Find local businesses and extract owner contact info automatically

Searches Google Maps for local businesses and pulls decision-maker names, emails, and phone numbers into Airtable.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Exactly one path is taken; runs once per each business found.

Pattern: Exclusive Choice (4) · Multiple Instances with a priori Design-Time Knowledge (13)

flowchart TD trig(("target cities and search term set")):::human s0[["search maps for businesses"]]:::mi s1["check if business already saved"]:::task s2["extract contact from website"]:::svc s3[("save contact to airtable")]:::store trig --> s0 s0 --> s1 s2 --> s3 gx{"× business already saved"}:::gate s1 --> gx p00["skip business"]:::task gx -->|"already saved"| p00 p10["find contact and save"]:::task gx -->|"new business"| p10 p00 --> s2 p10 --> s2 out[/"growing database of verified local contacts"/]:::out pay{{"hours saved on manual prospecting"}}:::pay s3 --> out out --> pay classDef task fill:#e7f6fe,stroke:#34b8f0,color:#2c2a29 classDef svc fill:#f6f8fa,stroke:#7c8795,color:#2c2a29 classDef mi fill:#e7f6fe,stroke:#0079a8,color:#2c2a29,stroke-width:2px classDef human fill:#fff,stroke:#0079a8,color:#0079a8 classDef store fill:#f6f8fa,stroke:#0079a8,color:#2c2a29 classDef trig fill:#00a4eb,stroke:#0079a8,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef trigtime fill:#00a4eb,stroke:#0079a8,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef trigdata fill:#8ad4f5,stroke:#0079a8,color:#06314c,font-weight:bold classDef gate fill:#fff,stroke:#e8a23d,color:#6b4708,font-weight:bold classDef out fill:#1f9d6b,stroke:#167a53,color:#fff,font-weight:bold classDef pay fill:#06314c,stroke:#021f33,color:#fff
A stepAn outside serviceRuns once per itemA personA record or sheetOne path onlyResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

A larger build with multiple systems, AI reasoning, and custom rules.

Business functions
SEO & Search OptimizationSpreadsheet & Database OpsWeb Scraping & Data Collection
Connects
Google MapsAirtableOpenAI

The problem it solves

Building a list of local prospects means searching city by city, visiting each website to find a contact, and copying it all into a spreadsheet by hand. It's slow work, and you often end up with outdated or missing contact details.

Who it fits

A sales, marketing, or agency team building lead lists by location and industry.

How it works

  1. A list of target cities and a search term kick off the search
  2. Google Maps is searched for matching businesses in each city, skipping ones already saved
  3. The business website's contact page is located and read
  4. AI extracts the decision-maker's name, email, and phone number
  5. The enriched contact record is saved to Airtable
What you get

Decision-maker contacts you don't dig up yourself

You get a growing list of local businesses in your target cities with the owner's name, email, and phone number already found.

What you get

A growing Airtable database of local businesses with verified decision-maker contact details.

What you need

A Google Maps API key, an Airtable account, and an OpenAI API key.

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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