Turn years of old emails into an organized sales lead list

Scans your entire Gmail archive with AI to pull out qualified leads and log them in a spreadsheet.

How the work actually flows

It branches. Exactly one path is taken; runs once per each email found by search.

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

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An outside serviceRuns once per itemA personOne path onlyResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

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

Business functions
Email AutomationSpreadsheet & Database Ops
Connects
GmailGoogle SheetsOpenAI

The problem it solves

Years of old emails likely contain real business inquiries you never followed up on, but digging through your archive by hand is not realistic. That buried opportunity just sits there, unused, while you chase new leads instead.

Who it fits

Freelancers and small business owners with a large, unsorted Gmail archive.

How it works

  1. The system searches your full Gmail archive using targeted queries for inquiries and quotes
  2. AI reads each email to judge whether it is a real business lead or just noise
  3. It pulls out the name, company, email, and phone number from qualified leads
  4. Each lead is logged in a Google Sheet, and the email is labeled so it is not processed twice
What you get

Old inquiries finally turned into a working lead list

Your entire Gmail archive gets scanned and turned into an organized spreadsheet of qualified sales leads.

What you get

A structured Google Sheet of qualified leads pulled from your email history, ready for outreach.

What you need

A Gmail account, a Google Sheets 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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