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Clay

Clay connects company data, web research and sales actions so revenue teams can build repeatable prospecting workflows.

Not tested by JuicyAgents · Reviewed 9 Oct 2026

Can replace
ZoomInfo, Microsoft Excel
Integrations
Salesforce, HubSpot, Slack, Microsoft Teams, Intercom, GitHub +7 more

Overview

About Clay

Clay is most useful when a sales team knows which signals make an account worth contacting but spends too much time collecting them. Its research agents and data connections help build a richer account list, score it and prepare the next action. A team can combine its own customer information with outside data instead of maintaining many disconnected spreadsheets. The important product is the workflow: a repeatable process that turns an input list into researched, usable records.

This is a configurable workspace for revenue operations, not an employee that arrives knowing your market. Someone must define useful research questions, acceptable sources and the fields that matter to sellers. Start with one narrow account segment and inspect both good and poor results. Clay can reduce manual research and enrichment, but your CRM remains responsible for ownership, customer history and deal management. The replacement scope and evaluation advice in this profile are editorial judgments.

What the workflow does

  • Web research agents: Claygent researches companies and people to answer custom business questions.
  • Multiple data providers: Combine enrichment sources rather than depend on a single contact database.
  • Signals and scoring: Use account changes and business criteria to decide which records deserve attention.
  • Reusable workflows: Build shared logic for research, qualification, routing and outreach preparation.
  • Activation: Send enriched information into connected sales tools or use supported outbound workflows.

From input to result

How the workflow works

You provide

  • Target accounts or a clearly defined prospect segment.
  • Research questions, qualification rules and examples of a good result.
  • Authorized access to relevant CRM or sales integrations.

You get

  • A researched account list with fields that match your sales process.
  • A repeatable way to prioritize prospects rather than reread every website.
  • Less copying between research tabs, spreadsheets and connected sales tools.
  1. Choose one account segment and define the fields, sources and qualification rules.

  2. Run research and enrichment on a sample; correct prompts and remove unreliable data.

  3. Connect the approved output to a sales workflow and monitor quality and credit use.

What it offers

Key features

  • Web research agents

    Claygent researches companies and people to answer custom business questions.

  • Multiple data providers

    Combine enrichment sources rather than depend on a single contact database.

  • Signals and scoring

    Use account changes and business criteria to decide which records deserve attention.

  • Reusable workflows

    Build shared logic for research, qualification, routing and outreach preparation.

  • Activation

    Send enriched information into connected sales tools or use supported outbound workflows.

Is it a good fit?

Who it’s for

  • Revenue operations teams with a clear ideal customer profile.
  • Agencies repeating similar research for several clients.
  • Sales teams with someone who can maintain data and workflow rules.

Strengths

  • Flexible enrichment across several sources.
  • Useful connection between research and existing sales processes.

Connected tools

Integrations

  • Salesforce
  • HubSpot
  • Slack
  • Microsoft Teams
  • Intercom
  • GitHub
  • Notion
  • Google Sheets
  • Shopify
  • Stripe
  • Snowflake
  • Zapier
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