// PLAYBOOK

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How to Research a Company on LinkedIn Before Your First Call (API Guide)

// WHEN TO USE

Problem

You have a company name or LinkedIn URL but no structured intel. Manually reading a company page gives you a paragraph of "About" text, but not structured data you can filter, score, or feed to an AI. You need industry, headcount, specializations, headquarters, and website in a format your pipeline can use.

// WHAT YOU GET

Outcome

A single call that returns the full company profile as structured JSON: industry, employee count, description, specializations, locations, website, and founding year. Use it to filter companies by size and industry before enriching people, to feed company context into AI-drafted outreach, or to build an account-level ICP scoring model. Running it alongside search also cuts the toolstack down to one bill instead of two.

// RESULTS

Proof

<2 sec
vs 3–5 min manual company research
Up to 10X
Lower cost than Apify stack

// BUILDING BLOCKS

Periodix Actions used

// HOW IT WORKS

Flow

Company LinkedIn URL or company IDGet Company ProfileFilter: ICP match

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// OUTPUT SHAPE

Example JSON output

{
  "id": "12345",
  "name": "Acme Corp",
  "universal_name": "acme-corp",
  "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/acme-corp",
  "website": "https://acme.com",
  "industry": "Computer Software",
  "headcount": "201-500",
  "description": "Acme Corp builds revenue intelligence...",
  "specializations": [
    "Sales Intelligence",
    "B2B Data",
    "AI"
  ],
  "locations": [
    {
      "city": "San Francisco",
      "country": "US",
      "is_hq": true
    }
  ],
  "founded_year": 2018
}

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// QUESTIONS

FAQ

What data does get-company-profile return?
get-company-profile returns structured company data including company name, LinkedIn URL, website, industry, headcount range, description, specializations, locations, HQ and founding year.
Can I enrich companies in bulk?
Yes. Pass company IDs or URLs from a LinkedIn or Sales Navigator search into a loop or batch workflow. The result can then be filtered, scored or pushed into a CRM.
Does this work with Sales Navigator account URLs?
Yes. Sales Navigator account URLs are supported alongside standard LinkedIn company URLs.
How is get-company-profile different from a scraping Actor?
A scraping Actor typically gives you an extraction workflow that you still need to run, configure and connect to the rest of your pipeline. get-company-profile is a native Periodix Action that returns structured company data directly into the workflow, so the search, enrichment and downstream steps can stay in the same stack.
How does the cost compare with Apify?
Apify uses a combination of platform subscription and usage-based pricing. Actors can charge per event, per result or based on platform usage, and some Actors can charge platform usage separately. With get-company-profile, company enrichment runs inside the same Periodix Actions plan as search and outreach, so there is no separate scraping platform subscription or Actor billing layer.

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