# About Leadraft: Local Lead Lists You Can Believe

URL: https://leadraft.co/about
Summary: Why we built Leadraft: honest counts, one charge per business, and emails checked against the live mailbox before they count.

# Lead lists you can believe

Leadraft exists to make local business data honest: in the area you chose, in the trade you asked for, with emails that work.

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Why we built it

We started with a script that pulled businesses off Google Maps for our own outreach. It worked, sort of. It found a few thousand rows a day, half of them duplicates, some in the wrong country, with emails that bounced.

Every tool we tried had the same problems, just with a nicer button. They sold rows. We needed leads we could actually send to.

So we rebuilt it properly: every business in the area, nothing outside it, every email checked, and one charge per business. That’s Leadraft.

The Leadraft team

What we fixed

## Every problem we had, and what we do instead

The old way

Leadraft

The same business showed up three times because the tool matched names and addresses as text.

Every business is matched by Google's own place ID. One business, one row, one credit, once.

Asking for Texas returned businesses in India, because Google guessed where we were.

Every result is measured against the area you chose. Wrong-country rows are dropped, and nothing outside your scope is charged.

The "email" was often sentry@ or a theme's demo address: the first thing a regex found.

Emails come from the business's own site, are scored, and are checked against the live mail server before they count.

A search stopped at a couple of hundred results, however big the city.

Big areas are split into tiles until each one is exhausted. On one measured run that found twice as many businesses.

One crash lost the whole day's work.

Searches run on our servers. Close the tab, and pause or resume whenever you like.

What we believe

## Rows are cheap. Trust isn’t.

### Honest counts

We show you what's outside your area and what's off-topic, labeled, instead of padding the number. Then we don't charge for it.

### Charge once

A business costs one credit, the first time, forever. Running the same city again next month costs nothing for the ones you already have.

### Verify before it counts

Verified means a mail server confirmed the mailbox. Accept-all is a maybe, never a yes, and we say so.

### Tell people how

Our methods, limits and measurements are written down. Where a number comes from one run, we say it's one run.

[Questions and saleshello@leadraft.co](mailto:hello@leadraft.co)[Help with your accountsupport@leadraft.co](mailto:support@leadraft.co)[Privacy and opt-outsprivacy@leadraft.co](mailto:privacy@leadraft.co)

## Every business on the map. Every email that works.

500 businesses and 50 checked emails, free. No card.

[How we count](https://leadraft.co/methodology/coverage)[Start free](https://app.leadraft.co/sign-up)

Last built: 2026-11-09