Find and verify new sales leads automatically with AI research

AI finds companies matching your target market, then finds and verifies real contact emails for outreach.

How the work actually flows

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

Pattern: Exclusive Choice (4) · Multiple Instances without Synchronization (12)

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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
AI Chatbots & AssistantsLead Generation & ProspectingSpreadsheet & Database Ops
Connects
Google SheetsHunter.ioOpenRouterPerplexity

The problem it solves

Building a list of leads means researching companies one by one, then hunting down a real email address for each contact. That manual sourcing and verification eats an entire afternoon before you've sent a single outreach message.

Who it fits

A founder, SDR, or growth marketer building an outbound lead list without a research team.

How it works

  1. You describe the industry or type of company you're targeting
  2. AI searches for a list of matching companies and their domains
  3. The system checks your spreadsheet for duplicates and skips them
  4. Each new company is matched against verified contact emails
  5. Enriched leads with valid emails are added to your spreadsheet
What you get

Verified contacts added to your outreach list

You get a growing list of matching companies with verified emails ready to add to your outreach campaigns.

What you get

A spreadsheet of new companies with verified contact emails, ready for outreach.

What you need

A Google Sheets account, a Hunter.io account, and an AI model 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.

Let's Talk Strategy

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