Clay

Big news: @Clay is now available in @ChatGPTapp! Sales teams can now access contact databases, enrichment providers, and AI research agents directly from Chat. Get verified emails, tech stacks, headcount growth, funding signals, and recent activity -- all in one conversation, grounded in the right context. Here's just some of what you can do: 1️⃣ Find the right people "Clay, find product executives who joined {company} in the last 6 months" 2️⃣ Research people and companies "Clay, tell me everything about John at {company} — career history, recent posts, and signals" 3️⃣ Draft personalized outreach "Clay, draft an email referencing their CFO's recent interviews and AI spend" Proud to be one of the first apps built specifically for business workflows directly inside ChatGPT! Try it out! 🔗👇 clay.link/QyoWJHJ

@abdullah_anwar4 hey Muhammad, mind messaging us your email -- the team is looking into this

@clay I tried signing up to Clay.com with my email but the website said my account has been temporarily blocked for fraud protection. This was the first time I had tried signing up to Clay.com so I don't know how this happened.

@m1shti @majamediaco @kareemamin love yew guyssss

@majamediaco @clay @kareemamin so cool to hear that!!!

lately thinking about companies by ambition and craft some have taste without chasing scale (local cafe). some are optimisation machines. most are in the default zone the rarer type is high craft + high ambition, where taste and growth reinforce each other who belongs there?

A toilet is just a wrapper on managed plumbing

One of our biggest differentiators at @Clay is that we take seriously what most people don't. At most companies, creative roles are treated as optional, downstream of the "real" work happens. That is not how we operate, and @m1shti's story shows it — review.firstround.com/firsthand-clay/

If you're reaching out to a local biz with a @Yelp page, there's no excuse not to get a reply. Their customers tell you whats broken (long wait times, rude baristas) And addressing solutions to those pain points in emails is a good way in. Sending an email like: "saw 14 of your recent reviews mention long wait times" Hits different than: "we sell software that lets customers order faster" Clay's Yelp Action lets you show up with their own customers' words. Search "Yelp" in your Tool menu to find it. 🔨

@ItsWillHenry problem: you ran out of pellegrino

I think I might have a problem

@verofashoo @vxanand @madhavjha @emergentlabs @shaincodes @cfosilvia @laurenmhreeder @sequoia great shot of @vxanand

What does building AI-native actually look like with @vxanand from @clay, @madhavjha from @emergentlabs and @shaincodes from @cfosilvia moderated by @laurenmhreeder from @sequoia - be adaptable and plan for where the models are 6 months from now - evals evals evals to help predict where your product can go as models get smarter - don’t assume that if a big player is in the space, that space is checked off - follow your curiosity, seek discomfort

@zzzzshawn @ClaudeKarangwa can you make this

"design is dead" try asking claude to make this

@mal_shaik same with company social pages

the best founders i know are ok looking stupid they dm strangers, post unfinished work, ask dumb questions ego is the bottleneck

@Tycreated YEEEESSSSSSSSSSS!!!!! (Welcome :) )

New news 🎉 I joined @clay I’ll be on the brand team, working across the website experience. More soon!

@jack_whitcomb_ @jeffbarg get in here.

on Amazon I have discovered a book called "Infinite Jeffs" which is apparently a copy of Infinite Jest where each word has been replaced with the word "Jeff"

@pushmatrix This is gonna rip.

This website is tearable.

The future of growth marketing is go-to-market engineering. I say this as someone who has led growth marketing at startups for the past 10 years. When growth marketing started, the promise was compelling: a data-driven strategy that uses constant experimentation across the entire customer journey—from acquisition to retention—to drive sustainable business growth. But after 15 years, the reality is that being a growth marketer too often means optimizing Google search ads, increasing spend on Meta campaigns, churning out new SEO articles, doing title tag experiments, or running A/B tests on your website. The world where that made sense no longer exists. Meta and Google ads are completely different - their models take care of targeting as you feed more and more data into their products. Most of SEO/AEO has been (or will be) sped up with AI and a "human in the loop" approach rather than a full-on manual editorial motion. And agents will likely take care of many more of these classic growth marketing optimizations very soon. In 2026, growth marketing means you must build systems using AI and automation that target and convert people from top of the funnel all the way into monetization and expansion. Frankly, you couldn't do this two years ago. But today, the combination of a rich data-layer + AI-enabled workflows allows you to own these flows end-to-end. That means you must not only execute channel-level campaigns, but own system-level activities. Yes, you know who you are targeting on Meta/Google campaigns, but you also set-up website de-anonymization, you control the enrichment flows on forms, you set-up lifecycle motions to convert people into the new stages of the funnel, enable sales with new case studies. Growth marketers need to own the whole system now. That's GTM Engineering.

Excited to see Claygent Builder go live! The team has been building a new way to create purpose-built GTM agents: describe the workflow in natural language, test it on real data, and deploy it directly in Clay.

Also shipping with Claygent Builder: → Hot-swap models on the fly → Version history w/ one-click rollback → "Find Contacts and Jobs" as an agent too Blog post 👉 clay.link/K6qkxc5

GTM teams are using Claygents for: ∙ ICP qualification and account scoring ∙ Automating personalized outbound emails ∙ Persona classification for CRM routing ∙ Account research + enrichment at scale

NEW: Introducing Claygent Builder. You can now spin up GTM agents in natural language, test them on real data, and deploy them... all inside Clay (free on every plan, even trials). Before: 1. Prompt generation happened in another tab 2. Every test burned credits 3. Context lived outside the prompt 4. Same Claygent rebuilt across tables Now: 1. Build conversationally w/ Sculptor 🧼 2. Test your agents for free on real data 3. Upload docs + business context 4. Create once, update everywhere Try Claygents + Claygent Builder: clay.link/QixIKCY

When I joined @clay as one of its earliest employees, I felt defeated. Instead of betting on my cultural journalism, I was joining a 10-person B2B data company to write about cold email. I thought I'd quit in a month. Over the last three years, everything changed. Clay went from a small spreadsheet tool to a 5B AI company. I went from writing sales guides on Notion to defining a career path (GTM engineering!), building a video journalism arm, and having the most fun of my career. It happened because Clay saw, trusted, and rewarded me in ways most companies never would've risked. For years, I did finance, product, or growth jobs because they had the most impact, pay, and freedom. @kareemamin and @vxanand broke that math. They paid me like a PM for a content role, let me stay an IC when managing felt draining, and encouraged me to reinvent my job over and over. Now as the company's Head of Narrative, I've leaned into my strengths and we made category-defining work out of it. The talent philosophy is simple: create the conditions where someone can be fully themselves, and you get irreplicable work. Your company gets more self-actualized, your team does too, and people on the outside see it happening and want in. I wrote a 5000 word behind-the-scenes look at my Clay journey to debut @firstround's new series, Firsthand. I think it's the most personal piece that exists about our company. Besides my reflection finding talent-company fit, you'll find stories about Varun’s ambushes, Kareem's zen, road trip caravans, promotions, demotions, crying in bathrooms, laughing with goobers, and much more. A few readers wondered if I was being too honest — always a good sign ;) Enjoy <3 review.firstround.com/firsthand-clay/

So stoked. Tune in.