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Clay

What Clay does

Clay is a New York-based go-to-market (GTM) software platform that combines multi-provider B2B data enrichment, AI research, and workflow automation to help sales, marketing, and RevOps teams build and run outbound and growth plays in a unified environment. The company positions Clay as a “GTM development environment” where teams can turn growth ideas into repeatable systems—automating the steps involved in identifying target accounts and people, enriching them with data, generating personalized content, and executing downstream actions across CRM, email/sequencing, and ads. Clay’s product strategy emphasizes (1) an integrated data layer (including waterfalling across multiple providers), (2) orchestration primitives that shift “logic” away from spreadsheet tables, and (3) agentic capabilities that can execute longer-running GTM tasks and keep workflows up to date.

Target users include GTM operations teams, sales and SDR/BDR teams, growth and demand generation teams, and GTM engineers at B2B and tech companies. Clay also supports a partner ecosystem (including agencies and “Clay Clubs”) built around helping customers implement repeatable GTM systems. Commercially, Clay appears to monetize via tiered self-serve plans that consume usage meters for data enrichment and platform actions; it also offers enterprise motion support via capabilities like bulk enrichment and integrations with data/workflow infrastructure.

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Company record

Aug 19, 2026 · Official · Clay (official blog)Why Clay Has an AI Writing Policy

Clay published an internal-to-company writing policy describing how the company approaches the use of AI for writing while focusing on what good writing should accomplish.

Aug 18, 2026 · Official · Clay (official blog)Inside Clay Workflows: The Story Behind Our New Building Primitive

Clay explains the shift from running on tables to an orchestration approach using Workflows as a building primitive for GTM systems.

Aug 12, 2026 · Official · Clay (official blog)The Automated Growth Plays Behind Clay’s Self-Serve and Enterprise Motions

Clay describes how it runs always-on growth plays across self-serve and enterprise motions and promotes related live content.

Aug 11, 2026 · Official · Clay (official blog)Introducing Clay Workflows (open beta)

Clay introduces Workflows as an open beta and positions it as an orchestration layer to run GTM workflows where the data lives.

Aug 04, 2026 · Official · Clay (official blog)Clay Ads: Targeted Ad Audiences & Higher Match Rates

Clay introduces or highlights Clay Ads, describing audience building using first- and third-party data and syncing to multiple ad platforms to improve targeting and match rates.

Jan 28, 2026 · Official · Clay (official blog)Clay’s Second Tender Offer in Nine Months Values the Company at $5B (employee liquidity; $5B valuation)

Clay announced a second employee tender offer, describing a $5B valuation and reporting business metrics (including ARR, customers, and enterprise NRR) it says improved since the prior tender.

Aug 05, 2025 · Official · Clay (official)Clay Series C: The GTM engineering era begins now (Series C confirmation/positioning)

Clay announced it raised $100M at a $3.1B valuation to support what it describes as the GTM engineering era.

Jan 22, 2025 · Official · Clay (official blog)Clay raises $40M in pre-emptive Series B expansion at a $1.25B valuation (GTM development environment)

Clay announced a $40M Series B expansion at a $1.25B valuation and describes platform expansion as it scales its GTM development environment.

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Funding

Latest disclosed valuation$5B
Tracked capital$299.5M10 sourced rounds
DateRoundRaisedValuationLead / investorsEvidence
Jan 28, 2026Employee tender offer (secondary liquidity transaction)$55M$5B
May 08, 2025Employee tender offer (secondary/liquidity)$20M$1.5B
May 01, 2025Employee tender offer (secondary liquidity transaction; prior tender)$20M$1.5B
Not attributed
+1 investor
Jan 22, 2025Series B expansion$40M$1.3B
Jun 27, 2024Seed + Series A (reported in Series B announcement context)$2.5M
Jan 01, 2021Seed$2.5M
UndatedPre-seed
UndatedSeries A$13.5M

What it builds

Clay

Clay is the core GTM platform for data enrichment and AI-assisted workflow automation that teams use to build and execute GTM plays across enrichment, orchestration, and execution systems.

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Clay Audiences

Clay Audiences centralizes first- and third-party data sources to help teams build and manage targetable audiences for GTM execution, including syncing across ad platforms.

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Data marketplace

Clay’s data marketplace lets customers buy enrichment data from multiple providers through a unified interface.

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Waterfall enrichment

Waterfall enrichment combines multiple data providers in sequence to improve coverage and control cost, based on which provider returns a match.

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Claygents / Claygent Builder

Claygents are AI agents in Clay used for GTM research and task execution, and Claygent Builder is described as a way to build, test, and deploy GTM agents within Clay.

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Agent plugin (CLI/API)

Clay describes an “Agent plugin CLI/API” to enable building in Clay from tools like coding agents.

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MCP for reps

Clay provides “MCP for rep” capabilities described as allowing reps to track and use signals within AI tools alongside Clay’s workflow/data infrastructure.

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Workflows (open beta)

Clay Workflows is a node-based GTM orchestration layer (introduced as open beta) intended to let teams orchestrate GTM plays where their data lives.

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Functions

Clay’s “Functions” are described within the product navigation as a building primitive used in workflows and orchestration.

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Clay Ads

Clay Ads is described as using Clay’s unified first- and third-party data together with the data marketplace to build dynamic ad audiences and improve ad targeting and match rates via syncing across ad platforms.

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Sequencer

Clay’s Sequencer is described as letting teams use Clay’s native messaging sequencer or automate messaging as part of GTM execution.

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