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# Lookalikes (async)
## **Description**
This enrichment is powered by Ocean.io, a provider of lookalike companies based on advanced similarity analysis.
The **Lookalike Companies Enrichment** identifies and returns businesses that closely resemble a given company across key dimensions such as industry, size, geography, and online presence. This enrichment is powered by an external API provided by Ocean.io, which uses its own similarity engine to surface relevant company lookalikes.
Similarity scores are calculated based on a combination of structured business attributes (e.g., number of employees, revenue range, industry classification, and country), semantic similarity of company descriptions, digital footprint overlap (such as website content and web signals), and additional contextual indicators sourced from Ocean.io’s data graph.
For each input company (business\_id), the enrichment returns up to 3 lookalike companies, including their firmographic attributes and a similarity score indicating the strength of the match (e.g., Medium or High).
This enrichment provides a powerful signal for identifying companies that “look like” your target ideal for use cases such as lead generation, market expansion, competitive intelligence, and segmentation strategies.
**Asynchronous variant.** This submits a job through the [async job infrastructure](/v2/async-jobs) — poll [job status](/v2/jobs/get_job_status) for progress and results. Input comes from an uploaded dataset (`list_id`); limits are 10,000 rows and a 24-hour run time.
For the full output signal reference, see [the synchronous endpoint](/v2/businesses/enrichments/lookalikes_enrich).
* **Input:** Provide a `business_id` obtained from the **Match Businesses** API.
* **Processing:** The system identifies businesses with high similarity scores based on business attributes, descriptions, and digital footprint.
* **Output:** A list of lookalike companies with attributes such as name, website, industry, size, revenue range, and similarity score.
```bash Bash theme={null}
{
"request_context": {
"seller_id": "sample_id"
},
"business_ids": ["9664930a34aa8e59f9b994b70e8bc15e"]
}
```
```json JSON expandable theme={null}
{
"response_context": {
"correlation_id": "be542cecda9b40c8af830adc25b71b0c",
"request_status": "success",
"time_took_in_seconds": 2.317
},
"data": [
{
"business_id": "9664930a34aa8e59f9b994b70e8bc15e",
"data": {
"business_id": "9664930a34aa8e59f9b994b70e8bc15e",
"lookalike_business_id": "443fbc49b4ab9988d64065d7e2fddf1a",
"lookalike_business_name": "centrify",
"lookalike_website": "https://delinea.com",
"lookalike_description": "Please follow Delinea on Linkedin! Centrify is now Delinea, a leading provider of privileged access management (PAM) solutions that make security seamless for the modern, hybrid enterprise. Our solutions empower organizations to secure critical data, devices, code, and cloud infrastructure to help reduce risk, ensure compliance, and simplify security. Delinea removes complexity and defines the boundaries of access for thousands of customers worldwide. Our customers range from small businesses to the world's largest financial institutions, intelligence agencies, and critical infrastructure companies.",
"lookalike_number_of_employees_range": "501-1000",
"lookalike_revenue_range": "75M-200M",
"lookalike_naics_description": "Software Publishers",
"lookalike_country_location": "us",
"similarity_score": "High"
}
},
{
"business_id": "9664930a34aa8e59f9b994b70e8bc15e",
"data": {
"business_id": "9664930a34aa8e59f9b994b70e8bc15e",
"lookalike_business_id": "0230a888e8196d7b94ddd866d2e4d9fc",
"lookalike_business_name": "beyondtrust",
"lookalike_website": "https://beyondtrust.com",
"lookalike_description": "BeyondTrust is a global leader in Privileged Access Management (PAM), offering advanced solutions to secure and manage privileges across traditional, cloud, and hybrid environments. Their Universal Privilege Management approach protects privileges related to passwords, endpoints, and access, enhancing visibility and control for organizations to reduce risk, ensure compliance, and improve operational performance. Trusted by 20,000 customers, including 78 of the Fortune 100, BeyondTrust's platform empowers organizations to shrink their attack surface and mitigate security blind spots through intelligent identity threat detection and privilege control.",
"lookalike_number_of_employees_range": "1001-5000",
"lookalike_revenue_range": "500M-1B",
"lookalike_naics_description": "Computer Systems Design Services",
"lookalike_country_location": "us",
"similarity_score": "High"
}
},
{
"business_id": "9664930a34aa8e59f9b994b70e8bc15e",
"data": {
"business_id": "9664930a34aa8e59f9b994b70e8bc15e",
"lookalike_business_id": "21d52ef9535ea4e6d0872a8c15dc2b59",
"lookalike_business_name": "cyberi3secure",
"lookalike_website": "https://cyberi3secure.com",
"lookalike_description": "Cyberi3Secure is uniquely qualified to help companies improve efficiency, strengthen compliance, and protecting data and assets by addressing privilege access management. Our specialized focus on PAM practice, combined with our deep knowledge and experience, we can deliver and deploy customized privilege access management solutions for every customer.",
"lookalike_number_of_employees_range": "11-50",
"lookalike_revenue_range": "5M-10M",
"lookalike_naics_description": "Computer Systems Design and Related Services",
"lookalike_country_location": "in",
"similarity_score": "High"
}
}
],
"total_results": 3
}
```
* **`Always use a validbusiness_id`** obtained via the **Match Businesses** API.
