Job Signal → Decision Maker Outreach: LeadOcean in a Clay table

You get a Clay table where each row is a company that just posted a sales job, with the VP or Director of Sales attached and a work email revealed. The job post is the trigger. LeadOcean finds the person and the address. The hiring signal comes from Clay's own job source, which the FullEnrich template for this play also uses (FullEnrich, September 2026).

This fits one job: you sell to sales teams and want a reason to write on day one. Clay's HTTP API column needs the Growth plan or higher (Clay pricing, September 2026). LeadOcean needs a free key.

How it works

1. Pull the trigger. Add a Clay job source for recent SDR and BDR postings, one job per company, last 30 days. Keep the company domain as a column named Company Domain.
2. Search for the decision maker. Add an HTTP API column that calls GET /v1/people/search with the domain, a job level filter and limit 1. It returns the best match at that company.
3. Pick the person. Search returns a list. Take the first entry in a Clay formula and keep its name, title and meta.source_ids.person_id.
4. Reveal the work email. Add a second HTTP API column on POST /v1/people/enrich with the person_id and reveal_email true. Gate it with "Only run if" the person column is not empty (Clay docs, October 2026).
5. Send it on. Filter on email_status, then push the table to your sequencer or CRM from Clay.

Test five rows before the full run. Misses are normal: some companies have no sales leader in the data.

Configuration

Save x-api-key once as an HTTP API (Headers) account and select it on both columns. Replace /Company Domain and /Person ID with your own column references; string references go in quotes (Clay docs, October 2026).

Column 1: Find sales leader
Method:   GET
URL:      https://api.leadocean.io/v1/people/search
Query params:
          domain      = /Company Domain
          jobFunction = Sales & Business Development
          jobLevel    = VP,Director
          title       = Head of Sales,VP Sales
          limit       = 1
Field paths to return: data

Column 2: Reveal work email
Method:   POST
URL:      https://api.leadocean.io/v1/people/enrich
Body:     { "person_id": "/Person ID", "reveal_email": true }
Field paths to return:
          data.contact_data.email_status
          data.contact_data.contact_emails

Check the same calls from a terminal first. The domain and ID below are placeholders.

curl -G "https://api.leadocean.io/v1/people/search" \
  -H "x-api-key: $LEADOCEAN_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode "domain=acme.com" \
  --data-urlencode "jobLevel=VP,Director" \
  --data-urlencode "title=Head of Sales,VP Sales" \
  --data-urlencode "limit=1"

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":"1234567","reveal_email":true}'

Multi-value query parameters are comma-separated, so no JSON array is needed in Clay. Enrich takes exactly one identifier. Filter values are exact strings, so check them with GET /v1/enums first. Keep the Clay rate limit under your LeadOcean plan: 5 requests a second on Free, 200 on Agency (LeadOcean docs, September 2026).

Field mapping

Search returns the whole list as data. Pick the first entry with a Clay formula, since Clay's field paths use dot notation (Clay docs, September 2026).

Cost at 10,000 rows

For 10,000 companies, LeadOcean uses up to 20,000 records and costs $97 a month on Solo or $497 on Agency. The Free plan's 1,000 records cover a test, not a run.

LeadOcean. A search row counts one record and an enrichment that finds a person counts one. A miss costs nothing, and reveal_email adds no record (LeadOcean docs, September 2026). Ten thousand companies means at most 10,000 search records plus 10,000 enrichments. Solo allows 10k enrichments every 5 hours and 50k a week, so one run fits. Agency has no per-record price.

Clay. The HTTP API column starts on Growth, $495 a month billed monthly or $446 billed yearly (Clay pricing, September 2026). Each HTTP call uses one Action, so two columns on 10,000 rows use 20,000 Actions, inside the 40,000 in the entry tier. A Clay table holds 50,000 rows on Growth (Clay pricing, September 2026).

Total for one 10,000-row run: about $592 a month on Solo plus Growth, monthly billing. Clay's job source and any waterfall providers are extra.

Troubleshooting

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