---
name: "prospects_list"
area: "prospects"
title: "List prospect searches"
price: "free"
method: "POST"
url: "https://api.conecto.chat/v1/tools/prospects_list"
mcp_server: "https://api.conecto.chat/mcp/prospects"
auth: "Authorization: Bearer <conecto_sk_ key>"
docs_url: "https://conecto.chat/tools/prospects/prospects_list"
---

# List prospect searches (`prospects_list`)

The business's prospect searches, newest first, with their status and how many each found.

The account's prospect searches, newest first: status, what each asked for and how many it found.

Price: Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month for the whole account, then $0.50 per 10,000 reads. A call that fails costs nothing.

## Use it when

To find an earlier search, or the id of one that is running.

## Say this to your agent

> What lead searches have we run this month?

## Inputs

| Name | Type | Required | Description | Allowed values | Default |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| `limit` | integer | no | 1 to 50. |  | `10` |

## Example

Written for Hansen & Voss, a restaurant-equipment wholesaler in Hamburg with 60 staff.

MCP: call `prospects_list` on the MCP server `https://api.conecto.chat/mcp/prospects` with these arguments:

```json
{
  "limit": 10
}
```

REST:

```bash
curl https://api.conecto.chat/v1/tools/prospects_list \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $CONECTO_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"limit": 10}'
```

## Response

```json
{
  "call_id": "5f0c8a2e-3b7d-4c1e-9a64-2d8e1f7b0c93",
  "tool": "prospects_list",
  "status": "succeeded",
  "replayed": false,
  "cost_usd": "$0.00",
  "balance_usd": "$19.75",
  "result": {
    "searches": [
      {
        "search_id": "85d3d5b9-0f8b-482b-8ad0-4ec057beebb6",
        "status": "completed",
        "summary": "40 independent restaurants and hotel kitchens in Hamburg, with a working email for the owner or the head chef.",
        "asked": 40,
        "found": 2,
        "started_at": "2026-10-14T08:00:00+00:00",
        "ended_at": "2026-10-14T08:00:00Z"
      }
    ]
  }
}
```

`result`: searches: each with search_id, status, summary, asked, found, started_at and ended_at.

## Errors

This tool has no errors of its own.

The refusals every tool can give (401 key, 402 balance, 429 limits) are on the errors page: https://conecto.chat/docs/errors.md

## Related

- [prospects_prepare](https://conecto.chat/tools/prospects/prospects_prepare.md): The interview before a prospect search: up to three questions about the market and the kind of customer, or a ready brief with its price. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month.
- [prospects_find](https://conecto.chat/tools/prospects/prospects_find.md): Start a prospect search from a ready brief: the businesses that fit and the people to reach there, with their work email checked. $0.05 per prospect found with a working email.
- [prospects_get](https://conecto.chat/tools/prospects/prospects_get.md): A prospect search by id: its status, progress, its question when it asks one, and the prospects found with their contact details. Free up to 1,000,000 reads a month.
- [prospects_answer](https://conecto.chat/tools/prospects/prospects_answer.md): Answer a prospect search that stopped finding new prospects and asks whether to widen it, so it carries on. Free.
- [prospects_stop](https://conecto.chat/tools/prospects/prospects_stop.md): Stop a prospect search; it ends with the prospects it found, and only those with a working email are charged. Free.
- [prospects_save](https://conecto.chat/tools/prospects/prospects_save.md): Keep prospects in the CRM: each one's company, and a lead contact with their email, title and phone, tagged prospect. Free.