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Find local employers by category and town, with the owner to call

A list of businesses in your category and area, at site level or group level, each with the owner or manager by name and the contact details that could be found, and the main phone line for the ones with no named person.

use when
you place into local employers such as care homes, practices, workshops or kitchens, and they are missing from the databases you already pay for
starts from
Just your niche

The prompt

Paste it into Claude Code or the Claude desktop app with Hyreflow connected. The first line tells your agent to use Hyreflow, so it reads the play, asks before it spends anything, and hands the work back to you.

paste this into Claude
Use hyreflow and build me a call list of <BUSINESS_CATEGORIES> in
<TOWNS_POSTCODES_OR_RADIUS>, with the owner or manager at each one.

I place <ROLES_I_PLACE>. Use my own OpenMart account for the business
search. I know it bills me directly and not my Hyreflow credits.

- I sell to <SINGLE_SITES_OR_GROUPS>. Search at site level if it is the
  site manager I need, and at brand level if it is the group.
- Tell me roughly how many businesses match before you pull any of them.
- Ownership: <INDEPENDENT_FAMILY_FRANCHISE_OR_CHAIN>. Between <MIN_SITES>
  and <MAX_SITES> locations. Leave out <EXCLUSIONS>.
- Qualify against <PASTE YOUR ICP> before you look for people.
- Then find the <OWNER_OR_MANAGER_TITLES> at each one, with whatever
  contact details come back. This is business development, so work
  contacts only.
- Where there is no named person, give me the main phone line instead.

Run five first and tell me what the full run costs before you do the rest,
on OpenMart and in Hyreflow credits. Do not contact anyone.

Replace every <PLACEHOLDER> with your own detail. Everything else can stay as written.

What you need first

  • Your own OpenMart account connected. OpenMart is bring-your-own-key only: it uses no Hyreflow credits and bills your OpenMart account directly
  • The business categories you place into, and the towns, postcodes or radius you cover
  • The title of the person you sell to at a single site, and at a group
  • A Hyreflow workspace with credits, for phone lines, missing emails and the email check

Tools it can reach for

The agent picks per step from what your workspace has. Nothing here is required by name.

What happens when you run it

Free steps are marked free. Anything that spends credits is marked, and the agent asks before the first paid run of any size.

  1. 1

    Check your OpenMart connection

    free

    OpenMart runs on your own key only. The agent reads the balance left on your OpenMart account first, which is free, so you know what there is to spend before anything is searched.

  2. 2

    Choose site level or group level

    free

    A store-level search returns one row per physical location. A brand-level search returns a multi-site business once, with its store count and ownership type. Which you want depends on whether the site manager or the group does the hiring.

  3. 3

    Count before you pull

    free

    The search can estimate its total, and a lighter pass returns only ids and match scores. That gives you the size of the area before full records are pulled. OpenMart bills these to your own account, not to Hyreflow credits.

  4. 4

    Pull the businesses

    free

    Category and location, narrowed by ownership type, number of locations, rating and whether there is a working website. Rows with a website are kept apart from the rest, because the owner search keys off the domain.

  5. 5

    Qualify against your desk

    free

    Size, ownership, area and your exclusions are applied to the records in hand, then the agent judges fit against your description. Free, and it runs before anybody is looked up.

  6. 6

    Find the owner or manager

    free

    Businesses are sent in batches with the title you sell to, and several people can come back per business with the contact details OpenMart holds. The batch runs in the background and each business is read on its own, because some return nobody. Billed to your OpenMart account.

  7. 7

    Get the main line where there is no name

    credits

    A business with no named person gets its main phone number from a maps search, and its shared inbox from OpenMart if you want one. The maps search runs on Hyreflow credits and is charged per search whether or not it finds the business.

  8. 8

    Fill missing emails and check them

    credits

    Larger local employers are also tried in the people databases. A named person with no address goes through the work-email waterfall, which runs in a fixed order and stops at the first hit, and every address is checked before it reaches your list.

