AI & Automation

Automated Lead Gen & Outreach Bot

PythonScrapyREST APIsPostgreSQLSMTPCron

What It Does

A self-contained lead generation and outreach system that runs autonomously. Tell it an industry and it scrapes the web for leads: company names, contacts, emails, and stores everything in a built-in CRM. From there, it automatically sends personalized outreach emails on a schedule, but with built-in rate limiting (caps daily sends to avoid getting flagged as spam). Every lead is tracked through the full pipeline: scraped → enriched → contacted → follow-up → responded. The system handles the entire prospecting cycle end-to-end without manual intervention. I just point it at an industry and it runs.

Key Features

  • Scrapes leads for any industry on demand: company data, contacts, emails
  • Built-in CRM that stores and organizes all leads with full pipeline tracking
  • Automated personalized email outreach with follow-up sequences
  • Rate limiting: caps daily email volume to avoid spam flags and maintain deliverability
  • Full pipeline visibility: scraped → enriched → contacted → follow-up → responded
  • Runs autonomously on a schedule via cron jobs

Why I Built It

Manual prospecting was eating entire days. I built a system that handles the full cycle: find leads, store them, email them, and track responses, all on autopilot with smart rate limiting.

What I Learned

Learned web scraping at scale, email deliverability best practices (rate limiting, warm-up, spam avoidance), CRM data modeling, pipeline architecture with error recovery, and how to build systems that run autonomously without babysitting.

Skills Used & Gained

Web ScrapingAPI IntegrationEmail AutomationCRM DesignPipeline ArchitectureRate LimitingDeliverability Engineering