Origami builds lead lists from a prompt or your domain, and can send the outreach. Ocean ranks your whole market from your own won and lost deals, the same way every run.
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OrigamiBuilding lead lists from a prompt with live web research agents, then sending.
Origami is a Y Combinator startup whose AI agents build lead lists from a plain-English prompt, or from just your domain. The agents search live sources, enrich contacts and return a list. Paid plans include a built-in email and LinkedIn sequencer.
Ranking your whole market the same way every run, from your own deals, with the reason on each account.
Ocean is contextual intelligence for go-to-market. It reads what every company actually does from its own website, learns what good looks like from your closed-won and closed-lost deals, and ranks your whole market against it, with the reason behind each score. The ranked accounts arrive in your CRM, your rep queue or your AI agents.
What buyers weigh, grouped by the job each part does. A green check marks the stronger side.
| Topic | Ocean.io logo Ocean | Origami |
|---|---|---|
| Finding the right accounts | ||
| Lookalikes from your closed-won deals | Ocean is stronger here. Core of the product. Segments and models learned from your won and lost CRM deals. | Starts from your prompt or your domain, and learns from your campaigns. |
| Same answer every run | Ocean is stronger here. The same inputs give the same ranking. | Results depend on the prompt and on live sources. |
| The reason behind each account | Ocean is stronger here. Segment, score, tier and matched signals on every account and every export. | Research notes on each lead. |
| Contacts and data | ||
| Contacts | Verified emails and direct phones from a waterfall across 16+ data sources. Charged only when a contact is found, and exports are free. | A four-stage email waterfall and nine phone providers. |
| Company data | 85M+ companies, built from the open web. | Live web research on each list, across 50+ sources. |
| Workflow and pricing | ||
| Outreach | Doesn’t send. Hands ranked accounts and contacts to the sequencer you already use. | Origami is stronger here. A built-in email and LinkedIn sequencer on paid plans. |
| Pricing | Ocean is stronger here. Two ways to buy: a flat-rate plan with credits included, or a custom plan built around your deals and credit volume. | From $99 a month, usage-based, with unlimited team members. |
Origami publishes its prices. They’re cheap, usage-based and have no seats.
Origami raised its prices in October 2026: Starter went from $49 to $99 and Pro from $129 to $199, and the free plan became a 7-day trial.
A flat-rate plan with credits included, or a custom plan built around your deals.
Contacts are charged only when one is found. Exports are free.
See Ocean pricingOrigami builds a list from a prompt. Ocean ranks the market from your wins.
Choose Origami if Ocean.io logo Use both ifFive steps. Most teams keep their sender and add Ocean to choose the accounts.
Find your plan, your usage balance and any top-ups before you change how you build lists.
Export your lists, and keep the prompts that built them so you can compare the output with Ocean.
Connect HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive or Attio. Ocean reads your closed-won and closed-lost deals to learn what a good account looks like.
Ocean proposes segments and scores, with the reason on each. Correct anything that doesn’t match how you sell.
Scores, segments and matched signals go back to your CRM, or into Apollo, Instantly or Lemlist sequences.
The right alternative depends on what you use Origami for. Here’s what each is built for and where Ocean starts.
ClayBuilt for GTM engineers who assemble custom enrichment and research workflows from many data sources.
Where Ocean starts Ocean starts from your closed-won deals and ranks the market, instead of a build.
LandbaseBuilt for Teams that want natural-language audience search and outreach from one AI platform.
Where Ocean starts Ocean learns from your own closed-won deals and leaves outreach to the tools you already use.
UnifyBuilt for Reps who build lists from a prompt and send from one chat, with signals that trigger plays.
Where Ocean starts Ocean ranks the market from your wins first, so the list is right before any agent sends.
ApolloBuilt for Contacts and sequencing in one tool, with published self-serve plans.
Where Ocean starts Ocean starts from which accounts deserve outreach, then pushes contacts to Apollo, Instantly or Lemlist sequences.
AmplemarketBuilt for Outbound teams that want contacts, signals and multichannel sequences with an AI copilot.
Where Ocean starts Ocean decides which accounts are worth the outreach, then hands them to your sequencer.
Short answers on Origami’s cost, what its agents do, how Ocean compares and what switching takes.
Starter is $99 a month, Pro is $199 and Max is $399, with dollar-based usage included and unlimited team members. There’s a 7-day trial and no free plan.
Its AI agents build lead lists from a plain-English prompt or from your domain, searching live sources and enriching contacts. Paid plans include an email and LinkedIn sequencer.
Lists depend on the prompt and on the live sources the agents read. Ocean ranks a fixed market against your ICP, so the same inputs give the same ranking.
Origami Agents is a Y Combinator company with a small team, based in San Francisco.
Yes. Use Ocean to decide which accounts are worth working, and Origami to build and send to them.
Ocean reads what each company does from its own website, learns from your closed-won and closed-lost deals, and returns ranked matches with the reason on each one.
Check your plan and usage, export your lists, connect your CRM so Ocean reads your won and lost deals, review the segments and scores Ocean proposes, then send scored accounts to your CRM or sequencer.