What a run costs

Credits are spent per company the play actually works, and a lookup that finds nothing usually costs nothing. The two figures are the run where the first provider answers and the run where every lookup walks its full chain.

companiesif the first provider answersif every lookup walks the chain
25$220 credits$11110 credits
100$880 credits$42420 credits
500$40400 credits$2102100 credits
1,000$80800 credits$4204200 credits

Free before anything is charged

  • Check your OpenMart connection
  • Choose site level or group level
  • Count before you pull
  • Pull the businesses
  • Qualify against your desk
  • Find the owner or manager

What moves the number

  • The channel. This play buys work email, because these are people you are approaching about work you want to win. A work address is the cheaper of the two to find.
  • Coverage on people search and work email. The chain stops at the first provider that answers, and only that provider bills.
  • How many companies survive the free filters. Everything dropped before the paid steps costs nothing.
  • Providers you connect with your own key. Those calls bill your account, not your credits.

An estimate, not a quote, priced at the volume credit rate. Your agent sizes the run against your own workspace and tells you what it will cost before it spends anything.

Local employers are not in the databases you already pay for

People databases are built from professional profiles and company pages. That suits a desk selling to head offices. It does not suit a desk that places care assistants, dental nurses, chefs, welders or warehouse staff. There the employer is a care home, a practice, a kitchen or a workshop, and the person who hires is an owner or a site manager who may never have written a profile.

Those businesses are recorded somewhere else: in places data, the kind that sits behind a map search. OpenMart searches that data by category and location, and can then look for the owner or decision-maker at each business it finds.

The decision that shapes the list is who hires. At an independent practice it is the owner. At a group with a dozen sites it may be each site manager, or one people team at head office. A store-level search and a brand-level search give two different lists for the same town, so choose on purpose. If your clients are head offices, build the target account list for a recruitment desk is the better play.

What you get back

A table with one row per site or per group: name, category, address, website, ownership type, number of locations and rating where held. For the businesses that qualified, the owner or manager by name and title with the contact details that came back, and the result of the email check. For the rest, the main phone line and, if you asked for it, the shared inbox.

Above it: businesses matched, businesses that fitted your desk, how many came back with a named person, and what the pull used on your OpenMart account.

Variations worth knowing

No OpenMart account. A maps search by category and town runs on Hyreflow credits and returns name, address, phone, website and rating: the call list without the owners.

Newly opened businesses. The search can be limited to businesses opened inside a date window. A site that has just opened is still building its team.

Registered markets. Where a regulator publishes every licensed provider, map a market that lives on a public register is the more complete source.

Where this goes wrong

No website, no owner search. The people lookup keys off a domain. Sole traders and small sites without one stay on the list with a phone number only.

Thin coverage in your area. Coverage differs by country and by category. Run the count first. A low number tells you about the source, not the market.

Chains at store level. A store-level pull of a national chain returns hundreds of sites whose managers cannot sign a supplier. Filter on ownership type and location count.

A shared inbox is not a person. An address such as info@ reaches a reception desk. Treat it as a last resort, and ring.

Questions

Do I need my own OpenMart account?

Yes. OpenMart is bring-your-own-key only. You connect your own account, the business searches and owner lookups use no Hyreflow credits, and OpenMart bills you directly for them. The maps search, the people databases, the work-email waterfall and the email check run on Hyreflow credits. The agent quotes both before the full run.

Why not use the people databases I already have?

Because they are built from professional profiles and company pages. A practice with nine staff has an owner and a practice manager, and neither may have a profile anybody indexed. A source built from places data starts from the business and works towards the person, which is the right direction for this market. The people databases are still tried for the larger employers, where they do hold records.

What is the difference between store level and brand level?

Store level returns every physical location as its own row, so a group with twelve homes is twelve rows and twelve managers. Brand level returns that group once, with its store count and whether it is independent, family-owned, a franchise or a chain. Use store level when the site hires for itself and brand level when a head office does, or when you are sizing a market.

Will every business come back with a named owner?

No. The owner search keys off a website domain, so a business with no site cannot go through it, and small operators are thin everywhere. How much can be found is a property of the business, not something more spend fixes. Those rows keep their main phone number, which for a desk that sells by phone is often the detail that matters.

Can I run this every month for newly opened businesses?

Yes, once you have run it manually and trust the shape of the output. The search can be limited to businesses opened inside a date window, so it converts naturally into a scheduled workflow that leaves the additions waiting in your workspace. Prove it by hand first, because a scheduled run bills your OpenMart account each time without asking again, and a loose category pays for businesses you will never call. A scheduled run never contacts anyone.