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Top 10 Best Clay Agencies

Top 10 Best Clay Agencies

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  • 1. Best for complex Clay data orchestration: Vanderbuild
  • 2. Best for a one-off Clay build you own: B2B Boosted
  • 3. Best for Clay inside mid-market RevOps: Growth Alliance
  • 4. Best for hard-to-source vertical SaaS markets: Zevenue
  • 5. Best for Clay systems your team inherits: Nebor
  • 6. Best for Clay builds plus embedded SDRs: Groflo
  • 7. Best for Attio and Clay stacks: novlini
  • 8. Best for managed Clay outbound on a lean budget: LeadHaste
  • 9. Best for private equity deal sourcing: DealDeploy
  • 10. Best for East Asian brands going global: Outcome

Clay agencies build the tables, enrichment waterfalls and signal triggers behind modern outbound. I put this top 10 together for teams that want a Clay partner without defaulting to the biggest names.

Clay's partner directory lists 186 Solutions Partners worldwide. I skipped the Elite Studio tier, since those firms already get plenty of attention. I focused on smaller studios with live Clay work and clear terms.

The top three are certified Forge Experts with deep Clay credentials. The other seven are boutique Clay partners spread from Toronto to Seoul, each with a sharp niche.

For a regional view, I also compared US Clay agencies on their own. I used the same method to rank lead generation agencies in Sydney.

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How I Evaluated These Clay Agencies

I reviewed each agency's partner profiles, website, pricing and published case studies. Five checks decided the order.

  • Clay credentials. A Solutions Partner listing, Clay Cup results or Forge Expert certification.
  • Ownership. Tables, prompts and workflows should sit in accounts you control after the work ends.
  • Signals over static lists. Campaigns should fire on real triggers like hiring, funding or tech changes.
  • The last mile. How enriched data actually reaches your sequencer, your CRM and your reps.
  • Pricing and terms. Published rates, minimum commitments and how easy it is to walk away.

#1

Vanderbuild - Best For Complex Clay Data Orchestration | Forge Expert Certified

📍 Central Europe GTM Engineering Signal Campaigns CRM Data
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Vanderbuild is a GTM engineering agency founded by Mateusz Sekta. They finished as Clay Cup Vice-Champions, ranked second in the world and first in Europe.

Their work runs on two tracks. The outbound track covers volume, micro and signal-based campaigns. The CRM track cleans, enriches and scores the records underneath.

They launched 250+ outbound campaigns in 2025 and have built 50+ revenue engines across Europe and the US. Pricing comes as a retainer, a project fee or pay per warm lead.

What I liked most is how open they are about running costs. Their site puts an in-house Clay plan at roughly $180 a month, plus separate sequencing and LinkedIn tools. That helps if you plan to bring the GTM engineering work in-house later.

Best for: B2B SaaS and service firms that need demanding Clay builds and clean CRM data inside their own accounts.
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Vanderbuild - Homepage
#2

B2B Boosted - Best For A One-Off Clay Build You Own | Forge Expert Certified

📍 United Kingdom Clay Builds Sales Automation Full Handover
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B2B Boosted is led by founder Tim Yakubson and calls itself one of the first Clay-certified partners in the UK. Clay sits at the center of every system they build.

The pricing model is unusual for this space. Instead of a monthly retainer, they install a custom sales automation system for a one-off fee starting at £4,000.

You can test them first with a free custom automation. A 14-day satisfaction guarantee with a full refund sits on top of the paid build. The trade-off is that someone on your team has to run the system after handover.

Everything lives in accounts you own and gets handed over with documentation. Tim also teaches a paid Clay course, so the method is public before you buy. If you are still judging the platform itself, my Clay review covers where it earns its cost.

Best for: Founder-led teams of 10 to 200 people who want a Clay system built once and then run in-house.
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B2B Boosted - Homepage
#3

Growth Alliance - Best For Clay Inside Mid-Market RevOps | Forge Expert Certified

📍 US & EU RevOps Data Orchestration CRM Enrichment
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Growth Alliance is a growth and AI operations partner for B2B companies between $5M and $50M in ARR. Clay sits next to Cargo, Swarm, HubSpot and Salesforce in their builds.

