What Lantern is
Lantern is a data enrichment tool in the B2B go-to-market stack. In the vendor's own words: “AI for Net Dollar Retention.” Put plainly, a tool in this category fills the blanks on a contact or a company record you already hold.
Lantern appears in 2 categories here — Data Enrichment, Revenue Intelligence Platforms — which usually means it covers more than one job rather than doing a single thing narrowly.
Where it sits in an outbound stack
Most outbound stacks are four layers: the data that decides who you talk to, the channel that carries the message, the writing that earns a reply, and the system of record that remembers what happened. Lantern sits in the data enrichment layer. Tools beside it are worth comparing on coverage and price; tools in the other layers are worth wiring to it rather than replacing it with.
Using Lantern with M for Mercury
Lantern is a data layer, and data is where LinkedIn outreach either works or wastes a sender. Mercury's Lead Finder searches 450M+ contacts and returns the LinkedIn profile to connect with alongside a verified work email, then enriches whatever is missing column by column. If Lantern already holds your list, Mercury takes it from there: enrol the audience in a journey, spread it across senders, and pace every send inside safe limits.
Questions people ask about Lantern
What is Lantern?
Lantern is a data enrichment tool used by B2B sales, marketing and recruiting teams. In the vendor's own words: AI for Net Dollar Retention.
What category does Lantern fall into?
Lantern is listed under Data Enrichment, Revenue Intelligence Platforms in this directory. Its primary category is Data Enrichment.
What are the alternatives to Lantern?
The closest tools in the same categories are M for Mercury, FullEnrich, Apollo, Clay, OpenMart. All 30 data enrichment listings sit on the Data Enrichment category page.
Can I use Lantern alongside M for Mercury?
Yes. Mercury runs the LinkedIn side — audiences, journeys, message writing, safe pacing across every sender and one shared inbox — and connects out through HubSpot, Salesforce, Zoho CRM, Attio, Slack, Zapier, Make, n8n, webhooks and its own API, so Lantern can stay exactly where it is in the stack.
Listed for reference. M for Mercury is not affiliated with Lantern, and no listing here is paid for. Product names and logos belong to their owners.
