Claude Clay connectorWhat Claude can do in your Clay account.
The Claude Clay connector exposes 7 tools. 5 of them look up and enrich people or companies, 2 add data to a search you already ran, and none is left undocumented. Below: what Claude can research for you, what it adds, and what Clay has not spelled out.
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What changes for a sales team doing account research
Account research usually means jumping between a list, Clay's tables and a dozen tabs. With the connector, you describe the people or the company you are after, and Claude runs the lookup through Clay and brings the results back into the conversation, where you can refine them in plain words.
Map a buying committee. Before a first call with a software vendor, find-and-enrich-contacts-at-company searches that company's people by role, title or department, so you see who sits in finance or IT.
Complete a named shortlist. A partner hands you five names from an event. find-and-enrich-list-of-contacts looks up those exact people at their companies and enriches what it finds.
Deepen a search you already ran. Once a search exists, add-contact-data-points or add-company-data-points appends extra data points to every row in it, and get-existing-search brings that search back later by its ID.
Now what the connector does not do. Clay's documentation gives one sentence per tool and no more: it does not say what a lookup costs in credits, which data points exist, or how results are stored. get-credits-available shows the balance, not the price of the next call. Nothing runs on its own either. For list building that fires on a schedule or an event, an automation tool is the right job, and the Clay Make integration page covers that side.
The vocabulary in one minute
Five words you will meet while plugging Clay into Claude.
- Connector
- The link you set up once between Claude and an account you already own, so Claude can work in it while answering you.
- Tool
- One named action a connector opens to Claude. Claude picks the ones it needs by itself; the directory lists each by name.
- Authorization
- The sign-in screen of the service itself, where you hand Claude its access. Granted once per person, and you can take it back.
- Approval
- The confirmation Claude waits for before it goes through with something that changes your account, shown right in the chat.
- MCP
- The shared standard connectors are built on: it is what lets an assistant such as Claude talk to an outside service.
Plug Clay into Claude in three steps
- 01
Find Clay in Claude
In Claude's settings, open Customize, then Connectors, and look for Clay in the list. On a Team or Enterprise workspace, an Owner or Primary Owner has to switch the connector on first so each member can sign in.
- 02
Start the connection
Click Connect on its row, then sign in to Clay in the window that Clay opens itself. If the link ever breaks later on, use Disconnect and then plug it back in.
- 03
Read the authorization screen
Read the authorization screen before you accept. It belongs to Clay, not to Claude, and it is what decides what the access covers. You can also withdraw that access later from your Clay account.
The 7 tools, sorted by what they do
Clay gives Claude 7 tools: 5 that read your account, 2 that change something in it.
Two groups: what Claude looks up and what it adds to a Clay search. Tool names stay exactly as Claude shows them.
- 5 read
- 2 write
What Claude reads (5)
5 toolsFive tools that search, enrich and report without altering an existing search.
find-and-enrich-contacts-at-company
Searches the people working at one company, filtered by role, title or department, and enriches the contacts it returns so you get more than a name.
find-and-enrich-list-of-contacts
Looks up specific people you already know by name, each at their own company, and enriches those records one by one rather than scanning a whole organization.
find-and-enrich-company
Finds a single company from its domain or its LinkedIn URL and enriches that account, which gives Claude a factual base before it drafts anything.
get-credits-available
Reports how many credits remain in your Clay workspace, so you know where you stand before launching a heavy round of research.
get-existing-search
Brings back a search you already ran, using its search ID, so Claude can pick up the results without starting the lookup over.
What Claude changes (2)
2 toolsTwo tools that add data to a search in your workspace. No source spells out their confirmation, so the general rule below applies.
add-contact-data-points
Approval: see the ruleAdds data points to every contact inside a search that already exists, so the whole list gets the same extra fields in one go.
add-company-data-points
Approval: see the ruleExtends every company held in an existing search with extra data points, covering the whole list at once rather than one by one.
What Claude asks before it acts
By default, Claude stops and asks you before any action it takes on an account on your behalf. The request shows up in the conversation, at the moment it matters.
On a Team or Enterprise workspace, owners decide whether a member may let some actions through without being asked every time. They can also limit what a connector may do for the whole organization, for instance keeping reading open and closing writing. That setting applies to everyone and nobody gets around it from their own account. Finally, Claude works with your rights and nothing beyond: a Clay workspace you cannot reach yourself stays out of its reach too.
Which plans include it
None of the 819 sheets in the official directory shows plan availability. The answer per connector is published nowhere, and that is a real hole in the catalog rather than a gap in our reading.
The general rule is public: remote connectors are open to all users on Claude, Cowork, Claude Desktop and mobile. On Team and Enterprise, an Owner or Primary Owner opens a connector for the organization before members can each sign in. For the live state of this one, go to Clay's sheet in the official directory, the only place that shows it.
Where the Claude Clay connector stops
A connector is not an automation. Claude calls these tools while it answers you: nothing starts when a new lead lands or a search finishes.
This connector is documented only by its publisher: neither Claude's help center nor Anthropic's developer docs cover it, so every fact here comes from the directory sheet and Clay's own documentation page. The tool list is an observed floor, not a promise, since an administrator can open actions no public sheet shows. The partner badge is not a security audit, and Anthropic states on every sheet that it does not control which tools a publisher exposes. The Integrations hub gathers the other families if you need automation instead.
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