1. You need something called a technographics tool to find companies that use a specific enterprise technology. Bloomberry comes to mind. Here’s the data they have on new ChatGPT customers: https://bloomberry.com/data/chatgpt/ . They track companies not individuals so you wont get contact info unfortunately.

Other options if you need contact data also include: Apollo.io and Zoominfo.

2. You can search job postings for companies that mention “chatgpt” and “training”/“provisioning” or something like that captures companies that just started using ChatGPT.

Not a perfect method and u probably need to go through a lot of false positives, but its doable IMO.

3. Go hang out in the official OpenAI community https://community.openai.com/ and you will likely find people asking questions on how to get started, etc. Not sure how u could cross link them to the company (maybe googling if their name is unique)

4. Find some Slack community for ChatGpT beginners. Not sure of any on the top of my head.

Thanks! Those are helpful!

For number one, any idea the best person to contact in those companies? They probably dont got a head of AI person so wondering if a VP of Engineering is the next logical person.

Also I haven’t thought of forums/communities! Any idea whether I am more likely to find small companies or big enterprises there?

I am actually not sure about the first.

For the 2nd, based on my experience you are likely to find developers from both big and small companies equally hanging out in communities. Most lean technical btw, so if you arent targeting developers, communities probably arent the best venue to find potential users.

I also forgot to add: finding followers of OpenAI in Linkedin might also be a good way to find ChatGpT customers. Or people who comment on their product announcemnts in Linkedin.

Would followers or commenters usually be recent customers though? Because that really is my target audience: users who just decided to purchase and use ChatGPT.

They probably wouldn’t be recent customers, that’s true. I would say if we were talking 4-5 years ago, followers/commenters would be a high signal they just started using ChatGPT; but it seems most of them are just bots now.