What is Census?
Census provides a comprehensive data activation platform that enables organizations to unify, enhance, and activate their data across various business applications. The platform offers powerful Dataset capabilities for cleansing and preparing data, creating comprehensive views for activation. Advanced AI columns bring artificial intelligence to data workflows, enabling audience segmentation, intent scoring, data enrichment, and churn prevention using popular LLM models like OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini.
The platform features Audience Hub for building dynamic audience segments without code and Reverse ETL technology for syncing enhanced data to over 200 destinations including CRM systems, marketing automation platforms, ERP solutions, and advertising platforms. Real-time data synchronization ensures AI-driven segmentation always leverages the freshest data while maintaining full observability and governance throughout the process.
Features
- AI Columns: Enrich and enhance data using OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, or other LLM models for audience segmentation and intent scoring
- Reverse ETL: Sync data from warehouses to over 200 SaaS destinations including CRM, marketing automation, and ad platforms
- Audience Hub: Build dynamic audience segments without code or CSV files using no-code segmentation tools
- Datasets: Define trusted data for collaborative transformation with comprehensive data preparation capabilities
- Observability: Monitor, troubleshoot, and create alerts for data pipelines with full visibility into sync operations
Use Cases
- Personalizing marketing messages to large user bases with faster audience experimentation
- Prioritizing customer support tickets using real-time data in help desk systems
- Scoring leads and classifying records automatically using AI-powered columns
- Building comprehensive Customer 360 views for sales prioritization and conversation management
- Preventing customer churn with health scores and proactive alerts based on data insights
- Activating first-party data for unique retail brand journeys and personalized experiences
- Syncing product analytics to various teams for product-led growth strategies
FAQs
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What is a Free Destination in Census?
Free destinations include Airtable, Google Sheets, Slack, Salesforce Sandbox, and Microsoft Teams. These destinations don't count toward billable destinations for users on professional plans, though they're still subject to plan limits like sync intervals. -
What is a Billable Destination?
Billable destinations are all destinations not included in the free destinations list. Enterprise connectors like Oracle, Anaplan, Workday, NetSuite, Shopify, and Salesforce Commerce Cloud are only available with Enterprise plans. -
What happens if I want to sync to an unsupported destination?
Census adds new integrations weekly. Users can contact support to request prioritization of unsupported destinations or use the Custom API to build integrations themselves. -
What is considered an Active Sync?
Active syncs are those that have run at least once in the past 28 days. Deleted syncs remain considered active for 28 days after their last run. -
What does the free trial include?
Census offers a 14-day no-commitment trial with access to all destinations and features. After the trial period, accounts convert to the Free plan automatically.
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