Every SSL certificate issued on the internet is public by law (RFC 6962). Forelight reads them all — in real time — and delivers structured sales signals the moment a company launches new infrastructure.
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{
"signal_type": "saas_adoption_detected",
"domain": "store.acmecorp.com.myshopify.com",
"apex_domain": "acmecorp.com",
"detected_at": "2026-06-28T09:14:02Z",
"saas_vendor": "Shopify",
"company_name": "Acme Corp",
"company_industry": "retail",
"hosting_provider": "Shopify",
"signal_id": "a3f1c2e0-..."
}Every signal is timestamped to the minute and enriched with company data — not a probability score, a deterministic event.
A company just registered a new top-level domain — greenfield opportunity or competitive displacement play.
A company is standing up new subdomains — product launches, regional rollouts, new services.
A company just connected Shopify, HubSpot, Salesforce, Vercel, or 40+ other platforms. Detected from cert patterns.
Multiple new subdomains in 24 hours — a strong leading indicator of hiring, product launches, or geographic expansion.
Forelight delivers via REST API and webhooks — pipe it into Clay, HubSpot, Salesforce, or your own stack.
Add a net-new, differentiated signal type to your data offering. Forelight is a wholesale feed your customers don't have anywhere else.
Trigger outreach the day a prospect launches new infrastructure — before competitors know. "New Shopify store" is a buying window, not a cold call.
Real-time certificate events for your domain namespace — catch shadow IT, unauthorized certs, and lookalike domains within minutes.
Monitor competitors' subdomains as they appear — regional rollouts, new products, and staging environments visible before launch.
Infrastructure expansion is a 20–30 day leading indicator of hiring. Reach the hiring manager before the job is posted.
Track portfolio companies and sourcing targets by infrastructure activity — traction without waiting for press releases.
Forelight runs its own Certificate Transparency log follower — no scraping, no polling, no lag.
Every publicly trusted CA must log certificates under RFC 6962. Forelight reads those logs continuously — every cert issued anywhere on the internet appears within minutes.
Raw cert metadata → domain extraction → DNS/ASN/hosting enrichment → SaaS vendor detection → firmographic data (company name, industry, size). Then classified into one of four signal types.
Pull on demand with filters (industry, SaaS vendor, hosting provider, since timestamp) or push to your endpoint via webhook. Clay-ready flat JSON — no nested objects.
Existing intent data is lagged, probabilistic, and largely the same Bombora co-op resold many times. Forelight is different by design.
| Property | Forelight | 3rd-party intent (Bombora/6sense) | Technographics (BuiltWith) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Signal lag | Minutes | 24–48 hours | Days to weeks (crawl schedule) |
| Deterministic | Yes — cert either issued or not | No — probability score | No — inferred from crawl |
| Event-level | Yes — timestamped to the minute | Company-level only | Install state, not adoption event |
| Data source | Public by law (RFC 6962) | Shared co-op (same feed, many vendors) | Web crawl |
| SaaS adoption detection | Real-time, at adoption | Not available | Stale installs |
Start free. Scale when you have signal volume worth paying for.
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