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# Technographics
> Detect the tools, platforms, and categories a company uses, directly through the Crustdata Company API.
Technographics is currently in **beta**. Field names, category values, and
coverage may evolve based on feedback. To share input or request access,
write to [support@crustdata.co](mailto:support@crustdata.co).
Technographics maps each company to the technologies it uses. Every tool comes
with a **name**, a **category**, and the **sources** it was detected from, so
you can both target companies by their stack and read the full stack for a
company you already care about.
### Where technographics is available
Technographics ships on the existing Company APIs. There is no separate
endpoint, and the two endpoints play different roles:
| API | Request field | Notes |
| ------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
| [Company Enrich](/company-docs/enrichment/introduction) | `fields: ["technographics"]` | **Returns** the full detected stack. Never returned by default; request it. |
| [Company Search](/company-docs/search/introduction) | `technographics.*` filter columns | **Filters and sorts** companies by tech stack, but does not return the values. |
### At a glance
| Detail | Value |
| ------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **Read endpoint** | `POST https://api.crustdata.com/company/enrich` |
| **Filter endpoint** | `POST https://api.crustdata.com/company/search` |
| **Auth** | `authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY` |
| **API version** | `x-api-version: 2025-11-01` header |
| **Enrich field** | `technographics` (request via `fields`); returned under `company_data.technographics` |
| **Filter columns** | Each is prefixed with `technographics.`: `technographics.total_technologies`, `technographics.top_technologies`, `technographics.technologies.name`, `technographics.technologies.category` |
| **Access** | Gated add-on; requires field-level permission on your account |
| **Pricing** | **+2 credits** per company that returns technographics data, on top of the base **2 credits** (beta pricing, subject to change) |
| **Freshness** | `updated_at`, per company |
***
## The problem: firmographics don't tell you what a company is built on
Company data tells you a company's size, funding, and industry, but not the
tools it runs. Knowing the stack is what drives the highest-intent motions:
* **Account scoring:** prioritize accounts that already run a complementary or competing product.
* **Competitive displacement:** find every company using a competitor's technology.
* **ICP targeting:** segment by category, like everyone using a data warehouse or an AI model provider.
* **Personalization:** reference a prospect's actual stack in outreach.
Detecting this yourself means running your own pipeline over each company's web
presence and job postings, then normalizing thousands of raw tool names into a
consistent taxonomy.
## The solution: a ready-made stack on the Company API
Request the `technographics` field group on
[Company Enrich](/company-docs/enrichment/introduction) and Crustdata returns
the technologies detected for the company, each with a category and the sources
it came from:
```json theme={"theme":"vitesse-black"}
{
"fields": ["technographics"]
}
```
To build a list instead of reading one company, filter and sort on the
`technographics.*` columns in [Company Search](/company-docs/search/introduction),
then enrich the companies you want in full. A typical workflow is **search to
narrow, enrich to read**.
## Access and pricing
Technographics is a **gated add-on**. It requires field-level permission on
your account. Check your access with the
[permissions endpoint](/general/permissions), or contact Crustdata to enable
it. It is billed at **+2 credits** per company that returns technographics
data, on top of the endpoint's base **2 credits** per company. Companies
with no technographics data are not charged the add-on. The same pricing
applies to [Batch Company Enrich](/company-docs/enrichment/batch).
These credit amounts are **beta pricing** and may change as technographics
moves toward general availability.
## Example: read a company's stack (Enrich)
Request the `technographics` field group explicitly. It is never returned by
default.
```bash theme={"theme":"vitesse-black"}
curl --request POST \
--url https://api.crustdata.com/company/enrich \
--header 'authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'x-api-version: 2025-11-01' \
--data '{
"domains": ["stripe.com"],
"fields": ["basic_info", "technographics"]
}'
```
The `technographics` section appears on each match under
`company_data.technographics`:
```json theme={"theme":"vitesse-black"}
{
"technographics": {
"total_technologies": 635,
"top_technologies": ["SQL", "SaaS", "Python", "API", "Java", "Ruby", "Go", "React", "Salesforce", "Kubernetes"],
"technologies": [
{
"name": "Python",
"category": "programming_language",
"sources": ["job posting"]
},
{
"name": "React",
"category": "framework",
"sources": ["web signals", "job posting"]
},
{
"name": "Salesforce",
"category": "product",
"sources": ["web signals"]
}
],
"updated_at": "2026-07-21T05:18:56Z"
}
}
```
### Fields
| Field | Type | Description |
| ------------------------- | ---------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| `total_technologies` | integer | Total count of technologies detected for the company. |
| `top_technologies` | string\[] | The most notable technology names. |
| `technologies` | object\[] | List of detected technologies, capped at **500 entries** per company. |
| `technologies[].name` | string | Technology name. |
| `technologies[].category` | string | Technology category, a lowercase snake\_case value (see [Coverage](#coverage-and-freshness)). |
| `technologies[].sources` | string\[] | Where the signal was detected: `"web signals"` (the company's web presence) or `"job posting"`. |
| `updated_at` | date-time string | Timestamp of the last technographics refresh for the company. |
The `technologies` list is ordered by notability (`top_technologies` is the
head of the same ranking) and is capped at **500 entries** per company. For a
large stack, `total_technologies` (the true count) can exceed the number of
entries returned. Use `total_technologies` for the count and `top_technologies`
for the most notable tools.
