LeadOcean + Clay: find key decision makers from a website URL

You get a Clay table where each company website returns the C-level and VP people LeadOcean holds there, with name, title and a flag for whether an email is on file. The HTTP API column calls LeadOcean people search once per row. That column needs Clay Growth or higher (Clay pricing, September 2026).

LeadOcean searches by domain, not by full URL. Search rows carry the same profile as enrich, without emails or phones. Emails come from a second call, enrich by person_id.

How it works

1. Get a free key. Sign up at app.leadocean.io/register. No card, 1,000 records.
2. Add a domain column. Paste your websites and reduce each to a bare domain such as acme.com. Strip https://, www. and any path.
3. Add the HTTP API column. Method POST, endpoint https://api.leadocean.io/v1/people/search.
4. Set headers and body. Send x-api-key, the domain, and the seniority you want.
5. Pick the field paths. Clay uses dot notation for nested values (Clay docs, September 2026).
6. Run five rows first. Check the columns fill, then run the table.

Configuration

/Domain is Clay's column reference. jobLevel values are exact strings: C-Team and VP.

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": ["C-Team", "VP"],
            "limit": 3
          }
Field paths to return:
          data
          meta.total

Test the same request in a terminal first.

curl -X POST "https://api.leadocean.io/v1/people/search" \
  -H "x-api-key: $LEADOCEAN_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"domain":["acme.com"],"jobLevel":["C-Team","VP"],"limit":3}'

Each person returned is one record. A search that matches nobody costs nothing. With the field path data, the people come back as one list in one cell. Set limit to 1 if you want one decision maker per row.

Field mapping

Cost at 10,000 rows

The size of the run is set by how many people you ask for per domain, not by the row count. Cap it with limit, which takes 1 to 100 and defaults to 25.

10,000 domains at three people each is up to 30,000 records. LeadOcean costs $0 for the first 1,000 records, or $97 on Solo for all of them.

Size the list before you spend. A people count is free, and meta.distinctCompanies shows how many employers a filter spans. Solo covers 100k search records every 5 hours and 500k a week, so one run fits. There is no per-record price. Free covers about 333 domains at three people each, then answers 402.

Clay uses one Action per HTTP call. Growth starts at $495 a month billed monthly, or $446 billed yearly, and includes 40,000 Actions (Clay pricing, September 2026). So 10,000 rows use a quarter of them.

Troubleshooting

FAQ