Lead sources

A lead source here is a list you build from filters, not a file we hand you. LeadOcean holds 693M people and 63M companies, and each page below shows one way to cut that into a list: by title, department, location, industry, technology, phone or email status. The pages give the filter names, the exact allowed values and a count you can check yourself.

Every page maps to the same two paths. Over REST, POST /v1/people/search and POST /v1/companies/search take the filters as a flat JSON body, and POST /v1/exports pulls the full list. Over MCP, leadocean_count_leads sizes a list for free, leadocean_search_leads and leadocean_search_companies return rows, and leadocean_export_leads writes the CSV. For the term, see lead scrape. For what to do with a list afterwards, see lead routing.

Free count, dated

One live count, so you know what sizing looks like. leadocean_count_leads returned 115,336 on 2026-10-01 for jobLevel VP, jobFunction Sales & Business Development, country US. That is people with a verified, catch_all_valid or catch_all email, the tool's default filter. The call spent no records.

People

Start here when you know the buyer. These pages filter on who the person is and where they work.

• Find People: the general people search, every people filter in one place.
• Find Decision Makers: filter by jobLevel and jobFunction to reach the buyer.
• Find People By Job Title: match exact titles, such as GTM Engineer.
• Find People By Department: cut a company by function.
• Find People By Skill: search a person's headline, summary, skills and job descriptions with keywords.
• Find People By Location: filter by country, salesRegion or city.
• Find People At A Company: filter on domain, companyName or companyLinkedin.
• Find Alumni: match a school, degree or year with education.

Contact status

These pages filter on whether you can reach the person, before you spend a record on the details.

• Find People With Verified Emails: filter by emailStatus and emailType.
• Find People With Phone Numbers: filter on hasPhone to keep people we hold a number for.

Companies

Start here when you build from the account side.

• Find Companies: the general company search, every company filter in one place.
• Find Companies By Industry: pick from 534 industry values.
• Find Companies By Location: filter by hqCountry, country or city.
• Find Companies By Headcount: filter by employeeRange or minEmployees and maxEmployees.
• Find Companies By Revenue: filter by minRevenue and maxRevenue, with the counting limit stated.
• Find Companies By Technology: filter on technologies detected on the company website.
• Find Companies By NAICS Code: filter by NAICS code.
• Find Companies By SIC Code: filter by SIC code.
• Find Public Companies: filter on companyType Public Company.

Funding and new companies

• Find Recently Funded Companies: filter by round and funding year.
• Find Companies By Investor: portfolio companies of a named investor.
• Find New Companies: filter on minFounded and maxFounded.

Bulk output

• Bulk CSV Export: up to 50,000 rows per export, from the API or the Exports page in the app.

How to choose

• You know the buyer. Use Find Decision Makers. jobLevel and jobFunction get you to the right seat faster than a title string.
• You know the account type. Start on the company side with industry, headcount or technology, then pull the people at those companies.
• You need to call or email. Use the contact status pages first. They keep only people we hold a number or a sendable email for.
• You want a list now, not code. Use Bulk CSV Export. The Exports page in the app has a filter builder, a column picker and the record price before you start.
• You are comparing build against buy. Read best open source lead generation tools first, then size the same list here for free.

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