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Clearbit Make integrationAutomate Clearbit with Make.

An email address is all Clearbit needs to tell you who is behind a lead. The Clearbit Make integration gives you 6 modules: 1 instant trigger and 5 actions. This guide shows how to connect your API key and build a first enrichment scenario.

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What you can automate

What can the Clearbit Make integration do for you?

It lets Make, a no-code automation tool, ask Clearbit about a person or a company at the moment your process needs it. You build a scenario (the automation, a chain of bricks called modules), and Clearbit becomes one brick: give it an email, a domain or a company name, it hands back what it knows. That is data enrichment: one detail in, a fuller picture out.

Qualified leads without the copy-paste. A demo request comes in from your form tool. Get a Person or Company looks up the email and returns the person and their employer in one go, so your sales rep opens a record that already has context.

Clean account lists. A spreadsheet of prospects often has company names but no websites. Get a Company's Domain turns each name into a domain, and Get a Company then pulls the company profile from that domain.

Alerts when a contact changes. Watch Changes starts a scenario when a person you follow in Clearbit is updated, which is a good moment to refresh your CRM or ping the account owner.

What the integration does not do: there is no module to search Clearbit by criteria, and nothing that writes data back into Clearbit. For anything the listed modules skip, Make an API Call reaches the rest of the Clearbit API. If your team works in n8n instead, the Clearbit n8n integration covers the same app, and n8n vs Make lays out how the two tools differ. New to Make altogether? The Make training starts from zero.

Connect

How do you connect Clearbit to Make?

  1. 01

    Copy your Clearbit API key

    In Clearbit, open Settings in the left sidebar, then Keys & Settings. Click the Eye icon to reveal the key and copy it. You need an active Clearbit account for this key to exist.

  2. 02

    Add a Clearbit module in Make

    In your scenario, add any Clearbit module and click Create a connection. A connection is your Clearbit account linked to Make once, then reused by every Clearbit module you add later.

  3. 03

    Name it and paste the key

    The Connection name field is optional, but a clear name helps when you run several accounts. Paste the API key you copied, save, and every Clearbit module in your scenarios can now use it.

First scenario

Build your first scenario: enrich every new lead

GoalWhen a new lead arrives from your form or CRM, Make asks Clearbit who the person is and which company they work for.

  1. 01

    Create the scenario

    Go to the Scenarios page, create a new scenario and click the big +. Pick the app where your leads arrive (a form tool or your CRM) and choose its trigger for new entries.

  2. 02

    Add Clearbit after it

    Click the + on the right of that first module, search for Clearbit and choose Get a Person or Company. Select the connection you created, or create it now with your API key.

  3. 03

    Map the email

    In the email field, map the email address from the first module instead of typing one. Each lead is a bundle, one item passed from module to module, so Clearbit receives a fresh address every time.

  4. 04

    Test with Run once

    Click Run once and submit a test lead. Open the bubble above the Clearbit module to read the bundle it returned, and check that the person and company match what you expected.

  5. 05

    Schedule and switch on

    Set the schedule on the first module (a new scenario checks every 15 minutes by default) and turn the scenario on. From there, add a module of your CRM to store what Clearbit found.

Triggers

What starts a Clearbit scenario?

1 module starts a scenario when something happens in Clearbit. A scheduled trigger is checked by Make on the scenario's schedule; an instant one is called by Clearbit as soon as it happens.

Clearbit1Watch Changes

Watch Changes

Instant trigger

In Make“Triggers when a person you are subscribed to is updated.”

This trigger wakes your scenario up when Clearbit updates a person you are subscribed to. Instead of re-checking contacts yourself, you let Clearbit tell Make that something moved, and your scenario takes it from there.

How it fires
instant, Clearbit calls Make through a webhook as soon as the update happens, shown by the lightning badge on the module.
When to use it
you track key contacts in big accounts and want your CRM or the account owner to know when their profile changes.
Watch out
it only covers people you already follow in Clearbit, and it needs the Create a webhook step before the connection.
Modules

What can each Clearbit module do?

Clearbit gives you 5 modules. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.

Clearbit1

Get a Company

Action

In Make“Gets a company by domain.”

