🚀 LinkedIn Decision Maker Finder

A powerful Apify Actor that finds key decision makers (CEO, CTO, VP, etc.) at target companies using public LinkedIn data. No LinkedIn login required.

📋 Overview

The LinkedIn Decision Maker Finder is an Apify Actor designed to identify and enrich decision-maker profiles at companies you're targeting. Given a list of company names or LinkedIn URLs, it automatically discovers C-level executives, VPs, directors, and founders — then enriches each person's profile with title, location, education, and more.

Key Highlights:

✅ No LinkedIn Cookies Required – Operates without authentication cookies ✅ Company Name or URL – Provide plain company names or LinkedIn company URLs ✅ Customizable Titles – Target specific roles (CEO, CTO, VP) or use built-in defaults ✅ Confidence Scoring – Each result is scored as high, medium, or low confidence ✅ Structured Output – Returns normalized JSON with both company and person data

✨ Features

🏢 Company Intelligence

Automatically resolves and gathers company information:

• Resolves company names to LinkedIn company pages automatically
• Extracts industry, company size, headquarters, and specialties
• Accepts direct LinkedIn company URLs for instant resolution

👤 Decision Maker Discovery

Finds key people at each company:

• Discovers LinkedIn profiles matching target titles at each company
• Enriches each profile with name, title, location, education, connections, and about snippet
• Configurable max persons per company (1–50)

🎯 Confidence Scoring

Each result includes a confidence score (high / medium / low) based on:

• Whether the person's current company matches the target company
• Whether their title matches one of the target titles

⚡ How It Works

The Actor runs a 4-step pipeline:

1. Resolve Companies – Converts company names to LinkedIn company pages
2. Fetch Company Info – Extracts industry, size, headquarters, and specialties from public LinkedIn company pages
3. Search Decision Makers – Finds LinkedIn profiles matching target titles at each company
4. Enrich Profiles – Extracts detailed data from public LinkedIn profile pages

🚀 Quick Start

1. Get Started: Create an Apify account if you don't have one
2. Prepare Input: List the companies you want to search (names or LinkedIn URLs)
3. Run the Actor: Use the Apify Console to run the Actor
4. Download Results: Export your data as JSON, CSV, or Excel

🛠️ Usage

Input Format

The Actor accepts a JSON input with the following fields:

{
  "companies": [
    "Apify",
    "https://www.linkedin.com/company/qdrant"
  ],
  "titles": ["CEO", "CTO", "Founder"],
  "maxPersonsPerCompany": 5,
  "country": "com"
}

Field	Type	Required	Description
companies	string[]	Yes	Company names, LinkedIn company URLs, or slugs
titles	string[]	No	Job titles to search for. Defaults to common C-level and VP titles
maxPersonsPerCompany	integer	No	Max decision makers per company (1–50, default: 5)
country	string	No	Country domain for search locality (e.g., com, co.uk, de)

Default Titles

When no custom titles are provided, the Actor searches for:

CEO, CTO, COO, CFO, CMO, CIO, CISO, VP, Vice President, Director, Head of, Founder, Co-Founder, Managing Director, General Manager, Partner, President, Owner

📊 Output Format

Each result in the dataset contains both company and person data:

{
  "companyName": "Apify",
  "companyLinkedInUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/apify",
  "companyIndustry": "Software Development",
  "companySize": "51-200",
  "companyHeadquarters": "Prague, Czech Republic",
  "companySpecialties": "web scraping, automation",
  "personName": "Jan Curn",
  "personTitle": "CEO & Co-Founder",
  "personProfileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/jancurn",
  "personLocation": "Prague, Czech Republic",
  "personEducation": "Czech Technical University",
  "personConnections": "500+",
  "personCurrentCompany": "Apify",
  "personAboutSnippet": "Building the web scraping and automation platform...",
  "confidence": "high",
  "scrapedAt": "2025-01-15T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Export Options

Your data can be:

• Downloaded as JSON, CSV, or Excel from the Apify Console
• Accessed via the Apify Dataset API
• Integrated with Zapier, Make, Google Sheets, and more

🔍 Error Handling

The Actor handles errors gracefully:

• Invalid Company Names: Skipped if no LinkedIn slug can be resolved
• Failed Profile Scrapes: Individual failures don't stop the entire run
• Automatic Retries: Up to 2 retries for failed requests
• Fallback Data: Company info falls back to basic data if scraping fails

📈 Tips for Best Results

• Use LinkedIn URLs when possible for faster, more accurate company resolution
• Be specific with titles to narrow results to exactly the roles you need
• Adjust country to match the region where your target companies operate
• Start small with a few companies to test before running large batches