was found about each company
  2. You edit anything, then sequences send from your connected mailbox

You get A sent sequence that reads as researched, because it was

Approval You pick who receives the emails and can edit each draft before it goes

The personalisation is the research itself, not a template variable

Where it stops

  • Not a static contact database — results are researched live per search, so there is no browsable database to pull from
  • The free 50 tokens are a one-time allowance, not a monthly one
  • No email warm-up or deliverability tooling is published on the pages checked
  • Top-ups are only offered on the $79 and $259 plans — the $19 plan is a monthly allowance only

Getting started

Before you start

  • A plain-words description of what you sell and who you want to reach
  • Optionally, a mailbox to connect when you are ready to send

The ongoing admin

  • Watch token burn per prospect — finds, contacts, answers and sends are charged separately
  • Refine search criteria as match quality teaches you the market
  • Review drafts before sequences send
Step 1

Start free with 50 tokens

No card required; the 50 tokens are a one-time allowance, so spend them on a real search.

Step 2

Describe your market and run a search

Causo suggests where to look if you are unsure; refine the criteria as you review matches and their evidence.

Step 3

Find decision-makers on the matches

Each verified contact costs one token when it delivers — budget finds and contacts separately.

Step 4

Connect a mailbox and approve the campaign

Drafts come from the research; you pick the recipients and edit before anything sends.

Time to first useful result: Same day — describe your market and run a first search · no-code 5/5

Full pricing — checked 2026-11-05

Billed in tokens: one token per completed action, with company research, contact searches, research questions and sending each charged separately when they deliver a result. Plans are Free ($0, 50 one-time tokens), Let Me Try ($19/month, 100 tokens/month), Founder's Delight ($79/month, 500 tokens/month) and Serious Business ($259/month, 2,000 tokens/month), plus a custom Enterprise route. One-time top-ups cost $0.30 per token on the two higher plans only. No annual-billing toggle or discount is published on the page checked.

Free to Start

$0/month — 50 tokens to start, one time

Per credit bundle · $0/mo for one person

  • 50 tokens, one time
  • No card required
  • 20 messages to the agent
  • Connect 1 mailbox

Allowance 50 tokens, one-time allowance

Limit Allowance does not renew monthly

Limit No CSV export is listed on this tier

Solo pick

Let Me Try

$19/month — 100 tokens/month

Per credit bundle · $19/mo for one person

  • 100 tokens/month
  • Unlimited messages to the agent
  • CSV export
  • Connect 1 mailbox

Allowance 100 tokens/month

Limit Monthly allowance only — no top-ups are offered on this plan

Founder's Delight

$79/month — 500 tokens/month

Per credit bundle · $79/mo for one person

  • 500 tokens/month
  • One-time top-ups at $0.30/token
  • Unlimited messages to the agent
  • CSV export
  • Connect up to 3 mailboxes

Allowance 500 tokens/month

Limit Top-ups are one-time purchases at $0.30 per token

Serious Business

$259/month — 2,000 tokens/month

Per credit bundle · $259/mo for one person

  • 2,000 tokens/month
  • One-time top-ups at $0.30/token
  • Unlimited messages to the agent
  • CSV export
  • Connect up to 5 mailboxes

Allowance 2,000 tokens/month

Limit The vendor labels this tier Most popular; it is sized for teams, not a solo sender

Enterprise

Custom — talk to us

Custom / quoted · $null/mo for one person

  • Custom token allocation
  • Priority support direct to the founders
  • Unlimited mailboxes and team workspace

Limit Sales-led pricing

PlanPublished priceSolo monthlyBilled byLimits & overage
Free to Start$0/month — 50 tokens to start, one time$0/moPer credit bundleAllowance does not renew monthly · No CSV export is listed on this tier
Let Me TrySolo pick$19/month — 100 tokens/month$19/moPer credit bundleMonthly allowance only — no top-ups are offered on this plan
Founder's Delight$79/month — 500 tokens/month$79/moPer credit bundleTop-ups are one-time purchases at $0.30 per token
Serious Business$259/month — 2,000 tokens/month$259/moPer credit bundleThe vendor labels this tier Most popular; it is sized for teams, not a solo sender
EnterpriseCustom — talk to us$null/moCustom / quotedSales-led pricing
Add-onToken top-ups — $0.30 per token, one-time. Offered on Founder's Delight and Serious Business only; the $19 plan is a monthly allowance with no top-up route

What could make the bill jump?

Token stacking per prospect: a company find, its decision-maker contact, a research question and the sent sequence are four separate tokens, so a fully worked prospect costs several tokens — and on the $19 plan there is no top-up when the 100 run out mid-month.

