Find Companies

Describe the company profile you want, get back a list of matching companies.

What it does

• Searches for companies across Crustdata and returns matching company profiles.
• No required parameter. You must pass at least one filter or there is nothing to search on.
• Filters cover identity, category, location, type, size, revenue, funding, social following, age and headcount growth — see the tables below.
• Paged: limit is 1–100 (default 25), and cursor takes the next_cursor from the previous response.
• Cost scales with results — 0.3 credits per company returned. A default page of 25 costs 7.5 credits; a full page of 100 costs 30.

This is how you build an account list. Enrichment tools like enrich_organization work on domains you already have — this call produces them.

Parameters

No parameter is required, but a call with no filters has nothing to match on. Combine filters from any of the families below.

Identity

Category

Location

Type

Size

Revenue

Funding

Social

Age

Growth

Paging

How to use it

Find privately held SaaS companies in the US with 51-200 employees.

Narrow that to companies whose last funding round was series_a or series_b and
closed after 2025-06-01.

Now only keep companies with min_headcount_growth_percent_6m above 20.

Return 100 per page and keep paging with the cursor until I have 300 companies.
Report credits used.

Example prompts

Best prompting practices

• Always pass at least one filter. There is no required parameter, so an unfiltered ask returns whatever the search defaults to rather than what you meant.
• Use the range enums, not free text. employee_count_ranges accepts fixed buckets — "51-200", "1001-5000". “Mid-market” is not a value.
• Dates are YYYY-MM-DD. last_fundraise_after: "2025-06-01". “Last six months” will not parse.
• Stack growth windows deliberately. min_headcount_growth_percent_1m catches a sudden spike; _12m catches sustained expansion. Percent filters favour small companies, absolute filters favour large ones.
• Exclude early. exclude_industries costs nothing and keeps agencies, recruiters and consultancies out of a list you would otherwise clean by hand.
• Set limit explicitly. Default is 25. limit is the cost dial at 0.3 credits per company, so ask for volume only when you will use it.
• Search before you enrich. 100 companies here is 30 credits; guessing 100 domains and enriching them at 2 credits each is 200.

Output

{
  "companies": [
    {
      "company_name": "Example Inc",
      "primary_domain": "example.com",
      "employee_count_range": "51-200",
      "countries": ["United States"]
    }
  ],
  "next_cursor": "eyJwYWdlIjoyfQ"
}

Credits and limits

0.3 credits per company returned. limit is 1–100 with a default of 25, so a default call costs 7.5 credits and a full page costs 30. Run check_credits (free) before a long paging run.

Related tools

Next steps

• All MCP tools — the full catalogue with credit costs
• TAM Sourcing — workflows that turn a company search into a working list

Keep learning

Two courses take these tools past the reference page — clustered by GTM job, then chained into workflows.