How to Find Buying Intent Signals B2B With Claude

LeadOcean does not sell third-party intent scores. It gives you two signals you can filter on today: a recent funding round and a detected tech category. Connect https://api.leadocean.io/mcp first. Setup is on the MCP page.

The prompt

Find buyers showing intent signals.
1. Call leadocean_list_enum_values for tech_category and job_level
   to confirm the exact strings.
2. Call leadocean_count_leads with jobLevel C-Team and VP,
   jobFunction Sales & Business Development and Advertising & Marketing,
   minLastFundingYear 2025 and technologyCategories Marketing automation.
3. Tell me the count and the filters you used.
4. Do not call leadocean_search_leads until I say go.

What it resolves to

Funding in 2025 or later is the "new budget" signal. A marketing automation tool on the company site is the "already buys software" signal. Enum values are exact strings, which is why step 1 looks them up. Both signals sit on the company record, so every person counted works at a company that shows both.

How many match

133 mailable people matched on 1 October 2026. Filters: jobLevel C-Team and VP, jobFunction Sales & Business Development and Advertising & Marketing, minLastFundingYear 2025, technologyCategories Marketing automation.

Mailable means verified, catch_all_valid or catch_all, the count_leads default. The count is free. It is small because technology data covers about 7.8M crawled companies, an eighth of the corpus. Drop the tech filter to widen it.

What you get back

Search rows carry the fields below, plus name, email status and company domain. These are placeholder values, not real records.

Variations

• Swap the signal: "technologyCategories CRM instead of Marketing automation".
• Tighten the window: "minLastFundingYear 2026, jobLevel C-Team only".
• Narrow the market: "add country US and employeeRange 51-200, then count again".

Records it spends

The enum lookups and the count are free. leadocean_search_leads costs 1 record per person returned, so a limit of 25 costs 25 records. Ask Claude to confirm the cost before it runs the search. Free gives you 1,000 records one-off with no card. Pro is $499 a month. See pricing.

Related prompts

• Validate intent signals
• Detect B2B buying signals
• Use intent signals for outbound

More prompts live in the prompts hub.