Facilities Finder is built on AI-powered semantic search. Type what you are looking for in plain English — our AI extracts intent and ranks all 600,000+ facilities by match quality, not by keyword.
This is the fastest way to prospect. No filter combinations to build, no industry classifications to memorize.
At the top of Facility Search you will see a natural-language input:
"Food-processing plants within 150 miles of Columbus with 200+ employees"
"Injection molders making medical-grade parts in Texas"
"Tier 2 automotive suppliers in Michigan doing metal stamping"
Our AI parses your query into structured signals — geography, industry, products, facility size, certifications — and ranks the full 600,000+ facility dataset against it. Results are sorted by semantic match, not keyword overlap.
Two AI systems work together:
AI Enrichment. Before you ever run a search, our AI has ingested billions of public signals — satellite imagery, map providers, company websites, EPA filings, permit records, and trade publications — and extracted a structured profile per facility. That includes facility-level products made (7 million+ indexed), waste profile, estimated employee count, facility type, and parent-company rollup.
AI Classifications. Instead of relying on 6-digit NAICS codes alone, we have generated 35,000+ AI-derived industry classifications at the facility level. That is why a search for "makers of medical-grade plastic components" returns the right plants even if none of them list themselves under a single NAICS code.
Semantic search and hard filters combine. Common workflow:
Every filter you add tightens the ranking. The semantic match quality does not reset.
Keep queries concrete. The more specific the signal (product, process, size, location), the better the ranking.
AI Search is the right starting point for most prospecting work. Reach for hard filters when:
Hard filters live in the sidebar and combine seamlessly with AI Search — not a separate mode.
AI Search surfaces every facility owned by the parent you name. One query on a parent like Greif returns all 118 US facilities across 30 states — not just HQ. No other database at this scale does this.
To do this manually in a competitor tool you would have to identify every subsidiary, every DBA, and every historic acquisition, then union the result sets. We do it in one query.
Too many results: Add a hard filter (territory, employee minimum, specific certification) to narrow.
Too few results: Loosen the geographic constraint, or restate the product/process in broader terms.
Results look off: Our AI handles natural phrasing but is strongest on product + geography + size signals. If the query is ambiguous, try leading with the concrete product ("injection-molded medical parts" rather than "plastics shops I could sell to").