{"id":695,"date":"2026-03-06T14:24:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.predictleads.com\/?p=695"},"modified":"2026-10-13T08:41:57","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T08:41:57","slug":"technographic-data","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/predictleads.com\/blog\/technographic-data\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Technographic Data? Definition, Sources, and Uses (October 2026)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p style=\"font-size:14px;color:#5b3d70;margin:0 0 18px;\">By Robert Fon \/ Updated October 13, 2026<\/p>\n\n<p>Technographic data is a structured record of the technologies a company uses or has recently used, built from public evidence such as website code, DNS records, and job descriptions. Most teams read a tech-stack list as a statement about today, but every entry is a piece of evidence with a source and a date, and reading it that way decides how far you can trust it. This guide covers what technographic data is and is not, how it is collected, what a single record contains, how B2B teams use it, how to judge its quality, and how to get it.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"background:#f3ecf8;border-left:4px solid #76508e;border-radius:10px;padding:16px 20px;margin:20px 0;color:#3a2f4d;\">\n<p style=\"margin:0 0 8px;\"><strong>TLDR:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"margin:0;padding-left:20px;\">\n<li>Technographic data provides evidence of which technologies a company uses or has recently used, from CRMs and analytics tags to cloud hosting and data warehouses.<\/li>\n<li>It answers one question, which tools are in place, so pair it with firmographic, intent, and contact data to decide who to target and when.<\/li>\n<li>Website code reveals marketing and analytics tools; job descriptions and DNS records surface internal systems that never appear on a public page.<\/li>\n<li>A missing detection means a technology is no longer detected, not that it was removed: script changes, recrawl gaps, and signature changes all cause gaps.<\/li>\n<li>PredictLeads tracks 2,003,496,359 active technology detections across 73,189 live technologies, within a company database of 133,531,593 companies in 208 countries, and each detection carries a source and first and last seen dates.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>What Is Technographic Data?<\/h2>\n\n<p>Technographic data is company-level information about the software, infrastructure, and services an organization uses, collected from evidence the company leaves in public. The term follows the pattern of demographics and firmographics: firmographics describe what a company is (industry, headcount, revenue, location), while technographics describe the tools that shape how it works.<\/p>\n\n<p>A technographic profile usually spans categories like these:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Sales and marketing:<\/strong> CRMs, marketing automation, ad pixels, and chat widgets.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Analytics and data:<\/strong> web analytics, product analytics, and cloud data warehouses.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Infrastructure:<\/strong> cloud hosting, content delivery networks (CDNs), and email hosting.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ecommerce and content:<\/strong> storefront platforms, payment tools, and content management systems.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Engineering:<\/strong> frameworks, DevOps tooling, and CI\/CD pipelines, which often surface only through hiring.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Security and IT:<\/strong> identity providers, email security, and device management tools.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>Many teams group these into three layers: front-end tools visible on the website (analytics, marketing, and content management), infrastructure (cloud hosting, databases, and containers), and developer tools (frameworks, DevOps, and CI\/CD), which are the hardest layer to observe from outside.<\/p>\n\n<p>Treat technographic data as evidence, not inventory. A record says a technology was observed at a company, through a specific source, between two dates. It does not certify that a tool is in active use today, which is why the source and the timestamps matter as much as the technology name.<\/p>\n\n<p>PredictLeads organizes 73,189 live technologies into 302 categories, so you can filter Technology Detections by a category such as CRM or data warehouse instead of guessing at tool names.<\/p>\n\n<h2>What Technographic Data Is Not<\/h2>\n\n<p>Technographic data answers one question, which tools are in place, and it misleads when you ask it to answer others.<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Not a contact list:<\/strong> it describes companies, not people, so it does not tell you who owns a tool.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Not firmographics:<\/strong> a Snowflake detection cannot tell you whether the account has 50 employees or 5,000.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Not intent:<\/strong> a company that uses a competitor&#8217;s CRM is not necessarily shopping for a new one.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Not proof of deployment:<\/strong> a job description that names a tool may reflect current usage, planned adoption, a migration, client work, or a hiring requirement.