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Clay

Data enrichment and automation platform. Find emails, validate companies, scrape LinkedIn, run AI research prompts, route contacts to CRMs and outreach tools. The orchestration layer for GTM.

by Shawn Tenam

Clay is where I went from manual SDR to GTM engineer. when I was building buying committees in Salesforce by hand, I was the orchestration layer. I was the one pulling emails from Apollo, checking LinkedIn, researching pain points, deciding who to target. Clay does all of that. but faster. and at scale. and without forgetting. everything I used to do in my head now lives in a Clay table. qualification, enrichment, personalization, routing. all of it.

every play in my series uses Clay. web reveal → Clay table. qualification prompts → Clay. personalization research → Clay. single-provider email enrichment → Clay. MX record check → Clay. then Clay syncs qualified + enriched contacts to HubSpot or Instantly or HeyReach. I don't use Clay for CRM. I use it for everything that makes the CRM data actually useful. it's the brain. the CRM is just the notebook.