How to Use Intent Signals for Outbound With Claude

Signal-based outbound starts with a list where every company has a reason to talk to you now. LeadOcean holds two such signals: a recent funding year and a detected tech category. It holds no page-visit or ad-click intent data. Connect Claude to https://api.leadocean.io/mcp first. Setup is on the MCP page.

The prompt

I sell conversion tooling to online stores. Build my outbound audience.
1. Call leadocean_list_enum_values for tech_category, job_level and
   job_function and use the exact strings.
2. Call leadocean_count_leads with technologyCategories Ecommerce,
   minLastFundingYear 2025, jobLevel C-Team and VP,
   jobFunction Advertising & Marketing, country US. Pass facets false.
3. Tell me the count, the date and the filters you used.
4. Do not call leadocean_search_leads until I say go.

What it resolves to

Funding since 2025 is the "new budget" signal. An ecommerce platform on the company site is the "sells online today" signal. Step 1 matters because enum values are exact strings.

How many match

11 mailable people matched on 2 October 2026. Filters: technologyCategories Ecommerce, minLastFundingYear 2025, jobLevel C-Team and VP, jobFunction Advertising & Marketing, country US.

Mailable means verified, catch_all_valid or catch_all, the count_leads default. The count is free. It is small because three filters stack and tech data covers about 7.8M crawled companies. Drop minLastFundingYear 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 tech signal: "technologyCategories Cart abandonment instead of Ecommerce".
• Widen the buyer: "jobLevel C-Team, VP and Director, then count again".
• Drop the funding signal: "remove minLastFundingYear and add employeeRange 51-200".

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 searches. Free gives you 1,000 records one-off with no card. Pro is $499 a month. See pricing.

Related prompts

• Validate intent signals
• Find buying intent signals for B2B
• Detect B2B buying signals

Hiring instead of selling? See how to use Claude for recruiting. More prompts live in the prompts hub.