Resolve industry
Turn a natural industry/market phrase ('AI companies', 'data annotation', 'sports software') into exact validated filter values: ranked plans, each with a LinkedIn industry base plus (tech segments only) precise Crunchbase category tags, ready to paste into search_companies.
Tool: resolve_industry
Traditional-industry plans are industry-only by design - Crunchbase coverage is thin outside tech. Confidence is contract: high = reviewed/exact, medium = inferred, low = verify before spending credits. Free, no writes. Call BEFORE filtering on industry-ish concepts - the LinkedIn taxonomy alone cannot express tech segments (no AI/fintech/IoT industries exist there). NOT for: running the search → search_companies/search_people.
Parameters
| Param | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
query | string | yes | A natural industry/market phrase - 'AI companies', 'data annotation', 'sports software company', 'cpg brands'. |
entity | string | no | company (default) or person. Person plans are LinkedIn-only - the person database has no category column. |
limit | integer | no | Max plans returned. Default: 3 (max 5). |
Credit-free. Returns ranked filter plans; every value is validated against the provider vocabularies, so a suggested filter can never silently zero.
Each plan pairs a LinkedIn
industrybase with precise Crunchbasecategorytags - the LinkedIn taxonomy alone cannot express tech segments (no AI/fintech/IoT industries exist there).Confidence is a contract:
high= reviewed or exact match,medium= inferred,low= verify (e.g. withsample=true) before spending credits.
Sample request — success
{
"query": "generative ai startups"
}Sample request — compound
{
"query": "sports software company"
}