What if you knew the day a company adopted Shopify — 48 hours after it happened, not three weeks later? Forelight reads every SSL certificate issued on the internet in real time (public by law under RFC 6962) and delivers deterministic infrastructure signals before your competitors see them.
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| Score | Signal type | Company | Detail | Detected |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100 | domain_velocity | Meridian Health meridianhealth.com |
4 new domains in 7 days — acquisition or rebrand | 18 min ago |
| 95 | geographic_expansion | Stackline Inc stackline.de |
Country-code domain — entering German market | 1h ago |
| 80 | fresh_domain | Launchify launchify.io |
Domain registered 6 days before first cert — new company | 2h ago |
| 75 | saas_adoption_detected | Boutique Brands Co boutiquebrandsco.com |
Adopted Shopify — retail, 51–200 employees | 3h ago |
| 75 | saas_adoption_detected | NovaTech Solutions novatech.io |
Adopted HubSpot — technology, 11–50 employees | 4h ago |
| 60 | wildcard_cert_issued | GrowthStack *.api.growthstack.com |
Wildcard cert — dynamic subdomain build-out | 6h ago |
Representative sample · Each row is one API call result · Scores include recency boost
Every signal is timestamped to the minute, enriched with company data, and scored 1–100 — not a probability estimate, a deterministic event with a buying-signal weight.
A company registered 3+ new domains in 7 days — acquisition prep, major product launch, or rebrand. Highest-conviction signal.
A company registered a country-code domain (.de, .fr, .uk, .au, 60+ markets) — entering a new geographic market.
Domain registered ≤30 days before first cert — brand new company launching infrastructure. No vendor relationships yet. First mover wins.
*.company.com — building out dynamic subdomain infrastructure. Strong signal for multi-tenant SaaS, customer portals, or new product lines.
A company just connected Shopify, HubSpot, Salesforce, Vercel, or 40+ other platforms. Detected from cert patterns at adoption time.
5+ new subdomains in 24 hours — leading indicator of hiring, product launches, or regional rollouts.
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.
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). Classified into seven signal types and scored 1–100 by buying-signal strength.
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 |
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