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Velocity7.5

Clay pushes past enrichment into ad activation while cheaper models reset what Claygent costs to run.

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◆Current state
Clay ships weekly roundups, and two threads run through them. Audiences is becoming a system of record — BigQuery, HubSpot Deals and Salesforce Activities import into it, and it now reports the pipeline and closed-won revenue that Clay-sourced accounts drove. Claygent is becoming both cheaper and more autonomous, picking up open-weight model options and an inbox it can answer on its own. Around both, Clay is instrumenting credit spend hard: time-series graphs, per-function and per-user attribution, CPJ allowance tracking.
◆Where it's heading
Clay is moving from a table that enriches data toward a platform that also acts on it — sourcing a market, enriching it, attributing revenue to it, and now syncing it to six ad platforms. The volume of credit-visibility work is the tell: customers are running enough agent workload that spend has become the thing they ask about, and cheaper models plus better dashboards are both answers to the same complaint. Activation is the newest edge and the least built out.
◆Prediction
Expect the activation surface to widen — more ad and sequencing destinations in the shape of the Nooks integration and Ads 2.0 — and expect credit economics to keep getting features, since every roundup in this window carried at least one spend-visibility item.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2d ago

    Enrichment discovery tab and Nooks sequence sync

    A new Enrich tab lets users find the right enrichment provider without knowing what to search for, continuing a run of work on provider discoverability that also produced last month's filterable badges. The Nooks integration pushes prospects into sequences and syncs engagement back, adding another activation destination alongside Ads 2.0.

  2. 8d ago

    Clay Ads 2.0

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    Clay has spent months making Audiences a place to model and measure a market; this is the first release that spends those audiences somewhere. Pushing to six ad platforms moves Clay from a data layer that feeds other tools into one that activates directly.

  3. 9d ago

    Revenue reporting in Audiences and headless CLI login

    Reporting in Audiences closes the loop that Clay's sourcing work opened, showing the pipeline and closed-won revenue that Clay-sourced accounts actually drove — the metric that justifies the credit spend the rest of this release helps track. Credit time-series graphs and CLI device login for headless environments round it out, alongside a Claygent visual refresh.

  4. 16d ago

    Filterable enrichment search and a connections audit page

    Filterable enrichment badges like best for EMEA, cost, and SMB coverage attack the same discoverability problem the new Enrich tab would revisit two weeks later. A Connections page tracing where each connection is used and who can access it is quiet governance work, and higher Audiences field limits keep pushing that surface toward system-of-record duty.

  5. 27d ago

    New Open Weight Models for Claygent

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    Every roundup in this window carries a credit-visibility feature, which says customers are watching agent spend closely. This release attacks the number itself rather than the dashboard, and in a credit-metered product that changes how much research a customer can afford to run.

  6. 1mo ago

    Inbox-as-a-source with AgentMail and function observability

    Inbox-as-a-source connects an email inbox to a Clay table so inbound leads are enriched, qualified, and replied to by Claygent, extending the agent from outbound research into inbound handling. Function observability — rows by source, credits per row, fill rates, run times — is another entry in the ongoing credit-transparency thread.