As of 13 August 2026, AI can only partly find prospects showing buying intent.

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. Open your CRM and export the current prospect and customer list, including company name, contact role, account owner, last contact, outcome and any opt-out or suppression status.
   2. Write down the ideal customer profile, the problem your offer solves, the UK locations and sectors you can serve, and the account or role exclusions.
   3. Gather the permitted public and first-party signals, such as relevant website activity, event registrations, enquiries, product usage or recent business changes, with the source and date for each signal.
   4. Paste the profile, exclusions and cleaned account data into a chatbot with the prompt, then ask it to produce the evidence-based intent table and shortlist.
   5. Open each cited source and compare the company, role, signal and date against the drafted table, removing any row where the source does not support the claim.
   6. Ask a colleague or account owner to confirm the remaining prospects, check CRM history and suppression records, then send only an approved, relevant first message through your normal compliant outreach process.

   Prompt

   Find prospects showing buying intent for [PRODUCT OR SERVICE] in the UK.
   
   Ideal customer profile:
   - Industry: [INDUSTRIES]
   - Company size: [SIZE OR TURNOVER BAND]
   - Locations: [UK LOCATIONS]
   - Relevant job roles: [JOB TITLES]
   - Problem solved: [PROBLEM]
   - Exclusions: [COMPANIES, SECTORS OR ROLES TO EXCLUDE]
   
   Use only the account, CRM and public-source information I provide or explicitly identify. For each prospect, return a table with: company, relevant contact or job role, evidence of intent, source and date of the evidence, fit with the ideal customer profile, suggested reason to contact them, confidence level, and what still needs checking.
   
   Separate direct buying signals from weak indicators. Do not call a prospect interested merely because they match the profile, visited a generic page, posted on social media, or work in a relevant industry. Do not invent names, roles, intent, dates, sources or contact details. Flag missing or stale evidence. Identify possible duplicates and existing customers. Do not recommend contacting anyone who has opted out or where the available information does not support a lawful and appropriate outreach route. Finish with the five accounts most worth checking first and explain the evidence for each. State clearly that the list identifies possible intent, not confirmed purchase plans.

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