Anansio is paused for maintenance. Sign-in, sign-up and search are unavailable right now. Your account and data are safe.
Guide 37 total

Finding Companies

Filter the database, inspect fit, and move the right companies into a working list.

Anansio Guide

Read this section, use the quick links, then move to the next workflow step.

Finding Companies

The Companies tab is where you browse prospects. Our data engine constantly updates business profiles with deep industry insights, verified locations, social links, and contact details.

AI search and your saved profile

The search box accepts plain language, and it works with the profile you saved under Ideal Customer:

  • When your query is specific (it names a market, a product you sell, a technology, or a place), that query decides the filters on its own. Searching "companies to buy my car wax product" targets the car care market, even if your saved profile describes a completely different business.
  • When your query is vague ("companies who'd want my services"), your saved profile fills in the gaps so the search still knows what you sell and who you target.
  • To lean on your profile deliberately, say so: "the segments we convert best" or "companies like our best customers" blends it back in.

If a search ever feels like it drifted toward your own industry rather than the one you asked for, make the query more specific or clear your Ideal Customer profile.

Using Filters

If you didn't come from the Ideal Customer tab, you can manually use the left sidebar to narrow down your search:

By default, the Companies catalog starts with Has Email enabled so you begin with outreach-ready records. You can turn it off any time if you want a broader market scan.

  • Industry / Category: Find companies in specific verticals (e.g., "Software", "Manufacturing", "Retail").
  • Keywords: Require specific words to appear in a company's description or keywords. Type a word and press Enter to add each one. This is useful for niches a category can't capture on its own (for example "supplements" or "wedding"), and results must mention every keyword you add. The AI search fills these in for you when your query names a niche.
  • Location: Target businesses by Country or City for localized campaigns. You can pick more than one country at once (e.g. the United States and Canada together), and the AI search reads them straight from your query, so "construction companies in the USA and Canada" targets both.
  • Has Email: Toggle this to ensure you only see companies that have successfully extracted contact emails.
  • Quality Score: Every profile has a completeness score. Higher scores mean we have richer data (social links, full addresses, multiple contacts) for that company.
  • Buying signals: Narrow to companies that are actively hiring, detected from their careers pages. Hiring is a strong growth signal, so these lists tend to convert better. You can also describe it in plain language (for example "agencies hiring an SDR in Toronto") and the AI search applies the filter for you.

What A Strong Match Looks Like

  • A company that fits your industry or sub-industry hypothesis.
  • Enough contact coverage to support verification and outreach.
  • A quality score high enough that you are not wasting review time on thin profiles.

Inspecting a Profile

Click on any company name to view its Profile Card. Here you will see:

  • The corporate description and keywords.
  • Social media profiles (LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, etc.).
  • Any buying signals we detected, such as an "Actively hiring" badge showing the open roles and the departments they are recruiting for.
  • Extracted and normalized phone numbers and physical addresses.
  • Contact email addresses with confidence scores.

Once you are satisfied with a selection of companies, check their boxes and click Add to List to save them for outreach.