I run a visa agency in Bali, and the other half of my week goes into Apify Actors. One of them reads public LinkedIn company pages and returns firmographics as a flat row: website, industry, size band, employees on LinkedIn, followers, headquarters with street address, company type, founded year, specialties, every office, similar pages, affiliated pages.

The input is a LinkedIn company URL. The problem is that nobody's lead list contains LinkedIn company URLs. Lead lists contain brand names — a conference attendee sheet, a column pasted out of a CRM, the output of some other scraper. So the first thing everyone does, including me, is build the URL by hand:

slug = brand . lower (). replace ( " " , "" ) url = f " https://www.linkedin.com/company/ { slug } "

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On 27 October 2026 I ran that guess against 38 well-known brands and looked at what came back.…