How Lead Generation Works

3 min readUpdated 2026-02-16

Autonomous Lead Generation

Your AI agent finds leads by searching publicly available business directories, websites, and listings that match your campaign's target audience. It looks for:

  • Businesses in your specified industry and location
  • Contact information that's publicly listed (websites, directories)
  • Businesses that appear to be a good fit for your services

What Your Agent Won't Do

For compliance and ethical reasons, your agent will never:

  • Scrape emails from behind login walls
  • Buy or use purchased email lists
  • Contact businesses on your unsubscribe list
  • Send to unverified email addresses

Lead Pipeline

Once found, each lead moves through stages:

  1. Generated — Just discovered, not yet contacted
  2. Contacted — Initial outreach email sent
  3. Responded — The lead has replied
  4. Interested — High-interest response detected (you'll be notified)
  5. Engaged — You've taken over the conversation

Viewing Your Leads

Navigate to Leads in the sidebar to see all leads across campaigns. You can filter by status, campaign, or search by name/email.

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LeadClaw's AI agent handles lead generation, personalized emails, and follow-ups — so you can focus on closing deals.