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Notes from the field.

What we learn building an LLM-friendly business-data API: pipelines, agent design, the boring infra, the legal edges.

A startup data API returning company profiles, funding rounds, and growth signals as structured JSON records.
API Guides

What Is a Startup Data API? Fields + Use Cases

What a startup data API is, the fields it returns (funding rounds, investors, firmographics), how it differs from a business data API, and how to choose one in 2026.

Jul 10, 202610 min read
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A Google Places search for local businesses turning into clean, deduped JSON records with emails and 20+ structured fields.
API Guides

Google Places Scraper: Extract Business Data (2026)

Want to scrape Google Places? Compare DIY scrapers, the Places API, and a JSON business-data API that returns emails and 20+ fields. Start free.

Jul 3, 202616 min read
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A website page source transforming into a clean, deduped list of business contact emails.
API Guides

How to Extract Emails From Any Website (2026 Guide)

Extract emails from any website: manual methods, regex, Python scripts, plus how to pull deduped on-domain contact emails at scale from a city search.

Jun 13, 202615 min read
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A Make.com scenario connecting an API request, polling loop, iterator, and a lead spreadsheet.
Automation

Make.com Lead Generation Workflow for Local Leads

Build a Make.com scenario that finds local businesses, polls the job, splits results, and writes verified leads to Google Sheets or your CRM. Full build.

Jun 12, 202615 min read
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A Zapier Zap with webhook, delay, poll, and filter steps feeding local business leads into a sheet.
Automation

Zapier Lead Generation Workflow for Local Leads

Build a Zapier Zap that finds local businesses and emails, then writes them to Sheets or HubSpot. Honest about Zapier polling limits, with the full setup.

Jun 11, 202614 min read
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An MCP-style tool definition handing live, structured local business leads to an AI agent loop.
AI Agents

MCP Server for Business Data: The Build Guide

How to give an AI agent live local business data over MCP: a runnable recipe that wraps an OpenAPI 3.1 spec as a tool, plus what biz collect ships and what it does not.

Jun 10, 202614 min read
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A clean technical dashboard showing local business leads flowing from a city map into structured JSON.
API Guides

Google Maps Scraper Alternative That Returns JSON

Tired of brittle Google Maps scrapers that break? Get local business leads as clean JSON from one API built for automation and AI agents. See the workflow, start free.

May 25, 202615 min read
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An AI agent workspace with tool calls, business contact records, and structured lead data.
AI Agents

How to Build an AI Lead Generation Agent (2026)

Build an AI lead gen agent in Claude, ChatGPT, or Codex that finds local businesses, verifies contacts, and writes CRM records. Tool schemas and code.

May 24, 202616 min read
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A no-code automation canvas connecting an API request, polling loop, lead rows, and a spreadsheet.
Automation

n8n Lead Generation Workflow (Step-by-Step, 2026)

Build an n8n workflow that finds local businesses, polls the job, filters contacts, and sends verified leads to Google Sheets or your CRM. Full step-by-step build.

May 23, 202615 min read
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Three technical paths for local business data compared side by side: official API, scraper, and structured business data API.
Comparison

Google Places API vs Scrapers: Which Gets Emails (2026)

Google Places API, Google Maps scrapers, or a business data API? Which one actually returns business emails, what each costs, and what Google terms allow.

May 22, 202616 min read
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