Local platforms & ops

Regional rollout

Seed a new geographic market with the providers that already exist there.

The problem

Why this is hard by hand.

Entering a new region is a cold-start problem. A marketplace needs supply before it has demand; a sales team needs a target list before it can sell. Building yet another scraper for each new city - and then babysitting it - is exactly the work an ops team does not want to own during a launch.

biz collect lets you seed a region from a single search. Point it at the new city, the categories you care about, and a radius, and it returns the existing providers with structured contact data - so you start with real records instead of an empty database.

The workflow

How biz collect solves it.

Pick the launch region and categories
Choose the city (or cities) you are entering and the provider categories that matter - for example, cleaning services and HVAC companies within a given radius.
Search each category slice
POST to /v1/search for each category with the location, keywords, radius, and language code. Larger slices run as async jobs, returning a job_id each.
Poll the jobs
Poll GET /v1/jobs/:id for each job until complete. Polling is free, and the daily spend limit on your plan keeps a multi-category seed predictable.
Load providers into your system
Receive structured records - name, category, address, phone, website, deduped emails, socials, hours - and load them as initial supply or as an outreach list.
Kick off onboarding or outreach
Use the contact data to invite providers to your marketplace or to start a sales sequence, turning a cold region into a warm pipeline on day one.

Fields & endpoints

What you actually use.

location, keywords, radius, language code

Scope each category slice precisely to the region you are entering.

Async jobs

Seed several categories in parallel without holding long requests open.

Daily spend limit

Keeps a multi-category, multi-city seed within a predictable credit budget.

email(s), phone, social profiles

The channels you need to onboard providers or start outreach immediately.

category, address

Let you bucket providers by type and confirm they are in the target region.

Example

Illustrative: a home-services marketplace entering a new city

Imagine a home-services marketplace launching in a new city with an empty supply side. Before opening, they run biz collect searches for each provider category they support - cleaners, electricians, HVAC - across the city, polling each job as it completes.

They load the returned providers, complete with phone numbers and website emails, as initial listings and as an onboarding outreach list. Instead of launching to a blank marketplace, they launch with real local supply already in the database. This is an illustrative pattern; the providers returned reflect what is publicly discoverable for that area.

Who it's for

Marketplaces and local-services platforms entering new geographies.
Ops teams who want to avoid building and maintaining per-city scrapers.
Sales teams that need a regional target list the moment a launch starts.

Build it

Everything you need to ship this workflow:

Regional rollout

Frequently asked questions.

How does biz collect help with a regional launch?

Run a search per provider category for the new region - location, keywords, radius - poll the async jobs, and load the structured business records as initial marketplace supply or an outreach list, so you launch with real local data instead of an empty database.

Can I seed several categories at once?

Yes. Each category is its own search; larger slices run as async jobs you poll independently. Free polling and your plan's daily spend limit keep a multi-category seed predictable.

What contact data do I get for onboarding?

Where available, each provider record includes name, category, address, phone, website, deduped website emails, social profiles, ratings, and opening hours - enough to onboard or start outreach immediately.

Do I have to maintain a scraper per city?

No. biz collect runs the Google Places search and website enrichment pipeline for you, so you point it at a new city and get structured records without building or babysitting a scraper.

How do I control the budget across many cities?

Each plan has a daily spend limit (100, 400, or 2,000 credits), polling is free, and credits map to result pages requested, so you can pace a multi-city rollout within a predictable budget.

Still have questions? Talk to us.