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Product · 2026-08-09 · 9 min

Customer Finder AI: turn your ICP into a prospect list you can act on

Cold tabs and random ChatGPT lists waste mornings. Customer Finder turns a clear ICP into a scannable prospect brief next to multi-model chat on Ultra.

Most teams do not need another chatbot logo. They need a repeatable way to find companies that might buy: who fits the product, where they operate, which roles decide, and what to say in the first line. without spending half a day on ten tabs.

Customer Finder on zy.ai Ultra is that pass. You describe your ideal customer (ICP). The agent searches the public web and returns a structured prospect brief you can edit, hand to sales, or turn into outreach drafts in the same multi-model chat.

What Customer Finder is (and is not)

It is: a junior sales researcher that assembles ICP fit, named companies when sources support them, decision-maker roles, pain points, and short outreach angles. grounded in public sources.

It is not: a scraped CRM dump, a guarantee of closed deals, or a tool that invents emails and phone numbers. Private contact data that is not public stays off the list. That honesty is the product bar.

  • No invented emails, phones, or WhatsApp
  • Prospects marked clearly when evidence is thin
  • Research and drafting stay in one history (Claude, GPT, Gemini, free models. same thread)

Who it is for

  • Founders still validating who should buy first
  • Agencies building target accounts for a new service
  • Sales / SDR prepping a territory or vertical before tools like LinkedIn Sales Navigator
  • GTM leads who want a brief, not a novel

If your week is mostly coding or writing, Free or Pro multi-model chat may be enough. Customer Finder earns Ultra when prospect research is weekly work. Plans: Free · Pro $15/mo · Ultra $45/mo. Ladder: Free vs Pro when to upgrade.

What a strong Customer Finder brief looks like

  1. ICP recap. who, where, size, product fit (1-3 lines)
  2. Prospect list. ideally 5-12 companies: name, niche, geo, size signal, why they fit, public URL
  3. Decision-maker roles. titles; named people only if sources say so
  4. Pain points & buying triggers tied to your offer
  5. Outreach openers. 2-3 short LinkedIn/email-style first lines
  6. Gaps. what to refine (city, headcount, vertical)
Good output feels like a junior researcher’s brief: scannable, sourced, ready for a human to own the next step.

How to run it on zy.ai

  1. Upgrade to Ultra (or open the plan modal from the app).
  2. In chat: Tools → Customer Finder (Müşteri Bulucu in Turkish UI).
  3. Write a real brief, not a keyword dump. Examples below.
  4. Edit the list: drop weak fits, add product facts only you know.
  5. Switch model in the same thread to polish outreach or translate.

Prompt examples that work

EN: “B2B SaaS CFOs in Germany, 50-200 staff. We sell expense automation. List prospects with why they fit + 2 LinkedIn openers.”

TR: “İstanbul, 10-50 kişilik dijital ajanslar. Ürünüm: AI içerik asistanı. Karar verici roller + neden biz + ilk mesaj.”

Include at least: product, geo or market, size or segment, and what you want back (list, angles, both).

Why not “just ChatGPT with search”?

  • Productized intent. Customer Finder is a fixed research mode, not a prompt you re-invent every Monday
  • Same surface as drafting. research → outreach draft without paste thrash
  • Clear plan rules. Free builds; Pro unlocks frontier chat; Ultra unlocks agents + Voice + Deep Research
  • Honest bar. no fake contact theater that burns trust with your team

Suite overview: business search and answer agents · product page: /business.

Quality checklist before you send outreach

  • Would you send this company list to a skeptical sales lead?
  • Are “why fit” reasons specific to your product?
  • Are public links real and recent enough?
  • Did you remove any invented contact fields?
  • Is the first message about their problem, not your feature dump?

How it sits next to other Ultra agents

  • Customer Finder. who might buy
  • Company Intel. deep dive on one account
  • SEO Brief. content that attracts demand
  • Social Scout / News Pulse. conversation and market timing
  • Deep Research. longer multi-source passes

Typical flow: Customer Finder → Company Intel on the top 3 → draft outreach in multi-model chat.

Getting started this week

  1. Write one ICP in two sentences.
  2. On Ultra, run Customer Finder once.
  3. Cut the list to five names you would actually call.
  4. Send three human-edited first messages.
  5. Refine geo or size and run again.

Open the app, Tools → Customer Finder. Corporate seats and invoices: contact@zyai.org.

Find prospects in the same chat you draft in

Start free on zy.ai. Move to Ultra when Customer Finder and business agents are weekly work.