Set up a cold email agent that finds leads with free Google Places data
He set up a cold email agent on Grok Bot for about 10 emails a day. It wanted Apollo, but he used free Google Places data for leads instead. The first drafts were messy, the second full of buttons, and the third pass read like a human.
Source
@axagenai on X · 2026-10-19
Written in our own words. Credit to the original author. Link checked 2026-10-19.
What they did
He set up a cold email agent on Grok Bot for about 10 emails a day. It wanted Apollo, but he used free Google Places data for leads instead. The first drafts were messy, the second full of buttons, and the third pass read like a human.
Result (as claimed)
Finding leads was easy; making the email sound human was the real work.
Tools they used
Cost: Grok Bot: from $30/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 Grok Bot, Google Places. 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: Set up a cold email agent that finds leads with free Google Places data What the original author did: He set up a cold email agent on Grok Bot for about 10 emails a day. It wanted Apollo, but he used free Google Places data for leads instead. The first drafts were messy, the second full of buttons, and the third pass read like a human. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Finding leads was easy; making the email sound human was the real work. Source: https://x.com/axagenai/status/2112098325688197529 Tools they used: Grok Bot, Google Places 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: Set up a cold email agent that finds leads with free Google Places data What the original author did: He set up a cold email agent on Grok Bot for about 10 emails a day. It wanted Apollo, but he used free Google Places data for leads instead. The first drafts were messy, the second full of buttons, and the third pass read like a human. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Finding leads was easy; making the email sound human was the real work. Source: https://x.com/axagenai/status/2112098325688197529 Tools they used: Grok Bot, Google Places 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 Grok Bot. Goal: Set up a cold email agent that finds leads with free Google Places data What the original author did: He set up a cold email agent on Grok Bot for about 10 emails a day. It wanted Apollo, but he used free Google Places data for leads instead. The first drafts were messy, the second full of buttons, and the third pass read like a human. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Finding leads was easy; making the email sound human was the real work. Source: https://x.com/axagenai/status/2112098325688197529 Tools they used: Grok Bot, Google Places 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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