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The Inc List: Fastest-Growing Companies as a Target List

America's fastest-growing companies organized into a filterable, seat-gated target account browser built for a client's sales team, where reps work the list inside the app instead of exporting it.

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Years of Inc. 5000 honorees, browsable · seat-based team access · no bulk export by design
⚡ A research archive turned into a working tool

The problem

The Inc. 5000 is a public honor roll of exactly the companies growth-focused sellers want to reach, but as published it is a list to read, not a tool to work.

What Claude Code did

Claude turned a multi-year Inc. 5000 archive into a working browser: filters, per-company detail, and seat-based access for a client team. Two deliberate guardrails shape it: contacts are never bulk-exportable, and refreshing the underlying data never wipes what users have added on top of it.

The result

A client team now works the fastest-growing-companies universe inside one app, with their own notes and progress preserved across data updates.

Under the hood

ClaudeNode.js + SQLiteSeat-based auth

FAQ

Why no bulk export?

By design. The value is working the list with judgment, and exports are how curated data leaks and goes stale. The app is the workspace.

What happens when new list years come out?

The archive updates underneath while user-added data stays untouched. Re-imports never wipe the team's work.

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