Maps Scraper is now available as a source in AI Autopilot workflows. It turns Google Maps searches into campaign-ready contacts, saves the results to a selected list, dedupes them, keeps phone-only businesses when no email is found, and optionally runs email enrichment as a second pass.
This is a major source expansion for teams that sell into local markets, agencies, service businesses, clinics, restaurants, franchises, professional firms, regional SaaS companies, or any audience where the best prospect data starts with a place search rather than a CSV.
What shipped
The Contact Harvester workflow node now supports a Maps Scraper source for AI Autopilot campaigns. In the campaign builder, choose where results should be saved, add search terms, add locations, set a maximum result count, choose the search frequency, and decide whether email enrichment should run immediately after places are found. Advanced options can narrow the scrape by language, country code, specific Google Place IDs, or start URLs.
The basic setup is deliberately simple: pick a contact list, type the kinds of businesses you want, type the markets you want, and cap the run before launch. FirstSales then sends the job to the Maps Scraper executor, collects matching places, normalizes the output, dedupes records, charges only for accepted results, and imports contacts into the selected list for the rest of the workflow.
This is available for AI Autopilot because source discovery needs the full workflow context: the campaign goal, segmentation rules, enrichment choice, credit budget, and downstream outreach steps. Template campaigns are protected from accidental Maps Scraper saves until they are converted into an AI Autopilot workflow with a real campaign context.
Search controls
Search terms describe the businesses you want. They can be broad, such as dentists, accountants, or marketing agencies, or specific, such as B2B SaaS consultants, Shopify development agencies, or commercial roofing contractors. Locations keep the scrape grounded. Add cities, regions, or countries depending on how targeted the campaign should be. If a query is globally scattered and no clear location is supplied, the workflow warns you before launch so the search does not burn credits on noisy results.
Max results is the main safety cap. It limits the number of places that can be accepted into the workflow, so a broad search cannot accidentally run far beyond the intended campaign size. Frequency controls whether the source should run once or refresh on a schedule for ongoing prospecting. Country code and language help keep results aligned with the market you are selling into.
Email enrichment is optional
Google Maps often has strong business identity data but inconsistent email coverage. The new flow does not throw those businesses away. If a place has a phone number and business details but no email, it can still be imported as a phone-only contact. If enrichment is enabled, FirstSales attempts to find email addresses after the place is accepted. If enrichment does not find an email, the original business still remains available for CRM review, phone outreach, enrichment retry, or future list-building work.
That matters because a local prospect can still be valuable without an immediate email address. A sales team may want the phone number, website, location, business category, and company name first, then decide whether to enrich, call, or route it to another workflow later. The Contacts table now makes this cleaner with a Mobile number only filter and phone-only badges, so teams can separate email-ready records from records that need a different motion.
Billing and dedupe protections
Maps Scraper uses transparent credit rules: 5 credits per place found, plus 5 credits per email found when email enrichment is on. The campaign builder shows this before launch, so the operator understands the cost model before saving and starting the workflow.
The backend also protects against duplicate spend. Results are deduped by Google place ID first, with phone fallback where place ID is not available. Imported places are matched against existing contacts before creating new rows. Race conditions are guarded so duplicate records do not create duplicate charges. If a result is already present or becomes a duplicate during processing, the workflow skips it rather than charging as if it were a new prospect.
Email enrichment is charged separately from place discovery because it is a separate action. That gives teams a practical way to control spend: run discovery first for a broad local list, then enable enrichment only for campaigns where email outreach is the next step.
How to use it
- Create or open an AI Autopilot campaign.
- Go to Workflow and select the Contact Harvester node.
- Choose Maps Scraper as the source.
- Select the contact list where results should be saved.
- Add search terms that describe the target businesses.
- Add locations that define the markets to search.
- Set max results to the number of businesses you actually want to import.
- Choose Run once for one campaign build, or a recurring frequency for ongoing prospecting.
- Turn on email enrichment if this campaign should attempt email outreach immediately.
- Review the credit estimate, validate the workflow, and start only when the campaign is ready.
Where it fits
Use Maps Scraper when your target account list is best discovered from geography plus business type: agencies in Austin, dentists in London, Shopify stores in New York, HVAC companies in Texas, or local consultants in a specific metro. Use CSV import when you already have a clean list. Use website import when the source is a known page or directory. Use Maps Scraper when the question is: find businesses like this, in these places, and turn them into contacts I can route through FirstSales.
This release makes local prospecting a first-class source inside the campaign workflow, with the same safety standards as the rest of FirstSales: explicit configuration, visible cost, dedupe, no silent data loss, and imported contacts that remain useful even when email enrichment cannot find an address.