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<h3>Technographic vs. Firmographic, Intent, and Contact Data<\/h3>\n\n<p>Each data type answers a different question, and the strongest account signals combine two or more.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"overflow-x:auto;margin:20px 0;\">\n<table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px;color:#3a2f4d;\">\n<caption style=\"caption-side:top;text-align:left;font-weight:700;color:#5b3d70;padding:0 0 8px;\">Four company data types and the question each answers<\/caption>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"background:#76508e;color:#ffffff;text-align:left;padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #76508e;\">Data type<\/th>\n<th style=\"background:#76508e;color:#ffffff;text-align:left;padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #76508e;\">Question it answers<\/th>\n<th style=\"background:#76508e;color:#ffffff;text-align:left;padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #76508e;\">Example signal<\/th>\n<th style=\"background:#76508e;color:#ffffff;text-align:left;padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #76508e;\">What it cannot tell you alone<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background:#efe4f6;\">\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\"><strong>Technographic<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Which tools does the company use?<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">A marketing automation tool detected on the website and named in two job descriptions<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Whether the company is evaluating alternatives<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\"><strong>Firmographic<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">What kind of company is it?<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">500 employees, software industry, US headquarters<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Which tools its teams work in every day<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#f3ecf8;\">\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\"><strong>Intent<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">What is the company researching?<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Rising research activity on CRM comparison topics<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Which system the research would replace<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\"><strong>Contact<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Who works there?<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Name and title of a RevOps leader<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">What that person&#8217;s team uses or plans to buy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>A competitor&#8217;s CRM plus active research on CRM alternatives is a reason to call this week; either signal alone is weaker. For a full side-by-side of the two most common company data types, read our guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/predictleads.com\/blog\/technographic-data-vs-firmographic-data\/\">technographic data vs. firmographic data<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<h2>How Technographic Data Is Collected<\/h2>\n\n<p>Technographic data is collected by matching known technology signatures against public evidence: website code, network records, and the text of job descriptions. Each source sees part of a company&#8217;s stack, so coverage depends on how many sources a provider combines. Company announcements, technical blog posts, and surveys can fill gaps, but they are harder to structure at scale and age quickly.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"overflow-x:auto;margin:20px 0;\">\n<table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px;color:#3a2f4d;\">\n<caption style=\"caption-side:top;text-align:left;font-weight:700;color:#5b3d70;padding:0 0 8px;\">Five technographic evidence sources: what each can reveal and where it goes blind<\/caption>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"background:#76508e;color:#ffffff;text-align:left;padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #76508e;\">Source<\/th>\n<th style=\"background:#76508e;color:#ffffff;text-align:left;padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #76508e;\">What it can reveal<\/th>\n<th style=\"background:#76508e;color:#ffffff;text-align:left;padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #76508e;\">Blind spot<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background:#ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\"><strong>Script tags and page code (HTML, JavaScript, CSS, HTTP headers)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Analytics, ad pixels, chat widgets, content management systems, and ecommerce platforms<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Internal systems that never load on a public page<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#f3ecf8;\">\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\"><strong>Cookies<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Marketing, consent, and personalization tools<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Tools that set no cookie on the public site<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\"><strong>DNS records (TXT, MX, NS, CNAME, SOA)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Email