LeadOcean + Clay: scrape Indeed jobs for locations and write the email

You get a Clay table where each company has a location count taken from its Indeed listings, a named decision maker from LeadOcean, and a first line that uses both. Clay's template does the scrape and the formula (Clay template, September 2026). It stops at the line. This recipe adds the person to send it to.

A job post lists a city. Count the distinct cities and you have a rough footprint. "I saw you hire in 6 cities" beats "I saw you are growing".

The signal is strongest for multi-site businesses: clinics, retail, logistics, staffing. Skip single-office software firms, where the count is always 1. Aim the list at companies that hire in volume, then send the line to the one person who owns that spend.

How it works

1. Get a free key. Sign up at app.leadocean.io/register. No card, 1,000 records.
2. Load companies into Clay. Start from a domain list, or size one first with the free GET /v1/companies/count or the leadocean_count_companies MCP tool.
3. Scrape Indeed. Run the template's Indeed step per company and collect the job locations. The template is tagged Claygent. Read the step's Data Credit rate in Clay before a full run.
4. Count distinct locations. Use a formula that returns the number of unique cities.
5. Find the decision maker. Add an HTTP API column that calls LeadOcean people search with the domain filter.
6. Write the first line. Combine the location count, the person's title and the company name in a text formula or AI column.
7. Send from your own tool. LeadOcean has no sequencer. Export the table to your sender.

Configuration

/Domain is Clay's reference to the company domain column. The HTTP API column needs Clay Growth or higher (Clay pricing, September 2026).

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": 1
          }

Test one company in a terminal first. GET /v1/filters/people lists every filter name, free.

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":["VP"],"limit":1}'

For a company's own record, call POST /v1/companies/enrich with the domain. Add the email later with reveal_email on POST /v1/people/enrich.

Field mapping

Cost at 10,000 rows

10,000 companies is up to 10,000 search records for the decision makers, plus one record per email you enrich. LeadOcean is $0 for the first 1,000 records, then $97 a month on Solo, or $497 on Agency for teams. There is no per-record price, only a fair-use pace. A search that matches nobody costs nothing.

Clay's Growth plan, the first with the HTTP API column, is $495 a month billed monthly, or $446 billed yearly. It includes 40,000 Actions and 6,000 Data Credits a month (Clay pricing, September 2026). The scrape spends Data Credits; the HTTP API column spends one Action per call.

Troubleshooting

FAQ