Posts by Alex MacCaw

I'm excited to share Reveal [https://clearbit.com/platform/reveal], a new product that delivers company data based on an IP address, effectively allowing customers to de-anonymize web traffic. Powering Reveal is a completely unique and dynamic dataset. Traditionally, IP-to-Company applications have been limited to large companies who own their IP blocks. With our new dataset however, we've also been able to effectively triangulate small private company IPs as well. Companies that until now, hav

Segment [https://segment.com] is changing the way modern businesses collect and analyze their customer data. Once plugged in, Segment receives data from a multitude of sources, say your website or product, and allows businesses to easily pipe data anywhere it needs to be. Needless to say, we're big fans and religious users here at Clearbit. That's why I'm extremely excited to announce our new Segment [https://clearbit.com/integrations/segment] integration. With a few clicks you can automaticall

Accurate company categorization is a crucial part of the data we provide, and we've built up some incredible tech over this last year to automatically categorize companies by applying a neural net algorithm to their websites. This gets us the kind of coverage that would be impossible to achieve with a manual approach, and the result are impressive. Today I'd like to announce a new addition to our categorization - a high level set of tags we've dubbed super tags. While the existing tags we pro

Yesterday we had a bad outage. From 22:25 to 22:58 most of our servers were down and serving 503 errors. As is common with these scenarios the cause was cascading failures which we go into detail below. Every day we serve millions of API requests, and thousands of businesses depend on us - we deeply regret downtime of any nature, but it's also an opportunity for us to learn and make sure it doesn't happen in the future. Below is yesterday's postmortem. We've taken several steps to remove singl

Today, we're proud to launch Clearbit Connect [https://connect.clearbit.com], a free extension that surfaces actionable information on the people who email you (including company details) directly alongside your emails in Gmail. Better yet - Connect also lets you find any business email address instantly, even if the person isn't in your address book. Enriching Gmail Whenever you open a conversation in Gmail, or hover over an email, we'll search through hundreds of sources from around the web i