Discover business leads with Gemini, Brave Search and web scraping

This workflow contains community nodes that are only compatible with the self-hosted version of n8n.

Uncover new business leads with this AI-Powered Prospect Discovery Agent! This n8n workflow acts as a specialized intelligent assistant that, given a business type and location, uses multiple search strategies to identify a list of potential prospect companies and their websites.

Stop manually trawling through search results! This agent automates the initial phase of lead generation by:

• Understanding your target business profile (type, location, keywords).
• Strategically using web search tools (Brave Search, Google Gemini Search) to find relevant businesses.
• Performing quick validations to confirm relevance.
• Returning a clean, structured JSON list of prospect names and their website URLs.

How it Works:

The workflow is built around an AI agent powered by Google Gemini. This agent is equipped with tools like:

• Brave Web Search: For broad initial sourcing of potential business candidates.
• Google Gemini Search: For advanced, context-aware discovery and finding businesses mentioned in various online sources.
• Brave Local Search (Selective): For quick verification of local presence or finding website URLs for identified names.
• Jina AI Web Page Scraper (Very Selective): For extremely rapid relevance checks on uncertain websites by scanning page content for keywords.

The agent's system prompt guides it to use these tools efficiently to build a list of prospects without getting bogged down in deep research on any single one at this discovery stage.

Use Cases:

• Lead Generation: Automatically generate lists of potential clients based on industry and location.
• Market Research: Identify key players or types of businesses in a specific geographical area.
• Sales Development: Provide SDRs with initial lists of companies to research further.
• Called as a Sub-Workflow: Designed to be easily integrated as a "tool" into more complex orchestrating AI agents (e.g., a BNI Pitch Planner that first needs to identify who to target).

Setup:

1. Import the workflow.
2. Configure Credentials: You'll need n8n credentials for:
   • Google Gemini (for the Chat model and the Gemini Search/Vertex AI Search tool).
   • Brave Search (e.g., via Smithery MCP, or adapt if you have direct API access).
   • Jina AI (for the web scraper). Assign these to the respective nodes.
3. Review System Prompt: The prospect_discovery_agent node contains a detailed system prompt. You can fine-tune this to adjust its search strategies or the strictness of its matching.
4. Inputs: This workflow is triggered by an "Execute Workflow Trigger" node (prospect_discovery_workflow). It expects the following inputs:
   • business_type (string): e.g., "artisan bakery"
   • location_query (string): e.g., "Portland, Oregon"
   • desired_num_prospects (number): e.g., 5
   • additional_keywords (string, optional): e.g., "organic, gluten-free"

To Use (as a Sub-Workflow/Tool):

This workflow is typically called by another n8n workflow (e.g., using a "Tool Workflow" node from the Langchain nodes). The calling workflow would provide the inputs listed above. The "Prospect Discovery" workflow will then execute and its final node (the prospect_discovery_agent) will output a JSON array of found prospects, like:

[
  {
    "business_name": "Rose Petal Bakery",
    "website_url": "https://rosepetalbakerypdx.com"
  },
  {
    "business_name": "The Daily Bread Artisans",
    "website_url": "https://dailybreadpdx.com"
  }
]

If no prospects are found, it returns an empty array [].

This template provides a powerful and focused tool for automating the initial stages of prospect identification.