How I Automated Prospect Discovery with AI Agents

Finding potential customers is one of those tasks that feels like it should be automated but rarely is. Most sales teams still rely on someone manually searching Google Maps, scrolling through directories, and copy-pasting contact info into a spreadsheet. I built something better. Over the past few weeks, I have been running an automated prospect discovery system that finds, qualifies, and queues local businesses for outreach — completely hands-off. Here is how it works and what I learned building it. The Problem I run multiple outreach campaigns targeting local businesses in South Florida: dental offices, medical practices, law firms, CPA firms. Each campaign has a different angle — AI receptionist services, review management, general automation. Finding prospects manually was eating hours every week. The real bottleneck was not finding businesses. Google Maps has millions of them. The bottleneck was qualifying them: Does this business actually need what I am offering? Do they have a