Clay
The best way to discover, organize, and deepen relationships
A powerful tool to deepen your relationships across everyone you know. Integrate your accounts – LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, email, and more – then search, take notes, set reminders, and more.
Reviews for Clay
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Reviews praise Clay’s polished UI, intuitive setup, and helpful reminders and notes that make staying in touch easier. Users highlight strong multi-source contact consolidation and Nexus-assisted insights, with some calling it essential for personal networking. Common critiques include intrusive data permissions, long initial syncs, occasional sluggish Mac search, duplicates, token/credit friction, and limited Android support or bulk/merge tools. Several want cleaner AI behavior, better desktop UX, and more integrations and sharing options. Overall, sentiment leans positive, citing steady improvement despite onboarding and data control concerns.
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is the app I wished existed base on what's on paper, but what's really delivered is not, guess this is the case due to the limitation on all the data sources, despite being your data is not your data, so they try to hack it around, but it doesn't always works
I have trying Clay this week with Notion, it is life changing for CRMs
👍 Great product built with a purpose mind.
Downloaded Clay looking for a personal CRM. Firstly it asked for access to everything including my personal Gmail which felt really intrusive (and not just limited to contact scanning alone). Then it took almost 20 hours to sync the information because I have more than a decade of gmail history. Post which i found it recommending I reconnect with people like my cousin (who I whatsapp and therefore don't email very much). There didn't seem to be a clear layer on letting me choose who I can add / want updates on. So didn't end up really solving for my use case - basically ended up replicating Linkedin + my entire personal life on one platform.
Ok, absolutely love this because why was I trying to build a similar solution for myself using Trello and Notion and it was just not giving. Clay however does GIVE! It even has an AI buddy Nexus to help me make the most of my contacts and wow I did not realize I had so many! Networking level up
Clay is one of the best CRMs I’ve used. The UI is clean, and the features feel intuitive and well-thought-out. It makes managing relationships effortless.
One thing I’ve noticed is that the Mac app search can be a bit slow at times. Not sure if it’s just me or a common issue.
Overall, it’s an amazing product that keeps getting better. Excited to see how it evolves!
loving it. would like to a feature - "add a URL of a contact (e.g. linkedin link) and see Clay fill out all fields"
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Visually stunning, straightforward interface
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Reconnect cadence is flexible and very useful
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Notes on contacts 🙌🏻
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Ambiguous AI features: maybe I'm not the target audience for this, but I haven't found and need to sort through my contacts in any way beyond groupings or notes
Very intuitive and solve a problem that I had with my multiple sources for contacts management. However the UI could be better on the desktop version
Brilliant idea, poor execution. UI is brutal, duplicates will drive you insane, and they are killing this idea (and company) by not letting data out. Trying to build a walled CRM that is 20 years behind the basic functionality of your current CRM will be its demise. They essentially have created a feature, a much needed, brilliant feature of using AI to intelligently keep you building deeper relationships with your contacts. However, they’re forcing it as a full blown product, when it’s really a feature. They cannot and will not win moving people off their current CRM products for a single feature, no matter how good it is. Clay could’ve easily become this feature in every CRM in the world and become the most used CRM plugin on the planet with massive market share. Instead, they want to be a standalone CRM. Your current CRM will probably duplicate this feature at some point and we will watch Clay burn all of their investor’s money into the ether. Sad to see. Smart idea, poor execution. If their average user is logged in less thsn 180 mins a day, they should be hearing the death rattle and go do a deal with every CRM possible asap. Or skip them and let zapier send the insights outbound on the paid plan and watch sales and user engagement skyrocket immediately.
Indispensable! Helps me keep track of my network and makes it look like I have a steel trap for a memory! I wish there were a little more flexibility around sharing notes about each contact with my team, but its definitely a best in class tool!
Clay seemed like a wonderful idea, extremely useful for my work. But the high price and the absence of an Android app gave me some pause. When I signed up, I had a very negative onboarding experience. Using it is neither simple nor functional at all. Basically the only way to do things decently is by importing contacts manually one at a time. And since I am not a moron and use dozens of online services I also find Clay's amount of positive reviews suspicious.
I love how it helps me keep on top of my network of friends. The UI isn't always intuitive.