Pranory vs manual prospecting: hours on Google Maps, or a list ready to work?
Lots of people prospect like this: search Google Maps, open each listing and each website, and write it down in a spreadsheet. It works. Pranory does that part for you and leaves you the time to talk to the businesses.
Choose manual prospecting if…
- You look for a few businesses now and then.
- You know the area by heart.
- You don't want to pay for any tool.
Choose Pranory if…
- You prospect every week and lose hours searching and copying data.
- You want to check every website for what the business is missing, without opening them one by one.
- You work as a team and need to know who has contacted whom.
Point by point
| Aspect | manual prospecting | Pranory |
|---|---|---|
| Finding the businesses | Searching by hand, listing by listing | The whole area at once, grid by grid |
| Checking their website | Opening each one | Pranory reads it and pulls out the signals |
| Deciding who to call first | Your judgement | Priority bands with the reason |
| Duplicates | You keep an eye on them | Pranory detects them |
| Contact and follow-up | Spreadsheet and email | Sequences from your own mailbox and an opportunity board |
| Teamwork | A shared spreadsheet | Owners, notes and history per opportunity |
| Cost | Your time | A fixed plan per team, plus whatever Google charges your key |
manual prospecting details reviewed on 18 October 2026. If something has changed, let us know and we'll fix it.
They can also work together.
You can keep logging contacts that reach you some other way by hand, and use Pranory to discover the ones you don't know yet. Everything exports to CSV or Excel.
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Compare it with your own area.
Run a search and see how many businesses you find that aren't in your current list.