{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Software & SaaS Review","title":"How to Clean a Lead List: Chains, Directories and careers@ Inboxes (2026)","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":447,"description":"How to Clean a Lead List: Chains, Directories and careers@ Inboxes (2026)\nMost cold outreach fails before the first email sends. The reason is almost always the list. Raw lead lists are full of noise: chain locations, directory sites that rank for business searches but are not businesses, franchise branches where the inbox routes to a regional manager who ignores vendor mail, and addresses like careers@ or info@ that go to a reception desk and stop there. Pipefire is a done-for-you cold email service that treats list quality as the foundation of every campaign. Pipefire serves agency owners and B2B service businesses that need a steady flow of new client conversations without building or maintaining a cold email stack themselves. In this episode we walk through how to clean a list yourself, and how Pipefire handles the same problem through its own lead engine, Scout.\nThe do-it-yourself method comes from a post Mike Lovatt published on Reddit's B2B Sales community in October 2026. It uses three tools. First, Claude (desktop app or Claude Code) or ChatGPT. Second, a DataForSEO account, where new accounts receive one dollar of free trial credit, enough to run several Google Maps searches. Third, a Hunter account on the free plan, which gives fifty credits a month to find and verify email addresses. You connect Claude to DataForSEO through DataForSEO's official MCP server, following the guide in their help centre titled \"Connect Claude to DataForSEO MCP.\" You paste in your API login and password and the connection is live. Then you ask Claude to pull businesses with a specific prompt: \"Using DataForSEO, find artificial turf installation businesses on Google Maps in the Bay Area. Give me the name, website, phone, rating and review count in a table.\" The word \"specific\" matters here. Lovatt searched \"landscapers in San Jose\" and got fifty results. Nineteen were tree services. Only eleven mentioned turf anywhere on their site. The fixed search, scoped to the Bay Area...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/M57-zlUGHXBPDZrDLbepWRrOt_I4AFRWCzyAR4AHOW8/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9lMmQ5/MDBjZmRkMTBlZDY1/ZWU4NzE5YTNkMTFk/NGY3My5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}