* **Interpret similarity scores** to prioritize the strongest matches for your use case (e.g. focus on “High” similarity for precise lookalikes).
* **Combine lookalike insights** with other enrichment signals (e.g. firmographics, technographics) for deeper segmentation.
* **Re-run lookalike queries periodically** to capture changes in the business landscape and discover new similar companies.
| SignalAPI | Name | Description | Data Type |
| :-------------------------------------- | :---------------------------------- | :--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | :-------- |
| comparable\_business\_id | Comparable Business ID | The Explorium ID of the requested company. | string |
| lookalike\_business\_id | Lookalike Business ID | The Explorium ID of the lookalike company. | string |
| lookalike\_business\_name | Lookalike Business Name | Name of the lookalike company. | string |
| lookalike\_website | Lookalike Website | Website URL of the lookalike. | string |
| lookalike\_description | Lookalike Description | Description of the lookalike company. | string |
| lookalike\_number\_of\_employees\_range | Lookalike Number of Employees Range | Employee range for the lookalike. | string |
| lookalike\_revenue\_range | Lookalike Revenue Range | Revenue range for the lookalike. | string |
| lookalike\_naics\_description | Lookalike NAICS Description | NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) description for the lookalike. | string |
| lookalike\_country\_location | Lookalike Country Location | The country of operation for the lookalike. | string |
| similarity\_score | Similarity Score | Similarity score of the lookalike to the requested company. Medium (0.95–0.975), High (0.975+) | string |
*For additional enrichment options, explore related API endpoints below.*
## OpenAPI
````yaml post /v2/businesses/lookalikes/job
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
title: Partner Service
version: 0.3.18
servers:
- url: https://api.explorium.ai
description: AgentSource Server
security: []
paths:
/v2/businesses/lookalikes/job:
post:
tags:
- AsyncEnrichmentJobs
summary: Businesses Lookalikes Job
operationId: v2_businesses_lookalikes_job
requestBody:
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/AsyncBusinessesLookalikesJobSubmitRequest'
required: true
responses:
'202':
description: Successful Response
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/V2AsyncEnrichmentJobSubmitResponse'
'422':
description: Validation Error
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPValidationError'
security:
- APIKeyHeader: []
- APIKeyHeader: []
components:
schemas:
AsyncBusinessesLookalikesJobSubmitRequest:
properties:
list_id:
type: string
title: List Id
description: Entity ID list identifier returned by the upload endpoint
type: object
required:
- list_id
title: AsyncBusinessesLookalikesJobSubmitRequest
V2AsyncEnrichmentJobSubmitResponse:
properties:
job_id:
type: string
title: Job Id
status:
type: string
title: Status
status_url:
type: string
title: Status Url
type: object
required:
- job_id
- status
- status_url
title: V2AsyncEnrichmentJobSubmitResponse
HTTPValidationError:
properties:
detail:
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationError'
type: array
title: Detail
type: object
title: HTTPValidationError
ValidationError:
properties:
loc:
items:
anyOf:
- type: string
- type: integer
type: array
title: Location
msg:
type: string
title: Message
type:
type: string
title: Error Type
type: object
required:
- loc
- msg
- type
title: ValidationError
securitySchemes:
APIKeyHeader:
type: apiKey
in: header
name: api_key
````