The team is deliberately small, with three principals and no bench. They cover 16 hours a day across US and EU time zones and take only four to six clients at once.

Engagements run as 90-day sprints. Programs start at $10K a month, and monthly retainers carry a 60-day rolling cancellation.

I appreciated how plainly they list who they turn away. Price shoppers, short trials and committee-led buying decisions are all named as poor fits. If you are torn between GTM engineering and RevOps, this team covers both sides.

Best for: Mid-market B2B teams that want Clay wired into a full RevOps and CRM architecture.
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Growth Alliance - Homepage
#4

Zevenue - Best For Hard-To-Source Vertical SaaS Markets

📍 Toronto, Canada Vertical SaaS TAM Building AI Enablement

Zevenue is a Toronto GTM engineering firm that has worked on AI in go-to-market since 2021. They focus on Series A to C SaaS startups whose buyers rarely appear in generic databases.

That niche shapes every build. Their Clay TAM work combines web scraping, job-post mining and integration directories to find accounts that Apollo and ZoomInfo miss.

Their opening question stuck with me. They ask how you would approach one lead with a full day to research them, then scale that depth across the market.

Clients can keep Zevenue running the system or take it in-house with SOPs and training. A separate four to eight week program teaches reps to build their own Clay and Claude workflows. They also say plainly that they are not for teams wanting guaranteed meetings next week.

Best for: Vertical SaaS teams whose ICP cannot be pulled from a standard contact database.
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Zevenue - Homepage
#5

Nebor - Best For Clay Systems Your Team Inherits

📍 Amsterdam, Netherlands Signal Outbound Inbound Routing RevOps

Nebor is an Amsterdam GTM agency started by two neighbors with 18 years of shared sales and marketing experience. They build outbound, inbound and RevOps systems with Clay at the center.

Their Clay work covers signal-based outbound, fast inbound lead routing and website visitor identification. Clay connects to n8n, HubSpot and your outreach tools so the motion runs as one system.

Strategy comes before tooling here. They build one use case first and prove it before expanding. They also warn upfront that they will ask a lot of your team.

Client Dymaxa credits them with adding over €3M to its pipeline. They work in English and Dutch across Europe and the US, with a three-month minimum.

Best for: European and US B2B teams that want a documented Clay system their own people can run.
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Nebor - Homepage
#6

Groflo - Best For Clay Builds Plus Embedded SDRs

📍 Miami, US Growth Engineering SDR-as-a-Service HubSpot

Groflo is a growth engineering firm for Series A to C B2B tech companies. They build the outbound engine inside your own Clay workspace, then run it with forward-deployed SDRs.

The Clay layer covers ICP scoring, signal-based sourcing and enrichment waterfalls for verified emails and mobiles. Sequences go out through Instantly or Smartlead with two-way CRM sync.

The SDR side is what sets them apart. A dedicated rep makes 40+ dials a day into those campaigns and hands meetings to your AEs with context.

Engagements start at $6,000 a month on quarterly terms, with the engine live in about three weeks. They look for $5k+ ACVs and a TAM above 20,000 accounts.

Best for: Funded B2B tech teams with product-market fit but no outbound function yet.
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Groflo - Homepage
#7

novlini - Best For Attio And Clay Stacks

📍 Paris, France Attio Composable GTM RevOps

Paris-based novlini is a GTM and RevOps studio. They are a certified Clay partner and were the first Attio Expert Partner worldwide.

Their pitch starts from a failure mode they see often. Teams buy Clay, build three tables and stop while credits burn and pipeline stays flat.

The team runs Clay inside Attio implementations every week. They say they know where that integration breaks and how to structure tables that hold up at 50,000 rows. Teams on a classic HubSpot or Salesforce setup may get less value from that specialism.

Work starts with a fixed-price Foundation Month that ships the first production workflow. After that, a day-rate retainer covers new plays, with no markup on tooling.

