Build Your Own AI Agent to Replace Apollo for B2B Leads
spsbuilds · reddit · 2026-07-15
To avoid expensive and outdated lead platforms like Hunter and Apollo, a SaaS developer shared a hands-on guide to building a custom customer acquisition system using AI Agents:
- Data Sources: Scripting against APIs from Dataforseo, Million Verifier, and Bright Data to save Token usage.
- Intent Search: Feeding existing customers as a seed file for the Agent to auto-generate buying intent search terms and find similar websites via SERP API.
- Information Extraction: Identifying Shopify-based websites, scraping contact pages for emails, and attempting to verify founder emails.
- Lead Scoring: Scraping brand Instagram and LinkedIn data via crawlers to score lead quality based on post frequency and engagement.
- Automated Outreach: Delegating the drafting, sending, and following up of emails based on best practices to another Agent.
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