DATA INFRASTRUCTURE · DISCOVERY

Data Infrastructure for Discovery

Companies found by what they do, what they run, who they resemble and where they are: signal searches, technology searches, lookalikes of your best customers and local business searches, resolved to domains and scored against your ICP. The infrastructure under discovery, run by autonomous AI agents.

FOUR WAYS TO FINDRESOLVED AND SCOREDA LIST THAT REFRESHES
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discovery methods

Firmographic and signal search, technology search, lookalikes from reference accounts and local business search, combinable in one mission.

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signal families

Hiring, funding, technology adoption and change, news, relationships, intent, growth and leadership moves as search criteria.

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reference accounts is enough

A handful of best customers expand to hundreds of lookalikes on size, stack, industry and signals.

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score per company, explained

Every company found carries a fit score and the reasons, so discovery returns a ranking instead of a pile.

⟨ THE JOB TODAY ⟩

Where the week actually goes.

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Search filters describe every company and none in particular

Industry plus headcount plus country returns eleven thousand results. The filter cannot see that one of them just posted three RevOps roles and another just replaced its CRM, so the list is a phone book.

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Lookalikes are done by feel

The team knows its best customers and cannot say what they have in common in a form a database can search. "Companies like Northwind" stays a conversation instead of a query.

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The local list is a maps export

Every dental practice in Austin, as names and phone numbers, with no website, no owner and no way to tell the four-location group from the single chair.

DISCOVERY MISSIONLIVE · 02:48 ELAPSED
WITH ASTROFABRIC

What changes when agents carry the work.

Search by firmographics and signals

Companies by industry, size, geography, funding stage and growth, combined with what happened recently: roles posted, rounds raised, products launched, leaders hired and topics researched.

discover_companies · hiring_signals · funding_events

Search by technology

Every company running a given product or category, and the ones that adopted or dropped it in a window, so you can find the users of a complementary tool or the recent switchers from a competitor.

companies_using_tech · technology_lookup · tech_stack

Lookalikes from your best customers

A handful of reference accounts expanded to the companies that resemble them on industry, size band, stack, funding and signals, with the resemblance explained on each row.

similar_companies · icp_profile

Local and regional search

Businesses of a category in a city or radius with ratings, review counts, hours and websites, resolved to a domain and enriched so the multi-location operator stands out from the single site.

local_business_search · company_to_domain · company_lookup
HOW IT WORKS

From objective to delivered rows.

  1. 01 · DESCRIBE

    Describe

    One sentence: "SaaS companies in DACH with 50 to 500 people that run a modern CRM and posted a RevOps role this month". The workspace ICP fills anything you leave out.

  2. 02 · SEARCH

    Search

    Agents run the firmographic, signal, technology, lookalike and local searches the objective calls for, in parallel, against licensed indexes.

  3. 03 · RESOLVE

    Resolve

    Results merged on canonical domain, duplicates collapsed, ambiguous entities resolved with the rest of the row as context.

  4. 04 · ENRICH

    Enrich

    Firmographics, stack, funding and the latest signal attached to every company so the list is usable without a second tool.

  5. 05 · SCORE

    Score

    Fit against the ICP with reasons; customers, competitors and the suppression list separated out.

  6. 06 · DELIVER

    Deliver

    A saved list that refreshes on a schedule, exported as CSV or pushed into the CRM after approval, with contacts added when you want them.

⟨ THE DATA ON EVERY ROW ⟩
Canonical domainIndustryHeadcount and growthHeadquarters and locationsFoundedRevenue rangeFunding stage and last roundTechnologies in useTechnology adopted or droppedOpen roles by functionHiring velocityRecent newsLeadership changesBuying-intent topicsSimilarity to reference accountsRating and review countLocations countFit score and reasons
USE CASES

The jobs this page was written for.

Recent switchers from a competitor

Companies that dropped a competing product in the last 90 days, resolved and enriched, with the replacement identified where a source has it, so the conversation starts with the change they just made.

A list of accounts mid-decision, dated.

Users of a complementary tool

Every company in your ICP running the platform your product integrates with, sized and scored, so partner-led outreach has a universe instead of a hunch.

The integration partner’s install base, as your target list.

Lookalikes of the last twenty wins

The twenty most recent closed-won accounts expanded to their nearest neighbors on stack, size and signals, deduplicated against the CRM and scored.