hosting and sending services, domain verification for SaaS tools, and CDNs<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Tools that need no DNS change<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#f3ecf8;\">\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\"><strong>IP ranges<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Cloud hosting and network providers<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Application-level software<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#efe4f6;\">\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\"><strong>Job descriptions<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">CRMs, data warehouses, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, and developer tools named as required skills<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Whether a tool is in current use, planned, or only a hiring requirement<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>For a source-by-source breakdown with strengths and failure modes, see <a href=\"https:\/\/predictleads.com\/blog\/technographic-data-collection-methods\/\">how technographic data is collected<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Behind-the-Firewall Evidence From Job Descriptions<\/h3>\n\n<p>Systems like Salesforce, Snowflake, and NetSuite rarely leave a script tag on a public website, so website-only scanning misses many of the tools sales teams care about most. A job posting that asks for hands-on Snowflake experience is public evidence of that system. Treat it as a signal that may indicate current usage, planned adoption, or a hiring requirement, and give repeated mentions across several postings more weight than a single one.<\/p>\n\n<p>PredictLeads flags this evidence with the <code>behind_firewall<\/code> field and classifies the hiring department with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onetonline.org\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">O*NET occupation codes<\/a> from the U.S. Department of Labor, stored in <code>department_onet_codes<\/code>. Read more on how <a href=\"https:\/\/predictleads.com\/blog\/job-openings-data-technographics\/\">job openings data improves technographic coverage<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<h2>What a Technographic Record Contains<\/h2>\n\n<p>A technographic record ties one technology to one company, with the evidence and dates behind the match. These are the fields that carry the meaning:<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Technology and category:<\/strong> the tool&#8217;s name and its place in a category taxonomy, so you can search by function.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Company match:<\/strong> the domain where the evidence was found, which joins detections to CRM and enrichment records.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Source and source type:<\/strong> where the evidence came from, such as a subpage URL, a job opening URL, or a DNS record, and what kind of evidence it was, such as a script source, a cookie, or a keyword in a job description.<\/li>\n<li><strong>First seen and last seen:<\/strong> when the evidence first appeared and when it was most recently observed.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Source count:<\/strong> how many independent sources agree, a practical proxy for confidence.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Firewall flag:<\/strong> whether the evidence came from website code or from outside it.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pricing context:<\/strong> pricing data for the technology itself (minimum and maximum USD, average spend, and billing interval), which adds spend context to prioritization.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<figure style=\"margin:20px 0;\">\n<svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 720 350\" width=\"100%\" role=\"img\" aria-labelledby=\"pl-record-title pl-record-desc\" style=\"max-width:720px;height:auto;display:block;\">\n<title id=\"pl-record-title\">Five evidence sources feed one technographic record<\/title>\n<desc id=\"pl-record-desc\">Diagram showing script tags and page code, cookies, DNS records, IP ranges, and job descriptions feeding a single PredictLeads Technology Detection record with fields for technology and category, company domain, source, first_seen_at and last_seen_at, source_count, and behind_firewall.<\/desc>\n<defs>\n<marker id=\"pl-arrow\" viewBox=\"0 0 10 10\" refX=\"9\" refY=\"5\" markerWidth=\"7\" markerHeight=\"7\" orient=\"auto\"><path d=\"M0,0 L10,5 L0,10 z\" 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A detection first seen a few weeks ago can mark a recent adoption, which is useful timing for an integration or onboarding offer. A detection whose <code>last_seen_at<\/code> has stopped advancing deserves a closer look, but call the technology no longer detected, not removed: a script change, a recrawl gap, or a signature change can each cause the gap.<\/p>\n\n<p>When a direct competitor is newly detected at the same company and job postings shift toward it, that is stronger supporting evidence of a possible transition, though still not confirmation. Every PredictLeads detection carries both dates, with history back to 2018. If history depth matters to your use case, see <a href=\"https:\/\/predictleads.