Lead Finder: a desktop Google Maps lead finder

What is Lead Finder?

Lead Finder is a desktop Google Maps lead finder for Windows and macOS. It sweeps a grid across a target area so coverage extends past the roughly 120 results a single Google Maps search returns, collects the published business fields including name, phone, address, coordinates, website, category, rating and review count, and exports them to CSV. Licensing is a flat annual fee rather than a charge per row, which means a ten-row test and a full metropolitan sweep cost the same and re-running a territory every quarter costs nothing additional. It runs on your own machine, so extracted files never pass through another company infrastructure, and the machine must stay powered on while a long sweep completes.

What a licence covers

One machine, unlimited searches, unlimited grid cells and unlimited exported rows for the year. The practical limit on throughput is your own connection and how long you leave a job running, not a quota that stops the work partway through.

That structure changes behaviour rather than just price. When re-running costs nothing, a territory gets swept quarterly instead of once, and the difference between two sweeps, the businesses that opened and closed, becomes more valuable than either sweep alone.

Where you should buy something else

If extraction has to run unattended on a schedule, or be triggered by another system, or feed a data warehouse automatically, a cloud API is the correct choice and this is not. Desktop software needs a machine that is on and offers no interface for other systems to call.

If the requirement is a few dozen rows occasionally, a free browser extension covers it and paying anything is unnecessary. And if what you need is a contact database with firmographics, employee counts and decision-maker names, Maps does not hold any of that, so a database subscription is the right category of product regardless of which extraction tool you pick.

What it cannot give you

Email addresses do not come from Maps, because business profiles have no email field. They can only be found by visiting the website listed on a profile, so businesses without a website yield none, and discovery rates vary by category rather than by software.

Nor does it supply company size, turnover, staff names or trading history. Maps describes a location and a public contact route. Anything needing firmographics requires a second source joined onto the export, usually via the website column.

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