Find local business leads and send them personalized cold emails

Scrapes business contact details by industry and location, then sends AI-written cold emails automatically.

How the work actually flows

A straight line. Runs once per each scraped business lead.

Pattern: Sequence (1) ยท Multiple Instances with a priori Design-Time Knowledge (13)

flowchart TD trig(("user submits lead request form")):::human s0["scrape matching businesses"]:::svc s1[["find contact email"]]:::mi s2[("save valid leads to sheet")]:::store s3["write personalized email"]:::task s4["send email and log result"]:::svc trig --> s0 s0 -->|"one per each scraped business lead"| s1 s1 --> s2 s2 --> s3 s3 --> s4 out[/"leads collected and emails sent"/]:::out pay{{"outbound campaign without manual research"}}:::pay s4 --> 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 sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

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

Business functions
Lead Generation & ProspectingEmail AutomationSpreadsheet & Database OpsSurvey & Feedback
Connects
ApifyGoogle GeminiGoogle SheetsOpenAIGmail

The problem it solves

Building a list of leads by industry and location, finding real contact emails, and writing personalized outreach all takes hours before you've sent a single message. Most of that time is just repetitive research and data entry.

Who it fits

A digital marketing agency or sales team that runs outbound cold email campaigns by industry and location.

How it works

  1. You submit a business type, location, and desired lead count through a form
  2. Apify scrapes matching businesses, pulling name, website, phone, and address
  3. Google Gemini finds the best contact email from each business website
  4. Valid leads are saved to Google Sheets
  5. OpenAI writes a personalized cold email in your chosen tone, and Gmail sends it, updating the sheet with the result
What you get

Personalized outreach sent to fresh local leads

You get a list of local businesses with verified contacts, each one reached with a personalized email written specifically for them.

What you get

A spreadsheet of qualified leads and a batch of personalized cold emails sent on your behalf.

What you need

An Apify account, a Google AI API key, a Google Sheets account, an OpenAI API key, and a Gmail 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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