As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly find UK businesses that use a specific software.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, power-user skill, and roughly 1 hour until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Write down the exact software name, its alternative names, the UK sectors and locations you want, the minimum company size, and any businesses or industries to exclude.
   2. Open a chatbot and paste the prompt, replacing each bracketed slot with your criteria and the software's exact name.
   3. Ask the chatbot to produce a broad shortlist first, keeping the source URL and evidence type for every business rather than asking for a list of names alone.
   4. Open the cited company websites, job adverts and public technology pages for the highest-confidence businesses and compare the evidence with the chatbot's description.
   5. Remove any business where the source only mentions a competitor, a former employee's experience, a generic integration or an undated claim that does not support current use.
   6. Paste the surviving company names and evidence back into the chatbot and ask it to rank them by evidence strength and suggest the relevant buying role without inventing contact details.
   7. Export the checked accounts to your CRM or prospecting tool, record the evidence URL and date beside each account, and write outreach that refers only to facts you verified.

   Prompt

   Find UK businesses that are likely to use [SOFTWARE NAME]. Build a shortlist for sales prospecting, focused on [TARGET SECTOR OR SECTORS], [COMPANY SIZE], and [UK LOCATIONS]. Exclude [EXCLUSIONS].
   
   For each business, provide:
   1. Legal or trading name.
   2. Website and location.
   3. Evidence that it uses the software, with the exact source URL and the date shown by the source if available.
   4. Whether the evidence is direct, strong indirect evidence, or weak indirect evidence.
   5. A confidence rating of high, medium or low, with one sentence explaining it.
   6. A relevant role or department to contact, without inventing a person's name or contact details.
   
   Use only publicly available evidence. Do not treat a software partner, directory listing, job advert or keyword mention as proof of current use unless the source clearly supports that conclusion. Separate confirmed evidence from inference, flag sources that may be out of date, remove duplicates, and say when you cannot verify a business. Do not invent businesses, software use, employee names, email addresses or facts. Return the results in a table, followed by a short list of the five accounts that need the least manual checking.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.