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Re: Show HN: Sumble – knowledge graph for GTM data – query tech stack, key projects

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Great work, and interesting to see Knowledge Graphs in a production setting. Why did you choose a Knowledge Graph as the backend? How is the graph modeled. Do you use existing Graph Query languages, or did you have to create your own?

Thanks! We describe this as a knowledge graph because that's how we think about the structure in the data & is where we want to go.

Right now, we've focused on normalizing several key entities (e.g. organizations including parent/subsidiary relations, technologies, people, and job functions), and capturing the relations between these as well as additional useful metadata like location and industry.

From a backend implementation standpoint, this is currently implemented as structured relational tables for query performance and simplicity (e.g. count up all teams mentioning pytorch in job posts including rolling up across parent subsidiaries and sort by the biggest organizations descending).

Future direction here is TBD as we expand the sources that we cover and types of queries that can be computed across these sources.

There's been a lot of attempts at building high-quality public knowledge graphs that haven't hit escape velocity.

We're focusing on a structured, commercially relevant subset of the problem as a starting point to generate a critical mass of usage and funding that will enable us to build the bigger vision: a highly structured, up-to-date, and trusted repository of all the facts about the world that is easy to browse, query, and integrate programatically into all the relevant workflows (including for grounding LLM's)

Re: Show HN: Sumble – knowledge graph for GTM data – query tech stack, key projects

#32
post #28

Super useful and intuitive product, love the granularity of the tech stack keywords, it does find relevant leads/companies that you couldn't find otherwise.. API could be helpful for enrichment of internal sources. MCP would also definitely make sense as well

Thanks! We're planning to add an API in the next two months, and exploring MCP alongside that

Re: Show HN: Sumble – knowledge graph for GTM data – query tech stack, key projects

#33

Looks like an amazing product. Been playing around with it for a few mins. The UI is quite buggy and jumps around a lot (Chrome, MacOS), and seems to auto-refresh on the organizations page, which makes curating lists impossible. What's a good way to keep providing feedback?

Can email me at a@sumble.com. Great if you can record a loom.

Re: Show HN: Sumble – knowledge graph for GTM data – query tech stack, key projects

#34

I'm sure tools like this are useful to salespeople and recruiters, but it also seems like a dream resource for spammers, scammers and esp. phishing attacks.

i think this is true of most powerful sales tools

Re: Show HN: Sumble – knowledge graph for GTM data – query tech stack, key projects

#36
post #26

Great work, and interesting to see Knowledge Graphs in a production setting. Why did you choose a Knowledge Graph as the backend? How is the graph modeled. Do you use existing Graph Query languages, or did you have to create your own?

Thanks! We describe this as a knowledge graph because that's how we think about the structure in the data & is where we want to go. Right now, we've focused on normalizing several key entities (e.g. organizations including parent/subsidiary relations, technologies, people, and job functions), and capturing the relations between these as well as additional useful metadata like location and industry. From a backend imp…

Appreciate you sharing the vision. Having worked in this space for a while, IMO the biggest challenges for a public facing graph are in 1. Entity Linking from NL Query -> Graph queries or in your case relational queries (Multiple similarly named teams in Microsoft). And 2. Relevance of results for more complex queries. I like your approach of having a drop down of filter tags, which eliminates 1, but will be harder to scale like in a Graph of everything.

Re: Show HN: Sumble – knowledge graph for GTM data – query tech stack, key projects

#37
Is there no way to add custom searches? As a test, I wanted to look for flight test engineers in aerospace companies, but the only way I could see to approximate it was to look at job postings. I was able to drill down by picking a company (Boeing) until I found one, but that's really tedious compared to just adding a custom job function ("flight test engineer") or selecting "Test Engineer" and adding a custom industry ("Aerospace").

Re: Show HN: Sumble – knowledge graph for GTM data – query tech stack, key projects

#38

Looks like an amazing product. Been playing around with it for a few mins. The UI is quite buggy and jumps around a lot (Chrome, MacOS), and seems to auto-refresh on the organizations page, which makes curating lists impossible. What's a good way to keep providing feedback?

The page is also refreshing constantly for me. Chrome & Safari :(.

Re: Show HN: Sumble – knowledge graph for GTM data – query tech stack, key projects

#39

Sumble is one of my go-to data tools for GTM – great data quality and lots of interesting data points that are kind of a pain to find elsewhere. I do find myself wanting to transform the data (especially the stuff in job descriptions) using an LLM, e.g. for scoring companies/contacts or looking for more subtle signals. Sometimes I do this manually but exporting a bunch of JDs from Sumble isn't possible AFAIK. Or doin…

Thanks! Job descriptions are included in job post CSV exports, which is the current only path for that workflow.

We're planning to make that workflow much better in four ways this year:

1. Adding an API to make it easier to consume the data programmatically (next 2 months)

2. Enabling running LLM's on tabular results on Sumble directly that would enable pulling in job description context into the LLM call

3. Experimenting with an MCP endpoint, to see if that's helpful for these workflows as well

4. Experimenting with adding Sumble scoring models

Re: Show HN: Sumble – knowledge graph for GTM data – query tech stack, key projects

#40
How does this tool differ from Apollo.io, Clay.com, and Promptloop?

Tools like Clay and Apollo are often misused for spammy cold outreach—which rarely works. The real value lies in enriching leads who’ve already shown interest, helping align marketing efforts with the right prospects. Beyond that, more data doesn’t always improve GTM decisions.

I'd love to hear(and learn) how others would want to use this tool specifically for GTM.

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