Building a ZoomInfo Alternative with Qwen and MLX: Local Buyer Intent Detection
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ZoomInfo charges $300+ per user per month for intent data — buying signals that tell sales teams which companies are actively in-market. It is the platform's number one feature and the reason enterprises pay six figures annually for access. But the underlying technology — classifying company content into intent categories — is a text classification problem. One that a 3-billion-parameter open-source model can solve on a single laptop.