Because the list is the top 500 by notability, a company with a very large
stack may match a [Company Search](#example-target-companies-by-tech-stack-search)
filter on a niche technology yet not include that technology in its enriched
`technologies` array. Treat Company Search as the authority for whether a
company uses a given technology, and use Enrich to read the notable stack.
For the complete schema, see the
[`technographics` fields reference](/company-docs/enrichment/reference#technographics-fields).
## Example: target companies by tech stack (Search)
[Company Search](/company-docs/search/introduction) can **filter and sort** on
technographics without returning the values. Use it to build a list, then
enrich the companies you want.
```bash theme={"theme":"vitesse-black"}
curl --request POST \
--url https://api.crustdata.com/company/search \
--header 'authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'x-api-version: 2025-11-01' \
--data '{
"filters": {
"op": "and",
"conditions": [
{ "field": "technographics.technologies.name", "type": "in", "value": ["Snowflake"] }
]
}
}'
```
To segment by category instead of a specific tool, for example every company
using a cloud service, filter on `technographics.technologies.category`:
```bash theme={"theme":"vitesse-black"}
curl --request POST \
--url https://api.crustdata.com/company/search \
--header 'authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'x-api-version: 2025-11-01' \
--data '{
"filters": {
"op": "and",
"conditions": [
{ "field": "technographics.technologies.category", "type": "in", "value": ["cloud_service"] }
]
}
}'
```
Filterable and sortable paths:
| Path | Type | Filter | Sort | Description |
| -------------------------------------- | --------- | ------ | ---- | ------------------------------- |
| `technographics.total_technologies` | integer | Yes | Yes | Number of detected technologies |
| `technographics.top_technologies` | string\[] | Yes | No | Most notable technology names |
| `technographics.technologies.name` | string\[] | Yes | No | Detected technology names |
| `technographics.technologies.category` | string\[] | Yes | No | Detected technology categories |
**Pricing.** Filtering and sorting on technographics uses standard [Company
Search](/company-docs/search/introduction) pricing of **0.03 credits per
result returned**, with no add-on. The technographics add-on applies only
when you return the data through Company Enrich.
`technographics.total_technologies` is a raw count that tracks company size
and job-posting volume more than stack sophistication. Sort on it for reach,
not as a quality signal.
Discover valid filter values with the `technology` and
`technology_category`
[autocomplete fields](/company-docs/autocomplete/introduction#common-fields-to-autocomplete)
so your filters match the values Crustdata uses.
See the [Company Search reference](/company-docs/search/reference#technographics-filter-only)
for the full list of filter-only fields.
## Coverage and freshness
* **Signals.** Technologies are detected from two independent sources: the
company's **web presence** (`"web signals"`) and its **job postings**
(`"job posting"`). A technology can be found by either or both, and the
`sources` array tells you which.
* **Categories.** Every technology is mapped to a lowercase snake\_case category
(for example `programming_language`, `framework`, `cloud_service`, `product`,
`ai_model`), so you can filter and segment at the category level as well as by
specific tool. Enumerate the current category values with the
`technology_category` autocomplete field.
* **Freshness.** `updated_at` reflects the last refresh of the company's
technographics as a whole. Individual technologies are not timestamped, so a
signal from an older job posting and a recent one look the same. During beta,
coverage is expanding, so if a company you expect is thin or missing, let us
know at [support@crustdata.co](mailto:support@crustdata.co).
## What to do next
* [Company Enrich reference](/company-docs/enrichment/reference#technographics-fields): full response schema.
* [Company Search reference](/company-docs/search/reference#technographics-filter-only): filter and sort fields.
* [Autocomplete](/company-docs/autocomplete/introduction#common-fields-to-autocomplete): valid technology and category values.
* [Permissions](/general/permissions): check whether technographics is enabled on your account.