Public Case Study Lead Finder

Discover named B2B customers from public vendor case studies. Extract the vendor, customer, industry, use case, explicitly mentioned technology, supporting evidence, and source URL for sales prospecting and market mapping.

Use cases

• Build account lists from vendors' published customer evidence.
• Map which industries and use cases adopt a product category.
• Find technology and migration signals for relevant outreach.

Inputs

• sourceUrls: Exact public index or story URLs. Explicit values replace defaults.
• vendors: Vendor domains or URLs used to probe /customers, /case-studies, and /customer-stories.
• industries: Optional case-insensitive filter. Leave empty to keep all evidenced industries.
• useDefaultSources: Use curated sources only when explicit source inputs are empty.
• maxItems: Maximum evidence-backed results, from 1 to 1000.
• firecrawlApiKey: Optional secret bring-your-own-key credential for fallback scraping.
• maxFirecrawlPages: Maximum attempted Firecrawl fallback pages per run, from 0 to 100.

Default sources

• Stripe customers: https://stripe.com/customers
• Cloudflare case studies: https://www.cloudflare.com/case-studies/
• HubSpot case studies: https://www.hubspot.com/case-studies/directory?showAll=true

Optional Firecrawl fallback

Direct HTTP is always attempted first. A user-provided Firecrawl key is used only for blocked or sparse pages, up to maxFirecrawlPages. Firecrawl credits and billing belong to the key owner. This Actor does not use Firecrawl Agent, Extract, Search, or enhanced proxy mode.

Output

• recordType: Always caseStudy.
• sourceUrl: Normalized public story URL.
• vendor: Vendor publishing the story.
• customerName: Named customer evidenced on the page.
• industry, useCase, and technologyMention: Explicit evidence or null.
• confidence: Evidence-completeness score from 0 to 1.
• evidenceText: Sanitized supporting text.
• capturedAt: ISO-8601 run timestamp.

The Actor never fabricates missing optional fields.

Example input

{
  "sourceUrls": ["https://stripe.com/customers"],
  "industries": ["software", "retail"],
  "maxItems": 100
}

Pricing

Pay per result: $0.003 for each emitted case-study lead, subject to the Store's displayed minimum run charge.

Limitations and safety

The Actor follows public same-host story links one level deep. It does not authenticate, find personal contact data, use an LLM, or invent missing industries, use cases, or technologies. Source websites can change and may require custom URLs or the optional fallback.

Local validation

npm ci
npm test
npx --yes apify-cli validate-schema
npx --yes apify-cli run --purge --input '{"maxItems":10}'