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VeryGoodPainters.com: Painter Directory #3

A self-running directory of house painters, commercial painting contractors, and cabinet painting specialists, launched with its own bold blue-and-gold brand and a market-by-market buildout that started in Ohio on day one.

1,752 painting businesses tracked · 8 cities · 3 trade segments
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The Recruiters List: 44,593 Staffing Firms

Every recruiter, staffing agency, and executive search firm in the US, organized into a filterable target account list, with seat-based access and a white-label mode so the same engine can serve multiple brands.

44,593 recruiting and staffing firms · multi-tenant white-label · zero stored contacts on purpose
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The Inc List: Fastest-Growing Companies as a Target List

America's fastest-growing companies organized into a filterable, seat-gated target account browser built for a client's sales team, where reps work the list inside the app instead of exporting it.

Years of Inc. 5000 honorees, browsable · seat-based team access · no bulk export by design
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AllTheAgencies.com: The Map of the Agency Economy

Every business runs on agencies, and this is the map of all of them: 112 agency categories across 13 groups, each with a real explainer covering what the category does, what it costs to engage, and how to choose one.

112 agency categories mapped · 13 groups · 491,450+ estimated US entities
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RooferButler.com: Rufus Roofington, Roofing Concierge

Rufus Roofington is the butler-hatted AI employee behind a self-running roofing directory: nightly scraping, daily enrichment, a fresh article every morning, and a daily hot-leads briefing, starting with Long Island and the five boroughs.

3,154 roofing companies across 31 cities · 3 roofing segments · 600 businesses enriched daily
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#43Private buildDirectories & Data

Market Atlas

A US market intelligence resource that scored 340 local markets and 203 business niches to decide where and what to build next, generating a ranked playbook that now seeds the directory projects.

340 markets scored · 203 niches ranked · 52 states tiered
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List Lab + List X-Ray

Two internal list-intelligence tools: List Lab builds large named prospect lists by combining one provider's filters with another provider's free lookups, and List X-Ray bulk-checks any list of LinkedIn URLs, emails, or phones against a 278 million person database for free.

3,728-record named list from one search · 10,000-row lists checked for $0 · 262 identifiers in 22.6 seconds
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SpeakEasySpas.com

A national medspa and esthetician directory that runs itself: nightly scraping, daily enrichment, an AI data-journalism blog post every morning, a weekly newsletter, and a daily hot-leads email, all without a human in the loop.

2,200 companies in 10 cities on day one · 300 businesses enriched daily · a fresh article every morning
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TechStackDirectory.com

A programmatic SEO directory of small business tech that updates itself: an ingest loop reads six industry news feeds every 6 hours and tags tool mentions, no CMS, no cron, no maintenance.

252 tools · 38 categories · 1,093 pages at launch · reads the news every 6 hours
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ICP Radar: Free Audience Search

An audience explorer on a 217 million person identity graph: describe your ideal customer in plain English and AI turns it into live filters and a real headcount, free.

217M US adults searchable · 350+ real data attributes · counts in seconds
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#26Private buildDirectories & Data

Dream 100 Engine

Describe your ideal customer; the engine builds your Dream 100 company list using free directory data — no paid list required.

ICP → ideal-company list, people-first
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Companies Directory & Industry Hub

A public company directory with industry hubs and AI-enriched profiles — built to be read by humans and AI models.

Full company directory + industry hub, growing daily
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Google Maps Crawling Agent

A live local-business finder that pulls real-time Google Maps data, cross-checks who's enrichable in evyAI, and publishes it all LLM-friendly — AI crawlers now index it constantly.

Actively crawled by AI models daily
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LinkedIn Creators Directory

A directory of 12,682 LinkedIn creators with an AI-built Top 50 — every profile page has a one-click "research this person with evyAI" button.

12,682 creators indexed · Top 50 ranking