LinkedIn Sales Navigator alternative: the U.S. leads, as a file

The export and the 2,500 are from LinkedIn's help: exporting account and lead information and the search results limit.

A team pays per seat. Datacircle has no seats and no plan: the file is free, and the API is paid per call from a balance, from $5.

Unzip the file into us_10m/ and pip install duckdb. Each search below ran on the October 2026 file, on a laptop, in under a second. A job title and a place, saved as a CSV:

import duckdb

duckdb.sql("create view people as select * from 'us_10m/us_smb_mid_market_persons.parquet'")
duckdb.sql("create view companies as select * from 'us_10m/us_smb_mid_market_companies.parquet'")

# Current job title + Geography: the sales leaders in Texas, to a CSV
duckdb.sql(r"""
  copy (
    select FULL_NAME, CURRENT_JOB_TITLE, CITY, EMAIL, MOBILE_PHONE, LINKEDIN_URL
    from people
    where STATE_CODE = 'TX'
      and regexp_matches(CURRENT_JOB_TITLE, '\b(vp|vice president|head|director) of sales\b', 'i')
  ) to 'texas_sales_leaders.csv'
""")

2,603 rows: more than a Sales Navigator search shows, in one file. 1,314 of them have an email and 1,985 an email or a mobile phone. An industry, a company size and a title:

# Industry + Company headcount: the marketing leaders of software companies of 51 to 200 employees
duckdb.sql(r"""
  select p.FULL_NAME, p.CURRENT_JOB_TITLE, c.NAME as company, p.EMAIL, p.LINKEDIN_URL
  from people p
  join companies c on c.LINKEDIN_ID = p.CURRENT_JOB_COMPANY_LINKEDIN_ID
  where c.LINKEDIN_INDUSTRY = 'Software Development'
    and c.EMPLOYEE_COUNT_RANGE = '51-200'
    and regexp_matches(p.CURRENT_JOB_TITLE, '\b(cmo|chief marketing officer|(vp|vice president|head|director) of marketing)\b', 'i')
""").show()

286 marketing leaders, 183 with an email. Change the state, the industry, the size or the titles for your own market. More queries, by state, industry and title: build a free B2B leads list with SQL; what each column holds: the free US B2B leads dataset.

• Searches LinkedIn's members in every country, as their profiles are today.
• Writes to them: 50 InMails a month, even to people you're not connected to.
• Tells you when to write: alerts on job changes and new content, and buyer intent, when buyers show interest in your company.
• Shows who you know: mutual connections, your team's through TeamLink, and the Relationship Map of a buying committee.
• Syncs leads and accounts with your CRM, on Advanced Plus.

Datacircle sells data, not a prospecting tool. If you work your leads on LinkedIn, one by one, Sales Navigator is made for that; if you want the list itself, U.S. people by the thousand in a CSV, download it. Then send each LinkedIn URL to the LinkedIn profile API for the live profile. $1.25 per 1,000 through Up2Data (a profile it can't find is free), $3.70 per 1,000 through HarvestAPI.

The free file is on your dashboard once you sign up with your work email, with the $5 credit and your API key. The 50M+ U.S. dataset, 43.6M people and 6.7M companies of every size, unlocks once 3 people you invited sign up.