The author of a post on GTM engineering stacks notes that while Clay is a common starting point for waterfall enrichment, its table and credit architecture creates friction for building autonomous...

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        "author": "MuffinMan_Jr",
        "excerpt": "Brightdata. Scrape social media post engagement and build list from that",
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        "excerpt": "Why would I use clay if I have Claude and Host of data providers that I can add as MCP? I will not pay for glorified if condition(Waterfall) and poor AI.",
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        "excerpt": "Instantly, and i use my own sotware matchkraft to get valid emails using name + website, similar to icypeas or findymail. hehe. Also, custom scrapers for lusha, zoominfo and lemlist, and prospeo. Instantly for sending the emails, google workspace for the inboxes, plus apollo , plus clay, everything combined via mcp and claude code haha. still improving but this works very nice.",
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        "excerpt": "Yea building autonomous systems is very challenging using legacy tools.\n\n We use Tapistro. Works like a charm. Handles all kinds of use cases for autonomous GTM systems.",
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        "excerpt": "What is a dedicated market intelligence infrastructure?",
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        "excerpt": "I'm researching this too. Which tools have you worked with? Pls share.\nI checked out Origami and RocketReach along with Clay, Apollo but not convinced with any of these.",
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        "excerpt": "Live intent monitoring does get tricky once you outgrow basic enrichment tables. If you need to pick up on buying signals or niche conversations in real time across communities like Reddit or LinkedIn, using an AI powered monitoring tool is way more efficient than patching scrapers together. ParseStream has actually helped us surface qualified leads from active threads without constantly rebuildin",
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