Best for: Teams on Attio, or anyone building a modular stack instead of a single CRM monolith.
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novlini - Homepage
#8

LeadHaste - Best For Managed Clay Outbound On A Lean Budget

📍 Sofia, Bulgaria Clay-First Cold Email Buying Signals

LeadHaste describes itself as a Clay-first outbound studio and has worked with 50+ B2B companies since 2023. Domains, inboxes and Clay boards all live in your own accounts.

The managed system starts at $2,500 a month with the software included. Infrastructure of 50 domains and 100 inboxes is billed at cost, roughly $350 a month.

The first three months are fixed, then it moves to month-to-month. Buying signals from tools like Trigify and RB2B decide when each prospect enters a campaign.

Their HelpMatch case study shows the compounding effect well. Meetings grew from 14 to 120 a month by month six on the same budget.

Best for: B2B sellers with deals above $2K who want managed Clay outbound without a large retainer.
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LeadHaste - Homepage
#9

DealDeploy - Best For Private Equity Deal Sourcing

📍 New York, US Private Equity Deal Sourcing CRM Enrichment

DealDeploy builds automated deal sourcing systems for search funds, independent sponsors and private equity firms. It is one of the few Clay partners built entirely around investors.

Their Clay work maps a market against your investment mandate. Language models then score qualitative markers that firmographic filters tend to miss.

They also clean and enrich the targets already in your CRM, then route new companies into email sequences. One PE partner says a sourcing sprint dropped from 8-10 hours to about 30 minutes.

Everything they build lives in a GitHub repo your firm owns. Pricing starts at $10k+ a month with a one-month minimum.

Best for: Search funds and PE teams that want proprietary deal flow without adding analysts.
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DealDeploy - Homepage
#10

Outcome - Best For East Asian Brands Going Global

📍 Seoul, South Korea Beauty & Health Distributor Search Partnerships

Outcome is a Seoul GTM engineering team that helps East Asian beauty and health brands sell abroad. Their Clay systems find international distributors, retailers and brand partners.

Signal-based prospecting is the core of the work. Their workflows watch for product launches, new market entry and regional hiring, then surface the sourcing contacts at each account.

One case study follows a beauty brand mapping distributors across North America, Europe and the Middle East. Within a few weeks it was talking directly with international buyers.

They work in English, Korean and Mandarin, starting around $5k a month on three-month terms. They also run Clay workshops and Clay Cup meetups in Korea. Their homepage is in Korean, which tells you where their core clients sit.

Best for: Korean, Japanese and Chinese consumer brands looking for overseas distribution partners.
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Outcome - Homepage

Salesforge: Run Your Own Clay-Powered Outbound Without Hiring An Agency

Clay is excellent at finding accounts and adding context to them. It still needs a sending layer to handle sequences, follow-ups and replies.

Salesforge covers that side without a monthly agency retainer. Clay rows can flow straight into sequences through the Salesforge Clay integration.

  • Multi-channel outreach - email and LinkedIn sequences from a single platform, with unlimited mailboxes and unlimited LinkedIn senders.
  • Agent Frank (AI SDR) - a fully autonomous AI sales development representative. He prospects, writes and sends outreach, then books meetings without human intervention. He runs in Auto-Pilot or Co-Pilot mode.
  • Leadsforge - a lead search engine with 500M+ contacts. Describe your ideal customer and it returns verified emails, LinkedIn profiles, and phone numbers. Waterfall enrichment means higher data accuracy than single-source providers.
  • Warmforge - proprietary premium email warmup and deliverability monitoring. Tracks heat scores, inbox placement rates, and SPF/DKIM/DMARC health across all mailboxes.
  • Mailforge - cold email infrastructure with shared IPs, automated DNS setup, and mailboxes ready in under five minutes.
  • Multi-source AI hyper-personalization built into every sequence.
  • Spam and email-content checker with blacklist and IP health monitoring built in.
  • Primebox™ - a unified inbox for all replies across email and LinkedIn.
  • A/Z testing across up to 26 variants, not just A/B.
  • Extensive integrations, campaign analytics, and transparent pricing with no per-seat limits.
  • Trusted by 10,000+ businesses, with a 4.6-star G2 rating and an active 1K+ Slack community.

