Kabeer A.

Hey great question! What you’re describing is basically the “holy grail” Clay workflow: automated outbound from discovery → enrichment → outreach. The high-level flow looks like this:

If you want, search “Full outbound workflow” in Clay University or check out the Outbound GTM Starter Template in your dashboard it’s prebuilt and covers all 6 steps.

Just DM you Garrett W.

That’s a really solid early-stage GTM stack 👏. A few of us have run something similar, and the biggest pitfalls tend to come from data sync and ownership rather than tool choice. Here are a few lessons from experience:

Hey, sounds like you’ve got a solid project in motion that’s a great use case for Clay. You’ll definitely want someone comfortable with data cleanup + enrichment logic (company ↔️ domain matching, location parsing, LinkedIn enrichment, etc.) and cold outreach stack setup (Clay → Zoho → warmup). A few things to keep in mind while you look for help:

If anyone here has Clay + Zoho + outreach experience, this sounds like a straightforward 3–5 hour consulting gig — jump in if you’re free today!

Just DM you Umair S.

Hey — great question! There’s no native radius search or geo-query feature inside Clay right now, but you can absolutely build one with a workaround. The best approach is to use an AI + formula combo inside Clay to calculate the approximate distance between two locations (your target ZIP and the company’s). You can do this by enriching each company’s address with latitude/longitude (via the Geocode Address enrichment), then using a custom formula column to compute the distance using the Haversine formula. Once you have that distance in miles/km, you can easily filter your table for anything within your desired radius (e.g. < 50 km). ✅ Works entirely within Clay ✅ No Mapbox or expensive API needed ✅ Scales up to thousands of companies

Hey Yash! For what you described multi-domain sending + warmup + sequencing Instantly.AI is the better fit. It’s built for scalable outbound (multi-domain rotation, native warmup, unified analytics), whereas Apollo.io is primarily a data/enrichment + sequencing tool with limited sending flexibility. If you’re already sourcing contacts in Apollo, you can just push them to Instantly for outreach. ✅ Use Apollo for leads ✅ Use Instantly for sending + warmup

Hey! That’s a common issue when AI outputs aren’t well-structured. Try rephrasing your prompt to explicitly force structured output for example:

“Answer only with one of these: Yes, No, or Uncertain. No explanation.” You can also use Clay’s “AI Output Schema” (under advanced settings) to restrict answers to predefined options. That usually fixes random responses.

Good question you can actually handle that inside one table without duplicating everything. After you’ve pulled job listings and companies, use Find People with a dynamic job title filter. Just map the “Job Title” from your job listings (e.g., Financial Data Analyst) into the “Find People by Job Title” field and let Clay auto-match relevant roles (like CFO, Finance Director, etc.). Then, use a Run If condition so each enrichment only runs when the title includes “Data Analyst.” That way, Clay finds department-aligned contacts based on the context of the job post no need for 100 tables or Apollo.

Just DM you Rasmus L.