Ocean.io Integration Guide

This guide covers the Ocean.io integration available in TexAu. Use it to find companies that look like your best customers.

Before you begin

• You need an active Ocean.io account with API access.
• Retrieve your API key from your Ocean.io dashboard under API Settings.
• In TexAu, go to Settings > Integrations, find Ocean.io, and paste your API key.

Actions

Search Companies (Ocean)

Finds companies similar to a given company domain. Returns enriched company profiles based on lookalike matching.

Credit cost: 10 credits per row

Input:

• Domain (required) -- the company domain you want to find lookalikes for, e.g. salesforce.com

Output:

• Company Name
• Company Domain
• Company Description
• Company Size Range
• Employee Count (LinkedIn)
• Employee Count (Ocean)
• Primary Country Code
• Match Relevance

Typical use case: Build a prospect list from a single example company. Paste in a domain for a company that matches your ideal customer profile, and get back a list of similar companies.

How Ocean.io lookalike matching works

Ocean.io analyzes firmographic and technographic signals to find companies with similar profiles. The Match Relevance field in the output tells you how closely each result matches the seed domain. Higher relevance means stronger similarity.

The action returns multiple companies per row (because one lookalike search produces many results). Each result row in your table represents one matched company.

Common workflow pattern

Build a lookalike prospect list

1. Create a table with a column of seed company domains -- one per row.
2. Add an Action Column and select Search Companies (Ocean).
3. Map the domain column to the Domain input.
4. Run the column.
5. Filter results by Match Relevance or Employee Count to narrow the list.
6. Add additional Action Columns to enrich the returned domains with contacts: use Enrich Company (Apollo) or Enrich IP Address (Versium) for further firmographic data.

Tip: Start with 5-10 known customers as seed domains. The resulting prospect list mirrors your best customers by company profile.

Troubleshooting

Results include companies that do not match the expected size or industry. Ocean.io looks for structural and behavioral similarity, not just industry. A fintech SaaS company might match a healthcare SaaS company because of shared characteristics like company size, growth rate, and technology stack. Adjust your filtering on the output columns to narrow by Country or Employee Count after the run.

Domain input returns no results. Check that the domain is a real, indexed company domain. Very small companies, newly registered domains, or personal domains may not be in Ocean.io's database. Try a larger competitor's domain as the seed instead.

Multiple rows are returned for one seed domain. This is expected behavior. The action returns multiple lookalike companies per search. Each match becomes a separate row in your table. Filter or sort by Match Relevance to keep only the closest matches.