LeadOcean + Clay: reach the buyer at companies that are hiring

You get a Clay table where each row is a company with an open role that matches your ICP. LeadOcean adds the person who owns that problem, with title, seniority and email status, and the row moves to your sequencer. Clay's template scrapes job openings, writes personalized emails and adds prospects to Instantly (Clay template, September 2026). This recipe swaps the contact step for LeadOcean.

LeadOcean does not hold job postings. The hiring signal comes from Clay. LeadOcean answers the next question: who do I write to at that company.

How it works

1. Get a free key. Sign up at app.leadocean.io/register. No card, 1,000 records.
2. Pull job openings in Clay. Search for the roles that signal your ICP, such as a company hiring its first SDR. Clay's template starts from a job-openings scrape. Its cost depends on the source you pick in Clay.
3. Keep the company domain. Add a column with the employer's website domain. Search by domain, not by company name.
4. Find the buyer. Add an HTTP API column that calls POST /v1/people/search with the domain and the title you sell to.
5. Skip empty rows. Set an "only run if" formula so the column runs only when the domain is filled (Clay docs, September 2026).
6. Enrich the winner. A second column calls POST /v1/people/enrich with the person_id from step 4 to get the email.
7. Send to your sequencer. Push the row with the Clay integration you already use. Clay's template ends in Instantly.

Configuration

Size the list first. This call returns a total and no records, so it costs nothing.

curl -X POST "https://api.leadocean.io/v1/people/search?count=true&limit=1" \
  -H "x-api-key: $LEADOCEAN_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"domain":["acme.com"],"jobLevel":["VP"],"jobFunction":["Sales & Business Development"]}'

Then the Clay column. /Domain is Clay's reference to the domain column.

Method:   POST
URL:      https://api.leadocean.io/v1/people/search
Headers:  x-api-key: <your LeadOcean key>
          content-type: application/json
Body:     {
            "domain": ["/Domain"],
            "jobLevel": ["VP"],
            "jobFunction": ["Sales & Business Development"],
            "emailStatus": ["verified"],
            "limit": 1
          }

domain is the employer's website domain, as an array of strings (API reference, October 2026). Enum values are exact strings. Check them with leadocean_list_enum_values.

Enrich the result.

curl -X POST "https://api.leadocean.io/v1/people/enrich" \
  -H "x-api-key: $LEADOCEAN_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"person_id":"PERSON_ID_FROM_STEP_4","reveal_email":true}'

Send exactly one identifier to enrich. To size a company list before you pay for contacts, use GET /v1/companies/count.

Field mapping

Cost at 10,000 rows

LeadOcean is $0 for the first 1,000 records. Beyond that, Solo is $97 a month and Agency is $497 a month. Neither bills per record. Solo's fair-use pace is 10k enrichments every 5 hours and 50k a week.

A search page counts one record per person returned. A company with nobody matching returns an empty page, and an empty page costs nothing. At one result per company, 10,000 companies is about 10,000 search records plus 10,000 enrichments.

Clay's HTTP API column starts on Growth at $495 a month billed monthly, or $446 billed yearly. Each call uses one Action, and Growth includes 40,000 Actions a month (Clay pricing, September 2026). Two calls per row use 20,000, before the job scrape and the email step.

Troubleshooting

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