Use case

Find local businesses on Google Maps with your AI agent

Ask your agent for businesses near a place with few reviews, no website or an unclaimed profile. A real Google Maps run for a local SEO agency.

Jesse Sibley
By , FounderPublished · Last updated · 3 min read

At a glance

JobA local prospect list for an agency
Toolmaps_search_businesses
Credits7 for 25 rows in this run
FieldsRating, reviews, website, claimed, status, category
Run onDentists within 10 km of Austin, 27 October 2026

The prompt

We asked our own agent, Claude Code connected to Manifold, on 27 October 2026:

TEXT
I run a local SEO agency. Find dentists within 10 km of downtown Austin with 20 Google reviews
or fewer, and tell me which ones have no website or an unclaimed Maps profile.

The call

StepToolInputCredits
1maps_search_businessesDentists, 10 km around downtown Austin, at most 20 reviews, 25 rows7

Google Maps businesses in a radius around a point, filtered by category and review count. Each row has the business's rating, reviews, website, whether the owner has claimed the profile and whether it is open. It costs 4 credits plus 12 for each 100 rows.

What came back

127 dentists matched, and 25 came back. We leave out the practices named after a dentist and every phone number. Across the 25:

MeasurePractices
No website on the profile8
Unclaimed profile14
Marked closed forever5
Website is a group, hospital or directory page, not their own8

Some of the practices that trade under a business name:

PracticeRatingReviewsWebsiteClaimedStatus
Lake Austin Family Dental3.916NoneNoOpen
Quality Dental Care5.02NoneYesOpen
Western Trails Dental4.02Own siteNoClosed

What the agent concluded

  • Five of the leads are dead. Profiles marked closed forever stay on Maps, and 3 of the 8 profiles without a website are among them. Drop them before anyone writes.
  • A missing website is not always a missing website. 8 practices link to a dental group's page or a directory listing instead of their own site. To an agency, that is a different pitch: a site of their own, not a first one.
  • The best lead is open, unclaimed and has no site. Lake Austin Family Dental is all three, with 16 reviews at 3.9 stars: a profile to claim, reviews to answer and a site to build.
  • Review counts this low are a filter, not a verdict. A practice with 2 reviews may be new, or may be a second listing for a dentist who works at a bigger practice.

Run it on yours

TEXT
Find {category} within {distance} of {place} with {a filter: few reviews, low rating, no
website, unclaimed}, and drop the ones marked closed.

To see who ranks on Maps for a search instead, call maps_search_places. For one business in full, with its hours and reviews, call maps_get_place.

Where to go next

Questions people ask

Does this need a Google Maps API key?

No. Manifold reads Google Maps through DataForSEO, with no Google Cloud project or key of yours.

Why are closed businesses in the list?

A profile marked closed forever stays on Maps. The status comes back with each row, so ask your agent to drop the closed ones.

Is this the same as who ranks on Maps?

No. This searches every business in an area by its profile. For the order Google Maps shows for a search, your agent uses the places search instead.

Can I get the owner's email?

For a business with a website, your agent can look up the addresses known at its domain, at 31 credits a domain that returns any.

Jesse Sibley

Jesse Sibley

Founder of Manifold. A growth engineer who has worked with London startups for eight years.

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