Find, score, and email local business leads automatically

The system finds local businesses, scores how good a fit they are, and sends them a personalized cold email.

How the work actually flows

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

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

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Starts itA stepRuns once per itemOne path onlyResultPayoff
Build size
Advanced

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

Business functions
Lead Generation & ProspectingEmail AutomationSpreadsheet & Database Ops
Connects
Google SheetsGmailOpenAIDecodo

The problem it solves

Building a list of local business leads, checking whether they even have a website, and writing a personalized outreach email to each one takes hours you'd rather spend closing deals. Doing this by hand for a large batch of prospects just isn't realistic.

Who it fits

Agencies, freelancers, and B2B sales teams doing outbound local business prospecting.

How it works

  1. On a schedule, the system searches Google Maps for businesses matching your target niche and city
  2. It saves each lead's name, address, phone, website, and rating to Google Sheets
  3. For leads with a website, AI reads the site and scores the business, noting pain points and a contact email
  4. Qualified leads above your score threshold get a personalized outreach email written by AI
  5. Gmail sends the email and marks the lead as contacted in your sheet
What you get

Outreach emails sent to matched local businesses

You get a steady list of local businesses matched to your niche, scored, and reached with a tailored email.

What you get

A Google Sheet of scored local leads and personalized cold emails sent to the qualified ones.

What you need

A Decodo account, an OpenAI API key, a Google account, and Gmail.

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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