Practical guide

Who should use StackScan?

This guide skips the feature list and works through the five jobs StackScan is genuinely good at, what each one needs from you, and the three data sources that make it stronger when you combine them.

Job 1

Taking customers off a competitor

Every company running your competitor's script is a company that has already bought the category, already has a budget line, and already understands the problem.

Search the competitor's technology, filter by country and size signals, and you have a displacement list. It is the highest-intent list you can build from installed-technology signals alone.

Job 2

Finding online merchants by their stack

Selling to ecommerce is difficult because the population is enormous and mostly irrelevant. A store on a hosted platform running a particular email tool is a far narrower and better-qualified target.

Combining platform, app and country filters turns millions of stores into a few thousand worth contacting.

Job 3

Agency and reseller prospecting

If you build on a particular CMS or framework, the companies already running it are your market, and they are a population you can enumerate directly rather than guess at.

Technology search is the only practical way to enumerate that population without manual research.

Job 4

Giving your CRM a technology field

Most CRM records hold a name, a domain and a country. The technology stack is a field nobody has, and it is the one that changes what a rep opens with.

With API and CRM integration the enrichment runs on record creation rather than as a quarterly project somebody keeps postponing.

Job 5

Sizing a market before committing to it

Counting how many companies run a given technology is a far better basis for a plan than a market size figure somebody modelled.

It answers a specific question. Is the reachable market big enough to justify a hire?

Every company in the index
Running the technology you sell against
In the countries you cover
Worth an actual call
Each filter is a stacked condition, not a separate search. The shape of that last bar is what decides whether the tool pays for itself.

Three sources that make it stronger

Pair it with a contact database

StackScan returns companies and domains, which is exactly what you need to decide where contact spend should go. Buy contacts for the accounts it surfaces and you enrich a shortlist rather than the whole market.

Pair it with firmographics

Headcount, revenue and sector describe who a company is. The technology stack describes how it operates. Layering the two gives you a target definition sharper than either one alone.

Pair it with intent data

Installed technology is the durable half of the picture: what a company runs today. Add an intent feed and you get the timing to go with it, so you know both who fits and when to call.

What it works out at

The entry plan is $39 a month, covering five reports and a row allowance up to 200,000. Reports can be rebuilt within the month, so different geographic cuts of the same technology come out of one allowance. At full use that is a fraction of a cent per company, though as with any allowance the figure rises if you pull less than you are entitled to.

Common questions

Is StackScan good for small teams?

The entry plan is priced for one, and API access is included rather than reserved for enterprise tiers, so a small team can automate against it without upgrading.

Can I find companies in a specific country?

Yes. Country and top-level domain filters are core to the product, and coverage spans more than 200 countries.

How does it work alongside an intent data provider?

Installed technology and buying intent are complementary signals. Most teams use StackScan to build the list and an intent feed to decide the order to work it in.

What happens when I hit the row allowance?

The allowance covers everything you pull in the period, exports and API calls alike, so sizing your expected volume up front keeps a continuous integration comfortably inside it.

Decide for yourself

Run a search against the live index and see how many companies match before you pay.

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