Can you trust the numbers in Ocean.io?
Ocean.io is a tool that learns a business's ideal customer profile from the deals it has already won and ranks every company in its market against that profile. Its own help pages give 4 reasons its numbers can look different from what you expect. The first to rule out: A search total in Ocean.io can stop at 10,000 even when more companies match, since its help pages say that is the most it can show or download at once.
What does Ocean.io keep track of?
Ocean.io keeps a record of every company and contact list anyone on the account has downloaded.
In Ocean.io's own words:
The Export history page gives you a complete overview of all exports performed by anyone in your organization.
Export History, read 2026-11-12.A contact list taken out of Ocean.io carries each person's company details with it, so leads and their companies stay together.
In Ocean.io's own words:
When exporting contacts, their company data is always included.
How To Export/Download Companies & Contacts, read 2026-11-12.
What can make Ocean.io's numbers look wrong?
A search total in Ocean.io can stop at 10,000 even when more companies match, since its help pages say that is the most it can show or download at once.
In Ocean.io's own words:
This represents the limit of results that Ocean.io can display or export at any given moment.
Visibility limit of 10,000, read 2026-11-12.A company's headcount in Ocean.io can be out of date or too high, because, as Ocean.io's developer docs explain, LinkedIn based counts lag and can include contractors.
In Ocean.io's own words:
LinkedIn counts lag and can be inflated by contractors.
Best practices | API Docs | Ocean.io, read 2026-11-12.Details about a company can be weeks old when you look at them, since Ocean.io says it refreshes roughly half of its company websites each month.
In Ocean.io's own words:
Our engine re-crawls roughly half the domain index every month.
B2B data intelligence, read 2026-11-12.New leads taken from Ocean.io webhooks can be counted twice, because its developer docs say the same delivery can come more than once.
In Ocean.io's own words:
The same payload may arrive more than once.
Best practices | API Docs | Ocean.io, read 2026-11-12.
How do I check Ocean.io's numbers myself?
Turning on Net new before downloading shows only companies or contacts not taken before, so a count of new leads is not inflated by repeats.
In Ocean.io's own words:
Use the Net new option to exclude any items that were previously exported, ensuring you only see fresh results.
How To Export/Download Companies & Contacts, read 2026-11-12.Narrowing a search with filters before downloading helps keep the same company or person from appearing twice in a lead list.
In Ocean.io's own words:
Using the filters helps avoid duplicates in both contacts and companies.
How To Export/Download Companies & Contacts, read 2026-11-12.An owner can download an earlier Ocean.io list again from Export history and recount it line by line.
In Ocean.io's own words:
You can re-download CSV files as many times as needed
Export History, read 2026-11-12.
How does Ocean.io work with Feder?
Connect Ocean.io to Feder and it joins your Interest apps. Feder only reads. It never changes anything in Ocean.io.
When you connect Ocean.io, Feder checks the connection straight away and shows Connected only when that check passes. If a reading cannot be taken later, Feder shows it as not read, never as zero.
Other apps that feed Interest
- Jotformform submissions
- Klaviyonew profiles
- Mailchimpclicks on today's sends
- ActiveCampaignnew contacts
- Cal.combookings made
- Intercomnew contacts
Questions owners ask about Ocean.io
- Why did my Ocean.io export have fewer companies than I expected?With the net new option on, companies already exported are left out, so a repeat export can be smaller.
- Why did Ocean.io return fewer emails than contacts?Not every contact comes back with an email, and Ocean.io's own example expects emails for most contacts, not all of them.
- Why is my Ocean.io search finding fewer companies?The keywords filter looks at short terms in descriptions of what a company does, so results depend on how each company is described.
Where do these answers come from?
Everything this page says about Ocean.io comes from Ocean.io's own pages, quoted above with the date we read them. Last reviewed 2026-11-12. We read them again by 2027-11-12. If one changes, this page changes or comes down.
Know the day a number breaks, not the month after.
Some numbers are too quiet to judge daily, such as a form filled in a few times a week. Until there is enough of your own history to judge a change, Feder says it is still learning and scores nothing, rather than guessing.