LinkedIn is where most B2B prospecting starts. You're scrolling through profiles, finding people who match your target — and at some point you need their email and phone. prospiq handles this through the Chrome extension, not the web app. Here's why and how.
Why LinkedIn lookups go through the extension, not the web app
When you have a LinkedIn URL, the most precise enrichment uses LinkedIn's full context — the person's exact role, company, and profile signals — to find them. That context lives on the LinkedIn page itself, not in a URL alone.
The Chrome extension reads the page you're already on and uses that context to find the contact. The web app's search form (name + company) is faster when you don't have a profile in front of you, but it's less precise than the extension when you do.
In short: if you have a LinkedIn profile open, use the extension. If you have a name and company in a CSV or your head, use the web app's search.
Install the Chrome extension
The extension is available to all users including free tier. See Chrome extension for installation, but the short version:
- Find prospiq on the Chrome Web Store
- Click Add to Chrome
- Sign in with the same prospiq account you use on the web app
Once installed, the extension shows up as a small icon in your Chrome toolbar. It also injects directly into LinkedIn pages — you don't need to click the toolbar icon to use it.
Enriching one LinkedIn profile
When you're on a LinkedIn profile (a linkedin.com/in/... URL):
- The prospiq sidebar appears on the right edge of the page
- The sidebar shows the person it has detected on the current page
- Click Find Email, Find Phone, or Find Both — the same three modes as the web app
- The result appears in the sidebar — verified email, phone, or both
The credit cost is the same as the web app: 1 credit for email, 10 for phone, up to 11 for both. If we can't find a verified result, you pay nothing.
This single-profile flow works on both standard LinkedIn and Sales Navigator profile pages.
Enriching from Sales Navigator
If you use LinkedIn Sales Navigator, the extension is especially powerful there. Bulk reveal is supported on Sales Navigator only — on a Sales Navigator search results page or lead list, the extension can:
- Enrich individual leads from the list
- Bulk-reveal a batch of leads at once
- Export the revealed contacts to CSV directly from the extension
This is the highest-leverage prospiq workflow for SDRs who live in Sales Navigator — your search and your enrichment happen in the same place, no copy-pasting between tools.
On standard LinkedIn (not Sales Navigator) — the regular linkedin.com/in/... profile pages and linkedin.com/company/... company pages — the extension supports single-profile enrichment only. You can reveal one person at a time on any profile, but bulk reveal across multiple profiles isn't available there. For mass enrichment outside Sales Navigator, the bulk upload workflow with a CSV is the right tool.
What gets synced back to your prospiq account
Every contact you enrich through the extension is saved to your prospiq account, the same as a web app lookup. You can:
- See the contact in your History in the web app
- Add it to a Saved list from either the extension or the web app
- Export it to CSV from your account
Credits are deducted from the same pool. There's no separate "extension credit" — it's all one balance.
What the extension can't do
A few things the extension doesn't currently handle:
- LinkedIn Recruiter — the extension targets the standard LinkedIn and Sales Navigator interfaces. Recruiter has its own page structure and isn't supported in the same way.
- Profiles set to fully private — if a profile is locked down to where the person's name and company aren't visible to non-connections, the extension has nothing to read.
- Non-LinkedIn URLs — the extension is specifically a LinkedIn tool. For other sites, use the web app's search.
Privacy and what the extension reads
The extension only reads the LinkedIn page you're currently on — name, company, role, profile URL. It doesn't read your messages, your connections, your private notes, or anything else outside the profile content. It doesn't run on non-LinkedIn pages unless you've separately configured it to.
See Account security best practices for more on how the extension stays scoped.