Company search · Sourcing · Produces companies
Finds companies matching a search and feeds them into the workflow.
When to use it
Use it to source a fresh list of companies each run — lookalikes of a customer, companies in a market, or a specific set of domains.
What it does
Runs a company search with the filters you set and enrolls the results as company records. It mirrors the filters on Ocean's company search page.
Configure it
Filters — build your search. Common ones:
- Lookalike companies — find companies similar to one or more domains. - Company domain — target specific companies by domain. - Department headcount growth — find companies growing a specific team, a useful buying signal.
Companies per run — the maximum number of companies to bring in per run.
Skip companies: tick the kinds of companies to leave out of the results. All six boxes are ticked by default.
Already in CRM: companies that are already accounts in your connected CRM.
Already in leads: companies already in one of your lead lists.
Already exported: companies you already exported from Ocean.
Under From earlier runs of this workflow: Completed, Dropped, and Failed skip companies this workflow enrolled on an earlier run that ended that way. Untick Failed to retry failed companies on the next run. These three boxes only show on a step that starts the workflow.
Companies still in progress in this workflow are always skipped.
If the workflow starts with a Webhook trigger, new steps start with Already in CRM and Completed unticked.
Cost
0.2 credits per result. See Credits in workflows.
Gotchas
Broad filters plus a high limit can pull far more companies than you expect — and cost more. Start with a small limit while testing.
Seed lookalikes with 3–5 of your best-fit customers for the strongest matches.
With the Skip companies boxes ticked, a company already in your CRM, an export, or a lead list is left out, and so is one this workflow already handled on an earlier run. A run can enroll nothing even though the search matched real companies. That's the skip list working as intended, not a broken search. Untick the boxes to confirm, or check Troubleshooting workflows.