I have successfully finished my Day 2 build.
I designed a pipeline that searches the web for highly specific target businesses. For this run, I targeted US-based home maintenance companies.
My goal was to completely automate the manual process of gathering sales leads for outbound campaigns.
I did hit a major technical roadblock when my local antivirus blocked the API connection due to an SSL certificate verification failure. I was able to troubleshoot this by applying an environment variable command in the terminal to bypass the local security block, allowing the data extraction to finish flawlessly.
This build proves how much time can be saved by replacing manual data entry with AI agents. I am looking forward to integrating this type of scraping pipeline with the digital workflows and automated systems I build on platforms like Make and n8n.