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/21\/how-to-choose-a-historical-data-provider\/\">how to choose a historical data provider<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<h2>How B2B Teams Use Technographic Data<\/h2>\n\n<p>Technographic data earns its place when it changes which accounts you work and what you say to them.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Sales: Displacement, Integrations, and Prioritization<\/h3>\n\n<p>Sales teams run three main plays: competitor displacement (accounts where a rival product is detected), integration targeting (accounts that use a platform your product connects to), and prioritization by stack fit, so reps spend time where the product fits the systems already in place.<\/p>\n\n<p>Timing comes from stacking signals. A competitor&#8217;s marketing automation tool detected for two years, three new marketing operations roles, and a recent funding round together give you a reason and a moment to reach out. See <a href=\"https:\/\/predictleads.com\/blog\/technographic-data-sales-prospecting\/\">technographic data for sales prospecting<\/a> for list-building steps.<\/p>\n\n<p>For outreach to switching accounts, use the <a href=\"https:\/\/predictleads.com\/blog\/technographic-data-b2b-competitor-displacement\/\">competitor displacement playbook<\/a>. PredictLeads grades 51,140 technology switch events by importance (9,322 high, 30,855 medium, and 10,963 low), built on 115,412 competitor pairs across 24,636 technologies.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Marketing and Customer Success: Segments and Retention<\/h3>\n\n<p>Marketing teams build account-based segments around the tools an account uses, then match ads, landing pages, and email copy to that stack: a page for accounts on one CRM speaks to that CRM&#8217;s integration, not a generic one. Our guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/predictleads.com\/blog\/account-based-marketing-technographic-data\/\">account-based marketing with technographic data<\/a> covers segment design. Marketing teams also use the same signals to cut paid spend on poor-fit accounts; see <a href=\"https:\/\/predictleads.com\/blog\/how-marketing-teams-can-use-technology-data-to-spend-less-and-convert-more\/\">how marketing teams use technographic data to spend less and convert more<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>Customer success teams use the same data defensively. A competing product newly detected at a customer account ahead of renewal is a prompt for a check-in, not evidence of a confirmed departure.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Market Research, Product Strategy, and Investment Analysis<\/h3>\n\n<p>Analysts, product teams, and investors read technographic data in aggregate. Adoption counts by category show which tools are gaining ground in a sector, and product teams use the same counts to decide which integrations to build next. Competitive analysts compare rival companies&#8217; stacks to see how they build and sell, a method covered in our guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/predictleads.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/08\/how-to-do-modern-competitor-research-using-digital-signals\/\">modern competitor research using digital signals<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>For investors, the stack a startup builds on can indicate how mature its engineering function is. For category-level patterns, see <a href=\"https:\/\/predictleads.com\/blog\/technographics-dataset\/\">what 2B+ company tech stack detections reveal<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<h2>How to Judge Technographic Data Quality<\/h2>\n\n<p>Judge technographic data on four dimensions, because a large technology count says little about whether a given record is right.<\/p>\n\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Coverage:<\/strong> how many companies and technologies the dataset spans, and how many of your own CRM domains it matches.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Freshness:<\/strong> how recently each record was observed, visible through a last seen date rather than a blanket &#8220;updated daily&#8221; claim.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Source depth:<\/strong> how many independent sources feed detections, and whether internal systems can appear at all.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Detection transparency:<\/strong> whether each record shows which sources confirmed it, so you can check a detection against an account you know.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n<p>Test any dataset on 50 accounts you know well before you scale it. Ask how pricing changes between a pilot and full production volume, since per-record costs at scale decide whether a dataset fits your budget. Ask, too, whether it contains personal information, which shapes GDPR reviews and <a href=\"https:\/\/oag.ca.gov\/privacy\/ccpa\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CCPA obligations<\/a>. For error sources and how to measure them, read our guide to <a href=\"https:\/\/predictleads.com\/blog\/technographic-data-accuracy\/\">technographic data accuracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<h2>How to Get Technographic Data<\/h2>\n\n<p>You can get technographic data three ways: buy it from a dedicated data provider, use it inside a broader sales intelligence tool, or build detection in-house. The right route depends on where the data needs to live.