Coresignal

Coresignal is a data provider, not a chat app. It collects publicly available web data at scale and packages it into structured datasets and APIs covering three main categories: companies, employees, and jobs. The company has been operating since 2016 and counts more than 1,000 clients, mostly in sales tech, HR tech, investment, and market research.

The core problem it solves is freshness. Pulling your own company and people data from the web is slow, legally messy, and breaks the moment a site changes its layout. So who builds the scraper? Most teams shouldn't. Coresignal handles collection, deduplication, and enrichment, then returns records through a REST API or flat files. Most datasets carry hundreds of fields, so you can build a fairly detailed profile without stitching sources together yourself.

The biggest limitation is cost and structure. There's no free forever tier, only a 7-day trial, and the cheapest ongoing plan runs $49/month for 2,500 credits. Credits aren't one-to-one with records either. A base company or employee record costs 10 credits, a job posting costs 1, and a contact enrichment costs 20, so the effective price per usable record depends heavily on what you pull.

Getting Started

1. Sign up at the Coresignal dashboard and start the 7-day free trial, which comes with a starter credit allowance.
2. Pick a data solution: the Dataset option if you want bulk files delivered as JSON or CSV, or the Data API option if you need live lookups.
3. Generate an API key in the dashboard and send a test request to the Company, Employee, or Jobs endpoint to confirm your account and rate limit.
4. Choose the fields you actually need and estimate credit usage before running large pulls, since each field set and record type has its own credit cost.
5. Export up to 100 records for a preview with the search tools, then scale up or move to a paid plan when you're ready to commit volume.