Companies Search: Singapore and any country

Companies Search is the Companies tab of Discover (Discover is under Prospecting in the sidebar). At the top you choose where to look. "Singapore register" is a free, read-only directory of the companies in Singapore's ACRA registry, about 2 million entities; it uses no credits and searches as you change the filters. "All companies" is companies in any country, Malaysia, Indonesia and beyond, Singapore included. Up to 5 credits per page of 50, at 0.1 per company shown. Counting matches is free, and a page you opened in the last 7 days is free. Anything that comes back empty is refunded, and the price is on the Search button before you press it. All companies needs the People Search permission as well, because it spends credits; without it the option is greyed out and the page says why.

On the Singapore register, the search box above the results finds companies by name: type a name or part of it, for example "kopi trading", and every company whose name has every word you typed, in any order, is listed with the other filters still applied (each word needs 2 letters or more, and the count stays free). It is the same filter as the Name chip.

On the Singapore register it shows live (registered) companies by default; open the Status filter and pick another status, or "Any status", to see struck-off or dissolved companies. Filter by company name, industry, status and "New or hiring", and under More by entity type, incorporation date (from and to), postcode area and shared registered offices, or by words in the activity the company registered (as you type, it offers the activity descriptions the register holds, most companies first). Industry uses the same groups as People, matched on the activity code each company registered, so it is close to, but not the same as, the industry people give their employer in People. "New or hiring" offers "Newly incorporated" (companies registered in the last 7 to 90 days, newest first, counted back from the date of the register copy, and the line above the results says to which date) and "Posted a role" (the top 500 companies by roles posted in the last days you pick, for example 14 or 30; postings an agency placed for a client are left out). Industry is part of that ranking, so with an industry picked you get the top 500 in that industry, not the industry's share of the top 500 overall. The page says it is the top 500, and every other filter shown, status, incorporation date, postcode area and activity words included, applies within them. If no company in the industries you picked posted a role in that time, the page says so and suggests a longer period or a wider industry. Posted a role works with industry, but not with company size: the register holds no headcount. A Posted a role company has a "Find decision makers" button: it opens the People tab with the company, Singapore and the senior people of the team that is hiring filled in, at the usual People Search price, with the free count first. "Posted a role", and the Growth filter on All companies, belong to the Hiring & Growth signal pack: they are offered only when a workspace Super Admin has that pack switched on in Admin, Settings.

On All companies, filter by name, country (none picked is Singapore), city or state, industry and size, and under More by company type (with a one-click "Leave out one-person businesses"), estimated revenue, headcount growth over 6, 12 or 24 months (one tap on "Headcount grew 10%+ in 12 months" sets the most used choice, and it works with industry and size), and words the company's profile mentions. Growth figures exist for only some companies, about 1 in 7 in Singapore at every size, so a growth search leaves out the companies we have no figure for, and the filter says so once it is set. A country on its own is counted for free but is too broad to page through, so Search waits for one more filter. Each company shows its website, its main phone line where it lists one, its industry, size, where it is based, and when known the year it was founded, its type, revenue and growth.

On both, a company you already have in your CRM shows "In CRM" and links to it; one matched only by its name shows "Likely in CRM". Each company has a People button under its name: hover over it and it shows how many people work there, free, and press it, or the company's name, for the company's panel, "People at" and its name (see "Finding new prospects with People Search"). A register company's panel also has "Save to company list".

Postcode area takes one or more postal sectors, each the first 2 or 3 digits of a Singapore postal code (for example 05, 058, 079 or 189), up to 10 in one search: type a sector and press Enter, a comma or a space to add it, or paste a list such as 058, 059, 079, 189, and press the x on a sector to remove it. It matches the postcode at the end of the company's registered address, and a company in any of the sectors counts: 07 finds addresses with a 07xxxx postcode, 058 finds 058xxx ones, and 79 finds only 79xxxx ones, so 058, 059, 079 and 189 together give one count and one list for all four. The count of companies is free and updates as you add or remove a sector. Very old registrations that still carry a 4-digit postcode from before 1995 match no area.

