Build a list of local business leads with Google Places

Searches Google Places for businesses by location and industry, then fills your spreadsheet with contact details.

How the work actually flows

It repeats. Repeats moves to next location in list; runs once per each location and industry pair.

Pattern: Structured Loop (21) ยท Multiple Instances without Synchronization (12)

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Starts itA stepAn outside serviceRuns once per itemA record or sheetRepeat or finishResultPayoff
Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
Knowledge Base & RAGSpreadsheet & Database Ops
Connects
Google PlacesGoogle Sheets

The problem it solves

Building a list of local businesses to reach out to means hours of manually searching maps and copying phone numbers, websites, and ratings into a spreadsheet one by one. It's easy to lose track of who you've already looked at and end up wasting time on duplicates.

Who it fits

A sales or business development team building lists of local B2B prospects to contact.

How it works

  1. You list the locations and industries you want to search in a spreadsheet
  2. The system searches for matching businesses in each location
  3. It pulls phone numbers, website links, and ratings for each result
  4. Already-processed locations are skipped automatically
  5. Your spreadsheet fills up with organized, ready-to-use leads
What you get

Local prospects researched and ready to review

You get a spreadsheet full of local businesses matching your target industries, complete with phone numbers, websites, and ratings ready for your team to review.

What you get

A spreadsheet of local business leads complete with phone numbers, websites, and ratings.

What you need

A Google Cloud account with the Places API enabled and a Google Sheets account.

We can build this. But should you?

The hard question is not how to build it. It is whether this is the right thing to build first.

That is what a Fractional Chief AI Officer figures out with you, before anyone writes a line of code.

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