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Better Clay Workflows Start With Better Data

Clay is one of the most flexible GTM automation platforms available today. It helps teams connect providers, orchestrate enrichment workflows, and automate prospecting at scale.

eCore helps ensure the data flowing into and out of Clay is trusted, standardized, and ready for activation. By validating targets before enrichment, improving match confidence, and reducing unnecessary enrichment calls, eCore helps teams build more efficient Clay workflows with higher-quality outcomes and lower enrichment costs.

Validate first. Enrich second. Activate with confidence.

Which Solution Is Better for You?

Choose Clay if you need

  • Workflow automation across multiple data sources
  • Multi-provider orchestration
  • Prospecting automation
  • AI-powered GTM workflows
  • Flexible enrichment pipelines
  • Internal control over logic and data flow
  • A build-your-own GTM system

Choose eCore if you need

  • Validation before enrichment
  • Fewer wasted Clay credits
  • Better person-to-account matching accuracy
  • AI + Human validation of risky or unclear records
  • Cleaner CRM-ready datasets
  • Difficult audience research

Use both if you need

  • Higher-confidence enrichment
  • Lower enrichment costs
  • Cleaner CRM data
  • Better match rates
  • AI-ready records
  • Validation-first workflows

Why Clay Users Add eCore to Their Stack

Reduce Wasted Enrichment Credits

Every unnecessary enrichment call costs money.

eCore validates targets before enrichment to focus spending on records that matter.

Improve Match Confidence

Match records to the right people and accounts before spending on enrichment.

eCore verifies employment, company relationships, and persona alignment before expensive enrichment workflows begin.

Build Better Workflows

Clay automates workflows.

eCore improves the quality of the records moving through them.

Improve Cost per Usable Record

Higher-quality inputs create better outputs.

eCore reduces cleanup while improving campaign performance.

Support Difficult Targeting

When standard providers struggle to identify niche personas or industries, generic data falls short.

eCore provides validation and research before enrichment.

Normalize Multi-Source Data

Clay brings together data from multiple providers, each with different formats, field structures, naming conventions, and levels of completeness.

eCore standardizes and cleans that data before it reaches your CRM, analytics, and AI systems.

Clay Builds the Workflow. eCore Improves the Data.

Clay excels at orchestrating multiple providers and automating enrichment workflows. eCore ensures the data moving through those workflows is accurate before enrichment and consistent after enrichment — validating records, improving match confidence, and normalizing multi-source data into standardized, CRM-ready formats. Together, they help organizations improve data quality while reducing unnecessary enrichment costs.

Clay as Your Execution Layer

  • Connects APIs and data sources
  • Builds enrichment workflows
  • Automates GTM processes
  • Leaves data responsibility to the user

eCore as Your Validation & Trust Layer

  • Validates identity and employment before enrichment
  • Improves match precision before data is processed
  • Reduces wasted enrichment spend
  • Ensures records are safe to activate

Outcome Comparison

Clay
eCore
Build workflows
Validate records
Connect providers
Improves provider output
Automate enrichment
Improves enrichment quality
Aggregates and orchestrates data from multiple enrichment providers
Standardizes, cleans, deduplicates, and normalizes that data into a consistent, activation-ready format
Execute workflows
Improves workflow inputs
Uses APIs
Powers APIs with better data
Optimizes automation
Optimizes data quality
eCore BYOAK

Cut Clay Enrichment Costs Without Sacrificing Data Quality

eCore BYOAK (Bring Your Own API Key) lets teams use eCore's validation and enrichment services directly inside Clay workflows.

The result is a validation-first process that improves targeting before enrichment and reduces spend on supported enrichment calls.

Save up to 50% on supported enrichment calls
Improve match confidence before enrichment
Reduce wasted credits on low-fit records
Increase confidence in contact and account data
Improve cost per usable record

The eCore + Clay Workflow

Validation before and after enrichment keeps every record activation-ready.

Identify Target
Validate with eCore
Clay Enrichment
Normalize & Clean with eCore
CRM / Data Warehouse
Outbound / Scoring / AI

Get More From Your Clay Workflows

See how eCore can help you validate targets before enrichment, normalize data after enrichment, and reduce the cost of producing CRM-ready records.