For a while I was running scrapers by hand, exporting, cleaning in sheets, then pasting into Claude to build lead lists. Felt like I was doing the automation's job for it. What I switched to: - Apify for platform data (Maps, directories, socials) - ScrapeGraph for pulling structured fields off a business's website - Perplexity for research and enrichment on each lead - All wired into Claude Code, so one prompt gets the data, cleans it and saves it ready for outreach Now Claude handles the list building end to end and I just check the output before it goes into Instantly. Hope this helps ✅

My biggest frustration was the waiting. Domains, mailboxes, DNS, then weeks of warmup before sending a single email. How I set it up: 1. Zapmail for the domains and mailboxes (it handles the DNS records) 2. Connected them to Instantly and turned warmup on straight away 3. Used the warmup weeks to build and clean lead lists 4. Started campaigns once the mailboxes were ready You can't skip the wait, but you can make it useful. Once it's up and running it's been really solid. Hope this helps.

I am so excited to share my passions for AI automation with you. I created this community for actual business owners that want to start implementing AI into their businesses to scale faster, with less staff. This community will NOT be free for long. I will be adding my automations piece-by-piece. These are the SAME automations I use in my Inc 5000 agency that enable us to scale to $700K/mo with few staff. Now some next steps... 1. INTRODUCE YOURSELF in the comments on this post. 2. ASK FOR HELP if you need it by posting in the 'Automation Help' category. Include loom videos. My team and the community will try to help. BEFORE asking for help, search for your issue in the search bar. 3. GIVE VALUE. Help others if they ask. Share your own automation templates and walkthroughs. 4. BLUEPRINTS are available inside the Classroom and separated by use case (Sales, content, etc). You may need to pay to unlock certain modules. 5. WAITING is available for our AI Automation Insider Ultra program. Details coming soon. Welcome to the AI Automation Insiders!