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Business lookup

Find businesses that need a website

Choose a type of business and a town. The lookup lists the local businesses with no website, a broken one or one that is out of date, and shows what our check found on each.

Business lookup
The business lookup results: fictional businesses in a US town, each with the state of its website, what our check found and a button to build a preview.

Three steps

You search a town, pick a business and send its preview, all from the same screen.

  1. The business lookup search: a category, a town, the country and the number of businesses to find.

    Step 1 of 3

    Search a town

    Choose a type of business, such as restaurants or plumbers, then a town and how many businesses to find.

  2. The form that builds a site: the business name, one line about it and the kind of business.

    Step 2 of 3

    Pick a business

    Press Build a preview on any result, then confirm or correct its name and details before anything is built.

  3. The page a business opens from a preview link, under the name of a fictional web studio.

    Step 3 of 3

    Send the preview

    Our AI builds the whole site in minutes, and you send its link to the business under your name.

The guide to finding businesses walks through each screen, and the tour follows one business from the lookup to a client's approval.

Screens and businesses shown are fictional.

What the check finds

Every result says what our check found, in words you can repeat to the owner.

No website of its own

  • None found No website on the listing, and no web address based on its name leads to a site of its own.
  • Ordering page only The listing links to an ordering page in place of a site.
  • Social page only The listing links to a social or directory page in place of a site.

A broken website

  • Address does not resolve The web address on the listing leads nowhere.
  • Certificate error Browsers show visitors a security warning before the site.
  • Parking page The address shows a parking page in place of a site.

An outdated website

  • Outdated The site has no phone layout, no secure connection, or a newest date five or more years old.
  • A business with a website can still need a new one, and its result names the part that is out of date.

Chains, closed businesses and businesses with a working, current website of their own never appear in the results.

Who you contact

You decide which businesses to contact and how: by phone, in person, or by email from your own mailbox, in your name. We never contact a business for you.

Any business can leave the list at any time through the form on the prospect data page, and it leaves every search.

Cafe chairs by a sunny window

Questions

Which towns can I search?

Towns across the United States. Choose a type of business and a town, and find up to 50 businesses at a time.

Find businesses

Where do the results come from?

From public map listings and, in some towns, public license and inspection records, together with our own check of each business's website.

How many lookups do I get?

Every paid plan includes lookups each month, and packs add more when you need them. Each business you find uses one lookup.

See the plans

Can I come back to a search?

Yes. Search the same town again this month, and the businesses you already found show again without using more lookups.

Build a preview

Can I build for a business I found myself?

Yes. Type its name and one line about it into the website builder, and its site is built the same way.

The website builder

Can a business ask to be removed?

Yes. Any business can leave the list through the form on the prospect data page, and it leaves every search.

Prospect data

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