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Search from a website
Paste a website and Openlead reads it, writes a profile of the customers that company sells to, and finds more companies that fit it.
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Instead of a sentence, you can give the search box a website. Openlead reads the site, writes a profile of the customers that company sells to, and searches for companies that fit that profile.
Step 1: Paste the website
Paste an address such as personio.com into the search box on your dashboard, or into the box below an earlier search. On the dashboard the button changes to "Find their customers". You can also type "Find potential clients for personio.com" or "Find customers of personio.com"; both start the same search.
Any public website works: your own, or a company whose customers you want more of.
Step 2: Openlead reads the page
Openlead reads the page at the address you gave. A bare domain reads the home page, and an address with a path reads that page. From it, Openlead writes one English sentence that starts "Companies that": the kind of companies that buy from the site's company, with industry, size and region when the site makes them clear.
While it reads, the search shows a "Reading" step with the site's address. Reading a site does not use any of your companies; only new companies count. See plans and credits.
Step 3: Openlead searches with that profile
The sentence it wrote is then searched like any sentence you type yourself (see describe your ideal customer). Two things follow from that:
- The results are companies like the site's customers. They are not competitors or lookalikes of the site's own company.
- The site's own company is left out of the results.
The conversation shows your search as "Companies like personio.com's customers", and underneath it the profile Openlead wrote, on a line that starts "Read as:".
Step 4: Check and change the profile
Read the "Read as:" line first. If it is off, copy the sentence, edit it, and start another search with it in the box at the bottom of the conversation. That box takes a sentence or a website. The Copy button under the answer copies the profile together with the result.
You cannot edit the profile of a search that has already run. The one place where the drafted profile is a box you can edit before anything runs is the first-search step when you set up a workspace: Openlead drafts the profile from your website there, and your own words replace it.
Step 5: If the site cannot be read
If Openlead cannot read the address, the search stops with "We could not read that website". Nothing is charged. Check the address, or describe the customer in a sentence instead.
FAQ
Can I find companies similar to a given company?
Not directly. A website search finds the site's customers, not companies like the site's company. To find companies like one you know, describe it in a sentence, for example what it sells and to whom, and search with that.
Does Openlead read the whole site?
No. It reads the one page at the address you pasted.
Can I paste a competitor's website?
Yes. Openlead writes the profile from whatever that page says about the company's customers, then searches for companies that fit it.