LeadOcean + Clay: write a personalized email from press clips, customers and job openings

You get a Clay table with one row per company. Each row holds a news item, two customers, an open job count, a contact and a drafted email. LeadOcean supplies the company profile and the contact. Clay's template adds positive news, two customers and the open job count, then writes the email (Clay template, October 2026).

LeadOcean does not return press, customer lists or job postings. Use it for the part that is a database lookup.

How it works

1. Create a LeadOcean key. Sign up at app.leadocean.io/register. Free gives 1,000 records, once, with no card.
2. Add a Domain column. One company per row, for example acme.com.
3. Add a company enrich column. An HTTP API column calls POST /v1/companies/enrich with the domain. It returns industry, size and location for the email's opening line.
4. Add a contact search and enrich. One column calls POST /v1/people/search for the buyer's function and level, limit 1. A second calls POST /v1/people/enrich with the row's person_id and reveal_email true. Set "Only run if" so empty searches skip.
5. Add the research columns. Add three Use AI columns with web research: one for a recent news item, one for two customers, one for the open job count. Clay lists customer-list research from a company site as a Use AI task (Clay docs, October 2026).
6. Add the AI email column. Pass the company profile, the news item, the customers and the job count. Ask for four sentences, one hook.
7. Run five rows first. Read every draft before you run the rest.

Configuration

Clay's HTTP API column takes a method, URL, headers, a JSON body and dot-notation field paths (Clay docs, October 2026). The company column looks like this. /Domain is Clay's column reference.

Method:   POST
URL:      https://api.leadocean.io/v1/companies/enrich
Headers:  x-api-key: <your LeadOcean key>
          content-type: application/json
Body:     { "domain": "/Domain" }
Field paths to return:
          data.company_data.company_name
          data.company_data.company_industries
          data.company_data.company_employees
          data.company_data.company_primary_address

Test the same calls in a terminal first.

curl -X POST "https://api.leadocean.io/v1/companies/enrich" \
  -H "x-api-key: $LEADOCEAN_API_KEY" \
  -H "content-type: application/json" \
  -d '{"domain":"acme.com"}'

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"],"jobFunction":["Sales & Business Development"],"jobLevel":["VP","Director"],"limit":1}'

Field mapping

Key names come from the LeadOcean docs (company, person, October 2026). Press clips, customers and job counts stay Clay columns. They have no LeadOcean field.

Cost at 10,000 rows

At 10,000 companies LeadOcean returns up to 30,000 records: a company enrich, a search row and a person enrich per row. A miss costs nothing.

LeadOcean. Free covers 1,000 records once, about 330 companies. Solo at $97 a month allows 10k enrichments every 5 hours and 50k a week. The run's 20,000 enrichments fit the week; past 10k in 5 hours the key slows, it does not stop. Agency at $497 a month allows 1M enrichments a day.

Clay. The HTTP API column is Growth and Enterprise (Clay pricing, September 2026). Each HTTP call and each AI run uses one Action, so seven columns use 70,000 Actions (Clay docs, October 2026). Web research costs 1 Data Credit a row on Clay's Helium model and the email 0.4 on GPT-5 Mini, about 34,000 credits (Clay docs, October 2026). That needs Growth's 100,000-Action and 50,000-credit tiers: $450 + $2,125 = $2,575 a month billed monthly (Clay pricing, September 2026).

Troubleshooting

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