By Darion George · September 24, 2026
The most common question I get about FounderFlow is some version of: "how do you actually know this email address works?" It's a fair question — the entire value of the directory rests on the contact info being real, and I'd rather be upfront about the process (and its limits) than let people assume it's more automated or more certain than it is.
Records are built by manually researching and cross-referencing public sources — company websites, team pages, LinkedIn profiles, and public hiring signals. This is the same kind of research a recruiter would do by hand before reaching out to someone: find the company, find who's actually behind it, find a way to reach them, and check that the pieces agree with each other before treating it as reliable.
Records are refreshed on an ongoing basis, not written once and left alone. When a piece of information can't be confirmed with reasonable confidence, it's flagged or left out rather than guessed at.
This is manual research at meaningful scale, and manual research doesn't catch everything. People change roles, companies go quiet, an email that worked last month might bounce today. I'd rather say that plainly than imply a level of certainty the process doesn't have. If something is wrong, the honest response isn't to hide it — it's to make it easy to flag and fix.
Two different situations, two different paths. If a detail is outdated or incorrect, email info@founderflow.space and I'll correct or remove it. If you're the person listed and you'd rather not be in the directory at all — regardless of whether the data is accurate — you can request removal at founderflow.space/data-removal and it will be taken down.
FounderFlow is one person, not a research team with a published methodology. That doesn't mean there isn't a real process behind it — it means the process is simpler than a company might have, and I think it's more useful to describe it accurately than to make it sound bigger than it is. If you're relying on this directory to reach someone, you should know exactly how confident to be in what you find.