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Velocity5.0

Clay bends its GTM data platform toward AI agents, with spend guardrails to match

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◆Current state
Clay is a go-to-market data platform that enriches contact and company records and automates outreach. Recent releases push hard on three fronts at once: an agentic layer (Sculptor across tables, search, and Claygent), ever-broadening data sources, and controls to keep AI-driven credit spend in check.
◆Where it's heading
The arc is clear: make Clay an agent-operated data engine while giving admins the governance to trust it. Sculptor is spreading across the product, data coverage keeps widening (Japan's NBS, lookalikes, dozens of enrichment integrations), and a steady stream of credit dashboards and sandbox modes exists specifically to stop AI columns from burning budget unnoticed.
◆Prediction
Expect more MCP distribution beyond Codex and deeper Sculptor autonomy, paired with finer-grained spend attribution as agent usage climbs.

◆Recent moves

  1. 4d ago

    BigQuery import and Salesforce Activities land in Audiences

    Direct BigQuery-via-SQL import and Salesforce Tasks/Events in Audiences continue the data-source widening, while function tags and inline schedule presets are workspace-hygiene touches for teams scaling their Clay usage.

  2. 11d ago

    Sandbox Mode hits 100% rollout; credit spend dashboards deepen

    Sandbox Mode reaching all users and gaining production copy-forward is the governance half of Clay's AI push, and the credit dashboard's per-user, per-function, and BYOK attribution is exactly the spend visibility agent-heavy workflows demand.

  3. 18d ago

    People & Company Lookalikes plus structured location search

    A new People Lookalikes enrichment for net-new contacts and a redesigned Company Lookalikes extend Clay's core value of finding more of what works, while geocoded location search sharpens targeting precision.

  4. 25d ago

    Sculptor chat history, Japan company data, Maps box search

    Sculptor gaining persistent chat history across surfaces reinforces the agentic direction, and Clay's first Japan-based provider (NBS, 750k+ records) marks a deliberate step into non-US data coverage.

  5. 1mo ago

    Clay MCP in Codex

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    Clay landing inside OpenAI's Codex is the sharpest expression yet of its agent-operated direction: the Functions teams already built become callable from a third-party coding agent, extending Clay's reach beyond its own UI.

  6. 1mo ago

    Sculptor Sandbox Mode: validate AI columns before credits burn

    Sculptor Sandbox Mode lets users vet AI-generated columns before they go live and spend credits, an early move in the spend-governance thread that later reached full rollout.