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How OpenAI is scaling their GTM motion with Clay

January 21, 2025
How OpenAI is scaling their GTM motion with Clay
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How Rippling uses Clay to scale growth experiments and email personalization

March 4, 2025
How Rippling uses Clay to scale growth experiments and email personalization
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How Verkada’s growth team uses Clay to launch targeted ABM campaigns across LinkedIn, email, and direct mail

September 6, 2024
How Verkada’s growth team uses Clay to launch targeted ABM campaigns across LinkedIn, email, and direct mail
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How Anthropic uses Clay to 3x their enrichment coverage—with no manual work

August 26, 2024
How Anthropic uses Clay to 3x their enrichment coverage—with no manual work

Turn web visitors into leads with a warm outbound marketing play for B2B sales

June 7, 2024
June 6, 2024
Turn web visitors into leads with a warm outbound marketing play for B2B sales

How to build the most targeted account lists possible

April 9, 2024
April 9, 2024
How to build the most targeted account lists possible

How Clay uses Clay: Converting trial users into customers with automated outreach

March 11, 2024
March 12, 2024
How Clay uses Clay: Converting trial users into customers with automated outreach

Wake the dead: turn stalled opportunities into won deals

February 8, 2024
March 12, 2024
Wake the dead: turn stalled opportunities into won deals

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How Regency Supply used Clay to find niche prospects & automate research and scoring

Regency Supply, a commercial lighting and electrical distributor serving thousands of businesses and local contractors, found themselves spending too much time on manual tasks: verifying new e-commerce registrations, building lists of local electrical contractors, and enriching contact data.

April 2, 2025
May 14, 2025
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How Exit Five scales sponsorship revenue by enriching newsletter subscribers

Exit Five, an online and in-person B2B marketing community, faced a common challenge every media company faces: growing their sponsorship revenue while working with limited data and a lean team.

March 11, 2025
May 1, 2025
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How Rippling uses Clay to scale growth experiments and email personalization

Rippling is a platform that enables companies to manage their people, spend, and IT all in one place. It has tens of thousands of customers globally.

March 4, 2025
April 27, 2025
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How Rootly used Clay to scale outbound sales with leaner, smarter workflows

Rootly, an incident management platform trusted by companies like Dropbox, Figma, LinkedIn, and our team at Clay, faced a common challenge familiar to many YC startups selling to enterprise clients: how to scale outbound sales efficiently without the resources of larger teams.

January 21, 2025
May 1, 2025
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How OpenAI is scaling their GTM motion with Clay

OpenAI, the pioneering AI research and deployment company, changed the world as we know it with the launch of ChatGPT in 2022. When they launched ChatGPT Enterprise, just nine months later, they unleashed a firehose of inbound interest.

January 21, 2025
April 27, 2025
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How Vanta uses Clay to streamline RevOps and scale signal-based prospecting

Vanta, the leading trust management platform, faced a familiar challenge for high-growth B2B companies: their fragmented sales tech stack was causing inefficiencies across their rapidly scaling sales team.

January 21, 2025
April 22, 2025
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How Harmonic automated their SDR workflows in Clay to increase output and conversion rates

Harmonic, the complete startup database trusted by many of the largest VCs worldwide, faced challenges managing their SDR workflows across multiple tools. To streamline their outbound motion and boost productivity, Harmonic rebuilt their entire SDR workflow using Clay.

January 13, 2025
June 12, 2025
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How Sendoso uses Clay to inject creativity, efficiency, and $1M in pipeline into their outbound motion

Sendoso helps revenue teams drive pipeline using direct mail and personalized gifting. Its marketing team owns qualified pipeline generation, with three SDRs that partner closely with sales.

November 20, 2024
May 1, 2025
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How Oyster uses Clay to run intent-based outbound campaigns, saving 40hrs/month per sales rep

Oyster is a global employment platform that helps companies hire and manage distributed teams in 180+ countries.

October 22, 2024
April 27, 2025
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How Coverflex uses Clay to automate signal-based outreach for 3M+ companies, adding 200+ monthly demos

Coverflex is a fast-growing fintech company that offers a flexible benefits platform for businesses. Targeting small-to-medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Portugal, Spain, and Italy, Coverflex helps companies provide personalized approaches to employee benefits.

October 10, 2024
June 12, 2025
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How Verkada’s growth team uses Clay to launch targeted ABM campaigns across LinkedIn, email, and direct mail

Verkada is a cloud-based enterprise security company that provides intelligent video surveillance, access control, environmental sensors, and alarms in one unified platform. The company’s growth team uses a variety of strategies—including ads, outbound campaigns, and direct mail—to target niche ideal customer profiles such as IT directors, Homeowners Associations (HOAs), industrial businesses, and more.

September 6, 2024
April 27, 2025
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How Anthropic uses Clay to 3x their enrichment coverage—with no manual work

‍Anthropic, founded in 2021, is the trailblazing AI safety and research company behind the popular LLM Claude, with the mission to build reliable, interpretable, steerable AI systems.

August 26, 2024
April 27, 2025
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Turn web visitors into leads with a warm outbound marketing play for B2B sales

Learn how to turn web visitors into leads with a warm outbound marketing play designed for B2B sales companies.

