Your ideal customer profile, read against the whole active web. Write who you are looking for in plain language: the sector, the size, the place, the systems, the portal. We screen our index of 102 million domains against it, read every candidate's website against each of your criteria, and deliver a ranked list in which every signal carries a verbatim quote and the page it came from.
Company level only: no contacts and no named people. Pilot results within 1 business day, and the $100 is credited in full to a full run. Payment by PayPal or card.
Twenty US sector lists already exist, and for many brokers they are the right place to begin. But a buyer's intake rules rarely stop at a sector. The moment your ICP adds a size band, names a system, asks for a client portal or rules out a state, a ready list gets you close and leaves the rest of the screening to you. That remaining work is what a custom list does.
Twenty US sector lists, from law firms and accounting firms to logistics and software, ranked by Data Asset Score.
A screen of our full index against the ICP you write, with the evidence for every claim in the file.
A custom list is not a keyword search over somebody's company database. It starts from the whole active web, reads each candidate against the criteria you wrote, and shows its work for every company it keeps and every company it drops.
Every run starts from our index of 102 million domains, 99.99%+ of the active internet, with domain history. The industries in your ICP come from our category index, so the starting pool is every domain in those categories, not only the companies that happen to have a profile somewhere.
Before screening starts, every company domain is verified active and every company is checked for fit with its industry. A verified active domain resolves, is not expired, is not parked, and shows no error or placeholder page.
Your ICP becomes the filter, criterion by criterion. Every candidate site is read against it: is the team inside your size band, is the company in the US, does it name the systems you need, does it run a client portal, is it independent.
A criterion counts as met only when the site says so in words we can quote. A site that is silent on a must-have does not pass it.
Every signal we claim ships with a verbatim quote, the source page it came from and a confidence level. Companies that meet every must-have are ranked, strongest fits first.
Companies screened out go to an exclusion log with the reason, so you can see what was left behind and why.
Each stage narrows the pool for one reason only, and each reason is written down. This is the path every custom run takes, pilot or full.
The bars show the order of the stages, not their real sizes. How many domains survive each stage depends entirely on your ICP, which is why we do not quote a yield before your pilot has measured one.
No filter syntax and no field codes. One or two sentences make a complete brief. We split it into must-haves, which decide whether a company counts, nice-to-haves, which are reported and used for ranking, and exclusions, which remove a company whatever else it shows.
US accounting firms with 10+ staff that name QuickBooks or Xero
Reported alongside: a high client-confidential flag, since accounting work sits under engagement letters, and fit against Mode's published 10+ minimum for accounting firms.
Logistics companies of 30 to 200 people with a customer portal
Reported alongside: fit against micro1's published 30+ employees (its referral posting says 30 to 200), US first and primarily English.
Law firms with a help center and a client portal, outside California
Reported alongside: a high client-confidential flag for privileged matters, and fit against Mode's published 6+ minimum for law firms.
Every run reads the same standard set. All of it is visible on a company's own website or held in our index, and all of it is about the company, never about the people who work there. Your custom signals are added on top.
From our category index. Your ICP can name one category or several, and can rule out close neighbors, such as software sold to accountants inside an accounting screen.
A stated headcount such as "a team of 40", office counts, open roles and team pages. A page of pictured people gives a minimum, never a headcount, and the file says which kind of cue it found.
A headquarters address, "based in" a city, or US offices named on a careers page. Use it to require the US, name states, or exclude one, as in "outside California".
The founded year where the site states it, and years online from our domain history. The two are reported separately, because a website can be younger or older than the company behind it.
Every company domain is verified active and every company is checked for fit with its industry. A verified active domain resolves, is not expired, is not parked, and shows no error or placeholder page. A domain that fails any of these never reaches your list.
Our 0 to 100 score for the data AI buyers want, with its grade, built from nine factor groups: history, scale, knowledge assets, operational systems, customer systems, organization, industry value, expertise and activity status.
The kinds of records a company probably keeps, such as support tickets, project files, case work, documentation or order history. Likely holdings from public signals, not an inventory of its systems.
