AI
Lets be honest, the old way of building cold email lists is broken

Written by
Hashir Khurram
Published on
October 19, 2025
13
min
You filter, export, guess, enrich and end up with a bloated CSV where 60% of the leads do not reply, do not fit, or do not exist
Heres whats worse:
Everyone scrapes the same LinkedIn filters
Apollo lists are re used and resold 1000x
B2B databases are full of outdated or irrelevant records
Thats why the best outbound operators in 2025 are switching to something better:
AI first list building where you define what you want and the machine reverse engineers the data for you
Why the Shift Happened
B2B buying changed, Personalization and timing now matter more than just “headcount + industry”
And AI changed, What used to take 3 hours of filtering, sorting, and cross referencing can now be done with one good prompt:
"Show me B2B SaaS companies using HubSpot + Stripe, hiring SDRs, in the UK, with 10 to 50 employees"
What Smart Teams Are Doing Now
Starting with the company first (not the person)
Using tools like Scrapeamax to pull contextual company lists:
From Crunchbase, BuiltWith, Latka, Store Leads, Yellow Pages, etc
Enriching in tools like Clay, Findymail, or Apollo to get the right person
Verifying emails using MillionVerifier or ZeroBounce
Launching personalized sequences in Smartlead, Instantly, or Lemlist
This flips the model:
Old way: “Whos the person, whats the company?”
New way: “Whats the company, whos the right contact?”
Real World Prompts That Work in 2025:
“Find fertility clinics in Texas with 3+ doctors and over 100 reviews on Google”
“Pull all AI startups in Europe that raised in the last 6 months and use Intercom”
“Give me plumbers in Australia using Square or Jobber for scheduling”
“Show me DTC brands using Shopify + Recharge + Klaviyo”
Once you know how to prompt the AI and where to pull from, everything changes
Scrapeamaxs Role in All This
Scrapeamax turns your prompt into a real, usable lead list
You give us the criteria, and we:
Identify the best scraping source (GMB, BuiltWith, Clutch, etc)
Pull a clean list of companies
Include core fields: domain, name, phone, address, reviews, tech stack, etc
Deliver it in a ready to enrich CSV
Turnaround? 60 to 180 minutes
Bonus: Its Not Just About One Source
Scrapeamax does not lock you into one platform, You get:
Unlimited Crunchbase scrapes
Unlimited Trustpilot scraping
BuiltWith, Latka, Yellow Pages, Store Leads, BBB, GMB, Clutch and more
Think of it as your on demand lead list engine, powered by prompt logic and real human validation
The Best Part? You Can Try It Free
If you are doing $250k+/year and not in adult/gambling/crypto, we will build your first AI powered list for free
No subscriptions
No scraping limits
No reused junk
Book a call and get Slack access
https://calendly.com/hashir-khurram/scrapeamax-unlimited-lead-lists
Your first lists on the house
The future of outbound belongs to those who feed the machine the best inputs
Scrapeamax helps you do exactly that at scale

Hashir Khurram
🏆 Winner SaaS Bootstrapper of the year 2024 Award by Tekpon | Growing Expandi towards $10M ARR | Prioritizing health -9% body fat year-round 🏋️♂️ | Sharing Real Stories in Public
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