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πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™‚οΈ Web research at scale: create custom lead and market databases

Run web research like Search GPT or Perplexity Pro at scale over many queries, saving the results to a database or spreadsheet.

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Web Research

Lutra can process a large number of web research queries simultaneously. Based on your queries, it will automatically generates search queries to find relevant articles on the Internet. For every result it finds, it reads the website and scans it for relevant content to your query.

It then combines all the data into a singular web research report, citations included. With AI-powered data extraction capabilities, Lutra can lift key information from this report and organize it into spreadsheets, databases, or other relevant destinations

Common Use Cases

Identify and enrich your key targets where data is not available in common databases like Apollo or ZoomInfo, using scalable web research.

  • Sales Prospecting: Find potential customers that are not listed in standard databases, along with their contact and company information.

  • Market Expansion: Identify opportunities in niche markets or industries by analyzing unique web sources.

  • Competitor Tracking: Monitor competitor activities by extracting relevant business details from their online presence.

  • Trend Analysis: Gather insights on emerging market trends or customer behaviors from diverse web sources.

  • Event Planning: Create curated lists of attendees, speakers, or sponsors from specific sectors.

  • Recruiting: Research candidates or talent in specialized fields not covered by traditional platforms.

  • Sales Prospecting: Find potential customers that are not listed in standard databases, along with their contact and company information.

  • Market Expansion: Identify opportunities in niche markets or industries by analyzing unique web sources.

  • Event Planning: Create curated lists of attendees, speakers, or sponsors from specific sectors.

  • Recruiting: Research candidates or talent in specialized fields not covered by traditional platforms.

Integrations

Lutra integrates seamlessly with tools like Google Sheets, Airtable, and popular CRMs, allowing you to automatically populate extracted data into your existing workflows. APIs can also be used to link data pipelines with custom applications.

How to use Lutra

  1. Start with a web research query or provide a Google sheet of research targets.

    1. "Perform web research to identify what Electronic Medical Record system does Hospital X use"

    2. "Perform web research to find out how many attendees are expected at conference X"

    3. You can provide an existing spreadsheet of targets X to research as well.

  2. Ask Lutra to run the web research on a small number of targets initially to test and refine the agent.

  3. View the web research reports generated by Lutra to validate the data discovered. You can also check the citations that Lutra pulls up.

  4. Save the process as a playbook to scale and automate it.

    1. Click on the Create a Playbook button to make a playbook.

    2. Ask Lutra to scale up the process on many more emails, or schedule the playbook to automate it.

Tips

  • Best for Small Lists: This works exceptionally well for building smaller lists of 10–30 items. We are currently improving its scalability for larger projects.

  • Leverage Known Websites: If you know the specific websites hosting the lists you need, consider using Lutra’s extracting tools or scraping utilities instead for quicker results.

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