# Similar Companies API

Get lookalike companies with high degrees of similarity based on multiple weighted attributes, powered by AI.

## API Endpoint

### POST /companies/similar

### Request
```json
{
    "domain": "shopify.com"
}
```

### Response
```json
{
    "items": [
        { "name": "Ecwid", "domain": "ecwid.com", ... },
        { "name": "BigCommerce", "domain": "bigcommerce.com", ... },
        { "name": "Shopline", "domain": "shopline.com", ... }
        // ...7 more results
    ],
    "metadata": { "scores": { "ecwid.com": 0.88, ... } },
    "totalItems": 351
}
```

## Top matches for Shopify

Ecwid 88%  
BigCommerce 86%  
Shopline 86%  
PrestaShop 86%  
WooCommerce 86%

Matched on: business model, context, industry

### Multi-Attribute Matching

Our AI understands business model and context to find truly similar companies — not just keyword matches.

| Company A | Company B |  
| --------- | --------- |  
| Series C | 500+ employees |  
| North America | Seed stage |  
| 50 employees | Europe |

## Massive Lookalike Pool

Search across our database of 30M+ companies to discover the most relevant lookalikes in every industry and geography.

### Industry Breakdown

- Fintech: 2.1M  
- Healthcare: 1.8M  
- SaaS: 3.2M  
- E-commerce: 4.5M  
- Real Estate: 1.2M  
- Logistics: 890K  
- Manufacturing: 2.8M  
- Education: 1.1M  
- Media: 760K  
- Energy: 540K

## How you can use Similar Companies API

### Use Cases

1. **Sales Prospecting**  
   Find Lookalikes of Your Best Customers  
   Instantly find companies that share the same profile, helping you scale what already works.

2. **Build & Integrate**  
   Power Your App with Lookalike Search  
   Integrate our API to power recommendation engines, competitive analysis tools, or market discovery features for your users.

3. **Market Sizing**  
   Map Your Total Addressable Market  
   Define your Ideal Customer Profile and get an accurate, real-time count of your TAM in any segment.

4. **Sales Ops**  
   Automate CRM Enrichment and Lead Scoring  
   Score and route new leads, and personalize outreach at scale with real-time company data.

5. **Recruiting**  
   Source Talent from Lookalike Companies  
   Identify companies with similar profiles to your best hires and build targeted sourcing lists.

## Similar Companies API FAQs

### What is the Similar Companies API?
The Similar Companies API finds companies that closely resemble a given target company by understanding their business model and context.

### How does the similarity matching work?
Our AI model analyzes the business model, context, and what a company actually does to compute a similarity score against every company in our database.

### Common use cases for this API
Common use cases include competitive analysis, market research, and account-based marketing (ABM).

### Pricing
Pricing is based on our credit system, where each API call has its own credit usage. For detailed information visit [our pricing page](https://companyenrich.com/pricing).

### Technical support
For integration help, our engineers can assist you.