Contact Engine
A contact research tool and simple CRM for a business client. Hand it a list of names or companies and it finds the business details behind them, then gives the team one place to work the list.
The idea
The request started as "a contact scraper", but the more we talked the clearer it became that finding a phone number is only the start. The real value is what happens next: who you rang, what they said, and when to follow up. So it became two things in one, a research pipeline that fills in the details, and a CRM where the client works the list afterwards.
The build
Import a spreadsheet and each row is researched in the background, reading company websites, web search and the NZ Companies Register, with Claude pulling out the role, email, phone and location. Every value is shown with where it came from and how confident the tool is, so nothing has to be taken on trust.
Give it a company instead of a person and it looks the company up on the register, then researches each current director as a contact of their own. Former directors are kept for reference and never contacted.
Two rules matter most. A person's correction always wins, so a field someone has fixed by hand is never overwritten by a later run. And it never guesses: when a name could belong to more than one person, it lays out the candidates and waits for someone to choose.
Doing it properly
It's deliberately limited to business contacts at named companies, not searching for private individuals, and it keeps a record of where every piece of information came from. Directors' home addresses are never collected, and data-broker sources are clearly labelled. The data lives in Sydney, close to home.
Where it's at
It's live, and the client's team logs in to import their own lists, record their calls and move contacts through their pipeline.