Help desk, CRM, ATS, LMS, issue tracker, accounting and other business software the company says it uses, often in job ads. Integration lists and partner logos are left out on purpose.
A help center, docs site, knowledge base or published procedures. Written knowledge is among the records buyers name first, and it is usually the easiest kind to scope.
A login for clients or customers: a shipment tracking portal, a client file portal, a student or member area. A portal suggests structured, repeated records behind it.
Independent, PE or investor backed, or part of a group, as the company presents itself. Ownership decides who can sign, and many ICPs want only one of the three.
Law, health and accounting work involves client secrets or regulated records. The flag tells you, before you pitch anyone, that part of a company's records may be off limits.
Each company read against the published rules of buyer programs: micro1's 30+ employees, US first and English, and Mode's 20+ US office staff, 10+ for accounting firms and 6+ for law firms.
Brokers and sourcing teams work toward a buyer's intake rules. A custom run can screen on those rules directly, or report them as columns next to your own criteria, so one file can serve more than one program.
| Rule | micro1 (as published) | Mode (as published) | Where it lands in your file |
|---|---|---|---|
| Company size | 30+ employees; the referral posting says 30 to 200 | 20+ full-time US office employees | Team-size cue with its quote, and a fit reading per program |
| Industry exceptions | None listed | Accounting firms 10+; law firms 6+ | Industry from our category index, with the right minimum applied to each company |
| Location | US first, then other Western markets | US office employees; US-based teams the strongest fit | US or HQ location with its quote |
| Language | Primarily English | Not listed | The main language of the company's site |
| History and records | Mature operations | Several years of records | Founded year and years online, reported separately |
| Company payout | "$100K-$2M+ for approved data packages" | "$100K-$5M" | Not a column: published ranges, not a price for any company |
Every value in a custom list has to be earned from the company's own website. When a run says a firm has "a team of 25", the sentence that says so sits in the next column, with the page it came from. When the site is silent, the cell says "not stated". It never holds a guessed number.
That rule costs some coverage, and we accept the cost. A firm with 40 people that never says so will read as "not stated" on team size, and it will not pass a team-size must-have. A broker who forwards a company to a buyer is spending credibility, and a list that guessed would be spending it for you.
Each signal carries a confidence level next to its quote, so you can tell a direct statement from a reasonable reading.
The source column holds the full address of the page where the quote appears. Websites change, so the date of the reading travels with the file: a quote that has since moved still shows what the site said on the day it was read.
This is how one company looks in a custom list, laid out as a card in the same evidence style as our free check. The company, its domain and its quotes are invented for this example, and the domain uses the reserved .example ending. A real delivery carries the verbatim quotes and full source page addresses.
Our team of 18 CPAs and bookkeepers serves small businesses across central Ohio.
Visit our office on East Broad Street in Columbus.
Helping Columbus business owners since 2006.
You will close the books for clients in QuickBooks Online and Xero every month.
Log in to the client portal to upload documents securely.
Our help center walks you through uploading documents and approving your return.
An independent, partner-owned firm.
At least 18 people against 10+ for accounting firms, a US office, about 20 years of history.
The site suggests at least 18 people; micro1 publishes 30+ employees.
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A custom list is delivered as files your team can work right away, in a spreadsheet, a CRM import or your own scripts. Nothing to learn and nothing to log in to.
Every qualified company, strongest fits first, with every standard and custom signal, its confidence, the verbatim quote and the source page. One row per company, one set of columns per signal, so you can sort, filter and load it however you work.
Every company screened out, with the criterion it missed and the quote, or the silence, behind the decision. Use it to audit the screen, or to find near misses worth a second look, such as a firm one hire short of your size band.
The measured result of your pilot: how many domains were screened to find your 10, and what a full run over the rest of your universe projects to. It is the basis for every scope we quote after the pilot.
Domain, company name as its site gives it, signals, evidence and score. No contacts, no named people, no email addresses and no phone numbers. You reach the companies through your own network and your own channels.
