Search Upgrade: Working Industry & Employee Filters, Faster Phrase Search

Two search upgrades are live for all customers. No integration changes required.

Industry and employee count filters now return real results

POST /v1/companies/search entity filters (industries, employee_count_min, employee_count_max) previously matched against sparse vendor metadata and frequently returned zero results. Filtering is now backed by our firmographic database of 11M+ companies.

• industries=["Software Development"] returns actual software companies, ranked by most recent signal activity.
• Company objects in filtered results are enriched with industries, employee_count_low/high, name, linkedin_url, and description where our firmographic data has them.
• Filtered searches now cover a 60-day signal window (previously limited to 14 days).

Notes on matching: industry matching is currently substring-based ("software" matches all software-related industries). A canonical list of accepted industry values is coming soon. Industry coverage expands significantly with our next firmographic data refresh; employee count coverage is already 90%+.

Multi-word keyword searches are significantly faster

Phrase terms in content_filters.keywords (e.g. "sales intelligence") previously required strict word adjacency, which caused slow queries and timeouts on broad phrases. Multi-word terms now match posts containing all words in any position.

• p95 latency on real phrase queries dropped from ~4.2s to ~1.8s in our replay testing.
• Results are a superset of previous behavior — searches that worked before return at least the same results.
• Single-word terms and exact-match filters (tech_mentioned, competitors_mentioned) are unchanged.

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