B2B Company Research with ProfileSpider
Use ProfileSpider to build B2B company research lists from directories, search results, marketplaces, partner pages, and company websites.
Audience
Who This Is For
This page is for founders, sales teams, agencies, consultants, investors, researchers, marketers, and operators who need to build structured B2B company lists from public web sources.
Use it when you are researching a market, building an account list, mapping competitors, finding potential partners, collecting vendor data, preparing outbound campaigns, or turning public company sources into a spreadsheet.
The problem
Why B2B Company Research Becomes Messy
B2B company research rarely starts from one perfect database. Useful company data is usually spread across directories, marketplaces, partner pages, conference sponsor pages, Google results, company websites, funding lists, review sites, and niche communities.
One source may show company names and categories. Another may show websites and descriptions. A company website may reveal team members, social links, emails, locations, or product positioning. Manually combining all of that into a spreadsheet takes time and creates inconsistent fields.
ProfileSpider helps turn public company sources into structured research lists. You open a source page, extract visible companies or profiles, save the rows to a list, enrich where useful, add tags and notes, and export the final research file.
Before ProfileSpider
What This Looks Like Manually
A manual B2B company research workflow usually looks like this:
Search for companies by niche, market, category, location, technology, funding stage, or use case.
Open directories, marketplaces, search results, partner pages, sponsor lists, and company websites one by one.
Copy company names, websites, categories, descriptions, locations, social links, and source URLs into a spreadsheet.
Open company websites to find missing context, team members, contact pages, or emails.
Clean the spreadsheet, remove irrelevant rows, review duplicates, and add notes.
Export or share the final company list for sales, research, enrichment, outreach, or reporting.
The manual version works for a few companies. It breaks down when you need to research a full niche, region, competitor set, market map, or account list.
With ProfileSpider
How the B2B Company Research Workflow Works
Extract companies from public sources, organize them by market or segment, enrich where useful, and export clean research files.
- 1
Define the company segment
Start with a clear research target, such as HR tech startups, Shopify agencies, SaaS companies in Germany, cybersecurity vendors, local service businesses, AI sales tools, or conference sponsors.
- 2
Open a company source page
Use public directories, marketplaces, partner pages, vendor pages, conference sponsor lists, Google results, company websites, award pages, or curated lists. The best sources contain repeated companies, profiles, websites, or category cards.
- 3
Extract visible company data
Run ProfileSpider on the page. One page scrape uses one credit. The extension turns visible company names, websites, descriptions, categories, locations, profile links, emails when visible, and source URLs into structured rows.
- 4
Save companies to a research list
Save the extracted rows to a focused list. Use tags such as market:hr-tech, country:germany, stage:startup, source:marketplace, competitor-set, partner-research, or account-list to keep rows filterable.
- 5
Review and clean the company list
Remove irrelevant companies, add notes, check missing fields, and review duplicates inside the saved list. ProfileSpider can help identify duplicates within already-saved profiles through exact matches across stored fields.
- 6
Enrich eligible rows
Use enrichment on eligible rows when you want to fill missing details from website or profile URLs. Bulk enrichment runs across eligible profiles, uses 1 credit per URL, and is scoped to one URL type at a time.
- 7
Find emails per row where available
For individual rows where email finding is appropriate and supported, run email finding per row. If an email is visible on the source page or company website, ProfileSpider can include it in the extraction.
- 8
Export the company research file
Export the reviewed list as CSV, Excel, or JSON. You can rename export headers once and reuse those labels on future exports.
Sources
Where to Find B2B Company Data
Output
Example B2B Company Research Export
A useful company research file should keep company details, source context, tags, notes, and verification links together.
| Company | Category | Website | Location | Tags | Notes | Source | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northstar Talent | HR Tech | northstartalent.example | linkedin.com/company/northstar-talent | hello@northstartalent.example | London, UK | market:hr-tech, reviewed | Potential account for recruiting workflow | example-directory.com/hr-tech |
| Weber Growth | B2B Consulting | webergrowth.example | linkedin.com/company/weber-growth | Berlin, Germany | b2b-consulting, needs-email | Review service pages before outreach | example-marketplace.com/b2b-consultants | |
| ExampleTech | Workflow Automation | exampletech.example | linkedin.com/company/exampletech | info@exampletech.example | Amsterdam, Netherlands | saas, partner-research, reviewed | Potential integration partner | conference-site.com/sponsors |
Workflows
Best ProfileSpider Workflows for B2B Company Research
Use these workflows to move from public company sources to structured research exports.
Directory to CSV
Extract companies from public directories, marketplaces, vendor lists, and category pages.
Enrich a Company List
Add missing details from eligible company websites or profile URLs where enrichment is available.
Company Team Page
Extract people, roles, LinkedIn URLs, and source URLs from public team pages.
Google X-Ray Search to Lead List
Turn public search results and company/profile URLs into a saved research list.
Export Leads to Excel
Review, clean, and export company research lists to Excel, CSV, or JSON.
Questions