ZipLead is built and run by Chris Barone, a solo founder in Costa Mesa, CA. No team, no investors, no agency behind the scenes. Just the tool one person wanted badly enough to build.
I worked in B2B sales. The job was cold outreach, around a hundred calls a day to small businesses, mostly local. After a few months of it I realized something obvious: the calls were not the hard part. The research before them was.
Every dial, I wanted to know in advance. Does this business have a website? Is it any good? Do they have reviews? Are they running ads? Have they been around? Are they growing?
All of that is public. None of it was easy to pull at scale. The tools that existed, Apollo and ZoomInfo and Clay, were built for selling SaaS to other tech companies, not for selling services to local businesses. They either did not have the data, did not have the local context, or cost $200 a month for features I did not need.
So I built what I wanted. Type a ZIP code, get every local business in that area, scored 0–99 on how ready they are to hear from you, based on signals anyone can check: their site, their reviews, whether they run ads, whether you can actually reach them. Under sixty seconds, sorted, ready to call.
Anyone who sells a service or a product to local businesses. That is a much bigger group than sales reps:
If you need to find local businesses to pitch, and you want the data to do it intelligently, you are who this is for.
I priced it for the freelancer landing their first ten clients, not for an enterprise sales org with a fifty-thousand-dollar tool budget.
No annual contracts. No setup fees. Cancel any time from your dashboard.
ZipLead is in active build. The roadmap is shaped by what people actually ask for, not by what looks good in a deck. On the list, in rough order:
Reply to any email from ZipLead, whether it is the welcome note or a receipt, and it lands in my inbox. I read every one. Feature request, complaint, or you want to walk through how to use this for your specific service, let's talk. Or email me directly at hello@ziplead.ai.
ZipLead is a small bootstrapped project, not a venture-backed unicorn in the making. It is profitable or it does not continue. That is a constraint I am glad of, because it means every feature has to earn its place and every customer has to get real value.
If you try it and it does not fit how you work, that is genuinely fine. There is a free tier so you can find out without spending anything. And if it does fit, you have an advantage over everyone still scraping Google Maps by hand at eleven at night.
Email me and we will set up fifteen minutes on a screen share. I will show you how to use ZipLead for your exact service and your exact buyer. No pitch.