09/04/2026
.io lets you export 44 columns per company. I export 8.
Company name, domain, size, associated employees online, description, industry, country, LinkedIn URL. That's it.
The other 36 columns are noise downstream. The CSV goes into Clay, and Clay re-enriches everything we actually care about. Any column Ocean wrote that we'll overwrite in Clay is dead weight.
Dead-weight columns slow Clay's render and confuse anyone scanning the workbook. They make CSV diffs unreadable. And every column Ocean populated is a column where, if Ocean's data is wrong, you have to remember which source to trust later.
Cut what you're going to overwrite. Keep what Clay can't re-derive. The 8 fields above are what Clay can't easily get from elsewhere.
The reason most operators export 44 columns is that the export menu lets them. Tooling shapes what feels normal. Less is faster.