My "dot" just built me a list of 500 highly targeted sales leads. It should be finished with the whole country by tomorrow. This is worth thousands of dollars.

added Oct 3, 2026

If you haven't tried out "dots" yet, this is another one of those "*AI* won't take your job, *someone who knows how to use* *AI better than you* will take your job" moments. It's got its own little computer, so you can kind of see what's going on (picture at the end). It seems to work in spurts, but I'm entirely sure what it's doing. For the last 5 hours, it's been building me a sales leads list. Now, I'm in an industry where everybody has a website. But there are a lot of industries like that nowadays... I know the data is good, because I just paid for a list like this, so I have one to compare it against. Frankly, my dot's list is much better. I paid $223 and change for about 350 leads. In the last 5 hours, my dot has put together 1,400 leads. I'm expecting the final to be around 3,500 leads, based on what geographic areas it has covered so far and what I'm asking it to cover (20 largest metro areas). That's enough for me for now. I was, not too long ago, seriously considering paying upwards of $4,000 for a nationwide list of my prospects. Not that seriously, but I thought I might have to do it at some point. So this new tool has saved me a lot of money. And that's only half the story here. Because, that nationwide list would have had 15,000 businesses on it. And frankly, a lot of the 350 leads are junk. There are probably fewer than 200 high value targets on that list, and that's being somewhat optimistic. Because my dot is building the list, I was able to tell it to identify only specific types of businesses in my industry, rather than getting the whole NAIC code (or inevitably fail when trying to filter by NAIC subclass, due to inaccurate and incomplete data). I can tell already that it's worth calling these leads. It's well-organized, rather than being an amalgamation of decades' worth of legacy recordkeeping systems, and it's current. [Somehow this little guy is able to identify ](https://preview.redd.it/zqfk4ciq76th1.png?width=1169&format=png&auto=webp&s=8ec497d0c4cc1cbadd75ab58ff137225ffe9eec1)

OP's Dot spent 5 hours building a targeted sales-leads list: 1,400 leads done, ~3,500 expected across 20 metro areas. OP compared it against a $223 paid list of 350 leads and says the Dot's list is better — saving them from buying a ~$4,000 nationwide list.