# Changelog of Clutch.co Agency & B2B Company Scraper (`sian.agency/clutch-agency-scraper`) Actor

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## Changelog

All notable changes to the Clutch.co Agency & B2B Company Scraper.

### \[1.0.0] — 2026-09-02

First public release.

#### ✨ What it does

Turns any Clutch.co directory into structured rows: client rating and review count, hourly-rate
band, minimum project size, team size, verified street address, phone number and the company's own
website. An optional profile pass adds founding year, the company's social accounts, its registered
business entity, every office location, its service mix and its full published review history.

#### 💰 Two prices, because there are two costs

A Clutch directory page lists 36–49 companies at once; a company's own profile page lists one.
Those are genuinely different costs, so they are billed as different events rather than averaged
into one rate:

- 🔍 **Directory Search** — **$0.75 per 1,000 companies**
- 📄 **Company Profile** — **$1.75 per 1,000 companies**
- ▶️ **Run start** — **$0.005 per run**

A bulk lead list therefore costs what a bulk lead list costs, instead of paying profile prices for
every row whether you needed the depth or not.

#### 💼 User Benefits & Use Cases

- **Shortlist before you call.** Hourly-rate band and minimum project size are on every row in the
  cheap mode, so a procurement shortlist can be costed before anyone books a meeting.
- **Filter before you pay.** The minimum-rating filter runs *before* any profile page is fetched,
  so raising it genuinely lowers the bill rather than just hiding rows.
- **Real websites, not tracking links.** Clutch wraps outbound links in its own redirect and
  appends tracking parameters; those are unwrapped and stripped.
- **Reviews included, not metered.** The full published review history rides on the profile row at
  no extra event.
- **Due diligence from a public record.** Registered legal name, jurisdiction, formation date,
  status and registry id, alongside the published financial-risk check.
- **Track a market over time.** Company ids are stable, so scheduled runs diff cleanly — who
  enters, who disappears, whose rating or rate band moves.

#### 🔍 Coverage

Roughly 385,000 company profiles across some 70,000 directory pages. Pagination is genuine, not a
repeated first page: pages 1, 2 and 50 of the same directory share no companies. A broad category
such as Creative runs to 262 pages.

#### 🛡️ Reliability

- No proxy setting to configure — bot protection is handled for you, and you are never asked to
  buy residential bandwidth on top of the per-company price.
- A page that cannot be read is **never charged**, and the run reports why.
- A wrong URL is reported as a wrong URL, not as a block, with advice to copy it from the browser.
- Ratings, review counts and founding years are typed at the parsing boundary, so a row either
  arrives complete or is reported.

#### 📋 Honest limitations

- **Clutch publishes no email addresses.** A full profile page contains zero addresses and zero
  `mailto:` links. Rows carry the company's website and public phone number instead; pair with the
  Email & Contact Lead Scraper to go from a domain to named contacts.
- Only the logged-out public surface is covered.