For GTM engineers, Clay is a data orchestration and AI workflow platform that consolidates 150+ enrichment sources, AI research agents (Claygent), and integrations, enabling teams to run agentic workflows and launch personalized go-to-market plays at scale.

Presence & Market Position

90
SOV Score

#1 of 74
AI-Native GTM Challengers

▼ 15 60-day move

Measures earned, engagement-weighted share of voice across the GTM voices panel. Methodology →

Clay's July homepage rewrite recast it as the infrastructure GTM engineers build on, moving the story from list-cleaning enrichment to a data, agent, and orchestration layer underneath GTM workflows. Recent shipping — an API, CLI, and Agent Plugin for coding-agent surfaces, account-research agents with persistent memory, and a reps-facing extension into Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, and Glean — pushes that positioning from the ops/builder persona into day-to-day sales use. The conversation is dense and practitioner-heavy: step-by-step GTM-engineering builds chaining it with coding agents and a CRM, growth-team playbook teardowns, and career narratives from people who built their reputations inside it. It surfaces on best-of-GTM-leader lists and funding comparisons against the sales-tech vendors around it.

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Business Profile

Clay was founded in 2017 in New York. It raised roughly $202M before a $115M Series D announced September 9, 2026, that valued the company at $7.1B, a 42% step-up from the $5B mark set on a January 2026 employee tender. Clay crossed $100M ARR in December 2025 and reports 4x revenue growth for 2025, with more than 17,000 customers including 80% of the Forbes AI 50. Headcount has passed 1,000. The company has repositioned its self-description several times as the product grew from a data-enrichment spreadsheet into a broader orchestration platform for GTM teams.

Founded
2017
Employees
500
Funding
$202M
ARR
$100M+ (Dec 2025)
Valuation
$5B (Jan 2026)
Status
Independent
Scale stage
Scaled
GTM Categories
OrchestrationData & IntelligenceProspectingGTM Developer ToolsEnrichment & Signals
Key people

Agent Readiness

68B
Agent Readiness
APIMCPSDKCLI

Measures how easily your agents can build on it — API, MCP, CLI, SDK, docs depth. Methodology →

Clay's distribution arc has moved through ChatGPT (December 2025), Claude (January 2026), an MCP server open to all paid plans (April 2026), and a natural-language agent builder free on every tier (May 2026), then an API, CLI, and Agent Plugin (July) that run Clay from inside Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor, extended the same month to Microsoft Copilot and Glean for reps. The newest layer, Account Research Agents, runs with persistent memory and writes findings back to the CRM.