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 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

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 also offers **phone, names. Check Email Validation API documentation to better understand verification results.