How to use Lusha's lookalike feature in Clay to generate lists of companies or people that match your best-fit customers.
Lusha's lookalike feature in Clay lets you generate a list of up to 5,000 companies or people that closely resemble a small set of "seed" examples - like your best-fit customers or closed-won accounts. It replaces manual prospecting by automatically surfacing high-fit leads based on firmographic and contact signals.
Prerequisites: An active Clay workspace and either a Lusha API key (Scale plan) or access to a Clay-managed Lusha account. You'll also need at least 5 seed identifiers - company domains for company lookalikes, or work emails or LinkedIn URLs for people lookalikes.
Note: Using 10-20 seeds significantly improves match accuracy.
- In your Clay workspace, click Create in the left sidebar.
- Search for Lusha.
- Select Find company lookalikes with Lusha or Find people lookalikes with Lusha.
- When prompted, choose your Personal Lusha key, a Teammate's key, or the Clay-managed Lusha account.
- Click Continue.
- In the Company identifiers or Personal identifiers field, paste your seed list (e.g.,
lusha.comorperson@company.com). - In the Exclusion fields, add domains or emails of existing customers or competitors you want to filter out.
- Set Max results - the default is 5,000, but you can reduce this for a more focused list.
- Click Submit.
Note: When entering domains, don't include
https://orwww.- just the domain itself (e.g.,lusha.com).
Once Clay populates the table with names and LinkedIn URLs, add deeper data:
- Click + Add column and search for Lusha.
- Select Enrich company or Enrich person.
- Map Company Domain or Email to the corresponding Clay column.
- Click Continue to add fields and toggle on the data points you need (e.g., Employee count, Revenue, Verified Email).
- Click Save and run.
Your table will populate with lookalike prospects and their enriched contact details as the run completes.
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