Jun 7, 2024
Jun 6, 2024
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How to build the most targeted account lists possible

Before Clay, building account lists was tedious and manual. Clay empowers you to build the lists of your dreams, and Jacob Tuwiner shows you how.

Apr 9, 2024
Apr 9, 2024
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Worried about email provider rules changing? Just write like a human.

To make sure your cold outbound emails actually get delivered and read, do three essential things and make sure your messaging sounds like a human wrote it.

Apr 4, 2024
Apr 4, 2024
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Use web scraping to uplevel your data enrichment with Clay

Improve your data enrichment with an AI-enhanced, no-code web scraper. Web scraping allows you to personalize your cold outbound emails at scale.

Apr 4, 2024
Apr 4, 2024
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How Clay uses Clay: Converting trial users into customers with automated outreach

You know that effectively converting trial users into paying customers is critical for growth, but takes strategic outreach. Clay uses our own product to automate the process of tracking trial sign-ups and crafting personalized messaging for effective conversion!

Mar 11, 2024
Mar 12, 2024
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How to find warm intros automatically with Clay

In this post, Eric Nowoslawski shows you how you can use Clay to harness your social network for real warm intros, not empty connections.

Feb 22, 2024
Mar 12, 2024
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Wake the dead: turn stalled opportunities into won deals

You have tons of stalled opps in your CRM. Deals that didn't reach the finish line, meetings that didn't show, etc. The timing was off back then, but it could be better now. Clay can turn your raw CRM export into a fully personalized email campaign to get those dead deals back on the books.

Feb 8, 2024
Mar 12, 2024
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How to launch personalized direct mail campaigns at scale w/ Sendoso + Clay

Jacob Tuwiner walks us through the killer email campaign he automated with Clay for Sendoso...check out those analytics, and then build it for yourself.

Jan 29, 2024
Mar 12, 2024
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How to send personalized demos at scale w/ Clay

See how Jacob Tuwiner achieved an 83% email open rate and saved reps time with automated event mockups, built with Clay.

Jan 29, 2024
Mar 12, 2024
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24 easy AI email personalization examples for cold outreach (with prompts)

Everyone knows that personalized emails perform better than generic ones, but writing a personalized email can be a lot of work. Fortunately, with the right AI writing tools, creating thousands of personalized emails in minutes is possible. In this article, we will show you 24 AI email personalization examples you can quickly implement to grow your sales pipeline rapidly.

Apr 12, 2023
Mar 12, 2024
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Automate 6 cold email campaigns in a single Clay workflow

In this post, we’ll go over how we automated six different outbound cold email campaigns using a single Clay table.

Mar 9, 2023
Mar 12, 2024
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How to create your own sales prospect list in minutes

Revolutionize your sales process with Clay, the sales prospecting tool that enables you to import prospects from multiple sources, enrich data, and export it to your preferred platform. Start building your sales prospecting list in minutes, not hours.

Feb 10, 2023
Mar 12, 2024
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11 AI prompts for sales prospecting and research

Learn how to write effective AI prompts for sales prospecting. This guide shares 13 real prompt examples for common sales tasks like finding company missions, summarizing news, and more. See how proper prompting framework helps improve campaign relevance and response rates.

Feb 3, 2023
Mar 12, 2024
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How to use OpenAI to write the perfect cold email from scratch

Streamline your cold emailing process with OpenAI and Clay. Write personalized emails quickly and easily using company bio, company information, and more. Discover how to save time and improve the effectiveness of your outreach in this informative post.

Feb 2, 2023
Mar 12, 2024
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How to use formulas in Clay

When building a Clay table, the sources, integrations, and CRM plugins can accomplish the goals of most users. Sometimes, there is a need for some data merging, splitting, or otherwise clean up that is needed in your table. This is where you can use Formulas to accomplish your goals!In this blog, we are going to first go over how to think about formulas using the AI formula generator and then we will go over common formulas that you can write yourself in your Clay table.

Jan 20, 2023
Mar 12, 2024
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Optimize your credit usage in Clay

In this blog, we will go over a couple of functions in Clay that can will help you optimize your credit usage in Clay. There are many ways to optimize credit usage in Clay that the team has built into the product that we will go over in this blog. We will cover formulas that optimize your workflows and some features that are often overlooked that can help keep your credit usage down.

Jan 20, 2023
Mar 12, 2024
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Basics of Google search operators

The Clay Google Search Integration allows for the most amount of creativity out of all the integrations. With the use of Google, essentially, you are able to build your own database from scratch.

Nov 30, 2022
Mar 12, 2024
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Lead scoring in Clay

Welcome to the second post in our series on how to use formulas in Clay! We’re going to walk you through prioritizing your lead list using scoring formulas in Clay 🌶️

Sep 9, 2022
Mar 12, 2024
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Formulas in Clay

Ever wanted to learn formulas in Clay but didn't know where to start? Join the club. Just kidding. Read this and you'll be well on your way to mastering the basics of formulas.

Aug 18, 2022
Mar 12, 2024
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