⭐ AI Business Nature & Industry Classifier – B2B Domain Categorization

This Apify Actor is a blazing-fast, laser-focused domain enrichment tool designed exclusively to determine the exact industry, business model (B2B/B2C), and executive summary of any company website using advanced AI.

By stripping away heavy browser rendering and utilizing an intelligent "Never Miss" routing system (which automatically hunts down /about pages if a homepage is empty), this tool delivers highly accurate CRM data at unprecedented speeds.

💲 Pricing Note: This Actor operates on a predictable flat-rate Pay-Per-Event (PPE) model.

• Flat Rate: $0.004 per domain processed.
• No API Keys Required: We cover the AI costs! You do not need to provide your own OpenAI or Groq API keys. Just input your URLs and get results.
• Example: Classifying 1,000 company websites will cost exactly $4.00.

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🚀 What It Does

For every website URL or domain provided, the actor extracts the core text of the site and passes it through an advanced Large Language Model (LLM) to generate a structured, standardized business profile.

🏢 Extracted Data

The actor outputs a perfectly clean dataset containing only what you need:

• 🔗 URL & Domain: The normalized target website.
• 🏷️ Brand Name: The extracted name of the company.
• 🏢 Industry: The specific market sector of the business.
• 🤝 Business Model: A boolean flag indicating if the company is B2B (Business-to-Business) or B2C (Business-to-Consumer).
• 📝 Summary: A concise, 1-sentence AI-generated summary of what the company actually does.

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🧠 Smart AI Models Included

You can choose the specific AI model that powers your classification directly from the input settings. No API key required.

• 🥈 openai/gpt-oss-20b (Recommended): Blazing fast. Perfectly balances high-speed extraction and accurate categorization.

• 🥉 qwen/qwen3.6-27b (Alternative): Excellent alternative with very strong multilingual support for non-English domains.

• 🚀 groq/compound (High Burst): Experimental ultra-fast model for simple classification tasks.</comment-tag id="1" text="These descriptions should exactly match the polished ones we just put into your INPUT_SCHEMA.json to keep your branding consistent.

• 🥇 openai/gpt-oss-120b (Most Capable): Highest reasoning capability. Best for complex or confusing websites.

• 🥈 openai/gpt-oss-20b (Recommended): Blazing fast. Perfectly balances speed and accuracy for mass processing.

• 🥉 qwen/qwen3.6-27b (Alternative): Excellent alternative with very strong multilingual support for non-English sites.

• 🚀 groq/compound & compound-mini: High-speed experimental models optimized for short text bursts." type="suggestion">

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🏢 Predefined Industries (Standardized B2B List)

In the Actor's input, you can optionally provide a list of Predefined Industries.

• If you leave it blank: The AI will evaluate the website and invent an industry category it thinks fits best.
• If you provide a list: The AI is forced to map the website to one of your exact categories.

To ensure your CRM data remains clean and matches platforms like LinkedIn, Apollo, or Lead411, you can copy and paste categories from this standardized list of 113 B2B Industries into the Actor's input:

Accounting
Aerospace & Defense
Airlines/Aviation
Architecture & Planning
Automotive
Banking
Biotechnology
Broadcast Media
Building Materials
Business Consulting and Services
Chemical Manufacturing
Civil Engineering
Computer Hardware
Computer Networking
Construction
Consumer Electronics
Consumer Goods
Cosmetics
Defense & Space
Design Services
E-Learning
Education Administration Programs
Education Management
Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
Energy & Utilities
Engineering Services
Entertainment
Environmental Services
Events Services
Facilities Services
Farming, Ranching & Forestry
Financial Services
Food & Beverages
Food Production
Furniture
Government Administration
Graphic Design
Health, Wellness & Fitness
Higher Education
Hospital & Health Care
Hospitality
Human Resources Services
Import & Export
Industrial Automation
Information Services
Information Technology & Services
Insurance
Internet Marketplace Platforms
Investment Banking
Investment Management
IT Services and IT Consulting
Law Enforcement
Law Practice
Legal Services
Leisure, Travel & Tourism
Logistics & Supply Chain
Luxury Goods & Jewelry
Machinery
Management Consulting
Manufacturing & Industrial
Market Research
Marketing & Advertising
Mechanical/Industrial Engineering
Media Production
Medical Device
Mental Health Care
Military and International Affairs
Mining & Metals
Non-Profit Organization Management
Oil & Energy
Online Media
Outsourcing/Offshoring
Package/Freight Delivery
Packaging & Containers
Paper & Forest Products
Performing Arts
Pharmaceuticals
Philanthropy
Photography
Plastics
Primary/Secondary Education
Printing
Professional Training & Coaching
Program Development
Public Policy
Public Relations & Communications
Publishing
Real Estate
Recreational Facilities & Services
Religious Institutions
Renewables & Environment
Research Services
Restaurants
Retail
Security & Investigations
Semiconductors
Social Networking Platforms
Software Development
Sporting Goods
Sports
Staffing & Recruiting
Telecommunications
Textiles
Translation & Localization
Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
Utilities
Venture Capital & Private Equity
Veterinary
Warehousing
Wholesale
Wine & Spirits
Wireless
Writing & Editing

