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Clay

Clay

A go-to-market data platform where an AI agent researches every lead for you.

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  • Business
  • Automation
  • Data
  • Marketing

What it does

A go-to-market data platform that enriches leads and accounts from 130+ data sources through 'waterfall enrichment', and runs an AI research agent (Claygent) that looks up and summarizes open-web information about a company or person on demand.

The interesting part

Claygent turns 'go research this company and tell me if they'd be a good fit' — normally a manual SDR task — into a formula applied to thousands of rows in a spreadsheet-like interface, chaining data providers automatically until one returns a usable answer.

Who it is for

  • Sales and RevOps teams doing account or lead enrichment at scale
  • Growth teams building highly personalized outbound campaigns
  • Anyone tired of stitching together several separate enrichment tools by hand

Who should not use it

  • Small teams with a handful of leads a month — the platform's power is in scale and workflow logic
  • Anyone uncomfortable with automated open-web research running against prospects without a human reviewing every lookup

A typical use case

A sales team uploads 5,000 target accounts, and Clay waterfalls through multiple providers to find verified emails, then runs Claygent to summarize each company's recent funding news for a personalized opening line.

Limitations

  • Cost scales with enrichment volume across many paid data providers — budgeting requires care
  • Steeper learning curve than a simple CRM plugin, given its spreadsheet-plus-workflow interface
  • Output quality depends on the underlying data providers it waterfalls through, not just Clay itself

Pricing

Usage-based plans tied to enrichment credits — see official pricing.

Privacy & data

See Clay's own privacy and data-processing terms for how enriched contact and company data are sourced, stored and used.

Integrations

  • 130+ third-party data providers
  • GPT-4-powered Claygent research agent
  • CRM and outbound tool integrations

Alternatives

Glean

Enterprise knowledge search rather than external go-to-market data enrichment.

Why Nakoda noticed it

Clay is included for turning a genuinely tedious manual job — per-lead research — into something closer to a spreadsheet formula, without pretending the agent replaces judgment about which accounts are worth pursuing.

Provenance

Verified · last checked 2026-09-24

Nakoda read the product's own site directly and confirmed the facts on this page against it.

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