Next quarter’s target accounts, from this quarter’s wins.

Multi-location operators in a region

Every business of a category across a metro area, grouped by operator, filtered to groups with three or more locations and a website, with the owner found where a licensed source has one.

SMB and franchise territories mapped by operator.
BEFORE AND AFTER

Discovery, before and after

By handWith AstroFabric
QueryIndustry, size, countryPlus stack, signals, lookalikes and location, in one sentence
ResultsEleven thousand rows in alphabetical orderA few hundred, scored with reasons
LookalikesA feeling about the best customersNearest neighbors on stack, size and signals, explained
DuplicatesThe same company under three namesMerged on canonical domain
LocalA maps export with phone numbersResolved domains, operators grouped, owners found
AfterwardA CSV that agesA list that refreshes and pushes to the CRM on approval
MISSIONS YOU WOULD RUN

Described in plain language. Delivered end to end.

PROSPECTING

Competitor switchers, last 90 days

Companies that dropped a named competitor recently, resolved, enriched and scored, the likely owner found, delivered as a refreshable list.

TechnographicsCompany SearchScoringLists
ONE MISSION · EVIDENCE ATTACHED
PROSPECTING

Lookalikes of recent wins

The last twenty closed-won accounts expanded to their nearest neighbors, deduplicated against the CRM, scored and pushed to Attio after approval.

Similar CompaniesFirmographicsScoringAttio
ONE MISSION · EVIDENCE ATTACHED
PROSPECTING

Multi-location operators by metro

Every business of a category in a metro area, grouped by operator, filtered to groups with a website and three or more sites, owners found where available.

Local Business DataCompany SearchEmail FinderGoogle Sheets
ONE MISSION · EVIDENCE ATTACHED

Three of a hundred. The full playbook library ships in every workspace, and anything you can describe becomes a mission.

GOVERNED AUTONOMY

Safe enough to actually turn on.

⟨ CONTROL PLANE ⟩ENFORCED AT RUNTIME · NOT ADVISORY

Search runs, pushes wait

Discovery, resolution, enrichment and scoring run inside the credit ceiling with no gate. A push into the CRM is staged for a person to approve exactly as previewed.

Suppression on every list

Customers, open opportunities, competitors and the workspace suppression list are separated before a discovery list is delivered.

Reasons on every row

The search that found the company, the signal that qualified it and the fit reasons ride with each row, so the list can be defended in a pipeline review.

Licensed indexes only

Company data comes from licensed providers. The agents never scrape member networks.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

What does data infrastructure for discovery mean?

The layer that turns a description of who you sell to into a ranked list of companies: firmographic and signal search, technology search, lookalikes of reference accounts and local business search, merged on domain, enriched, scored against the ICP and saved as a list that refreshes. Autonomous agents run it.

What can I search by?

Industry, headcount, growth, geography, funding stage and recency, revenue range, technologies in use or recently adopted or dropped, open roles by function, hiring velocity, news, leadership changes, buying-intent topics, similarity to named companies, and for local businesses category, radius, rating and location count.

How do lookalikes work?

Give the agents a handful of reference accounts, your best customers or your latest wins, and they find the companies nearest to them on industry, size band, stack, funding and signals. Each result explains the resemblance, and the ICP weights decide which dimensions count most.

Can it find companies by the technology they use?

Yes. Search for every company running a product or a category, or only those that adopted or dropped it inside a window. That finds the install base of a partner, the users of a complementary tool or the recent switchers from a competitor.

Does local business search work outside the US?

Yes. Local search runs by category and location worldwide, returning ratings, review counts, hours and websites, and the agents resolve each result to a domain and group multiple locations under one operator where the data supports it. Results carry the address and phone from the listing.

Can discovery add contacts too?

Yes. Ask for the buying committee and the agents find named people by title and seniority at each company, verify emails through a waterfall of licensed sources and add them to the same list. A lookup that finds nothing costs nothing.

What does a discovery list cost?

Finding and enriching a company is a few credits per row, scoring and deduplication are free, and a verified contact is a few credits when you ask for people. Rates show before the run and plans start at $49 per month.

⟨ DEPLOY ASTROFABRIC ⟩

Give discovery its infrastructure.

Describe the companies. A resolved, scored list comes back in minutes and refreshes on the schedule you set.