Signal:a data event that tells you a prospect is in-market before they raise their hand: a pricing page visit, a funding round, a job change, a replyEnrichment waterfall:querying data sources in sequence until you get a value: Clay tries source A, then B, then C. Better coverage than any single providerGTM Engineering:treating your go-to-market motion as a software system: ICP as filter, signals as triggers, sequences as logic branches, Slack as the delivery layerIntent:behavioral evidence that an account is actively researching a problem you solve, before they contact sales or fill a formOutbound infra:the sending domains, mailboxes, DNS records, and warm-up cadence that keep your email out of spam and your main domain cleanICP filter:the exact definition of which companies and personas belong in your pipeline, expressed precisely enough that a machine can execute itWarm lead:a prospect who has taken a signal action (pricing page, reply, meeting request) that moves them ahead of every cold contact in your sequenceClay waterfall:a Clay table that pulls from LinkedIn, Apollo, and 50+ sources simultaneously, scoring and filtering prospects in real time before they reach a repEnrichment cost:the per-row credit spend of running a Clay workflow: easy to burn through budget fast when calling Clay from an AI agent without guardrails; controlling this requires knowing which enrichments to run, in what order, and when to stopSignal:a data event that tells you a prospect is in-market before they raise their hand: a pricing page visit, a funding round, a job change, a replyEnrichment waterfall:querying data sources in sequence until you get a value: Clay tries source A, then B, then C. Better coverage than any single providerGTM Engineering:treating your go-to-market motion as a software system: ICP as filter, signals as triggers, sequences as logic branches, Slack as the delivery layerIntent:behavioral evidence that an account is actively researching a problem you solve, before they contact sales or fill a formOutbound infra:the sending domains, mailboxes, DNS records, and warm-up cadence that keep your email out of spam and your main domain cleanICP filter:the exact definition of which companies and personas belong in your pipeline, expressed precisely enough that a machine can execute itWarm lead:a prospect who has taken a signal action (pricing page, reply, meeting request) that moves them ahead of every cold contact in your sequenceClay waterfall:a Clay table that pulls from LinkedIn, Apollo, and 50+ sources simultaneously, scoring and filtering prospects in real time before they reach a repEnrichment cost:the per-row credit spend of running a Clay workflow: easy to burn through budget fast when calling Clay from an AI agent without guardrails; controlling this requires knowing which enrichments to run, in what order, and when to stop