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⚡ Core Features

• 🤖 Built-In AI — No need to struggle with OpenAI billing or API keys. We handle the LLM routing and token management for you.
• 🎯 "Never Miss" Fallback Routing — If a homepage has no text (e.g., a login portal or heavy image banner), the scraper dynamically hunts down the /about or /company page and analyzes that instead.

• 🚀 Extreme Speed — Uses a CheerioCrawler combined with strict DOM-stripping (removing navs, footers, and scripts) to keep memory usage low and speed blazing fast.

• 🧼 Clean CRM Data — Outputs exactly what sales and data teams need without bloat.</comment-tag id="2" text="We should highlight the new feature you just added regarding raw domains, as users absolutely love this convenience.
• 🚀 Extreme Speed — Uses a CheerioCrawler combined with strict DOM-stripping (removing navs, footers, and scripts) to keep memory usage low and speed blazing fast.
• 🔗 Smart URL Parsing — No need to format your lists. Just paste raw domains like stripe.com or apple.com and the Actor automatically normalizes them.
• 🧼 Clean CRM Data — Outputs exactly what sales and data teams need without bloat." type="suggestion">

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⚙️ Input Configuration

Field	Type	Required	Description
startUrls	Array	Yes	List of website URLs or domains (e.g., apify.com).
aiModel	String	Yes	Select the AI model to use for classification.
predefinedIndustries	Array	No	Specific list of industries for the AI to choose from (Optional).
proxyConfiguration	Object	No	Proxy settings to bypass blocking.

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🧩 Example Input

<comment-tag id="3">{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "[https://apify.com](https://apify.com)" },
    { "url": "[https://stripe.com](https://stripe.com)" }
  ],
  "aiModel": "openai/gpt-oss-20b",
  "predefinedIndustries": ["SaaS", "Fintech", "E-commerce", "Healthcare"]
}</comment-tag id="3" text="Markdown links inside a JSON block make it invalid JSON. Also, since we changed the input schema to 'stringList', users can now pass a simple array of strings. Let's update this to be valid and showcase the new feature.

{
  "startUrls": [
    "apify.com",
    "stripe.com"
  ],
  "aiModel": "openai/gpt-oss-20b",
  "predefinedIndustries": ["SaaS", "Fintech", "E-commerce", "Healthcare"]
}" type="suggestion">

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📊 Example Output

{
<comment-tag id="4">  "url": "[https://apify.com/](https://apify.com/)",</comment-tag id="4" text="Like the input above, markdown links inside JSON will confuse developers who are reading your docs. Let's make this a clean string.

  "url": "[https://apify.com/](https://apify.com/)", " type="suggestion">
  "domain": "apify.com",
  "brandName": "apify",
  "industry": "SaaS",
  "summary": "Apify provides a platform to build, run, and scale web scraping and automation tools.",
  "isB2B": true
}

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💡 Use Cases

• B2B Lead Generation & Scoring: Automatically categorize purchased domain lists.
• CRM Database Enrichment: Clean up "Unknown" industries in Salesforce or HubSpot.
• Competitive Market Research: Analyze thousands of competitor domains in minutes.
• Outbound Sales Intelligence: Filter prospects by B2B/B2C status before sending cold emails.

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❓ FAQs

1. Do I need my own API key? No! Unlike other scrapers, our Actor has advanced, load-balanced AI keys built directly into the backend. You just pay the flat Apify PPE rate per domain.

2. Does this scrape the entire website? No. It strategically scrapes the homepage. If the homepage lacks context, it uses an intelligent fallback to quickly pull the "About Us" page. This guarantees high speed and low memory usage.

3. How am I charged for this Actor? This is a Pay-Per-Event (PPE) actor. You are charged a flat rate per domain processed. You only pay for what you scrape.

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🧑‍💻 Developer Info

Author: codescraper

Email: codescraper011@gmail.com

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🏷️ Tags

industry-classifier · business-nature · domain-enrichment · b2b-leads · lead-generation · company-intelligence · crm-enrichment · ai-categorization · apify · automation · sales-intelligence