# Can I replace Clay with an AI agent?

A spreadsheet-style tool that enriches lead lists by chaining data providers and AI steps. Partly. looot covers some of the jobs and not others.

## What Clay does and what looot covers

- Find work emails: covered. Providers: hunter, findymail, tomba, icypeas.
- Enrich company data: covered. Providers: people-data-labs, coresignal, thecompaniesapi.
- Enrich people data: covered. Providers: people-data-labs, coresignal, ai-ark.
- Research a lead on the web: covered. Providers: exa, tavily, linkup, searchapi-io.
- Scrape a page into fields: covered. Providers: diffbot, jina, firecrawl, zyte-api.
- Spreadsheet-style table UI: not covered. looot returns data to your agent, not to a shared grid.
- Native CRM sync: not covered. Your agent has to write to the CRM through its own tools.

## Agent prompt to replace Clay

Use looot to build an enriched lead list for the companies I give you: find work emails, enrich each company, and add one line of web research per lead. If you have not yet, set up https://looot.ai/skill.md first. Then search the looot catalog for each step, check the price of each endpoint before you call it, run the cheapest one that fits, and show me the results as a table.

## Can an AI agent replace Clay?

Partly. An agent running looot can do some of what Clay does through catalog endpoints, and the page marks the jobs it cannot do.

## Is there a free Clay alternative?

looot has no monthly seat. You pay per call to the provider you pick, and the catalog shows each endpoint's price before you run it. Whether that comes out cheaper than Clay depends on your volume.

## What does Clay cost?

List prices change, so check Clay's own pricing page. This page does not repeat them. The looot side is read live from the catalog on the web version of this page.

## What is a good Clay alternative for an AI agent?

An agent with a looot connection can call the providers behind Clay's data jobs directly. The providers used here are hunter, findymail, tomba, icypeas, people-data-labs, coresignal, thecompaniesapi, ai-ark, exa, tavily, linkup, searchapi-io, diffbot, jina, firecrawl, zyte-api.

## Which Clay features does looot not cover?

Not covered: spreadsheet-style table ui, native crm sync. Keep Clay for those, or use another tool beside looot.

## How do I replace Clay with looot?

Paste the agent prompt on this page into your coding agent. It sets up looot, finds the endpoints for each job and runs them. You can edit the prompt to match your own inputs.

## Do I need a Clay account to use looot?

No. looot calls its own providers and does not connect to your Clay account. Your existing Clay data stays where it is.

## Can an AI agent replace Clay waterfall enrichment?

Mostly. An agent can try one email provider, then the next when the first finds nothing. It does this in code or in a prompt, not in a visual builder.

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## Last reviewed

2026-10-02. Live prices are on the web page, read from the catalog.