Great question — you’re right, no single enrichment source gives a clean “yes/no” on whether a company has an IT department. ZoomInfo sometimes flags it, but often inconsistently.
A practical workaround is exactly what you mentioned: role/title detection. We’ve helped clients set up multi-language role matching workflows in Clay (handling 300+ variations of IT roles) by building layered filters and splitting Apollo/LinkedIn lookups into batches, then merging results. It’s not out-of-the-box, but it gets you much better coverage without wasting credits.
If you’d like, I can share how we’ve automated this inside Clay so you don’t have to manually manage all those role variations.
Best,
Sourabh
Panoptic Analytics panopticanalytics.com
sourabh@panopticanalytics.com
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