Independent product intelligence · Worldwide · 2026-05-01 → 2026-07-31

Clayclay.com

Automates data enrichment and personalized outreach for efficient lead generation.

Marketing & Salesclay.comTracked since 2026-08-191 discovery source
192.7KAI traffic
50.3KBacklinks

Traffic & engagement

Where Clay ranks

Traffic and engagement were not measured for this domain. The ranking positions below were.

#23,549Global rank
#12,082Country rank
#760Category rank

AI referral visibility

Which AI assistants are already sending Clay traffic?

AI referrals are still a minority channel, but they show which assistants and pages are becoming discovery surfaces.

192.7KTotal AI traffic
2.0%Share of all traffic
77.7KChatGPT traffic
40.3%ChatGPT share

AI platform mix · 2026-02-01 → 2026-07-31

ChatGPT40.3%
Claude35.8%
Others20.6%
Gemini1.9%
Perplexity1.3%

AI discovery readout

The identifiable AI mix includes ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, while the source groups 20.6% into “Others”.

ChatGPT alone supplies 40.3% of measured AI referrals, ahead of Claude at 35.8%. Most of it lands on app.clay.com/oauth/authorize.

AI referral landing pages · all 24 stored rows

#Page / folderTrafficShare
1app.clay.com/oauth/authorize79.4K41.21%
2clay.com47.5K24.66%
3other39.4K20.47%
4clay.com/pricing1.6K0.86%
5clay.com/careers810.10.42%
6university.clay.com7530.39%
7clay.com/about719.70.37%
8university.clay.com/courses/clay-101521.30.27%
9app.clay.com514.20.27%
10university.clay.com/docs/using-clay-in-chatgpt496.60.26%
11clay.com/use-cases/outbound408.50.21%
12clay.com/dossier/vyapar-app-funding3910.20%
13clay.com/blog/google-maps-lead-generation-for-niche-leads387.60.20%
14clay.com/dossier/shopify-headquarters-office-locations3870.20%
15university.clay.com/lessons/enriching-people-data3820.20%
16university.clay.com/courses/automated-outbound380.90.20%
17clay.com/customers/elevenlabs373.50.19%
18clay.com/blog/gtm-engineering364.90.19%
19community.clay.com/x/support/co3vqwh5cea1/how-to-get-certified-as-a-clay-program-expert335.50.17%
20university.clay.com/lessons/mapping-company-relationships-and-ownership335.50.17%
21clay.com/press327.30.17%
22clay.com/waterfall-enrichment293.80.15%
23university.clay.com/docs/actions-data-credits286.40.15%
24university.clay.com/docs/webhook-integration-guide279.50.15%

Authority & distribution

How strong is Clay’s web footprint?

Backlinks measure accumulated distribution; referring domains show how broadly that authority is spread. Both are observable on the open web, so both are published for every product here.

Backlinks

50.3KCurrent snapshot

Referring domains

7.1KCurrent snapshot

Authority

41Domain authority · category median 22

90-day move

+15.2%Referring domains, last 90 days
At 41, Clay sits above the 22 median for its category.

Backlinks · 370 daily observations

Vertical axis starts at 31.7K, not zero.

Referring domains · 370 daily observations

Vertical axis starts at 3.6K, not zero.

Product profile

What Clay is selling.

Traffic makes more sense when you can connect it to the actual product promise.

“Clay”

Automates data enrichment and personalized outreach for efficient lead generation.

Marketing & SalesSeen 2026-08-19 → 2026-08-19Coverage tier C

What we have measured

4 of 8 signal groups are available for this product: identity, authority and backlinks, AI referrals, search demand.

Not measured for this domain: traffic and engagement, audience demographics, country distribution, acquisition mix. Those sections are left out of the page rather than filled with estimates.

Canonical website: https://www.clay.com/

Observed across 1 discovery source.

Research questions

What the evidence answers about Clay.

Every answer is tied to a source we collected, and the questions with no evidence behind them are left unanswered rather than guessed.

What does Clay do, and what problem does it solve?

Clay automates data enrichment and personalized outreach for efficient lead generation. It provides data infrastructure and AI agents (Claygents) to automate sales and marketing workflows, centralizing first and third-party data sources in one place.

What features, surfaces, or integrations does Clay offer?

Clay offers features including a data marketplace from 200+ providers, AI agents (Claygents), signal tracking for job changes, waterfall data combinations, and a coding agent (MCP) for integration. It provides surfaces for orchestration, functions, AI formatting, and integrations for ad sync, native sequencer, CRM enrichment, and reverse ETL.

How is Clay priced or packaged?

The evidence includes a specific landing page for pricing at 'clay.com/pricing', but the exact pricing details or packaging plans are not provided in the evidence.

How much search demand does Clay have, and what do people search to find it?

Clay received approximately 432,096 search traffic visits in July 2026. The top search terms driving traffic include 'gtm engineer', 'nooks', 'cpm calculator', 'outreach', and 'gtm engineer jobs'.

How visible is Clay in AI assistant referrals, and which assistants send traffic?

Clay received 192,663 total AI traffic visits from February to July 2026. The primary AI platforms sending traffic are ChatGPT (40.3% share), Claude (35.8% share), and Gemini (1.9% share).

Is Clay growing, and over what period?

Yes, Clay's search traffic is growing. It increased from approximately 379,125 visits in May 2026 to 432,096 visits in July 2026.

How does Clay compare with the median product in its category?

Clay has a domain authority of 41, which is significantly higher than the median of 22 for products in its 'Marketing & Sales' category. It also has a high global rank of 23,549.

What are Clay's link authority and distribution like?

As of August 2026, Clay has 7,149 referring domains and 50,326 total backlinks, with a domain authority of 41.

What is Clay used for, and in what situations?

Clay is used to build systems for growing revenue, including for CRM enrichment, territory planning, TAM sourcing, outbound and PLG assist. It is used in situations requiring automated data research, lead generation, and personalized outreach campaigns.

Who is Clay for?

Clay is for sales and marketing teams, as indicated by its taxonomy category 'Marketing & Sales'. The platform is designed for users who need to automate sales and marketing workflows, lead generation, and revenue growth.

What is Clay?

Clay is a platform that automates data enrichment and personalized outreach for lead generation, categorized under Marketing & Sales. It provides data infrastructure and AI agents to automate sales and marketing workflows.

Behind the lock

Unlock full Clay intelligence.

  • Backlink trajectoryThe figures above are the latest observation. The daily curve behind them holds 370.
  • AI referral detailHow much traffic assistants send, which 5 of them do it, and the 24 pages they land on.
  • Search structure and ranking depthOrganic against paid, brand against non-brand, and how many keywords rank in the top three against the long tail — which is what decides whether the demand is portable or tied to the name.
  • The rest of the marketPage through every leaderboard 100 rows at a time, put any five products side by side, and query the whole dataset over API / MCP.

Worldwide estimates · Data period 2026-05-01 → 2026-07-31 · AI referral period 2026-02-01 → 2026-07-31. Figures are measured estimates intended for market research. Signals we have not measured for this domain are omitted, never estimated; a measured zero is still reported as zero. How this was measured