Launching today
Sales teams have been stuck with stale databases for 15 years. Jesse changes everything.. the first internet-wide search engine built for sales & marketing. Ask in plain English: "Find newly opened soccer facilities in the Midwest needing turf solutions." Jesse scans the live web and finds the right buyers in the market today. We are an anti database company, we don’t scrape and store stale databases and sell them at premium. Every lead is found fresh from the live internet and delivered.
The stale-list problem is even worse down-market, Sudipta. I prospect local businesses (insurance agents, salons, clinics) and Apollo/Clay basically don't have them, or the data is years out of date. A live, plain-English search is exactly the gap there. Genuine question: how does it do on small local SMBs vs the enterprise/BFSI examples? That long tail is where every list tool falls apart. Congrats on the launch.
@david_marko
Thanks David.
Great question.
The long tail is exactly where live search should beat static lists.
Jesse does better down-market than Apollo or Clay precisely because it is not a B2B contact database. For a salon, a local agent, a clinic, it reads the live web, Google Business and Maps, local directories, the shop's own site, reviews, which is where those businesses actually live and where contact databases are thin or years stale.
So on finding the business and its public contact info, the long tail is a strength for us, not a weakness.
Two honest limits:
It still needs some public footprint, a listing, a site, a profile. A truly invisible shop will not surface and we will not invent it.
And contact depth is thinner down-market for everyone, us included, you will most definitely get the listed business email and phone, but a verified personal email for the owner becomes progressively harder.
This is exactly where we want to win. Send me a slice of the SMBs you chase and I will run a real batch and show you what comes back.
I have seen my fair share of stale leads and contacts so great job for focusing on an unsolved problem. What markets do you focus on? Are there ones that are stronger or weaker? Interested in learning more. Congrats on the launch.
@yumi_joh
We are not locked to one vertical. Because Jesse reads the live web per search, the real dividing line is web footprint, not industry or geography.
It is strongest wherever your targets leave a public trail, B2B tech and SaaS, funded startups, anything with news, funding, hiring, or active profiles, all easy to find and rank with a solid rationale. The tougher cases are low web-footprint targets such as very tiny local businesses, stealth-mode companies, low-digital-presence industries or regions, where signal is sparse so results come back fewer and lower confidence.
Widening that thinner end is what we are working on now.
Happy to go deeper. What market are you selling into?
I will tell you honestly how strong a fit it is.
@ritesh2503 thanks for the complete response and great to know that there is no boundaries on geography. My ICP will leave a trail of information so with this information, I'm excited to give Jesse a spin.
@yumi_joh Thanks for the support. Yes we do work better for markets that is unexplored / not easy to find on traditional databases like Apollo and Zoominfo. These will be the non-digital markets from traditional industries like:
1. Manufacturing
2. CPG, D2C, ecommerce
3. Finance
etc
We also work better for geographies where the coverage is poor such as APAC, Middle east etc.
Since these are hardest to curate in traditional databases and were only accessible by having a person comb through google searches and build the list, we made them a staple usecase for Jesse.
That being said, it gives equally good results for other markets that you might be exploring.
@sarthak_shrivastava2 Gotchu. Will give it a go and see how prospecting looks from Europe. Thanks
@amitkumar0331
Thanks.
Yes, through MCP, with Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, and the API, connected via your Jesse API key.
The MCP access is in request-only beta right now, not open yet, and goes fully public in a couple of days.
DM me and I will get you in early.
One caveat: the claude.ai web connector panel needs OAuth rather than a pasted key, so that exact surface is not live yet. It shall be live in a couple of days as well.
Scoutflo
This is such a cool product! Clay was super hard for me to use.
Is there a free trial to get started?
@kalpesh_bhalekar1 Thanks for the support. Yes, we have provided a free trial to all our customers to try out Jesse. Even then, after we start with base plans at just $5/month, they can go up to $100 according to your requirements and needs.
This is interesting. Do you cache results at all, or does every search query the live web fresh?
@dhiraj_patel5
Thanks Dhiraj.
Every search hits the live web fresh, no cache serves an old answer to a new query, so re-running a prompt researches again rather than replaying.
We do save a completed search's results so you can reopen, paginate, and export them, but that is storing a finished run, not caching the web.
Kbee
How do you verify the data that is pulled is verified / correct?
@sandeepdinesh
A few layers, and I will be honest about where it ends.
Nothing is generated from thin air, every result is grounded in real public sources and ships with a rationale and the source link, so it is auditable, not a guess.
We weight trusted, verified portals like LinkedIn above weaker ones, so stronger signals win, and this confidence shows in the relevance score
A thin or single-source leads rank low rather than being passed off as solid.
Contact details like email get a separate verification pass with a status on each.
Honest boundary:
We do not fact-check the whole world. If a reputable source is itself wrong, that can carry through, which is why we attach the source to every result, so you can confirm in one click and additionally the relevance score tells you which results are even worth double-checking
Hasura
Congrats on the launch Sudipta & team! Looks very cool. How do you determine that an email is "verified"? Also is there an API integration as well?
@rajoshi_ghosh
Thanks Rajoshi.
On verified emails: the email comes through our enrichment step, and each one carries a status from a deliverability check. So "verified" means it passed validation as a real, deliverable mailbox, not just a pattern-guessed address. We surface that status per contact, so you can see and filter verified versus inferred rather than trusting them all equally.
On API: yes. Everything runs on a Jesse API key, it is what powers our n8n integration (live in the n8n gallery now) and an MCP server for AI clients. Direct API and MCP access is in request-only beta right now and goes fully public in a couple of days. DM me and I will get you a key early.