Find companies by industry

Filter on industry (534 exact values), then count the people you can reach. Sizing is free.

industry describes the company, not the person. You pick one or more industries, then add the people you want at those companies.

The filter

Strings are exact, and the list has near duplicates. Software Development and Computer Software are separate values. So are Hospitals, Hospital and Health Care and Hospitals and Health Care.

Search the list before you guess. A substring query such as software returns seven values. Pass every one that fits.

How many you can reach

Four live counts from leadocean_count_leads, run on 2026-10-01. Each count is mailable people: verified, catch_all_valid or catch_all email, the tool's default. They spent no records.

These are people at matching companies, not a company count. The last two rows show the cost of a near duplicate: adding Computer Software brought 157 more people.

Run it from an AI agent

Connect the MCP server at https://api.leadocean.io/mcp (OAuth sign-in, no key pasted), then ask in plain words.

Find C-level people at US software companies with 11 to 50 employees. Size it first, then show me 25.

The agent counts first with the free tool, then calls leadocean_search_leads with this:

{
  "industry": ["Software Development"],
  "jobLevel": ["C-Team"],
  "country": ["US"],
  "employeeRange": ["11-50"],
  "limit": 25
}

The search costs 1 record per person returned. Use leadocean_search_companies when you want companies, not people. It costs 1 record per company.

Run it with the API

One flat JSON body to POST /v1/people/search. Filters are arrays of strings.

curl -X POST "https://api.leadocean.io/v1/people/search" \
  -H "x-api-key: $LEADOCEAN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "industry": ["Software Development"],
    "jobLevel": ["C-Team"],
    "country": ["US"],
    "employeeRange": ["11-50"],
    "limit": 25
  }'

For the free sizing call, put count=true in the URL (not the body) and set limit to 1.

curl -X POST "https://api.leadocean.io/v1/people/search?count=true" \
  -H "x-api-key: $LEADOCEAN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "industry": ["Software Development"],
    "jobLevel": ["C-Team"],
    "country": ["US"],
    "employeeRange": ["11-50"],
    "emailStatus": ["verified", "catch_all_valid", "catch_all"],
    "limit": 1
  }'

data comes back empty and meta.countOnly is true. meta.total stops at 100,000 on the REST API. POST /v1/companies/search takes the same industry filters.

Export the list

POST /v1/exports takes the same filters inside a filters object. One export is up to 50,000 rows, and an account can export 500,000 rows a day.

curl -X POST "https://api.leadocean.io/v1/exports" \
  -H "x-api-key: $LEADOCEAN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "name": "software-c-level-us",
    "filters": {
      "industry": ["Software Development"],
      "jobLevel": ["C-Team"],
      "country": ["US"],
      "employeeRange": ["11-50"]
    },
    "limit": 5000,
    "preset": "search"
  }'

Poll GET /v1/exports/{id}, then download. Prefer clicking? The Exports page in the app at app.leadocean.io has the filter builder, a column picker, the record price before you start, and a CSV download.

Combine it

• Add employeeRange (for example ["51-200"]) to pick a company size. See find companies by headcount.
• Add jobFunction and jobLevel to reach one buyer. Information Technology plus VP and Director is the second count above.
• Add minLastFundingYear to keep recently funded companies. See find new companies. The fundingType filter narrows further at search time, but leadocean_count_leads cannot size it.

More ways to build a company list are on the find companies hub.

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