Sales · Find & Prepare
Every business in the category, in the city, built fresh.
Name a category and a location. Doe builds the list, finds the owner or manager, verifies the contact, and refreshes it monthly, including the just-opened businesses that have no website yet and are not in any database.
Works acrossDoeWeb ResearchGoogle Sheets
What you get.
Doe builds local business lists by category and geography, finds the owner or manager, verifies the contact, de-duplicates, and refreshes monthly for new openings and closures. It reads sources beyond the usual databases, so it can surface freshly opened businesses that have no website yet, the ones every competitor's stale export misses.
The list you bought was dead on arrival.
You buy a list of dental practices in three metros. A quarter of them have closed. Another quarter got the exact same export and have already been called by ten competitors this month. The few good ones, the practice that opened last month and is actively looking for vendors, are not on the list at all, because they do not have a website yet and no database has caught up to them.
Building it yourself means hours in maps and directories, copying business names, hunting for an owner's email, checking whether the place still exists, and then doing it all again next month because local businesses open, move, and close constantly. It is exactly the kind of repetitive, never-finished work that quietly eats an agency's margin.
What changes.
- 01FreshnessBefore · A static export, stale the day you buy itWith Doe · Rebuilt monthly with new openings marked
- 02New businessesBefore · Missing until databases catch upWith Doe · Found early, including those with no website yet
- 03Who you reachBefore · A generic info@ lineWith Doe · The owner or manager, verified
- 04EffortBefore · Hours in maps and directories, every monthWith Doe · A standing job that refreshes itself
From a category and a city to a verified local list
- 01Discovers businesses by category and locationWeb ResearchDoe gathered businesses from maps, directories, and local sources, including newly opened ones with no website that databases have not indexed yet
- 02Qualifies and de-duplicates the raw setDoeThe Judge removed closed, duplicate, and out-of-area entries and kept the businesses that match your category and size criteria
- 03Enriches firmographics and finds the owner or managerDoeDoe added the detail you need to prioritize and identified the decision-maker rather than a generic info line
- 04Verifies the contact for each businessDoeDoe waterfalled to a verified email and, where available, a phone number, flagging the ones it could not confirm
- 05Writes the finished list to a shared sheetGoogle SheetsDoe exported businesses, owner contacts, location, and verification status, with new-since-last-run rows marked
- 06RecurringMonthlyLocal markets churn constantly. Doe rebuilds the list each month, marks businesses that opened since the last run, drops the ones that closed, and surfaces the new openings first so you reach them before the competition's database even knows they exist. Refreshed list in Google Sheets, new openings to Slack.
Start with the right source material.
- 01Add your library and toolsAdd or select the source files Doe should use, then connect the tools this task needs. No API keys, no engineering.
- 02Describe what you need“Build me a monthly list of dental practices in Austin, Dallas, and Houston. Find the practice owner or office manager, verify their email and phone, drop anything that has closed, and flag practices that opened in the last 60 days. Put it in a sheet.”
- 03It runs on scheduleRuns monthly. A fresh, de-duplicated local list with verified owner contacts lands in your sheet.
Before you delegate.
- 01Where does the local business data come from?Doe reads public sources the way a researcher would: map listings, directories, local registries, and business websites. Because it is reasoning over live sources rather than querying one frozen database, it can surface businesses that just opened and have little or no online footprint yet, which is usually where the freshest opportunities are.
- 02How does Doe find businesses that have no website?It cross-references map and directory listings, local registrations, and other public traces that exist before a website does. For those, Doe surfaces the business and whatever contact path it can confirm, and clearly marks where a verified email was not available so you know which ones need a call instead.
- 03How is this different from a Google Maps scraper?A scraper hands you raw map results, duplicates, closed listings, and generic contact lines included. Doe qualifies and de-duplicates the set, finds the actual owner or manager, verifies the contact, drops businesses that have closed, and refreshes on a schedule. You get a list you can work, not a dump you have to clean.
- 04How accurate are the owner contacts?Contacts run through the same verification waterfall as the rest of Doe's lists, and anything it cannot confirm is flagged rather than guessed. For small businesses where a personal email is not findable, Doe is explicit about it so you can prioritize a call instead of sending into a void.
- 05Can I scope this to a tight radius or a specific niche?Yes. You can define the geography as broadly or as narrowly as you like, down to specific neighborhoods or postal codes, and constrain by category, size, or other attributes. Agencies often run one standing job per client territory.