USE CASE:
SaaS companies: the work behind identity resolution
Read this if you need identity resolution for SaaS companies and you would rather see the real options than a pitch. Mamba Labs writes Apify actors for work like this, and Company Identity Resolver is the one that reads SaaS companies.
The situation
SaaS companies frustrate identity resolution, for a reason specific to them. Any identity resolution method has to survive this: SaaS companies sell to other businesses and publish almost nothing about their own numbers. Worth knowing about SaaS companies, since identity resolution inherits it: headcount flatters them, because contractors and alumni linger on a company page for years. We keep 1 preconfigured task for identity resolution on SaaS companies, across 1 tool.
Why anyone bothers
The same one of the SaaS companies arrives from four sources under four names, and none of them match on a string.
Traditional Search Tools
- G2, for SaaS companies. Categories and review counts, free to read, and it only covers vendors that asked to be listed.
- Your CRM's merge suggestions. Salesforce and HubSpot both offer them. They are conservative by design, so they catch exact matches and miss the interesting cases.
- Dedupely, Insycle or a dedupe tool. Built for exactly this and worth the money if the mess lives entirely inside one CRM. Less useful when the duplicates arrive from four different sources.
- A resolution key of your own. Pick one identifier, usually the primary domain, and make every source write it. The cheapest long term fix and the one nobody wants to do.
- Sort and read. Sort by name, read the list, merge what you recognize. It is tedious and a person is genuinely good at it, up to a few thousand rows.
Mamba Labs Apify Actors
These are the actors we built for this job. If yours is not covered here, search from the bar at the top of the page or contact us here and tell us what you need.
- Company Identity Resolver1 preconfigured task on this page's job.
Preconfigured tasks
A task is one of these actors with the inputs already filled in for a specific version of this job. Open one, swap in your own list, and run it without setting anything up from scratch.