Lead gen, sales and client acquisition

@promptedbyaadil

Build your own local-business lead scraper with Codex (Google Maps, then website email and a personalised first-line fact, then email verification) instead of buying leads from Apollo.

3k plays · 28 Sep 2026

What they said

Promise: free leads that produced results in 30 days of cold email (dashboard in the first 4 s; small text, appears to show about 14,756 total contacted, 70% finished, about 3.1% reply, about 457 replies, 35% positive; low confidence reading).
Instead of Apollo, he made his own scraper "entirely using Codex".
What the scraper does, in order:
1. Goes to Google Maps and scrapes leads for a chosen niche and chosen locations.
2. Visits each business website and finds the email.
3. Finds an interesting fact about the business, used as the personalised first line of the email (he said in a previous video that a personalised observation is required in the email copy).
4. Sends the emails to an email verifier (must be purchased).
5. Outputs a sheet of verified emails plus a personalised observation for each.
Benefits: targets local businesses; avoids paying Apollo or other sources whose leads are "getting railed by cold emails daily"; leads are free, you only pay a tiny amount to verify emails.
Closing: "Learn how to use AI to your advantage. Learn how to build these things."
Offer: comment "scraper" and he sends access to the scraper for free.

Try this

Agencies and freelancers: Build a small lead pipeline for local businesses. The steps: pull businesses for a niche and city from Google Maps, find the email on each website, write one personal observation per business as the first line, then run every address through an email verifier.
Agencies and freelancers: Count the real cost. "Free" leaves out Google Places API fees, proxies, verification fees and sending infrastructure.
Cold emailers: Check the rules first. Scraping Maps may break Google's terms, and cold email to scraped lists is regulated, for example under CAN-SPAM, GDPR and UK PECR. Warm up your sending domains.
Brands: Use the same method for retailer, stockist or press outreach, with a first line drawn from each site.
Careful readers: Treat the shown reply rates as unexplained. Reply rate depends on your offer, list size and deliverability.
Creators: "I built X with an AI agent, comment the word for it" is an easy format. Show your result in the first four seconds.

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