Every reason is logged with its evidence. Silence is logged apart from a miss, because "not stated" and "stated, and outside your rules" lead to different next steps.
| Reason | What the log records | What you might do with it |
|---|---|---|
| Outside the size band | The team-size cue and its quote, such as a stated team of 8 against a must-have of 10 or more | Set aside, or keep for a program with a lower minimum |
| Must-have not stated | Which criterion the site was silent on, and the pages that were read | Check the company yourself if it looks strong on everything else |
| Location excluded | The headquarters statement that placed the company outside your geography | Nothing, unless your geography changes |
| Different business on reading | The category matched, but the site describes another business, such as software sold to law firms rather than a law firm | Useful for a different ICP; the log names what the company actually does |
| Ownership excluded | Where your ICP asks for independent companies, the statement that the company is part of a group or investor backed | Look at the parent instead, which is often where a decision sits |
| Your own exclusion | Any custom exclusion you set, with the quote that triggered it | Confirm the rule removed what you meant it to remove |
Nothing in a pilot is prepared in advance. We set up the full run for your ICP, start it, and stop it the moment the first 10 companies qualify. You get those 10 in exactly the format of a full delivery, plus a measured projection of the rest.
On the pilot start page, describe the industry, size, location and systems you need, plus anything else a website could show. Mark what is a must-have and what is only nice to have, list any exclusions, and add your custom signals in plain language. Precise briefs make sharper pilots.
Your categories are pulled from our index, inactive domains are removed, and your criteria become the screen: the standard signals, your custom signals and the buyer rules you want reported. It is the same setup a full run uses, not a lighter version, which is what makes the pilot's numbers usable.
Candidates are screened in random order, so the pilot sees a fair slice of your universe rather than its easiest corner. The run stops as soon as 10 companies have met every must-have with evidence. The 10 are whatever the screen finds first, not a showcase we picked.
Within 1 business day: the 10 qualified companies with every signal, confidence level, quote and source page, and the projection in one line: we screened N domains to find your 10, and the full run projects to about X qualified companies.
With the projection we quote several scopes: the full run, part of it, or a fixed number of companies. The $100 is credited in full to a full run. If you stop after the pilot, the 10 companies are yours to work.
Random order is what makes the pilot's rate worth using. Ten qualified companies out of the domains it took to find them is a real qualification rate, measured on your criteria, in your universe.
"We screened N domains to find your 10. The full run projects to about X."
A projection is an estimate. Ten companies is a small sample, so we report "about X", and each scope we quote is based on it. A tight ICP, such as law firms with both a help center and a client portal outside one state, projects lower than a broad one. The pilot shows you how much lower before you commit to anything larger than $100.
With the projection in hand, we quote several scopes up front. Whatever you choose arrives in the format your pilot companies came in.
Every qualified company in your universe, ranked, with full evidence.
The upper half of the ranking: the companies that fit your ICP best.
A smaller first batch for an opening outreach round, or for testing one buyer program.
Pick a company count that suits your budget, and the quote is for exactly that many.
Plans are quoted after the pilot; most clients choose a custom scope based on the projection. The reference plans below show how price follows the size of your universe and the number of signals.
Tell us the share of the projected yield or the number of companies you want, and which signals matter. We quote that scope, ranked strongest fits first. This is where the projection earns its keep: you pay for the slice you will actually work.
Screening a small niche and screening a broad category are not the same amount of work. The plans step up with the number of domains in your universe, and the pilot tells you that number for your ICP before you choose.
The standard set is built into every run. Each custom signal, such as "runs its own dispatch team rather than brokering loads", is new work: it has to be set up, tested on real sites and checked, so more of them move a run up the plans.
Payment by PayPal or card. Pilot results within 1 business day. There is no free trial. The free tools let anyone test the method first: the Data Asset Score demo and the check against buyer rules. For lookups, lists and the API by subscription, see plans and pricing. Last checked: 8 October 2026.
Custom lists are built for the people who find companies for AI data buyers, and for the teams inside data companies that need more of the right supply.
A referral pays only when a company signs and meets the program's conditions, so the work is finding companies that fit before you spend outreach on them. A custom list built to one program's rules puts those companies first, with the quotes you need to explain why each one fits.
