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How to find competitor companies
Describe your target industry to search
Paste your target industry into Sculptor, and Sculptor scans Clay's B2B company data to surface matching competitors filtered by industry, headcount, and tech stack.
Sculptor builds and enriches your competitor list
Sculptor assembles a list of companies competing in your target industry, filtered by headcount, location, and funding stage. It then waterfalls through 150+ providers to find a verified Head of Product email for rows that return a match.
Get company names and Head of Product emails
The finished table has company name and, for matched rows, a verified Head of Product email. Push to Smartlead, Instantly, or your sequencer to trigger a campaign the moment a row lands.
Why Clay for finding competitor companies
One dataset, precise industry filters
Identify competitors in your target industry from Clay's B2B company database, filtered by industry, headcount, funding stage, tech stack, and hiring signals. No stitching together separate sources to build your initial list.
Claygent researches each competitor site
Get positioning details, customer names, and product focus for each matched company. Claygent browses each competitor's site and extracts structured fields in minutes, without manual research.
Waterfall enrichment for verified contact emails
Find a verified Head of Product email for matched rows by running waterfall enrichment through 150+ providers. Credits are only charged when a provider returns a hit.
ICP scoring and Salesforce or HubSpot sync
Layer a scoring formula across funding stage, hiring activity, and tech stack to rank competitors by priority. Push the scored list to Salesforce or HubSpot to trigger your outreach workflow.
Our most successful campaigns are built on data that doesn’t exist in off-the-shelf tools. Clay helps us find those signals — and transform ambitious ideas into executable, high-performing campaigns.
Frequently asked questions
How does Sculptor find competitor companies?
Sculptor uses Clay's Find Companies source to pull companies matching your target industry or market. It applies filters like industry, keywords, technographics, and revenue range to surface relevant competitors, then runs a waterfall enrichment across multiple contact-data providers to locate a verified Head of Marketing email for each company.
How accurate are the competitor lists and contact emails?
Clay's waterfall enrichment lifts email coverage from roughly 30% with a single provider to 80% or higher by cascading across multiple sources. In Clay's testing of 12 email finders across 4,700+ contacts, top providers exceeded 96% accuracy on verified work emails. Pairing the Find Companies source with HG Insights technographic data tightens competitor targeting so fewer irrelevant companies land in your list.
Can I find competitor companies in bulk at once?
Yes. Paste a list of industries or markets into a Clay table, upload a CSV, or pipe data from an existing table to generate competitor lists at scale. Sculptor enriches every row with company name and Head of Marketing email, and you can push the full list directly to HubSpot, Salesforce, or Outreach to launch a competitive displacement campaign.
Is it legal to collect B2B competitor company data?
GDPR allows processing business contact data under a "legitimate interest" basis for B2B outreach, but you must balance that interest against the individual's rights and offer an easy opt-out. In the U.S., the CCPA/CPRA and state laws like Virginia's CDPA include employment-related data in their scope, so you need to track data provenance and honor deletion requests.
Always check the rules for your specific jurisdiction and maintain records of where each contact was sourced.