Hello! This might be a rookie question haha. We are a Swedish organization using Clay to source and enrich potential customers. However, when using Clay’s built-in Find Companies function, we end up missing a lot of data. For example, according to the national registry, there are approximately 7,000 potential businesses in a certain region. But when running the same search in Clay, I only get around 440 companies. The reason seems to be that Swedish regions/counties are not available as filters in Clay’s search criteria. I’m now wondering if anyone has built a prompt similar to Clay’s Find Companies function, but that searches in chosen databases instead. In our case, the database is open to everyone no login required but you need to set specific filter criteria directly on that particular website.
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Hey Philip F., you are actually right. Clay's Find People function essentially combines data from different data providers, and most of those data providers seem to have majority of the data in the US, not other regions. If I was you, I might do this instead:
Head to the Swedish national registry, and use something like 'Instant Data Scraper' (Chrome Extension), and scrape the names of the different businesses.
Have it in a CSV, and upload the data into Clay
Use Clay's claygent to find the website + linkedin profiles of each company
Using the website or linkedin profiles, have another claygent to reference those information, and find the full names of (title)
Once that is done, then use Clay's waterfall to find their contact information
Feel free to DM if you have any other questions!
Morgann D. alright, what tools do you use for sorucing then? We are trying to be "as automated as possible" and it feels like clay could be a great help in tha process. It fetch copmanies from a public database, source those we wnat (we have certain criteras in order to become customer), then enrich wioth contact information and send to Hubspot for further comminucation
Philip F. if you need 'smart' scraping https://www.browse.ai/ is a good option. You can essentially transform your scraping into an API and connect it to clay (by creating a webhook inside make or zapier)
Morgann D. thak you very much 🙂 But could that software do serach on the data base. For example:
I do a serach on the databse website bys setting revenue criteria and which state they are in
i then get a long list wioch i can expoert
can the software you mention do it automatically?
an also import to caly?
Philip F. Hmmm, one way to potentially automate even the manual downloading of the CSV, would be to use something like Manus AI (https://manus.im/app). Manus AI is pretty intelligent in the sense that you can give it instructions in natural language such as - "Head to {website}, which is a database of various swedish companies. Look for the 'revenue' filter, and change it to...Once everything is filtered correctly, download it as a CSV" If you want to further automate the upload of CSV into Clay, you might have to start looking into MCPs or using something like n8n which can get overly technical quickly 😅 But yeah, that is the way I can think of, since you can't set a database for Clay to search for.
