Clay Table Builder
Clay's API can't build a table. This can. Your agent creates it, loads your leads, adds enrichment and AI columns, and asks before it spends credits.
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Building in ClayTable ready
Build me a Clay table of dental clinic owners in Texas from this CSV. Clean up the first names and company names, check every email, and add a column that writes a one-line opener from each clinic's website.
On it. Creating your table first.
Clay's official API searches and enriches. Building the table is still your job. This system builds it from one message and agrees the cost with you before any column runs.
Works inside your own Clay workspace, signed in as you. It writes only to the folder you pick, so the rest of your tables stay untouched.
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Claude Code
Clay released an official API and CLI in July 2026. They handle search, enrichment and routines. Building the table itself is left out. Here is where each one stops.
means it can do part of the job.
It runs through your own logged-in account and uses the same calls the Clay web app makes. It is unofficial, so Clay can change it or may not allow it, and you use it on your own account at your own risk.
Checked against Clay's official API and CLI, September 2026
This isn't a prompt you paste. It's the tool that builds Clay tables from your own login, plus the rules that stop your agent from spending credits you never approved.
The command-line tool your agent runs to create tables, add columns, load rows, run them and export the results.
Every paid run shows its cost and waits for your yes. AI and waterfall columns stop at 10 rows a run.
Tested column sets your agent adds to any table in one step, instead of rebuilding them on every list. Finished leads can go straight to Instantly or EmailBison.
Connect your Clay login once and pick the one folder your agent is allowed to write in.
Your agent shows you each change before it writes anything, and deleting a table needs its exact name.
Signal plays that turn one buying signal into one opening line, grouped by the kind of agency they suit. Claude builds each one with you.
Each play turns one buying signal into one opening line. Tell Claude which play you want, and it builds the Clay table with you step by step, stopping for your OK before anything costs credits. New in Clay CLI 0.6.0.
Leaders in their first six months
Three months into running sales at Brightline is usually when the pipeline gets rebuilt.
Teams hiring several roles at once
Four new SDR seats in a month means someone on the team covers those accounts until they ramp.
Companies that raised in the last 90 days
After a Series A, the first number most boards ask marketing for is pipeline they can forecast.
Sites running, or missing, the tool your offer fits
Shopify stores without a review app tend to leave the product photos doing all the selling.
Companies whose job posts name your problem
"Build outbound from scratch" is a lot to hand one new hire in their first quarter.
Buyers posting about your topic
Outbound dying at the second follow-up says more about the first email's offer than the cadence.
Companies merging teams after a deal
Whose CRM wins when Corvid's reps move over, yours or theirs?
Businesses already reading your site
A sending domain can sit in spam for weeks before open rates show that anything is wrong.
People following a competitor's page
Most outbound programs stall around month three, when the first list is used up and nobody built the next one.
People active on posts in your niche
If I were fixing founder-led sales, I'd write down the founder's discovery call before hiring anyone.
Accounts where someone already replied or bought
I'd start with how new leads get from marketing to sales, since that handoff decides most of outbound.
Companies in the news, or missing from it
Your Denver opening in Fast Company is the kind of story trade reporters like to follow up on.
Local businesses rated below their area
Austin dentists average 4.4 stars on Google and Brightline Dental is at 3.7, which is a gap you can close.
Businesses missing from page 1 for their own service
Search "emergency plumber Tampa" and Rapid Rooter and Roto Pros hold page 1. Brightline Plumbing isn't there yet.
Every play is written out step by step, and none has been run on a live list for you. Run five rows, read them, then decide whether the full list is worth the spend.
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