Turn a search term and location into a list of business leads

You enter what you're looking for and where, and it finds matching businesses and saves them to a spreadsheet.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each business found.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances with a priori Run-Time Knowledge (14)

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Build size
Standard

A mid-size build with several tools working together.

Business functions
Spreadsheet & Database OpsWeb Scraping & Data CollectionSurvey & Feedback
Connects
ApifyGoogle SheetsGoogle Maps

The problem it solves

Building a list of local businesses to contact usually means searching maps by hand, opening each result, and copying the name, phone number, and address into a spreadsheet one at a time. It is tedious work that eats up time you could spend actually reaching out.

Who it fits

Sales teams and agencies building targeted lists of local businesses to contact.

How it works

  1. You submit a search term and location through a simple form
  2. It queries Google Maps for matching businesses
  3. It collects the company name, address, phone number, website, and review count
  4. It cleans up the phone numbers, emails, and website formatting
  5. It appends each lead as a new row in Google Sheets
What you get

Leads you have ready before you start calling

You enter a search term and location and get a spreadsheet full of matching businesses with contact details ready to use.

What you get

A Google Sheet full of cleaned, ready-to-use business leads.

What you need

An Apify account and a Google Sheets account with the target sheet set up.

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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