Find local businesses with bad websites and draft the pitch automatically
He built a lead gen tool with Claude Code that finds businesses with no website or an outdated one, audits them, writes the pitch and drafts the email in his brand voice.
Source
@DavidHanmer82 on X · 2026-10-20
Written in our own words. Credit to the original author. Link checked 2026-10-20.
What they did
He built a lead gen tool with Claude Code that finds businesses with no website or an outdated one, audits them, writes the pitch and drafts the email in his brand voice.
Result (as claimed)
Replaces a paid SaaS, he says.
Tools they used
Cost: Claude Code: from $17/mo.
Set it up
Pick one goal and metric
For example replies to outreach, ad ideas per week or landing page conversion.
Set up the tools
Open Claude Code. Load your offer, audience and examples of what already works.
Generate, then review
Have the agent research and draft. You approve every message, post or ad before it goes out.
Measure and iterate
Track the metric for a week, keep what works and feed the results back into the prompt.
Copy the full setup prompt
Paste into your agent and it will walk you through the setup, asking before anything that sends, posts or spends.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Claude Code. Goal: Find local businesses with bad websites and draft the pitch automatically What the original author did: He built a lead gen tool with Claude Code that finds businesses with no website or an outdated one, audits them, writes the pitch and drafts the email in his brand voice. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Replaces a paid SaaS, he says. Source: https://x.com/DavidHanmer82/status/2112537537503719717 Tools they used: Claude Code Category: Marketing & growth Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Codex. Goal: Find local businesses with bad websites and draft the pitch automatically What the original author did: He built a lead gen tool with Claude Code that finds businesses with no website or an outdated one, audits them, writes the pitch and drafts the email in his brand voice. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Replaces a paid SaaS, he says. Source: https://x.com/DavidHanmer82/status/2112537537503719717 Tools they used: Claude Code Category: Marketing & growth Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
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