{ "specimen": "Provider Decision Brief: company-profile enrichment", "status": "DEMONSTRATION — metadata-only, no customer and no provider execution", "prepared_on": "2026-10-07", "timezone": "America/Los_Angeles", "buyer_decision": "Choose or renew a company-profile enrichment route for one stated workflow without buying irrelevant output or claiming untested data quality.", "analysis_basis": "Existing saved October 7 free Monid catalog/inspect metadata only.", "cards": [ { "source_id": "apollo-company-enrich", "provider": "apollo", "provider_name": "Apollo", "endpoint": "/organizations/enrich", "role": "profile", "decision_use": "Known-company profile: industry, headcount, revenue, funding, technology, location and description.", "price": { "type": "PER_CALL", "amount": { "value": 0.026, "currency": "USD" }, "notes": [ "An unmatched company consumes nothing." ] }, "price_unit": "call", "catalog_notes": [ "An unmatched company consumes nothing." ], "limits_and_unknowns": [ "One company per call.", "Provide at least one of domain, company LinkedIn URL, company name or website.", "Exact match coverage, field completeness, freshness, retries and high-volume eligibility not tested." ], "observed_on": "2026-10-07", "observation_window_label": "3:03–3:06 p.m. America/Los_Angeles, approximate collection window", "source_kind": "Saved successful free native Monid inspect response; base amount also checked against anonymous listing", "catalog_url": "https://api.monid.ai/public/v1/endpoints?provider=apollo&limit=100", "documentation_url": "https://docs.apollo.io/reference/organization-enrichment", "saved_metadata_sha256": "2181c17d36068e66d5a734a08999994b9fb736d55c611f8380f9bfae1f58bd3b" }, { "source_id": "akta-company-enrich", "provider": "akta", "provider_name": "Akta", "endpoint": "/v1/company/enrichment", "role": "profile", "decision_use": "Known-company profile plus structured business model, product offering and customer-profile sections.", "price": { "type": "PER_RESULT", "amount": { "value": 0.125, "currency": "USD" } }, "price_unit": "result", "catalog_notes": [], "limits_and_unknowns": [ "Company website or Akta UUID required; bare company name is not accepted.", "Sections can be selected; omit management_profile for this company-only workflow.", "Price is per result. No unmatched/error/refund rule is disclosed in this saved card.", "Exact result count/billing, match quality, freshness, rate limits and volume eligibility not tested." ], "observed_on": "2026-10-07", "observation_window_label": "3:03–3:06 p.m. America/Los_Angeles, approximate collection window", "source_kind": "Saved successful free native Monid inspect response; base amount also checked against anonymous listing", "catalog_url": "https://api.monid.ai/public/v1/endpoints?provider=akta&limit=100", "documentation_url": "https://docs.akta.pro/api-reference/company-data", "saved_metadata_sha256": "0ebcc406a930204dcc4115167d7e01cc6d0d9c51ec7abf993174b5e542602792" }, { "source_id": "hunter-discover", "provider": "hunterio", "provider_name": "Hunter", "endpoint": "/discover", "role": "screening", "decision_use": "Build a company/domain candidate set from business filters. Screening only.", "price": { "type": "PER_CALL", "amount": { "value": 0, "currency": "USD" } }, "price_unit": "call", "catalog_notes": [], "limits_and_unknowns": [ "At least one structured filter.", "Maximum 100 companies per page; offset maximum 10,000.", "Use company name/domain only. No contact routes are part of this specimen.", "A candidate company is not a complete enrichment record." ], "observed_on": "2026-10-07", "observation_window_label": "3:03–3:06 p.m. America/Los_Angeles, approximate collection window", "source_kind": "Saved successful free native Monid inspect response; base amount also checked against anonymous listing", "catalog_url": "https://api.monid.ai/public/v1/endpoints?provider=hunterio&limit=100", "documentation_url": "https://hunter.io/api-documentation/v2#discover", "saved_metadata_sha256": "06fc0d4310ed068a053de2e7cc1804abb7d5a63a5c193bbd53da1ee9534949f1" }, { "source_id": "clay-jobs", "provider": "clay", "provider_name": "Clay", "endpoint": "/enrichment/company-job-openings", "role": "adjunct", "decision_use": "An optional hiring signal. Not a firmographic profile replacement.", "price": { "type": "PER_CALL", "amount": { "value": 0.032, "currency": "USD" } }, "price_unit": "call", "catalog_notes": [], "limits_and_unknowns": [ "Company domain required.", "Asynchronous; total job count plus an upstream detail sample of roughly 10 postings.", "A missing role in that sample does not establish no relevant hiring." ], "observed_on": "2026-10-07", "observation_window_label": "3:03–3:06 p.m. America/Los_Angeles, approximate collection window", "source_kind": "Saved successful free native Monid inspect response; base amount also checked against anonymous listing", "catalog_url": "https://api.monid.ai/public/v1/endpoints?provider=clay&limit=100", "documentation_url": "https://developers.clay.com/routines/clay-managed-functions", "saved_metadata_sha256": "8e41e08133c8fdfe71222b1c6b7cb8dbc14456b54531ed56e181f6bc87475005" }, { "source_id": "context-news", "provider": "context.dev", "provider_name": "Context.dev", "endpoint": "/news/search", "role": "adjunct", "decision_use": "Optional dated company news. Not a firmographic profile replacement.", "price": { "type": "PER_RESULT", "amount": { "value": 0.000253, "currency": "USD" }, "notes": [ "1 Context.dev credit per page of 10 returned articles — the rate the vendor's credits_consumed reports (measured: 10 articles = 1 credit, 30 = 3). No articles, no charge. The admission hold is the requested limit (default 10)." ] }, "price_unit": "returned article", "catalog_notes": [ "1 Context.dev credit per page of 10 returned articles — the