Prospect Buddy for HighLevel

Not a list of businesses: the owner, a checked email, Do Not Call-checked numbers, and 2 team contacts free. You pay only for what we find, and never twice.

Pick a niche and a city. Prospect Buddy finds the local businesses on Google Maps, reads each one's website with AI to find the owner and the team, checks every email and phone number before you see them (including the Do Not Call lists), and shows what each business is missing that your offer fixes. Results go straight into your GoHighLevel CRM, or anywhere else as JSON, CSV or Excel.

What you get for every business

🏢 Business profile	name, address, Google rating and reviews (and how they rank in the area), hours, website, category, the site's builder, and the general business email
📞 Every phone number, checked	cell, landline or internet phone, and the National and state Do Not Call lists plus known TCPA litigators
🤖 The owner	found by AI across the website (up to 30 pages) and Google's business records, with their role
🤖 The owner's email	found by AI and checked with a real mailbox test; one that bounces is never delivered
👥 Up to 2 team contacts, free	names, roles and checked emails of other staff, such as an office manager or a partner
🔎 What they're missing	36 checks in 7 areas (reviews, calls and hours, website, chat and booking, Google profile, email and texting, social media), each with the evidence, and the best opportunity for what you sell

Over half the numbers we find are on a Do Not Call list

In our 200-business test (roofers, HVAC contractors, dentists and landscapers in 4 US cities, October 2026), 55% of the phone numbers we found were on a Do Not Call list. A small business's main line is often the owner's cell. That's why every number is checked, the check can't be turned off, and a number we couldn't check is never shown. A business with no number you can cold call and no email is flagged ⚠️ and listed last.

Pricing: pay for what we find

What	Price	Charged
Business profile	$0.01	per business
Line check (cell or landline)	$0.01	per phone number
Do Not Call check	$0.01	per phone number
🤖 Owner found	$0.02	only when we find the owner
🤖 Owner email found	$0.03	only when we find it and its mailbox check passes
Email verified	$0.01	per owner email that passes its mailbox check
👥 Team contacts (up to 2)	free

• Catch-all emails aren't charged as owner emails. When the owner's email is on a mail server that accepts any address (so no check can confirm it), you pay only the $0.01 check. An email the check can't decide costs nothing.
• About $0.05 a business on average (our 200-business test: $5.35 per 100). From $0.03 for a business with just its main number, up to about $0.15 for one with three numbers and a verified owner email.
• Paid on your Apify account, which also pays: Google Maps (compass/crawler-google-places, about $0.02 a business and $0.40 to list an area of 100) and the email checker (bounceverify/bounceverify-email-verifier, about $0.0008 an email).
• A quote before every search (the likely cost from your own past searches, and the most it can cost), and the search stops itself before going over the limit you set.
• Never paid twice: every business researched is remembered in your own Apify account (a storage named prospect-buddy-history). Searching an area again picks up where you stopped and skips businesses researched in the last 90 days.

Apify free plan

Prospect Buddy works on Apify's free plan with these limits:

• 25 businesses a run and 500 a month.
• 50 phone checks in all. After that, numbers come back not checked: each card warns you, and HighLevel gets Do Not Call Status "Not checked" and the tag prospect-buddy-dnc-not-checked. Check those numbers yourself before you call or text.
• The Google Maps people lookup is off (it costs $0.10 a person on the free plan), so fewer people are found.

On a paid Apify plan there are no limits from us.

How it works

1. List the area on Google Maps (city limits, or 15 or 25 miles from downtown). The list is kept, so continuing an area never pays for it again.
2. Research in rounds of 10: Google Maps details, reviews and people; then the whole website, read with plain requests, a real browser when a site needs one, and a residential proxy when a bot check blocks us.
3. AI sorts the people (owners, founders, managers, staff) and matches emails to the right person.
4. Check everything: every email gets a mailbox check, and every phone number a line type and Do Not Call check.
5. Audit and score: 36 checks, and the best offer for each business, favouring gaps that are rare in that market.
6. Deliver: a plain-words card per business, saved into your HighLevel CRM.

Set a goal ("10 owner emails") and it keeps researching in rounds until it has them, or until the spending cap.

Straight into GoHighLevel

Add a HighLevel Private Integration token and your sub-account ID, and each business is saved as:

• a Business record;
• up to 3 contacts (decision makers first);
• tags, and 17 custom fields (Google Star Rating, phone type, Do Not Call Status, best offer and more);
• the card as a note;
• optionally an opportunity in your pipeline.

It never duplicates, never overwrites what's there, and never messages anyone. A business that can't be cold-called, texted or emailed is saved with Do Not Disturb on, so no workflow contacts it. Every search is logged in a Prospect Buddy menu in HighLevel.

The Prospect Buddy agent for HighLevel (free) runs all of this from a chat: ask for a niche and a city, see the quote, review results 10 at a time, and type the numbers to save. You pay only for what the searches find.

Your responsibility when you contact these businesses

Prospect Buddy gives you information to help you prospect carefully. It isn't legal advice, and a "not on a Do Not Call list" result isn't permission to call or text. You're responsible for how you contact anyone you find here.

• Do Not Call results are as of the day of the search. The lists change every day. The Telemarketing Sales Rule expects you to check the National Registry within 31 days before a sales call, so re-check numbers older than that.
• Business-to-business calls aren't a free pass. Many B2B calls are exempt from the National Do Not Call rules, but a small business's number is often the owner's personal cell. The TCPA restricts autodialed and prerecorded calls and texts to cell phones without prior consent, and some states have stricter telemarketing laws of their own.
• Cold email has rules too (CAN-SPAM in the US): an honest subject line, your physical address, and a working opt-out that you honour.
• "Do not contact" businesses (every number on a Do Not Call list and no email) are flagged; the card suggests in-person or their own contact form instead.

If you run campaigns at volume, have a lawyer who knows telemarketing law look at your process.

Input highlights

Field	What it does
searchTerms, location	the niche and the city (US and Canada)
area	city limits, or 15 or 25 miles from downtown
maxBusinesses	the most to research this run
goal, goalCount	keep going until you have, say, 10 owner emails
alsoRequire	more things a business must have to count, e.g. a valid email and a phone not on Do Not Call
maxCostUsd	the spending cap: the run stops before going over it
checkPhones	owners' and main numbers (default), or every number found
offers	what you sell, so the best opportunity fits it
highlevelToken, highlevelLocationId	save straight into a HighLevel sub-account
quoteOnly	see the quote without researching anything

Output

One item per business: the card (card.text, plain words), the people with their emails and phone checks, the business emails, every check with its evidence, the best offer, flags (no website, do not contact, already uses HighLevel, chain), and the search it came from. The Overview tab shows the main fields as a table.

Questions

• Why did it skip businesses? They were researched in the last 90 days, in any search on your account. Set recheckAfterDays to change that.
• It stopped early. The status says why (your spending cap, your Apify usage limit, a service that stopped responding) and searching again continues where it stopped.
• Canada? Yes for search, and Canadian numbers get the line check. The Do Not Call lists checked are the US ones (National and state), not Canada's National DNCL, so check Canadian numbers there yourself before calling.