Block a company

Some companies are never going to be leads: your own, your agency’s partners, a customer you already have. Blocking one is a single action, and the whole workspace obeys it, every watched profile included.

Block a company

1. From Settings

   Go to Settings, then Account (/settings/account#blocklist) and open Blocked Companies. Choose Add Company, enter the domain, and optionally a company name when it is not obvious from the domain.

2. From a lead

   Use the Block action next to the company name on the leads list or in the lead detail panel. The lead is dismissed at the same time, and the toast tells you how many other leads went with it.

3. From the Priority Queue

   Open the More menu on a card and choose the block action. It names the company before you commit.

4. In bulk

   Select leads in the table and choose Block company. The confirm dialog lists every company in the selection before anything is blocked.

How matching works

A LinkedIn member record carries a company name, not a website, so Embers matches on names derived from what you entered. Each entry produces a small set of aliases: the company name you gave, the registrable part of the domain, and hyphen variants of either. So acme.com also catches “Acme”, “Acme Inc”, and “Acme, Inc.”. Aliases shorter than three characters are dropped, which stops a two-letter domain hiding half your list.

A person is blocked when an alias matches their current company, an “at” phrase in their headline, a current position in their work history, or the name of the member row itself for company pages.

Where the block applies

Enforcement sits in the two functions every lead surface already calls, so there is no screen with its own copy of the rule. Blocked people are absent from:

• The leads list, the Priority Queue, lead stats, and lead detail.
• The New Engagers, Going Cold, and ICP Watching views.
• CSV exports, lead lists, and the company and position filter menus.
• Client reports, weekly digests, the first-leads email, hot-lead notifications, and agency views.
• The onboarding preview.

It also gates delivery. A lead is only sent to a destination when its score is above 0, and it is an ICP match or you approved it by hand, and its company is not blocked. That single check sits in front of Slack, HubSpot, and signed webhooks, so nothing you blocked reaches an outreach tool.

Reading the list

Each row shows the domain, the company name, and the date it was added. Two extra labels appear when they apply:

• Added automatically: seeded from your own company when you connected a LinkedIn profile or defined your ICP.
• From a lead: created by blocking somebody from the queue or the list.

Entries with no label were typed in by hand. Each row also reports how many leads it is currently hiding, ignoring anyone already excluded as your own team or a tracked competitor’s employee.

Unblock a company

Delete the entry from Blocked Companies. The change takes effect everywhere at once rather than waiting out a cache, so the leads reappear within about a minute. Nothing was deleted while the entry existed, so the scores, notes, and history come back with them.

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