Clay

What Clay is

Clay is an email finder tool in the B2B go-to-market stack. In the vendor's own words: “Prospect Differently.” Put plainly, a tool in this category turns a name and a company into a work email address.

Clay appears in 22 categories here — Email Finder, LinkedIn Extension, Phone Number Finders, Data Enrichment, Account Based Marketing Platforms, B2B Market Research Tools and others — which usually means it covers more than one job rather than doing a single thing narrowly.

Where it sits in an outbound stack

Most outbound stacks are four layers: the data that decides who you talk to, the channel that carries the message, the writing that earns a reply, and the system of record that remembers what happened. Clay sits in the email finder layer. Tools beside it are worth comparing on coverage and price; tools in the other layers are worth wiring to it rather than replacing it with.

Using Clay with M for Mercury

Clay is a data layer, and data is where LinkedIn outreach either works or wastes a sender. Mercury's Lead Finder searches 450M+ contacts and returns the LinkedIn profile to connect with alongside a verified work email, then enriches whatever is missing column by column. If Clay already holds your list, Mercury takes it from there: enrol the audience in a journey, spread it across senders, and pace every send inside safe limits.

Questions people ask about Clay

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