# Home Service Business Leads: Companies Hiring Office Staff (`stabilizing_lobster/home-service-hiring-intent-leads`) Actor

Find US home-service businesses hiring dispatchers, bookkeepers and admin staff. Get business phones, job links and optional public business emails.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/stabilizing\_lobster/home-service-hiring-intent-leads.md
- **Developed by:** [Ethan Ooi](https://apify.com/stabilizing_lobster) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Jobs
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $20.00 / 1,000 starter leads

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

- **AI agents and MCP clients** — the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/integrations/mcp.md) at `https://mcp.apify.com` (remote, streamable HTTP, OAuth on first use).
- **Agentic workflows and local Actor development** — [Agent Skills](https://apify.com/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json) with the [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md): `npm install -g apify-cli`, then `apify login`.
- **JavaScript/TypeScript projects** — the official [JS/TS client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md): `npm install apify-client`.
- **Python projects** — the official [Python client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md): `pip install apify-client`.
- **Any other language** — the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).

# README

### Find your next client through their latest job opening

Sell answering services, bookkeeping, virtual assistance or staffing to home-service businesses? Find companies recruiting for the office roles your service supports, with contact details and the job posting that explains why they made the list.

Each lead includes a public business phone and a hiring source link. Choose additional company research or a sourced public business email when you need more detail. Start with one lead, review the result, then request more.

### Find businesses relevant to your service

- **Answering and dispatch services:** businesses hiring dispatchers or customer-care staff.
- **Bookkeeping and payroll services:** businesses hiring bookkeepers or accounts payable/receivable staff.
- **Virtual assistants and staffing agencies:** businesses hiring administrative and office support staff.

Hiring gives you a concrete reason to research a prospect and tailor your approach. A job opening shows recruitment activity; it does not establish interest in outsourcing.

### Choose the contact detail you need

| Tier | What you receive |
|-|-|
| Starter — Business phone | Company name, public business phone, location, website when available, and hiring/source links. |
| Detailed — Company research | Starter details plus company-size information, classification and supporting evidence when available. |
| Email — Business email included | Detailed information plus a sourced public business email and a decision-maker name when publicly supported. |

Email addresses come from public sources. Decision-maker names are included only when supported by a source; an email may be a general company inbox.

### Start with one lead

1. Choose a hiring category and any US state filters.
2. Select your contact tier and the number of leads you want. Start with **1** to inspect the output.
3. Run the Actor and export the results to CSV, Excel or JSON.

**No 1,000-lead minimum.** If the Store displays a price per 1,000 results, that is the pricing unit, not a required order size. A run-start charge also applies; see the Pricing tab for current rates.

### See the source behind each lead

Results include the company, role, job URL and observation date, so you can review the hiring signal before reaching out. Additional research includes source links where available.

The Actor searches a curated catalog of observed job openings. The default freshness window is 14 days from observation; it does not check each vacancy live when you run it. Availability varies by hiring category and state, and a search can return fewer leads than requested.

# Actor input Schema

## `preset` (type: `string`):

The active job opening used as the buying-intent signal.

## `contactTier` (type: `string`):

Starter includes company, public phone and vacancy/source links. Detailed adds size, classification and evidence fields where available. Email adds a sourced business email. Each run has a $0.005 start fee.

## `states` (type: `array`):

Optional two-letter state codes. Leave empty for all available states.

## `companySizeFilter` (type: `string`):

Exclude known large businesses by default. Verified small requires a public employee band of 2-200; unknown means no reliable public band was found.

## `freshnessDays` (type: `integer`):

Measured from the latest source observation. The Actor never returns a row marked expired.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Hard result and billing cap for this query. Your Apify max-total-charge setting is an additional cap.

## `minimumScore` (type: `integer`):

Optional 0-100 floor based on vacancy, contact, company-size, and source evidence.

## `sortBy` (type: `string`):

Order matching leads by most recent verification or highest evidence score.

## `oneLeadPerCompany` (type: `boolean`):

Recommended for outbound lists so one employer with several openings does not consume the result cap.

## `deduplicateAcrossRuns` (type: `boolean`):

Persists delivery history separately for each niche in storage owned by your Apify account.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "preset": "dispatch_overload",
  "contactTier": "starter",
  "states": [],
  "companySizeFilter": "exclude_known_large",
  "freshnessDays": 14,
  "maxResults": 1,
  "minimumScore": 0,
  "sortBy": "newest",
  "oneLeadPerCompany": true,
  "deduplicateAcrossRuns": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Qualified companies matching the selected active hiring signal.

## `summary` (type: `string`):

Catalog, filtering, deduplication, and budget counts for this run.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("stabilizing_lobster/home-service-hiring-intent-leads").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("stabilizing_lobster/home-service-hiring-intent-leads").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call stabilizing_lobster/home-service-hiring-intent-leads --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,stabilizing_lobster/home-service-hiring-intent-leads"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/8aU23c1dqfds8q2wf/builds/skyl4C6EUMvIvla0K/openapi.json