Clay Expert Needed — Contact Verification, Hiring Signals & B2B Lead Enrichment

## Clay Expert Needed — Contact Verification, Hiring Signals & B2B Lead Enrichment I own an executive recruiting firm specializing in the PEO/HCM industry. I already have several large prospect databases covering: * PEO companies * HCM / payroll / HR technology companies * Private equity firms * Existing and historical contacts I am NOT looking for someone to simply build or scrape another generic lead list. I am looking for an experienced **Clay specialist** to clean, verify, enrich, and build an ongoing prospecting system around my existing data. ### What I Need **1. Clean & Deduplicate Existing Data** * Consolidate multiple existing spreadsheets * Deduplicate contacts and companies * Standardize company names/domains * Preserve whether the record came from PEO, HCM, PE, or another source **2. Verify Existing Contacts** For each contact: * Does the person still work at the company? * Current title * Current company * LinkedIn URL * Verified business email * If they left, identify their new company when possible * Identify an appropriate replacement decision maker when relevant Do NOT automatically discard people who changed companies. Someone who moved from one PEO/HCM company to another could be a valuable new prospect. **3. Identify Current Hiring Activity** For each company, identify: * Whether they are currently hiring * Number of current openings when reasonably available * Job titles * Links/sources for openings * Approximate posting age when available Priority roles include: Sales / Business Development Sales Leadership Executive Leadership Operations Implementation Payroll / Tax Benefits Workers' Compensation / Risk Finance / Accounting Human Resources / Talent Acquisition Other senior or difficult-to-fill positions **4. AI Hiring-Relevance Classification** Use Clay AI or another appropriate method to classify accounts: * HIGH PRIORITY — multiple relevant openings or important leadership opening * ACTIVE — at least one relevant opening * HIRING — hiring, but openings are not currently relevant to our recruiting practice * NO CURRENT HIRING FOUND * NEEDS MANUAL REVIEW **5. Private Equity** For PE firms, I would like to identify: * Relevant portfolio companies * Portfolio companies in PEO, HCM, payroll, HR technology, benefits, insurance or related industries * Current hiring activity at relevant portfolio companies * Appropriate PE operating/talent contacts when available ### Important I want this built as a **repeatable Clay workflow**, not a one-time spreadsheet. I want to be able to refresh the data periodically to identify: * New openings * People changing companies * New decision makers * New portfolio companies * Newly active hiring accounts ### Initial Test I would like to start with a paid proof of concept using approximately **50–100 companies**. If the results are accurate, I will expand the project to the complete database. ### Deliverables The final database should ideally include: Company Website/domain Company segment (PEO / HCM / PE / Other) Contact name Current title Current company LinkedIn URL Verified email Email verification status Contact changed companies? Previous company Replacement decision maker Currently hiring? Number of openings Relevant openings Job posting URLs/sources Posting age when available Hiring priority AI notes / reason for priority Last verified date ### When Applying Please answer: 1. How much experience do you have building Clay workflows? 2. Which data providers would you use for contact verification? 3. How would you determine whether someone still works at a company? 4. How would you find current company job openings? 5. Can you identify job openings from company career pages in addition to major job boards? 6. How would you prevent stale or duplicate job postings from creating false hiring signals? 7. Can the system be refreshed later without rebuilding everything? 8. Please provide an example of a similar Clay enrichment/lead intelligence workflow you've built. Please do not apply if your solution is simply exporting contacts from Apollo or another database.