Ocean.io is an AI-powered company discovery platform that helps you find companies and people similar to a given target based on criteria like industry, size, location, and technology. Within Clay, you can use Ocean.io to create a new table populated with lookalike companies, or enrich existing rows to find matching companies and people that fit your ICP.
Creating a table with Ocean.io
- While in a Clay workbook, click
+ Addand search forOcean.io. - Under
Sources, selectFind company lookalikes with Ocean.io. - In the setup panel, you will be asked to
Select Ocean.io account.- If you haven't already connected your Ocean.io account, click
+ Add accountand enter your API key. Otherwise, select the Clay-provided key.
- If you haven't already connected your Ocean.io account, click
Source Find company lookalikes with Ocean.io
Start with up to 10 seed company domains and find a list of similar companies to populate a new Clay table. You are charged 1 credit per result returned.
Inputs
Required:
- Company domain: The seed company domain(s) to use for lookalike discovery. Accepts up to 10 domains.
Optional:
- Domains to exclude: Domains to exclude from the results. Separate multiple values with commas.
- Primary countries (headquarters): Filter by countries where the company has its primary presence (headquarters). Multi-select.
- Countries (general presence): Filter by all countries where the company has any presence. Multi-select. When combined with other location filters, results matching any condition are returned.
- States: Filter by states using ISO abbreviations. Must be used with
States country. Separate multiple values with commas. - States country (for states filter only): Specify the country for the states filter above.
- Company sizes: Filter by company size ranges. Multi-select.
- Revenue ranges: Filter by revenue ranges. Multi-select.
- Headquarter geolocation latitude and longitude: Latitude and longitude of the target's headquarters (e.g.,
37.7749,-122.4194). Must be used withHeadquarter geolocation radius. - Headquarter geolocation radius: Radius in meters around the specified geolocation. Must be used with
Headquarter geolocation latitude and longitude. - Keywords: Keywords to search for in the company description. Separate multiple values with commas.
- Keywords operator: How keywords are matched —
Any of,All of, orNone of. Default: Any of. - Technologies: Filter by technologies used by the company. Multi-select.
- Technologies operator: How technologies are matched —
Any oforAll of. Default: Any of. - Industries: Filter by industries. Multi-select.
- Industries operator: How industries are matched —
Any of,All of, orNone of. Default: Any of. - Industry categories: Filter by industry categories. Multi-select.
- Industry categories operator: How industry categories are matched —
Any of,All of, orNone of. Default: Any of. - Include only ecommerce companies: When enabled, filters results to only ecommerce companies.
- Exclude ecommerce companies: When enabled, excludes ecommerce companies from results.
- Minimum similarity score: Minimum lookalike similarity threshold. Default: 0.79.
- Limit results: Maximum number of results to return.
- Additional filters: Dynamic field filters for additional company properties.
Enriching data with Ocean.io
- While in a Clay table, click
Add enrichmentand search forOcean.io. - Under
Integrations, select one of the Ocean.io actions. - In the modal, you will be asked to
Select Ocean.io account.- If you haven't already connected your Ocean.io account, click
+ Add accountand enter your API key. Otherwise, select the Clay-provided key.
- If you haven't already connected your Ocean.io account, click
Action Find lookalike companies with Ocean.io
Use this action to identify companies similar to a specified target based on custom filters like size, industry, location, and keywords. You are charged 1 credit per result returned.
Inputs
Required:
- Company domain: The domain(s) of the target company. Accepts up to 10 domains.
Optional:
- Domains to exclude: Domains to exclude from results. Separate multiple values with commas.
- Primary countries (headquarters): Filter by countries where the company has its primary presence. Multi-select.
- Countries (general presence): Filter by all countries where the company has any presence. Multi-select.
- States: Filter by states using ISO abbreviations. Must be used with
States country. - States country (for states filter only): Specify the country for the states filter.
- Company sizes: Filter by company size ranges. Multi-select.
- Revenue ranges: Filter by revenue ranges. Multi-select.
- Headquarter geolocation latitude and longitude: Latitude and longitude for geolocation filtering (e.g.,
37.7749,-122.4194). Must be used withHeadquarter geolocation radius. - Headquarter geolocation radius: Radius in meters around the specified geolocation. Must be used with
Headquarter geolocation latitude and longitude. - Keywords: Keywords to filter by in the company description. Separate multiple values with commas.