Shared offices, under More, hides shared registered offices: tick "Hide shared registered offices". An address counts as a shared registered office when 1,500 or more live companies are registered there, or 500 or more with at least half of them set up since 1 Jan 2023. Most are a company secretary, a virtual office or a registered-office provider, so staff may not work there. A company with a real office at such an address is hidden too. With postal sectors picked it hides the shared registered offices inside them, and with none it hides every one. A line above the results says how many companies it hid and at which postcodes (for example 079903), and the free count leaves them out. With the filter off, a company at such an address shows a "Shared registered office" badge: hover over it or tap it to see how many live companies are registered there. Posted a role follows the filter too. The list of shared addresses is worked out from the register copy Companies Search holds.

The line under the results reads "Register data as of" and a date. That is the date of the newest registration in the registry copy Companies Search holds, so a company registered or changed after that date may be missing, or may still show its earlier status or address.

Tick the companies you want: "Find people at N companies" takes up to 20 of them to the People tab at once (one company goes by its LinkedIn page when we know it, so the People count matches its row; several go by their names, so the count can differ from each row's), and "Save to company list" saves them to a company list, a new one or one you already have, on the Singapore register and on All companies alike (the Company lists button, beside "Singapore register" and "All companies", opens your lists). Saving ticked companies is free: an All companies row was paid for when it was shown. Your ticks stay as you move between pages of the same search. The Companies tab follows the "Companies Search" permission in Team, then Permissions, which spends nothing: members without it do not see the tab. A Signals or Watchlists card can open it with a company's name already filled in, which also needs that permission.

Select all saves a whole register search to a company list in one go, not only the 50 on the page. Search live companies (for example several postal sectors at once, such as 14, 09, 05, with Hide shared registered offices on), tick the box at the top of the results, and a line offers "Select all 3,182 results". Up to 25,000 companies are saved at once. A bigger search, up to 100,000 companies (what one list holds), is saved in the background, 25,000 at a time: the line says "Saved in the background, 25,000 at a time", the save says "Saving in the background" with Open list, and the list shows how far it got, with Stop and Continue. Each part starts exactly where the last one stopped, so no company is skipped or saved twice, and Continue after a Stop picks up at the same place. It waits while the register refreshes, 1 am to 5 am Singapore time. Over 100,000 the line says so and asks you to narrow the search first (turn on Hide shared registered offices, use fewer postal sectors, or add an industry). It works on live companies only and not with Posted a role, and it waits while the free count is still counting. Untick any company and you are back to the ticks on that page; any new search clears the selection. Then press Save to company list, pick a list or keep the new list's name built from your filters, and press Save. The answer stays on screen: how many were added, how many were already in the list, and, if the register changed since the count, how many matched at the time of saving. Undo removes exactly the companies that save added, and Open list opens the list. Select all is on the Hunter plan and above and uses no credits; on Free and Scout the button shows a Hunter tag and explains the upgrade, and you can still tick companies and save them. Find people takes up to 20 companies at once, so with Select all, or more than 20 ticked, save them to a company list and use Find people in this list.

On All companies, once a search has a free count, "Save all 3,783 to a company list" saves every company it matches, not only the page, in the background, at 0.1 credit a company, the same as a search page. The save says what it can cost before you press Save, and it never reads or charges past the number of companies and the cost it showed you. Credits are held for 500 companies at a time and settled to the companies read, the rest coming back, and if your credits (or your daily limit) run out it stops cleanly, keeps what it saved, and Continue picks up at the same page once you top up. It is on the Hunter plan and above and needs People Search; on Free and Scout the button shows a Hunter tag and explains the upgrade.

A company list opens on its own page with an address you can bookmark or send to a teammate: it shows how many companies it holds, who made it and when, 50 companies at a time with Prev and Next, a search box that finds companies in the list by name, and each company's postcode (or country, for a company from All companies) and industry. A company list holds up to 100,000 companies. Company lists also open from the Company lists button on the Companies page, the same lists and the same page; a list's companies stay in the list and are not added to your CRM's companies.

