# Exports and Send to Ballast

> Export an Outscope campaign as three CSV files, companies, signals and people, with why now and the evidence link, or send it to Ballast as a draft.

Canonical: https://outscope.co/docs/exports
Last updated: 2026-11-09

The **Export** menu in a campaign's header downloads three CSV files, or sends the people found to Ballast as a draft campaign. Outscope doesn't send email itself: you review and send from your own tool.

![The Export menu open: three CSV files, Companies, Signals in postings and People, each with a line on what it holds, then Send to Ballast](https://outscope.co/docs/export-menu.webp)

## The three CSV files

| File | One row per | Columns |
| --- | --- | --- |
| **Companies** | Company | company, website, score, why_now, strongest_posting, evidence_url, signals, open_roles, roles_last_30_days, last_posted, industry, size, sells_to, people |
| **Signals in postings** | Matching line | company, website, posting, posting_url, posted, closed, department, locations, signal, match, confidence, line |
| **People** | Person found | email, first_name, last_name, title, role, linkedin, company, website, first_line, why_now, evidence_url, score |

Columns are in snake_case, so most sending tools map them without renaming. `first_line`, `why_now` and `evidence_url` work as custom fields in a sequence, so an email can open on the line that put the company on your list.

- A file holds up to 2,000 companies from the campaign's results.
- Nothing on a do-not-contact list leaves: neither companies whose domain is on it nor people whose address or domain is. The menu says how many were left out.
- A cell that a spreadsheet would run as a formula starts with an apostrophe, so opening the file is safe.

## Send to Ballast

[Ballast](https://ballast.to) is our cold email tool. Send to Ballast puts the campaign's people on a new list in your Ballast workspace, with their first line, why now and the evidence link as custom fields, and adds the list to a draft campaign. **Nothing is sent to anyone until you launch it in Ballast.**

1. **Create an API key** in Ballast.
2. **Connect it.** An owner or admin opens Settings in Outscope, then Ballast, and pastes the key. We check it and name the Ballast workspace it belongs to. The key is stored encrypted and shown by its last four characters.
3. **Send.** In a campaign, open Export and choose Send to Ballast. The dialog names the Ballast workspace and how many people go. When it's done, it links to the draft.

- Addresses on Ballast's own suppression list are dropped first.
- Importing needs a paid Ballast plan. If yours doesn't have one, the dialog says so, with a link to Ballast's billing.
- One send per campaign runs at a time. Anyone in the workspace can send once the key is connected.

## Every export, in one place

The **Exports** page in the sidebar lists every CSV and send to Ballast from the workspace, newest first: which campaign, how many rows, how many a do-not-contact list left out, who made it and when.

- **Download again** builds the file anew from today's data. Exports use no credits, so this costs nothing.
- **Open in Ballast** opens the draft campaign a send made.

The **People** page has one more file: everyone the workspace found, from every campaign, with the columns email, first_name, last_name, title, role, linkedin, company, website, first_line, campaign and found.

## Exports come with a plan

The free preview's three companies can't be exported. Every plan exports and sends to Ballast, with no charge per export.