Billing unitper month, metered in tokens (one token per completed action)
Free tier / trialYes — $0 with 50 tokens to start, one time, and no card required. The allowance is not monthly.
Pricing clarityUsage-based but predictable
SourceOfficial pricing page ↗
Checked 2026-11-05

Price record · 2026-11-05: First listing check, 2026-11-05, on causo.ai — the vendor publishes pricing as a section of its homepage (no separate pricing page was found): Free $0 (50 tokens one time, no card), Let Me Try $19/month (100 tokens), Founder's Delight $79/month (500 tokens), Serious Business $259/month (2,000 tokens, labelled Most popular), Enterprise custom. Top-ups $0.30/token on the two higher plans only. No monthly/annual toggle, seat selector or annual discount is published on the page. Domain confirmed as causo.ai: the Product Hunt launch 'Causo — Find leads beyond database filters with AI research & MCP' is dated October 22, 2026 and links to this vendor; a different company, CausoAI at causoplatform.com (causal analytics, $199/month), is unrelated and was not used.

At a glance — the standard checklist

The same fields on every deep listing in this job, so agents compare field by field. “Not verified” means our research has not confirmed it yet — it never means “doesn't have it.”

Best for

  • Founders selling into niche, local or trade markets that database filters describe badly
  • Anyone who wants evidence and sources behind every prospect match
  • Prompt-first users who want prospecting inside their AI assistant via MCP

Not for

  • High-volume senders who need thousands of database rows cheaply
  • Anyone who needs warm-up, a reply inbox or CRM sync in the same tool
  • Buyers who need a long track record — the prospecting product launched in October 2026

Our assessment of Causo

Causo's starting point is that the customers worth finding are usually the ones a database filter misses. Instead of searching a fixed contact database, you describe who you want in plain words and its agents research companies live across almost any public source — websites, filings, job posts, registries, trade directories and news — then show each match with the evidence for why it fits, find a decision-maker with a verified email, and answer specific research questions about a company with sources attached. Outreach follows from the research: each email is drafted in your voice from what was found about that company, sent as a sequence from your own connected mailbox, and — in the vendor's own framing — you pick who gets the emails and can edit anything before it goes. It also connects to AI assistants over MCP, so a search can start as a prompt in Claude. The cost model is tokens, and it is unusually legible: one token per completed action, where a company found, a verified contact, a sourced answer and a sent sequence are each charged separately. Plans run from a free start with 50 one-time tokens through $19, $79 and $259 a month for 100, 500 and 2,000 tokens. The limits matter as much as the headline: a fully worked prospect can consume several tokens (find, contact, sequence), the free allowance is one-time rather than monthly, and top-ups at $0.30 a token exist only on the two higher plans. Causo launched its prospecting product on Product Hunt on October 22, 2026, so it is a young product from a small founder team.

Pros — our take

  • Finds companies a database filter misses, and shows the evidence and sources behind every match
  • One token per completed action is a legible meter — you can price a prospect before you run the search
  • Outreach is drafted from the actual research and edited by you before it sends from your own mailbox

Cons — our take

  • A fully worked prospect burns several tokens (find + contact + answer + send), so headline token counts shrink fast
  • A young product (prospecting launch October 22, 2026) from a small founder team — longevity and support depth are unproven
  • No warm-up, reply-management or CRM-sync tooling is published on the pages checked
Solo Fit input · no-code5/5 — can a non-technical owner run it?
Solo Fit input · setupSame day — describe your market and run a first search to the first useful result
Solo Fit input · human controlApproves before acting
Solo Fit input · pricing clarityUsage-based but predictable

Solo Fit stays the public score: the qualitative roll-up of these four published inputs under the How We Rank method. Setup is a plain-words description with no code; you approve recipients and can edit every email before it goes; clarity is held back only because one prospect consumes several separately charged tokens.

Three to compare before you decide

Clayfrom $167 · Technical

The difference: Clay is the enrichment table you operate over data you bring or buy; Causo does the live research itself and shows its evidence, then drafts the outreach.

Apollo.iofrom $49 · Solo-Ready

The difference: Apollo sells access to a large static database with sequences attached; Causo researches the open web per search, so it can find companies Apollo's filters never surface — at token cost per result.

Needle$54/mo · Solo-Ready

The difference: Needle charges a flat rate per connected account with lead lists included inside your AI chat; Causo meters every completed action in tokens, which is cheaper for a few deep searches and pricier at volume.

Questions buyers ask about Causo

What does Causo cost for one person?

Let Me Try is $19/month with 100 tokens, and Founder's Delight is $79/month with 500 tokens, checked on causo.ai on 2026-11-05. A free start gives 50 tokens one time with no card. One token buys one completed action, and a prospect usually takes several actions.

What exactly does one token buy in Causo?

One token per completed action, charged separately: finding a company that matches, finding a decision-maker with a verified email, getting a sourced answer to a question about a company, or sending one complete outreach sequence. Chat with the agent is unlimited on paid plans and is not the meter.

Is Causo a contact database like Apollo?

No. The vendor states it researches companies live against your criteria from public sources — websites, job posts, registries, filings, directories and news — and shows why each one fits. There is no static database to browse; that is the point, and also why volume is token-metered.

Can I add tokens without upgrading?

Only on the two higher plans: Founder's Delight ($79) and Serious Business ($259) offer one-time top-ups at $0.30 per token. The $19 Let Me Try plan is a monthly allowance only, so running out mid-month means waiting or upgrading.

Stacks & next steps

Causo is not in a published stack yet — stacks are edited buying guides, and memberships are added only when the combination has been worked through.

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