As published, checked 7 October 2026. Each program's own terms decide who is paid, how much and when.
micro1, Mode, Grepped, Troveo, Miro Advisory and others publish who they want, then need enough companies that fit. A custom run turns your written intake rules into a ranked pipeline.
Company level only. Your team makes every approach.
If your ICP is simply "US law firms" or "US software companies", a custom run repeats work that is already done. The 20 ready lists hold thousands of verified companies per sector, ranked by Data Asset Score, and cost less.
To check a handful of companies you already know, the free check against buyer rules qualifies a target in about 20 seconds.
Pick the cheapest tool that answers your question.
The list is useful because it is disciplined. These are the lines every run keeps, in a pilot and in a full run.
Company level only. No names, no emails, no phone numbers and no personal profiles, anywhere in the file.
If a site does not state a fact, the cell says "not stated". We do not estimate a headcount or revenue that a company has not published.
A list shows companies that fit your ICP. It never claims a company wants to sell its data, and a score is not a valuation or an offer.
Every signal is about the company. If a requested signal would need facts about a person, we say so when we review the brief and suggest a company-level version.
We do not contact the companies on your list. How and whether to approach them is yours to decide, through your own channels.
A fit reading compares public facts with published rules. Buyers decide after their own review, and no buyer promises acceptance, so neither do we.
A ready list is one of our 20 US sector lists: thousands of verified companies per sector, ranked by Data Asset Score, bought once as a file from $249 a list (the 5,000 highest-scored companies), or kept current through the API. A custom list is built to your ICP. We screen our index of 102 million domains against your criteria, such as a size band, a named system, a client portal or a state to exclude, and every signal comes with a verbatim quote and its source page. If your ICP is one sector with no further rules, a ready list is faster and cheaper.
We configure the full run for your ICP, the same setup a paid run gets, then stop it when the first 10 companies qualify. You receive those 10 with every standard and custom signal, its confidence, the verbatim quote and the source page, plus a measured projection: we screened N domains to find your 10, and the full run projects to about X. Results arrive within 1 business day. The $100 is credited in full to a full run, and the 10 companies are yours either way.
When it meets every must-have in your brief with evidence from its own website: a quote we can show and the page it came from. Silence is not a pass. A company whose site never states its team size cannot qualify on a team-size must-have, and in an exclusion log it appears with “not stated” as the reason. Nice-to-have signals are reported and used to rank, but they do not decide whether a company is on the list.
It is measured, then extrapolated. The pilot screens candidates in random order and counts how many domains it took to find 10 qualified companies. That rate, applied to the rest of your universe, gives the projection. Ten companies is a small sample, so we state the result as “about X” and quote each scope from it. It is an estimate, not a guaranteed count.
No. Everything is company level: the domain, the company name as its site gives it, the signals, the evidence and the Data Asset Score. There are no contacts, no named people, no email addresses and no phone numbers, in a pilot or in a full run. You approach companies through your own network and your own channels.
Thirteen standard signals on every run: industry, team-size cues, US or HQ location, operating history, activity status, Data Asset Score and grade, likely data held, systems named, documentation, client or customer portals, ownership, client-confidential flags and fit against published buyer rules. On top of those come custom signals: any criterion a website can show, written in plain language. Starter includes up to 2, Growth up to 5 and Proof up to 8. We do not screen on facts a website cannot show, such as revenue.
Pilot results arrive within 1 business day. Full runs are quoted after the pilot, because the size of your universe and the number of signals set both the price and the timing. Payment is by PayPal or card. Reference plans run from $999 for Starter to from $25,000 for Platform, and most clients choose a custom scope based on the projection.
No. The pilot costs $100, and that is what keeps it a real run on your ICP rather than a canned sample. Two free tools let anyone test the method first: the Data Asset Score demo at https://www.selldatatoai.com/data-asset-score/ scores a limited number of companies a day, and the check at https://www.selldatatoai.com/check-your-company/ reads a company’s public pages and compares them with published buyer rules, with quotes, in about 20 seconds.
$100, credited in full to a full run. Results within 1 business day, with every signal quoted and sourced, and a measured projection of how many more are waiting in your universe.