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by davidlumley 2959 days ago
To be clear, Clearbit can only transform IPs into company data.
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(Based on another reply, apparently David works for Clearbit)

How does Clearbit Reveal differentiate between a home/residential user browsing for business purposes, and that same person or their family browsing from the same IP (which may well be a business broadband subscriber) for entirely personal purposes?

From my own testing of a few Clearbit APIs, it seemed like your statement was, for all practical purposes, false. That said, maybe I’m wrong. I’d welcome an explanation or link to how Clearbit can tell commercial intent (or lack thereof) from, say, a shared IP.

Does a public site exist where an anonymous visitor can see the Clearbit Reveal response for their own IP?

The dubiousness of this statement aside, it's definitely good form to mention that you work for the company in question when you're making posts about that company (it was only a couple of clicks for me to figure this out and a couple more to confirm it, but still).