What a GTM engineer actually builds, with the full sending setup shown inside Salesforge.

All the agencies on this list can run effective Clay campaigns on your behalf. But if your goal is to own the process, control the data, and scale without growing headcount, Salesforge gives you the infrastructure to do it. Try the 14-day free trial - no credit card required.


Clay Agencies: Side-By-Side Comparison

AgencyLocationBest ForKey Focus
Vanderbuild ✓ Forge CertifiedCentral EuropeComplex Clay Data OrchestrationGTM Engineering, CRM Automation
B2B Boosted ✓ Forge CertifiedUnited KingdomA One-Off Clay Build You OwnClay Builds, Automation Handover
Growth Alliance ✓ Forge CertifiedUS & EUClay Inside Mid-Market RevOpsRevOps, Data Orchestration
ZevenueToronto, CanadaHard-To-Source Vertical SaaS MarketsCustom TAM Builds, AI Enablement
NeborAmsterdam, NetherlandsClay Systems Your Team InheritsSignal Outbound, Inbound Routing
GrofloMiami, USClay Builds Plus Embedded SDRsClay Builds, Forward-Deployed SDRs
novliniParis, FranceAttio And Clay StacksAttio, Composable GTM Stacks
LeadHasteSofia, BulgariaManaged Clay Outbound On A Lean BudgetManaged Outbound, Buying Signals
DealDeployNew York, USPrivate Equity Deal SourcingDeal Sourcing, CRM Enrichment
OutcomeSeoul, South KoreaEast Asian Brands Going GlobalDistributor Discovery, Signals

How To Choose The Right Clay Agency

  • Decide build or run. Some partners hand over a finished system. Others operate it for you every month.
  • Ask whose workspace it is. Clay tables, credits and prompts should live in accounts you own.
  • Check credit discipline. Ask what each enriched lead costs in Clay credits before anything scales.
  • Match your CRM. Attio, HubSpot and Salesforce teams should pick partners who build in them weekly.
  • Look for niche fit. Vertical SaaS, private equity and consumer exports all need very different data sources.
  • Pilot before a retainer. Free builds, foundation months and refund guarantees all appear on this list.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is a Clay agency?
A Clay agency designs and runs go-to-market systems inside Clay for you. That usually means list building, enrichment waterfalls, signal triggers and AI research. Many also run the outbound campaigns those tables feed.
How much do Clay agencies charge?
Most partners I reviewed start between $2,500 and $10k a month, often with a three-month minimum. B2B Boosted is the exception with one-off builds from £4,000. Budget for your own Clay plan on top, and check the latest Clay pricing changes first.
What is the difference between B2B and B2C Clay agencies?
B2B Clay work maps accounts, buying committees and firmographic signals. Pure B2C use is rare, since Clay's data focuses on companies and professional profiles. Even Outcome, which serves consumer brands, uses Clay to reach B2B distributors and retailers.
How do I measure Clay agency success?
Start with enrichment coverage, data accuracy and cost per enriched lead. Then track reply rates, meetings and pipeline from the campaigns those tables feed. Credit spend per outcome keeps the build honest.
Can a Clay agency help me reach new international markets?
Yes, but ask which markets they already have live tables in. Europe needs GDPR-aware sourcing and native-language copy. Outcome specializes in cross-border work, while Nebor and Vanderbuild run campaigns across several European markets.
How long does it take to see results from a Clay agency?
A first enriched TAM and scoring model usually lands within two to four weeks. New mailboxes need about two weeks of warmup before sending starts. A reliable read on pipeline impact takes around 90 days.

Final Thoughts

The best Clay agencies for you depend on whether you want a build or an operator. Niche fit matters more than size, which is why most of this list is boutique.

Vanderbuild is my top pick for engineering depth. B2B Boosted suits teams that want to pay once and own the system. Growth Alliance fits mid-market RevOps.

For niche markets, look at Zevenue for vertical SaaS and DealDeploy for private equity. Outcome is the strongest fit for East Asian brands selling abroad.

Rather run the sending side yourself? Connect your Clay tables to the Forge stack and judge it on two weeks of warmup plus two weeks of sending.

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