Turn a Telegram message into a list of business leads

Text a search request and the system finds matching businesses, researches them, and saves leads with contact emails 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 Design-Time Knowledge (13)

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Starts itAn outside serviceRuns once per itemA record or sheetResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

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

Business functions
Messaging & NotificationsSpreadsheet & Database Ops
Connects
TelegramGoogle SheetsOpenAI

The problem it solves

Building a list of local business leads means searching Google Maps one at a time, then hunting each website for a contact email. That kind of manual research can eat an entire afternoon, and by the time you're done, half of it needs updating again.

Who it fits

Sales reps and agencies who need targeted local business leads without paying for a lead database subscription.

How it works

  1. Triggers when you text a search request to your chat bot
  2. Searches for matching businesses in that area
  3. AI writes a short summary of each company
  4. Finds a contact email from the business website when available
  5. Saves every lead with its details to a spreadsheet
What you get

Local leads found with emails attached

You get a list of matching local businesses researched and saved with contact emails ready for outreach.

What you get

A spreadsheet of local business leads with company summaries and contact emails where available.

What you need

A Telegram bot, a business data scraping service, an AI service, and a Google Sheets 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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