Find the companies others miss.
Describe the companies. Canonical returns structured, evidence-backed shortlists, in the app or through the API.
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How it works
Search once. Use it anywhere.
Plain-English query in. Structured, evidence-backed companies out.
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01 Input
“Vertical SaaS in Germany with 100–500 employees”
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02 Engine
Industry, geography, size, funding stage, signals.
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03 Output
Ranked companies plus source-backed evidence.
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From prompt to criteria you can inspect
Canonical translates a natural-language search into structured criteria before results are generated.
Your query
Fast-growing vertical SaaS companies in Germany with 100–500 employees
Interpreted criteria
Examples
Explore real company searches
Preview public searches built from natural-language criteria. See the top results, review the filters, and duplicate a search when you want to go deeper.
Dev tools
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SaaS
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SaaS
Companies offering marketing automation platforms for B2B SaaS with 20-100 employees
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Series C to growth companies offering marketing automation platforms for B2B SaaS
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Creator economy
Companies building creator economy tools for monetization and analytics for mid-market teams
ViewBenchmark
They search the same web.
We find different companies.
Same query across Canonical, Exa, and Parallel. Canonical surfaced 48 companies the others missed.
50 companies found by Canonical.
The broadest shortlist from the same query.
48 only found by Canonical.
Long-tail companies missing from the other result sets.
Canonical returned the broadest shortlist from the same query.
The benchmark pooled 96 companies across all platforms. Canonical surfaced 50 of them, more than either alternative.
Almost zero overlap.
Only 3 companies appeared on more than one platform. Canonical surfaced 48 companies no other platform returned.
| Canonical | Exa | Parallel | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canonical | 48 | 2 | 0 |
| Exa | 2 | 28 | 1 |
| Parallel | 0 | 1 | 17 |
Diagonal shows companies only found by that platform. Off-diagonal cells show pair overlap.
More results, less waiting.
Canonical returned a broader evidence-backed shortlist in under 10 seconds, while alternatives took minutes to return fewer results.
Different indexes, different companies.
A sample of what each platform surfaced for the same query.
Niche companies purpose-built for the query.
- 01 Schematic
- 02 Togai
- 03 Andra Labs
- 04 Flowglad
- 05 Kickplan
- 06 Stykite
- 07 Amberflo
- 08 RevenueCat
- 09 DevCycle
+ 41 more
Mid-tier developer tools with strong web presence.
- 01 Ably
- 02 Replit
- 03 Cursor
- 04 Weights & Biases
- 05 Contentful
- 06 n8n
- 07 Tabnine
- 08 AssemblyAI
- 09 Chargebee
+ 22 more
Large, well-known companies many developers could name from memory.
- 01 AWS
- 02 Microsoft Azure
- 03 Google Cloud Platform
- 04 Stripe
- 05 Twilio
- 06 OpenAI
- 07 Docker
- 08 Sentry
- 09 Vercel
+ 9 more
Workflow
From question to shortlist
Describe the companies
Write the search the way you’d describe it to a colleague.
Review interpreted criteria
Industry, geography, size, funding. Edit anything before it runs.
Get a structured shortlist
A scannable table with match-state cells per criterion.
Inspect evidence
Reasoning, citations, and confidence behind every match.
Team
Built by the team behind Synaptic.
The market-mapping platform investors and research teams use to discover companies.
- Years of company-discovery research baked in.
- Built on Synaptic’s long-tail data infrastructure.
- Used by investment, research, and revenue teams.
Integrations
Available everywhere your team builds.
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Find the companies others miss.
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