# A&R contact discovery
Source: https://docs.aden.space/docs/help/promote-grow/ar-contact-discovery

Finds the A&Rs a team has already emailed and adds them as ordinary leads and contacts on the team leads board.
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## Finding the A\&Rs you already know [#finding-the-ars-you-already-know]

On **Leads**, "Find A\&R contacts" searches the Gmail account connected to your
team for demo and A\&R threads, then lists the people it found, grouped by the
label they write from.

Personal addresses (Gmail, Outlook, iCloud and similar) sit at the bottom,
collapsed and unselected, since their domain names no label. Search filters
people by name, address, label or domain and opens every group with a match.
The dialog's open state lives in the URL (`?findContacts=true`).

Pick who to keep, confirm which organisation each group belongs to when Aden
already has that label, and add them. Everyone you pick becomes a contact
tagged `A&R` on a lead for that label. People already on a lead stay there.

Nothing is saved until you press add, and a person you already have is reused
rather than duplicated.