MaxedSWhere Clay is stronger
- Breadth of data: many enrichment vendors in one place.
- Flexible, reusable workflows for teams that want to build their own plays.
Alternatives / Clay
Clay alternative
for Fortune 500 selling.
Looking for a Clay alternative? If your next customers are Fortune 500 accounts, Max from MaxedS works a short list of them: a dated reason to act, cited drafts you approve, and no cold calls.
What Clay does
A fair summary, from their own pages.
Clay is a go-to-market data and workflow platform. It offers a marketplace of “200+ data and AI vendors” under one contract, Claygent AI research agents for research, scoring and personalized outreach, and a visual canvas for building and reusing go-to-market plays.
Sources, checked 29 October 2026: Clay home. A comparison of published scope, not a measured performance claim. Product names belong to their owners.
Side by side
Max and Clay.
Where Clay is silent on a point, we say so; we don’t infer what a product lacks.
| As of 29 October 2026 | Max (MaxedS) | Clay |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | A short list of Fortune 500 accounts, with a senior MaxedS partner on live deals (paid units). | GTM teams that build their own data and research workflows. |
| Where prospects come from | No bulk contact database. Max works from your website and public sources on the Fortune 500 (filings, earnings calls, new executives). | A marketplace of “200+ data and AI vendors” plus your own first-party data. |
| Sending today | Drafts only today: you send. Sending from your own mailbox is coming next. | Claygent agents write personalized outreach inside the workflows you build. |
| Calls | None. No cold calls, ever. | Not described in the public pages we checked. |
| Sources shown for claims | Every fact in a draft shows its source; inferences are labeled. | Not described in the public pages we checked. |
| Approval before sending | Every draft waits for your approval. There is no autopilot. | You design the workflow and decide what runs. |
Where Max differs
- A short list of Fortune 500 accounts, not a high-volume list.
- A dated, public reason to act for each account: a filing, an earnings call, a new executive.
- Cited drafts: every fact shows its source and inferences are labeled.
- No cold calls, ever.
- A human gate: every draft waits for your approval, and on a paid unit a senior MaxedS partner works live deals.
- Your own mailbox: coming next. Today Max drafts and you send.
Questions
Clay or Max?
What is the best Clay alternative for selling to the Fortune 500?
If your next customers are a short list of Fortune 500 accounts, Max from MaxedS is built for that: it finds each account’s dated public reason to act, shows the source of every fact in a draft and waits for your approval. If you need high-volume outbound across many accounts, Clay is built for that.
Can I use Max alongside Clay?
Yes. You can keep a volume tool for broad outbound and use Max for your short Fortune 500 list.
Does Max send email or make calls?
Not today. Max drafts and you send; sending from your own mailbox is coming next. Max never cold calls.
How does Max’s pricing compare with Clay?
The models differ. See Max’s Pricing page and Clay’s own site for current terms.
How was this comparison made?
From Clay’s public website and documentation, checked on 29 October 2026. We did not test Clay accounts, and this is not a performance claim. Where a page is silent, we say so.
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Open for business
Start with your website.
Max works out what you sell and who should buy it, finds Fortune 500 accounts with a dated public reason to act, and drafts outreach you edit and approve. Every fact in a draft shows its source; inferences are labeled.