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"overflow-x:auto;margin:20px 0;\">\n<table style=\"width:100%;border-collapse:collapse;font-size:15px;color:#3a2f4d;\">\n<caption style=\"caption-side:top;text-align:left;font-weight:700;color:#5b3d70;padding:0 0 8px;\">Three ways to get technographic data<\/caption>\n<thead>\n<tr>\n<th style=\"background:#76508e;color:#ffffff;text-align:left;padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #76508e;\">Route<\/th>\n<th style=\"background:#76508e;color:#ffffff;text-align:left;padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #76508e;\">Good when<\/th>\n<th style=\"background:#76508e;color:#ffffff;text-align:left;padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #76508e;\">Trade-off<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background:#efe4f6;\">\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\"><strong>Dedicated data provider<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Detections need to flow into your CRM, warehouse, product, or AI agent<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">You own the integration and the match to your records<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#ffffff;\">\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\"><strong>Sales intelligence tool<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Reps need stack filters inside a prospecting interface they already use<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">Export options and source detail vary by tool<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"background:#f3ecf8;\">\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\"><strong>In-house detection<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">You track a short list of technologies on a known set of domains<\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:10px 12px;border:1px solid #ece0f5;vertical-align:top;\">You maintain crawlers, signatures, and recrawls as tools change their code<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n\n<p>To compare dedicated providers, start with our roundup of <a href=\"https:\/\/predictleads.com\/blog\/technographic-data-providers\/\">technographic data providers<\/a>, and use our guide on <a href=\"https:\/\/predictleads.com\/blog\/how-to-choose-a-technographic-data-provider\/\">how to choose a technographic data provider<\/a> as a trial checklist.<\/p>\n\n<h2>How PredictLeads Delivers Technographic Data<\/h2>\n\n<p>PredictLeads is a B2B company intelligence and technographic data provider. Its <a href=\"https:\/\/predictleads.com\/technologies\">Technology Detections dataset<\/a> is the data layer that CRMs, enrichment tools, and AI agents read from, not a prospecting app.<\/p>\n\n<div role=\"group\" aria-label=\"PredictLeads Technology Detections by the numbers, October 2026\" style=\"display:flex;flex-wrap:wrap;gap:12px;background:#f3ecf8;border-radius:14px;padding:16px;margin:20px 0 6px;\">\n<div style=\"flex:1 1 210px;background:#ffffff;border:1px solid #ece0f5;border-radius:12px;padding:14px 16px;\">\n<div style=\"font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#76508e;line-height:1.2;\">2,003,496,359<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size:14px;color:#3a2f4d;margin-top:4px;\">active technology detections<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"flex:1 1 210px;background:#ffffff;border:1px solid #ece0f5;border-radius:12px;padding:14px 16px;\">\n<div style=\"font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#76508e;line-height:1.2;\">73,189<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size:14px;color:#3a2f4d;margin-top:4px;\">live technologies (254,367 ever cataloged)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"flex:1 1 210px;background:#ffffff;border:1px solid #ece0f5;border-radius:12px;padding:14px 16px;\">\n<div style=\"font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#76508e;line-height:1.2;\">133,531,593<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size:14px;color:#3a2f4d;margin-top:4px;\">companies tracked<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"flex:1 1 210px;background:#ffffff;border:1px solid #ece0f5;border-radius:12px;padding:14px 16px;\">\n<div style=\"font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#76508e;line-height:1.2;\">208<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size:14px;color:#3a2f4d;margin-top:4px;\">countries covered<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"flex:1 1 210px;background:#ffffff;border:1px solid #ece0f5;border-radius:12px;padding:14px 16px;\">\n<div style=\"font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#76508e;line-height:1.2;\">302<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size:14px;color:#3a2f4d;margin-top:4px;\">technology categories<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"flex:1 1 210px;background:#ffffff;border:1px solid #ece0f5;border-radius:12px;padding:14px 16px;\">\n<div style=\"font-size:24px;font-weight:800;color:#76508e;line-height:1.2;\">51,140<\/div>\n<div style=\"font-size:14px;color:#3a2f4d;margin-top:4px;\">graded technology switch events<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size:13px;color:#5b3d70;margin:0 0 18px;\">PredictLeads Technology Detections by the numbers, October 2026.<\/p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Five-source detection:<\/strong> script tags, DNS records, IP ranges, cookies, and job descriptions, with a <code>behind_firewall<\/code> flag on evidence from outside website code.