- Keywords operator: How keywords are matched —
Any of,All of, orNone of. Default: Any of. - Technologies: Filter by technologies. Multi-select.
- Technologies operator: How technologies are matched —
Any oforAll of. Default: Any of. - Industries: Filter by industries. Multi-select.
- Industries operator: How industries are matched —
Any of,All of, orNone of. Default: Any of. - Industry categories: Filter by industry categories. Multi-select.
- Industry categories operator: How industry categories are matched —
Any of,All of, orNone of. Default: Any of. - Include only ecommerce companies: Filter results to only ecommerce companies.
- Exclude ecommerce companies: Exclude ecommerce companies from results.
- Minimum similarity score: Minimum lookalike similarity threshold. Default: 0.79.
- Limit results: Maximum number of results to return. Default: 10. Maximum: 50.
- Additional filters: Dynamic field filters for additional company properties.
Outputs
Returns up to 10 ranked lookalike results. Each result includes:
- Company:
- Domain: The company's website domain.
- Name: The company's display name.
- Legal name: The company's registered legal name.
- Description: A brief description of the company.
- Company size: Employee headcount range (e.g.,
51-200). - Employee count (Ocean): Employee count from Ocean.io's database.
- Employee count (LinkedIn): Employee count from LinkedIn.
- Revenue: Estimated revenue range (e.g.,
10-50M). - Year founded: The year the company was founded.
- Primary country: The company's primary country of operation.
- Countries: All countries where the company has a presence.
- Locations: Array of office locations with latitude, longitude, country, and locality.
- Industries: Array of specific industries.
- Industry categories: Array of broader industry categories.
- Keywords: Keywords associated with the company's description.
- Technologies: Technologies used by the company.
- Technology categories: Categories of technologies used.
- Emails: Known public contact email addresses.
- Phones: Phone numbers with country and primary flag.
- Logo: URL of the company logo.
- Mobile apps: App store links and names for the company's mobile apps.
- Web traffic: Visits, page views, pages per visit, and bounce rate.
- Medias: Social media profiles (LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook) including URL, handle, and name.
- Score: The similarity score for the result.
Action Find lookalike people with Ocean.io
Find people similar to given professional profiles based on various criteria. You are charged 1 credit per result returned.
Inputs
Required:
- Professional profile URL: The LinkedIn profile URL of the target person.
Optional:
- Professional profile URLs to include: Additional profile URLs to include in the search.
- Professional profile URLs to exclude: Profile URLs to exclude from results.
- Seniorities: Filter by professional seniority levels.
- Job title keywords: Filter by specific job title keywords.
- Job titles operator: Specify how job title keywords should be matched.
- Job titles similarity threshold: Set the matching threshold for job titles.
- States: Filter by states where lookalikes are based (ISO abbreviations). Must be used with
States country. - States country (for states filter only): Specify the country for the states filter.
- Countries: Filter by countries where lookalikes are based. Multi-select.
- Lookalike company domain: Filter lookalikes to those working at a specific company domain.
- Domains to include: Additional company domains to include in the search.
- Domains to exclude: Company domains to exclude from results.
- Company primary countries: Filter by company headquarters location. Multi-select.
- Company sizes: Filter by company size ranges. Multi-select.
- Company industries: Filter by specific industries. Multi-select.
- Company industries operator: Specify how the industry filter is applied —
Any of,All of, orNone of. - Maximum number of lookalikes: Maximum number of results to return.
- Maximum number of lookalikes per company: Limit the number of results returned per company.
- Minimum lookalike score: Set the minimum similarity threshold for results — options include
Very similar,Similar, andSlightly similar.
Outputs
- People: Array of matching people, each containing:
- ID: Ocean.io internal ID for the person.
- Domain: The company domain where the person works.
- Name: Full name.
- First name: First name.
- Last name: Last name.
- Country: Country where the person is based.
- State: State where the person is based.
- LinkedIn URL: The person's LinkedIn profile URL.
- Job title: The person's current job title.
- Seniorities: Array of seniority levels.
- Departments: Array of departments the person is associated with.
- Photo: URL of the person's LinkedIn profile photo.
- Company:
- Name: The company name.
- Company size: Headcount range of the company.
- Logo: URL of the company logo.
Run settings
Auto-update: Recommended when you want new rows added to a Clay table to automatically trigger the enrichment.Only run if: The enrichment will only run if specified conditions are met. Learn more about conditional formulas here!
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