rate the vendor's credits_consumed reports (measured: 10 articles = 1 credit, 30 = 3). No articles, no charge. The admission hold is the requested limit (default 10)." ], "limits_and_unknowns": [ "Identify company by name, domain, ticker or ISIN.", "Default 10 and maximum 100 articles per page; each page bills separately.", "Requested limit sizes admission hold; billing notes use 10-article pages.", "Deduplicate syndicated coverage by story_id and inspect original source before using a claim." ], "observed_on": "2026-10-07", "observation_window_label": "3:03–3:06 p.m. America/Los_Angeles, approximate collection window", "source_kind": "Saved successful free native Monid inspect response; base amount also checked against anonymous listing", "catalog_url": "https://api.monid.ai/public/v1/endpoints?provider=context.dev&limit=100", "documentation_url": "https://docs.context.dev/api-reference/news/search", "saved_metadata_sha256": "9828be4572b6d60988b30112a254f0db562850048d281c2f5380a1c8261cf2e1" } ], "hypothetical_scenarios": [ { "scenario": "HYPOTHETICAL", "matched_profiles_per_month": 1000, "apollo_call_count_assumed": 1000, "akta_billable_result_count_assumed": 1000, "apollo_base_usd": "26.00", "akta_base_usd": "125.00", "displayed_price_gap_usd": "99.00", "interpretation": "Price arithmetic only. Not quality-adjusted savings, a budget, invoice or measured workload." }, { "scenario": "HYPOTHETICAL", "matched_profiles_per_month": 10000, "apollo_call_count_assumed": 10000, "akta_billable_result_count_assumed": 10000, "apollo_base_usd": "260.00", "akta_base_usd": "1250.00", "displayed_price_gap_usd": "990.00", "interpretation": "Price arithmetic only. Not quality-adjusted savings, a budget, invoice or measured workload." }, { "scenario": "HYPOTHETICAL", "matched_profiles_per_month": 100000, "apollo_call_count_assumed": 100000, "akta_billable_result_count_assumed": 100000, "apollo_base_usd": "2600.00", "akta_base_usd": "12500.00", "displayed_price_gap_usd": "9900.00", "interpretation": "Price arithmetic only. Not quality-adjusted savings, a budget, invoice or measured workload." } ], "scenario_assumptions": [ "One request and one billable matched profile/result per company for each enrichment provider.", "The providers are alternative ways to satisfy a required-field rubric; their advertised outputs are not assumed equivalent.", "No retries, errors, duplicate/cached lookups, repeated refreshes, adjunct calls, human verification cost, taxes or price changes are included.", "Apollo unmatched company calls are excluded under the explicit no-charge card note; other failure/refund behavior is unknown.", "Akta per-result billing is modeled as exactly one returned billable result per company; this interpretation requires confirmation.", "100,000/month is a hypothetical arithmetic scenario, not verified rate-limit, availability or eligibility capacity." ], "conditional_recommendation": [ "If the decision requires core firmographics for already known domains, use Apollo as the first candidate to evaluate: its advertised scope covers those fields and its displayed rate is lower.", "If the decision needs structured business model, product-offering or customer-profile context, evaluate Akta against those required sections. The metadata supports a different scope, not proof of better data.", "Use Hunter only before enrichment when the company/domain list does not exist. Add hiring or news only when a stated decision needs those signals; do not buy every adjunct by default.", "Do not select or renew from this price comparison alone. Choose only after the required-field, match and freshness test passes under the buyer’s usage assumptions." ], "next_acceptance_test": [ { "step": 1, "action": "Define one decision and a must-have field list, acceptable freshness and consequences of wrong/missing company matches.", "output": "Buyer-approved rubric; no personal-contact requirement." }, { "step": 2, "action": "Use a small representative, buyer-supplied company-only response set or existing approved exports from both providers. New provider execution requires a separate explicit approval and budget.", "output": "Comparable outputs with canonical company identity and provenance. No calls made for this specimen." }, { "step": 3, "action": "Count correct company matches, present must-have fields, source/freshness evidence, unknowns and manual corrections for the same inputs. Do not score a missing field as zero activity.", "output": "Raw comparison counts; no invented accuracy score or best-provider claim." }, { "step": 4, "action": "Check actual billable units/failures and volume eligibility, then recalculate under the buyer’s refresh, retry and adjunct pattern.", "output": "Revised price model with observable acceptance gaps." }, { "step": 5, "action": "Select, keep, combine for a narrower requirement, or reject the candidates with a stated reason. Record what additional evidence could change the decision.", "output": "Conditional provider decision and a finite follow-up test, not a production rollout." } ], "unresolved": [ "Representative actual buyer usage", "Required fields and freshness", "Comparable provider response samples", "Matching/field accuracy", "Data and redistribution/license terms", "High-volume eligibility and rate limits", "Actual failure/retry/hold/billing behavior" ], "executed_actions": "Local specimen creation and saved metadata reads only; no new search, Monid run, contacts, paid providers, credentials, production or messages.", "commercial_scope": { "name": "Provider Decision Brief", "pilot_fee_usd": 750, "unit": "One workflow, up to five candidate providers", "route": "Separate agreed invoice; no provider spend included or authorized", "separation": "The service fee is distinct from the hypothetical provider data charges." } }