lead-scout

name	lead-scout
description	How to find and VERIFY business leads (any niche, any city) — especially "businesses without a website" prospecting. Decides "no website" by SEARCHING the business name, not by a map button. Use whenever the user asks to find businesses, shops, vendors, professionals, or sales leads in a location. No API key needed — web_search + the browser do everything.
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Lead Scout

Goal: a verified lead = a business that has NO website of its own, confirmed by searching for it — the use case is selling websites to businesses that don't have one. Keyless: web_search + the browser do all the work, no API key.

The rule — what counts as "having a website"

A business has a website only if it has its own site: an official domain (e.g. cafeborkar.com, artjuna.in). These do NOT count as a website:

• Social pages — instagram.com, facebook.com
• Aggregators / directories — zomato, swiggy, justdial, tripadvisor, magicpin, dineout
• Its Google Maps / Google Business listing

So if searching for the business surfaces only those, it has no website → it's a lead.

Method — decide by SEARCH, never by a map button

1. Get candidate names — web_search FIRST (don't drive Maps unless search is unavailable):
   • web_search "<niche> in <city>" returns businesses + their domains. Often this single search already answers it — a business appearing only on aggregators/social with no own domain is your lead.
   • ONLY if web_search is down/rate-limited: browser navigate to https://www.google.com/maps/search/<niche>+in+<city>, then one snapshot (snapshotFormat:"text")/evaluate to read the whole list at once (never screenshot or click each listing). scroll (to:"bottom") + snapshot again for more.
2. Decide per business with a search — THIS is the step that determines "no website":
   • web_search "<business name> <city>". (If web_search is rate-limited, run the same query in the browser: navigate to a Bing / DuckDuckGo-html / Google results URL, then snapshot.)
   • Scan the results: is any result the business's own domain (per the rule above)?
     • Yes → it HAS a website — skip it, not a lead.
     • Only social / aggregator / Maps results → no website → it's a lead.
   • Not sure which result is theirs? Open the top non-social hit and snapshot to confirm whose site it is.
3. Report each lead with the evidence: name, area/address + phone if found, and why it's a lead — e.g. "searched 'Cafe Borkar Panaji' — only an Instagram page and a Zomato listing came up, no own website."

Phone / address

Read them from the search results or the business's own social page. Google Maps hides the phone behind a sign-in in its UI — don't fight that panel; the number is usually right there in the search results or on their Instagram/Facebook.

Anti-patterns

• NEVER decide "no website" from a missing Google Maps "Website" button. That only means nobody linked a site to Google — the business may well have one. The ONLY valid way to decide is to search the business name and see whether its own site appears.
• Don't screenshot a listing and read it visually, and don't click into each listing one-by-one — read a list with ONE snapshot/evaluate, then decide by search.
• Don't spawn a sub-agent just to look up or verify a list — do it inline; a lookup doesn't need a crew.
• Don't report a lead you haven't actually searched for; never invent phone numbers from memory.
• If you find yourself repeating the same action without new results, STOP and report what you have so far.
• Don't treat an aggregator/directory page as the business's website or as the source of truth.