Give it a website domain and it returns the company profile Clearbit holds for that domain. It is the quickest way to put a real company behind an account that only has a URL so far.

When to use it
a trial signup or an inbound form gives you a company website, and you want the account record filled before anyone calls.
Watch out
it works from a domain, not a name; if you only have the name, run Get a Company's Domain first.
Clearbit2

Get a Company's Domain

Action

In Make“Gets a company's domain by name.”

Here the input is a company name and the output is its domain. That sounds small, yet it is often the missing link between a raw list of names and every other lookup that needs a domain.

When to use it
you imported event badges or a trade show list with company names only, and you want to chain Get a Company right after.
Watch out
a name is less precise than a domain, so read the returned domain during Run once before trusting the whole batch.
Clearbit3

Get a Person

Action

In Make“Gets a person by email address.”

Looks up a single person from their email address and hands back what Clearbit knows about them. You get the human side of a lead without opening a browser tab.

When to use it
a newsletter subscriber or a webinar registrant signs up with a work email and you only care about the person, not the employer.
Watch out
if you also need the company, Get a Person or Company does both in one module, which saves you a second operation per lead.
Clearbit4

Get a Person or Company

Action

In Make“Gets a person and a company simultaneously based on an email address.”

One email in, two answers out: the person and their company, returned together. Each module run counts as one operation on your Make plan, so combining both lookups keeps your usage lower.

When to use it
this is the default pick for lead enrichment, for example on every demo request that lands in your CRM.
Watch out
map the email from the previous module rather than typing a sample, or every run will enrich the same address.
Clearbit5

Make an API Call

Action

In Make“Performs an arbitrary authorized API call.”

This is the escape hatch. It sends any request to the Clearbit API while reusing the connection you already set up, so there is no second key to manage.

When to use it
you need a Clearbit feature that none of the four lookup modules or the trigger covers, and you know which endpoint to call.
Watch out
unlike the other modules, nothing is prefilled; you have to read the Clearbit API docs to build the request and parse the answer.
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FAQ

Clearbit and Make: common questions

01Is the Clearbit Make integration free?
Yes, on the Make side. Clearbit is a standard app, so it is available from the Free plan onward. That plan allows 2 active scenarios, a minimum of 15 minutes between scheduled runs, 5 minutes of execution per run, files up to 5 MB and 512 MB of data transfer. Paid plans drop the interval to 1 minute and remove the cap on active scenarios. Clearbit itself is a separate subscription: you need an active Clearbit account and its API key, and Clearbit's own pricing page tells you what that costs.
02What do you need to connect Clearbit to Make?
Two things: an active Clearbit account and its API key. In Clearbit, open Settings, then Keys & Settings, and click the Eye icon to reveal the key. In Make, add a Clearbit module, click Create a connection, give it a name if you like, and paste the key. The connection is then shared by every Clearbit module in your scenarios. If you start with the Watch Changes trigger, Make asks you to click Create a webhook before creating the connection.
03Does the Clearbit Watch Changes trigger fire in real time?
Yes. Watch Changes is an instant trigger: Clearbit calls Make through a webhook as soon as a person you are subscribed to is updated, and the lightning badge on the module shows it. There is no polling interval to set for it. Keep in mind that it only reacts to people you already follow in Clearbit. For new leads that come from somewhere else, start the scenario with the trigger of that other app, such as your form tool, and add a Clearbit lookup right after it.
04What if a Clearbit module is missing in Make?
Use Make an API Call. The integration has 5 actions and 1 trigger, focused on looking up people and companies, with no search by criteria and no way to write data into Clearbit. Make an API Call reaches any endpoint of the Clearbit API with the same connection, so you can cover the gaps without a new key. The trade-off is effort: you build the request yourself from the Clearbit API docs, and you read the raw answer in the next module.
05Should you use Make or n8n for Clearbit?
It depends on the tool your team already runs. Clearbit exists on both, so the choice is less about the app and more about where your other automations live. On Make, you get the 5 actions, the instant Watch Changes trigger and Make an API Call described on this page, with a visual editor and a Free plan to test on. If your workflows are already in n8n, stay there and read the Clearbit n8n page on this site to see what its node covers before you decide.
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