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# Sales | Validate Prospects

Validates a prospect against Ideal Customer Profile criteria by using LLM-based evaluation. Returns whether the prospect is valid, a confidence score, and an evaluation summary.

### Required Editions

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small edition"><colgroup><col></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: Lightning Experience</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Available in: <strong>Enterprise</strong>, <strong>Performance</strong>, <strong>Unlimited</strong>, and <strong>Developer</strong> Editions with Agentforce for Sales or Agentforce for an Industry add-on, or in Agentforce 1 Sales and Industry Editions where included. Requires each user to have the Agentforce for Sales or Agentforce for an Industry add-on to access actions.</td></tr></tbody></table>

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          <th scope="col" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:top;" id="d216207e69">User Permissions Needed</th>
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          <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d216207e69 ">To create and configure prospecting agents:</td>

          <td data-label="" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d216207e72 ">Sales Agentic Prospecting Manager</td>

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          <td data-label="User Permissions Needed" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d216207e69 ">To connect to ZoomInfo:</td>

          <td data-label="" class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d216207e72 ">ZoomInfo Prospecting Access</td>

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          <td class="slds-cell-wrap" colspan="2" style="vertical-align:top;" headers="d216207e69 d216207e72 ">See <a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=ai.agent_actions_common_perms.htm&amp;type=5&amp;language=en_US" target="_blank">Common User Access for Standard Agent
              Actions</a>.</td>

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## Action Details

<table class="slds-table slds-table_bordered slds-max-medium-table_stacked slds-m-bottom_small "><colgroup><col style="width:50%"> <col style="width:50%"></colgroup><tbody><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">API Name</td><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">ValidateProspects</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Reference Action Type</td><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Standard Action</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Reference Action</td><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">validateProspects</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Does this action execute one or more prompt templates?</td><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">No</td></tr><tr class=""><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;">Required Setup</td><td class="slds-cell-wrap" style="vertical-align:top;"><a href="https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.sales_agent_prospecting_setup_parent.htm&amp;type=5&amp;language=en_US" target="_blank">Set Up Agentforce Prospecting</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

## Guidelines and Considerations

- This action runs once per prospect, not per account.
- The evaluation summary and explanation is visible to reps.

#### See Also

- [_Salesforce Help:_ Agentforce Prospecting](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=sales.sales_agent_prospecting_parent.htm&language=en_US)