It sounds like the original contributor is satisfied with the filtering options available in the Companies views. Our team would like to build lists of companies (or saved filtered views) with logic such as:
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All companies with lifecycle of Subscriber
AND all companies of any lifecycle with lead status of unqualified
This list is important to our sales leadership to be able to see which companies have been “passed” from the sales team back to marketing. The logic available in marketing lists solves the issue at the contact level. At the company level we’re stuck building multiple saved filtered views, none of which shows the complete Marketing Universe or Sales Universe as our sales team refers to them.