This isn't spam by any means; it manually collates the email addresses of thought leaders in your niche, and provides them to you. It's up to you to start a conversation.

If you look near the bottom of our home page, we thank him for the "inspiration".

That's correct, we're not bulk harvesting emails by any means. We use google news api to find blogs, and articles written about your niche based on search terms provided. We then research those blogs manually with real people using amazon mturk for crowd sourcing. We then provide you with the blogs, articles, and information about the author so you can begin interacting with them.. Reading their blogs, following them on social media, and maybe pitching them.

Right, they automated the manual process of gathering email... which I think is still automation?

Hey Dave, what's your opinion on Buzzsumo for finding influencers and influential authors for outreach purposes?

I think with all of these sorts of outsourced items you have to factor in risk and quality.

Having this very narrow niche lets them really keep the quality level high as they can tweak and QA across multiple jobs doing the same thing.

We do not right now, but it's not something that we couldn't work on getting rolled out this weekend.

Any ideas you might have for the site, please let us know. We're looking to continue to build on our MVP.