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Honest take on "AI-built" lead lists, from someone who builds them with a heavily automated pipeline —
The automation is great at the boring 80% — finding the companies, pulling careers pages, structuring rows. It is NOT trustworthy on the last 20% — is this email actually published on their site? Is this person still there? Is this role still open?
That last 20% is where a list becomes usable or becomes spam. So every row gets a human QA pass and a source link before it ships. If a provider can't tell you where each row came from, ask why.
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Created an AI-powered lead generation and outreach tool for finding and converting local business leads.
The system scrapes Google Maps, analyzes business websites with Gemini AI, and generates personalized pitch emails automatically.
I built the complete pipeline from scraping to AI analysis and outreach.
Tech: Node.js, Puppeteer, Gemini AI, Express, Next.js
🎥 Project demo: Reel attached below.
good job
Hi everyone!
A lead fills out a form on your website. What happens in the next 5 minutes
decides whether they become a customer — or forget you exist.
THE PROBLEM
Leads sit in a mailbox or a spreadsheet until someone notices them. By then,
78% of buyers have already contacted a competitor.
THE SOLUTION
Lead Machine — an n8n pipeline that handles every inbound lead automatically,
from form submission to follow-up email in about 30 seconds, 24/7:
webhook → validation → duplicate check → Google Sheets → welcome email
→ Telegram alert to the manager → automatic follow-up in 24h
Every step is plain n8n nodes: no AI keys, no token fees, no monthly SaaS.
Validation rules, email texts, follow-up delay — all editable in the n8n UI.
It runs on YOUR infrastructure: credentials stay with you.
LIVE DEMO — send a test lead and watch the pipeline:
https://dvc-shared.dvc-ai.workers.dev/t/leadmachine-demo
Full case study on my profile.
Amazing
Every new AI chat used to start the same way.
I explained the business again.
Clients. Prices. Decisions.
What it could do without asking me.
So I put the business in a folder of plain text files the assistant can read.
Memory. Clients. Decisions. Invoices. Daily log.
And the rules for what it is not allowed to do.
I run Kratos Labs (my company) out of that folder.
The public template is Operator OS.
I installed it twice for other people.
One of them, @Atashka (left a review on my profile) used to spend around 6 hours/week pulling briefs, notes and feedback into project requirements.
Now it's about 1 hour.
He says that's roughly 20 hours back each month.
I don't start the morning by explaining the company again.
The folder already has it.
If this is something that you want for yourself - send me a message.
