What This Workflow Does
This agentic workflow revolutionizes B2B lead generation by combining intelligent search, automated qualification, and data enrichment into a single autonomous system. Unlike basic scraping tools that simply collect data, this workflow thinks like a sales development representative - evaluating relevance, filtering out noise, and enriching raw leads with valuable business context.
The system automatically searches for potential leads based on your ideal customer profile, qualifies them against your criteria, then appends firmographic data like company size, industry classification, technographics, and executive contacts. All enriched leads are neatly organized in your Google Sheets, ready for your sales team to engage.
How It Works
1. Intelligent Search Execution
The workflow begins by executing targeted Google searches using parameters that match your ideal customer profile. Instead of simple keyword matching, it uses semantic understanding to identify relevant business pages while filtering out irrelevant results.
2. Initial Qualification Filtering
Each potential lead passes through multiple validation checks - verifying it's an actual business website, checking for relevance signals, and scoring based on your predefined criteria. This eliminates 60-80% of noise that typical scraping tools would collect.
3. Multi-Source Data Enrichment
Qualified leads are automatically enriched with data from multiple sources. The workflow pulls company size, industry codes, technographics (what software they use), funding status, and key executive contacts - creating complete prospect profiles without manual research.
4. Structured Google Sheets Output
All enriched data is formatted and organized into your designated Google Sheet with consistent column structure. The workflow can append new leads or update existing records, with timestamps to track when information was last verified.
Who This Is For
This workflow is ideal for B2B companies with clearly defined ideal customer profiles, particularly those in SaaS, professional services, and enterprise sales. Sales teams that spend more than 5 hours per week on lead research will see immediate time savings. Marketing teams running account-based marketing (ABM) campaigns benefit from the enriched firmographic data.
What You'll Need
- n8n account (self-hosted or cloud)
- Google Sheets with predefined column headers
- Google Custom Search JSON API credentials
- Optional: Data enrichment API keys (Clearbit, Hunter.io, etc.)
- Clear definition of your ideal customer profile criteria
Quick Setup Guide
- Download the JSON template file
- Import into your n8n instance
- Configure your Google Sheets connection
- Set up Google Custom Search API credentials
- Define your search parameters and filters
- Test with a small sample search
- Schedule regular runs (daily/weekly)
Key Benefits
Save 10-15 hours per week by eliminating manual lead research and data entry. Your sales team can focus on selling rather than prospecting.
30-50% higher conversion rates from outreach to properly qualified and enriched leads compared to cold lists.
Consistent data quality with standardized formatting and validation that manual research often lacks.
Scalable lead pipeline that grows with your business without proportional increases in research time.
Competitive intelligence built-in through technographic data showing what tools potential customers use.