Getting started
Your first lead search
3 min readfirst-search
Run a Google Maps search in 2 minutes.
Your first search should take 2-5 minutes and produce 10+ verified leads with AI-written cold emails.
Step by step
- Click New Search in the sidebar
- Pick Google Maps as the source (easiest for a first run)
- Enter a keyword your ideal customers search for —
dentist,plumber,marketing agency - Pick a country from the searchable dropdown (we have 250+)
- Pick a city (optional — leave blank to search the whole country)
- Click Start scraping
What happens next
The job runs in the background (you can close the tab). Under the hood:
- We scrape Google Maps for the top 20+ matching businesses
- For each business we fetch the website, find the decision-maker email, and verify it
- If no verified email is found, we crawl the website for a general contact address
- We run Perplexity live research on the company
- The AI writer creates a personalised icebreaker and cold email for every lead
- Each lead gets saved to your workspace at /leads
You see live logs on the job detail page while it runs.
Check the result
Once the job finishes, open /leads → click any row → you'll see the full lead detail with:
- Business info, website, phone, decision maker name and role
- 2–4 specific facts the AI extracted about the company
- AI insight explaining how they operate
- Personalised icebreaker (1–2 sentences)
- Ready-to-send cold email (subject + body)
Copy the email, paste it into your outreach tool, and hit send. Or connect a mailbox and send directly from FlowMaticX.