Use cases

Built for anyone doing local outreach

If your job starts with “find every business that matches X in Y,” this is the workflow. The same search, filter and export path runs behind all four teams below — across 12,289,127 US businesses already in the database, three maps sources, and 195 countries when you need to leave the US.

Sales teams

Turn a territory into a call list

An SDR opening a new city needs every business of one type in it — not the twenty the map decided to show first. MapLeads pulls the whole category, attaches verified emails and phone numbers, and hands back a file that drops into Instantly, HubSpot or a dialer without a cleanup pass.

Filtering happens before you spend anything. Seeing that 574 of 855 businesses have a website costs nothing, which means the decision about what to unlock is made on the numbers rather than after the invoice.

How sales teams run it
Turn a territory into a call list
Deliver a client file, then re-run it next month

Agencies

Deliver a client file, then re-run it next month

One recipe per client vertical — a category, a city, a filter set — saved and re-run rather than rebuilt from a blank sheet. The second month costs the time it takes to press start.

Quote after counting, not before. Sizing the reachable half of a market is free, so the number in the proposal and the number in the delivered file are the same number.

How agencies package it

Local SEO

Audit a whole category, not a sample

An audit that stops at the first page of results is a survey of the winners. MapLeads returns every listing matching the query, with ratings, review counts and public profile fields in columns you can sort — 4,000+ categories to scope it with.

Run the same query against Google, Apple and Bing Maps and the disagreements are the finding. A business complete on one index and thin on another is exactly the opportunity a client pays you to spot.

How local SEO teams audit
Audit a whole category, not a sample
Map the employers in a market

Recruiting

Map the employers in a market

Recruiters do not search a map for job titles — they search for the places that employ them. Clinics, plants, warehouses, salons: an industry plus a city is enough to build an employer map for a market you have never worked.

What comes back is business contact data those employers publish themselves, which is what B2B recruiting outreach actually runs on. The same workflow covers 195 countries.

How recruiters map a market

Shared workflow

Three steps, whichever team you are on

1

Search

Name a business type and a place, pick a maps source. The job runs on our infrastructure rather than your laptop — close the tab and a webhook fires when it is done.

2

Filter

Narrow on rating, review count, and whether a phone, website or email exists. The matching count updates as you go and costs nothing, so you know what a list is worth before you spend a credit on it.

3

Export

CSV, Excel or JSON, re-downloadable as often as you like. Every address arrives labelled deliverable, role-based, catch-all or dead — none are dropped, because info@ is the only door some businesses have.

Before the first run

Start narrow, then widen

All four of these workflows fail the same way: a first run that takes a whole country and a whole industry at once. Pick one city or one category, get replies, then clone what worked into lookalike markets — do not invent a new offer for every postcode on day one.

Split website-present from website-absent after the export rather than before. The two need different proof and different messaging, and collapsing them is what makes a sequence read like it was written for nobody.

Suppress existing customers and partners before any multi-market send. Local markets talk, and the cost of the reverse is paid by whoever owns the domain.

The usual detour

Exporting everything, then sorting it out afterwards

What usually happens

Pull the whole metro, unlock every row, and find out later that half have no website and a third have closed. The credits are already spent, and the cleanup lands on whoever has to send the emails.

Do this instead

Filter first — the count updates live and costs nothing. Unlock the rows you were going to work anyway, and what downloads is a campaign list rather than a data dump you still owe someone a day of work on.

Questions before you pick one

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Which is why the rules land identically on an SDR sending fifty a day, an agency sending on a client's domain, and a recruiter introducing themselves to twelve employers. Identification, a working opt-out and honest headers are not a volume question. MapLeads labels what is deliverable; the sending is yours to get right.

Which of these should I start from?

Start from the one that matches how you are measured. Sales teams and recruiters both build contact lists, but a recruiter is mapping employers while an SDR is working a category; agencies need the same list twice, three months apart; local SEO teams care about the rows they will never contact. The underlying search is identical — the pages differ in what you do after the export.

Do different use cases need different plans?

No. Every plan is the same product across Google Maps, Apple Maps and Bing Maps, with verified emails and social profiles included. Plans differ only in how many leads they include, so the choice is about volume rather than about which of these workflows you run.

Can I work outside the United States?

Yes — the same workflow covers 195 countries. The 12,289,127-row business database that you can browse and filter before spending anything is US-only; outside the US you run a search instead, which returns the same columns in the same shape.

How often should I re-run a list?

Businesses move, close and change numbers, so a list decays whether or not you re-pull it. Most teams re-run a market when they are about to spend real money against it — a new quarter, a pricing change, a client renewal. When our copy of a business you already own picks up newer details, the lead is flagged so you can pull the update in rather than re-buying the row.

How is this different from the email lists pages?

The email list pages are the inventory — how many businesses exist in a given industry or city, and what share of them have a website. These pages are the workflow: what a particular team does with that inventory once it has it. Most people arrive at one and end up reading both.

Do I have to talk to sales to try it?

No. Every plan starts with a trial that you begin yourself, and browsing the business database — filtering it, watching the matching count move — costs nothing before that.

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