Clay newbie here. I’m working on a B2B lead gen project for a gutter business (example leads: owners and project managers at construction companies), but it has been very difficult to find them just through Clay as many of these people don’t have LinkedIn. Are there any integrations, features, or other things I could use to find these leads from other sources, and how would I do that?
Yes, Clay offers several ways to find construction business leads who aren't on LinkedIn: 1. Google Maps integration is perfect for your use case. You can scrape Google Maps to find local construction businesses and their contact information. This works especially well since local businesses actively maintain their Google listings to receive service calls. 2. Website scraping with Clay's Chrome Extension lets you extract lead information from construction company websites, industry directories, or association pages. 3. For smaller construction companies without LinkedIn presence, use the Google Maps integration to search for companies in specific cities, then enrich them using the SMB recipe, and find work emails using the Work Email waterfall. Clay integrates with 10+ prospecting sources and 75+ data enrichment tools, giving you multiple options beyond LinkedIn to build your construction industry lead list.
Sources: Can I access people that aren’t on LinkedIn with Clay? - FAQ | Clay.com What prospecting, data enrichment tools, and CRMs can I access with Clay? - FAQ | Clay.com Access People That Aren't on LinkedIn How Regency Supply used Clay to find niche prospects & automate research and scoring - The GTM with Clay Blog FAQ | Clay.com
Hey! Totally makes sense—construction can be a tough industry to source from LinkedIn alone. Here’s a quick video showing how to use Clay’s AI agent to find more people at these companies, even if they don’t have LinkedIn: https://cln.sh/pHgLKqxZ This approach searches the web more broadly, helping you uncover owners and project managers from other online sources. Step by step: 1. Run a lookup in your people table to spot missing values 2. Click "add enrichment" (top right) 3. Pick Claygent > Select GPT 4o 4. Create a metaprompter: "Find me the {roles} at {company} who are currently working there - I need their linkedin.com/in URL, full name and job title. Get as many as possible. Leave empty if none found" 5. Choose JSON output and generate to get results as a list 6. Add a run condition so it only runs when the lookup is empty 7. Use "write to other table" to send new finds to your people table (send: full name, job title, linkedin.com/in URL, and company domain) 8. Then you can enrich them Tip: Feel free to flag missing data via row left-click > leave feedback for our team to fix.
No, the above video was not helpful. It simply encourages me to use a different method to find people through LinkedIn—which would cause me to have the same issue I’ve been facing of my prospects not being findable due to not being on LinkedIn.
Hi Logan, Thank you for elaborating. So to clarify your use case, you want to find people who are not on linkedin? If that's the case: To find people who are not on LinkedIn, you can: 1) Use their name and company domain to find work emails 2)Search for them on alternative professional platforms (ie XING in the DACH/EMEA region) 3) Look up their information through company websites or public documents (you can prompt Claygent to do this) As long as you have a few pieces of information you will be able to find people using the enrichments available on Clay.
Munnawar H. thank you for your response. Yes that is correct. I am trying to figure out which enrichments to use/the different ways to accomplish this. 1 would not work because I am trying to use Clay to find their names. 2 would not be applicable because target prospects do not use such platforms. 3 seems most viable and I am trying to figure out the most effective/efficient way to do this but could use some help here. Are any other ways to do this? Any business/people directories I could search?
Hey there Logan thanks for reaching out, jumping in for Munnawar here, sorry for the delay here, currently we do not have any other directory options within Clay that could be used here. However what we can try to do here is similar to what Bo did and what Munnawar mentioned above and that is using a Claygent Integration to search the web. Essentially what we can do here, is come up with a basic prompt such as " Got to the following website /Domain and search for any mention of the companies Owners" and we can feed it to the meta prompter for our AI columns. The following loom shows how this would work: https://www.loom.com/share/73a6644402864c2ea16dcd48f3b26ef0?sid=cc305d05-2648-4374-9a3d-0143c2e3c1e5
Hi LuisArturo and Munnawar H., Thank you both for the help here and thanks LuisArturo for the Loom — really appreciate it. What you walked through aligns with what I was doing the other day, so it’s a great sanity check. Different question: I’m trying to filter businesses by specific towns in the South Bay Area (listed below), but when I use Clay’s location filter, it only seems to allow larger cities from some preset database — I’m only seeing San Jose and Santa Clara as options. Is there any way to apply more granular location filters, such as by ZIP code?
Alviso, CA
Atherton, CA
Portola Valley, CA
San Jose, CA
Stanford, CA
Foster City, CA
Hillsborough, CA
West Menlo Park, CA
Los Altos Hills, CA
Woodside, CA
Hi Logan,
Do you have a draft table you've been working on here and you can send the link? My best thinking would be to keep running with Luis Arturo's video and to add in these locations for your Google maps searches. Have you run into specific issues here? Having the table link will help me a lot with context to best assist here. Please let me know! Gabe
The main issue is that many (seemingly around half) of these companies are returning no contacts using the Clay web scraper. Also, the Google Maps integration isn’t populating any info to other columns (name, location, etc). See screenshot attached. How do I resolve this?
Also, the Google Maps integration doesn’t allow the granular location search FYI. The search returns far fewer results (~20 vs 300) when I try to use free text “roofing companies servicing any of the following cities: [list above]” instead of using radius + business type
Hey! For the Google Maps search, the free and paid versions use different providers, so the results can vary. The free version supports detailed business types, while the paid one is more limited and only allows radius + type filtering. In this case, it’s best to stick with the one that supports type for better coverage. As for the missing company details and contacts, I recorded a video to walk you through how to resolve it: https://cln.sh/71g2lzMf Let me know if you have more questions.
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