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Source transparency:<\/strong> every detection links to its evidence (a subpage URL, job opening URL, or DNS record) with <code>source_count<\/code>, <code>first_seen_at<\/code>, and <code>last_seen_at<\/code>. Extended Technology Detections add <code>detection_source<\/code> and <code>detection_source_type<\/code>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Competitive context:<\/strong> <code>competitive_technology_detections<\/code> draws on 115,412 competitor pairs, so one detection points to its direct rivals.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Company signals on the same record:<\/strong> Job Openings (279.2M+ records since 2018), News Events, Financing Events, and Connections add timing to a stack change.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Delivery:<\/strong> API, flat files, webhooks, and Model Context Protocol (MCP). The docs show how to <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.predictleads.com\/api_endpoints\/technology_detections_dataset\/retrieve_technologies_used_by_specific_company\">retrieve technologies used by a specific company<\/a> and how to <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.predictleads.com\/api_endpoints\/technology_detections_dataset\/retrieve_companies_using_specific_technology_id_or_fuzzy_name\">find companies using a specific technology<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>PredictLeads collects publicly available information only, keeps personal data out of its company intelligence datasets, and is <a href=\"https:\/\/predictleads.com\/security\">SOC 2 Type II certified<\/a> and GDPR and CCPA compliant. Customers include Clay, Common Room, FactSet, and Instantly.<\/p>\n\n<h2>Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n\n<h3>What is technographic data and why does it matter for B2B?<\/h3>\n\n<p>Technographic data is a record of the technologies a company uses or has recently used, such as its CRM, analytics tools, cloud provider, and data warehouse, built from public evidence like website code, DNS records, and job descriptions. It matters for B2B because an account&#8217;s tools decide whether your product fits, which integration to lead with, and where a competitor already sits. Each record should carry a source and dates so you can judge how current it is. PredictLeads tracks 73,189 live technologies in 302 categories, with 2,003,496,359 active detections.<\/p>\n\n<h3>What is an example of technographic data?<\/h3>\n\n<p>Picture one company: its website loads a marketing automation script, its DNS records verify an email security service, and two of its job descriptions ask for Snowflake experience. Each piece of evidence becomes a detection tied to the company domain, with first seen and last seen dates. In PredictLeads, the Snowflake detection would carry a <code>behind_firewall<\/code> value of true, because the evidence came from job descriptions rather than website code.<\/p>\n\n<h3>How accurate is technographic data in 2026?<\/h3>\n\n<p>Accuracy depends on how many independent sources confirm a detection and how recently it was observed, more than on any provider-wide claim. Website-observed tools are usually straightforward to confirm, while internal systems need evidence from outside the website, such as job descriptions. PredictLeads exposes the original source, <code>source_count<\/code>, and <code>last_seen_at<\/code> on every detection so you can verify records yourself.<\/p>\n\n<h3>Can technographic data be combined with other data types?<\/h3>\n\n<p>Yes, and it works best that way, because each data type answers a different question. Firmographic data confirms an account fits your ICP, contact data tells you who to reach, and intent or event data suggests when. A competitor detection plus new hiring in the team that uses the tool is a stronger reason to reach out than either signal alone. PredictLeads joins Technology Detections with Job Openings, News Events, Financing Events, and Connections on the same company domain.<\/p>\n\n<h3>How often should technographic data be refreshed?<\/h3>\n\n<p>Refresh at the pace stacks change in your market, and judge freshness record by record through the last seen date. PredictLeads crawls high-traffic websites multiple times daily, refreshes job openings about every 36 hours, and can push new detections for followed companies by webhook. Filter on <code>last_seen_at<\/code>, for example detections observed in the last 90 days, to keep lists current.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"background:#f3ecf8;border:1px solid #ece0f5;border-radius:14px;padding:24px;margin:28px 0;color:#3a2f4d;\">\n<h2 style=\"margin-top:0;\">Ready to see this in your own data?<\/h2>\n<p>Get 100 free API requests when you create an account &#8211; no credit card, no sales call.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom:0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/predictleads.com\/sign_up?utm_source=blog&amp;utm_medium=cta&amp;utm_campaign=technographic-data\" style=\"display:inline-block;background:#76508e;color:#ffffff;padding:12px 22px;border-radius:8px;font-weight:700;text-decoration:none;\">Create your free account<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\">\n{\n  \"@context\": \"https:\/\/schema.org\",\n  \"@type\": \"BlogPosting\",\n  \"headline\": \"What Is Technographic Data? 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