Automate Google Maps lead generation with Perplexity AI and email verification
## Overview ✨
This template **finds businesses on Google Maps → writes to Google Sheets → enriches + **verifies email contact** so your outreach stays clean and deliverable. It includes **Sticky Notes** to explain the flow and setup.
## What it does 🔎➡️📄➡️✅
1. **Search & save**: Fetch places and append rows (Name, Address, Website, Rating, Phone) to your sheet.
2. **Enrich**: Ask an LLM (Perplexity) for `Email` + a short company `Background`.
3. **Verify emails**: For [Email Verification we use VerificarEmails](https://www.verificaremails.com/en/) to validate every email address before writing back (fewer bounces, less blocking).
> ℹ️ **VerificarEmails node**: install the **community node** `@verificaremails/n8n-nodes-verificaremails` (Settings → Community Nodes) and use it **until it’s approved as a core node**. ✨
[Youtube Video](https://youtu.be/EA6fWZtIXhk)
## Requirements 🔐
* Use n8n **Credentials** for: Google Sheets, Perplexity (Bearer), and VerificarEmails.
* Keep prompts **short** and `temperature: 0` to lower cost.
* Create a Google Sheet with the following headers: UUID, Name, Address, Website, Rating Email, Valid, Email, Phone, Valid Phone, Summary
## How to run ▶️
1. Set your search params (query, locale, pages).
2. Run the flow: it saves results → enriches → **verifies emails** → updates the sheet.
3. If the read/update step doesn’t run, ensure the **finalization (Done) path** and the correct **sheet/tab** are selected.
## Why verify? ✉️🧹
Bad emails cause **bounces, throttling, and blocks**. Verifying first protects sender reputation and improves deliverability.
Beyond emails, [VerificarEmails](https://www.verificaremails.com/en/) also offers **phone, names. Check [Email Validation API](https://www.verificaremails.com/docs/en/) documentation to better understand verification results.