Find people in this list, at the top of a list's page, runs one People search across every company in the list. Add job titles as chips (type one and press Enter or a comma, then add another), pick seniority, function and where they work if you like, and press Count people. A title that names a function widens to the whole function at every level: "hr", "human resources", "people", "talent", "hiring", "recruitment" or "payroll" all search every HR title, including payroll, talent acquisition and management, recruitment, learning and development (L&D), compensation and benefits (C&B), HR business partners and the CHRO, from executive and officer through manager and director to head. Finance, sales, marketing, IT, operations, admin and legal widen the same way. The chip shows what it widened to, for example "HR +23"; open it to see the titles, or press "Search only" to search exactly what you typed. "Manager" also finds Mgr, General Manager and GM, "VP" finds Vice President, and "CEO" finds Chief Executive Officer. A full title such as "HR Manager" is searched as typed. Seniority is optional: with nothing ticked any level counts, and ticking one (for example C-Suite) narrows it further. One search takes up to 40 titles, so if your chips widen past that the box says so: set a chip to search only itself, or remove one. People Search takes up to 20 companies a search, so the list is searched 20 companies at a time in the background (a list of 3,423 companies is 172 searches), with all your job titles in each search, so more titles never mean more searches; counting is free, and a company whose name is too short to search by (it would match many other companies) is left out and counted. A card on the list shows how far it got, with Stop, and Continue picks up where it stopped. When it finishes the card says how many people it found. For a list of up to 20 companies, searched in one go, that is the number found, for example "7 people found". For a bigger list it reads "Up to", for example "Up to 312 people found", because the searches of 20 are added up and one person (a director of two listed companies, say) can be counted in both; it also reads "Up to" when a filter you picked is checked on each person after the search. Adding them may bring fewer. The Add all button shows the most adding them can cost, for example "Add up to 312 · at most 624 credits", or "Add all 7 · up to 14 credits". When few people are found, the card says how many companies have nobody listed online for the search, for example "At least 30 of the 50 companies have nobody listed online for this search": people are matched by their employer's name, 20 companies at a time, and small companies often have nobody listed, so a list of larger companies usually finds more. "See who they are" shows the people found before you add anyone, one search of up to 20 companies at a time with Prev and Next: name, job title, company and location, and whether we hold an email, never the email or phone itself until you add them. Counting is free, but showing people is a People Search page: 0.1 credit per person shown, at most 5 credits a page, said before anything is shown and confirmed first, and opening the same companies again within 7 days is free. Tick the people you want (or "Tick everyone shown"), pick where they go, and press Add: it is People Search's own add, 1.9 credits for each person added with an email rather than 2, because you already paid 0.1 for their row here, and nothing for anyone without one. Add all opens the same Add all window as People Search, with that count: it pulls those people into Contacts, and a list if you pick one, in the background, across the same groups of 20 companies, and you pay only for the people it adds (see "Adding everything that matches your search"). Anyone you already saw with "See who they are" in the 7 days before is not charged for their row again by Add all either: they cost 1.9 credits if they come with an email, and nothing if they come without one or are already in your CRM, so seeing someone first never costs more than Add all alone. The List ready notice says how many of them there were. Find people in this list is on the Hunter plan and above and needs People Search; Add all also needs the "Add all to list" permission. On Free and Scout the button shows a Hunter tag and explains the upgrade.

Download CSV saves the list as a spreadsheet with each company's name, registration number (UEN), registered address, postcode, industry code and description, status, incorporation date, "Contacts assigned to": the team members its contacts are assigned to (not the company owner), when your CRM already has the company (members without View All Contacts see only themselves), and its country and website. A company from All companies has no UEN, so that cell is empty. Download CSV needs the Export Contacts permission and the Hunter plan or above (on Free and Scout the button shows a Hunter tag and explains the upgrade), and every download is recorded in the activity log. A big list downloads in parts of 5,000 companies that join into one file.

A workspace set up with a personal email address can search the Singapore register, but not All companies or Find people, until its business is verified (see "Verifying your business").