start_campaign
Start lead campaign
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Submit a lead-generation campaign. Pass translate_icp's vertical, geo, and
query fields directly (category/location are ALIASES for vertical/geo, accepted
so translate output round-trips; prefer vertical/geo when constructing calls).
query's full shape and field vocabulary are in this tool's schema — build it
with translate_icp from free text (recommended), or construct it directly. An
unknown predicate field (or rank), and any unknown discovery key, is rejected
with a 422 naming it; an unknown top-level query key is silently ignored, so
keep to predicates/rank/discovery — a typo there will not error, it will just do
nothing.
Costs 1 credit per validated lead — every campaign type, including founder/person
campaigns and campaigns that filter on Meta ads. A campaign cannot overspend: if
discovered leads exceed your balance it delivers what your credits cover and the
campaign ends done_partial; check get_credits first if your balance is low.
vertical/geo are REQUIRED except for a locationless campaign — query carrying a
discovery block with mode 'launch_feeds' or 'web_search' — which has no geography
at all.
If the tenant has no card on file this returns a 403 card_required error with a
setup_url — surface that URL to the user so they can verify a card (never
charged unless they buy a pack).
Pass a stable idempotency_key when you might retry — a retry returns the ORIGINAL
campaign (idempotent_replay=true), never a duplicate charge.
Returns {job_id, idempotent_replay}; poll get_campaign_status with job_id.
Input schema
| Property | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| query | any | yes | |
| vertical | any | no | |
| geo | any | no | |
| category | any | no | |
| location | any | no | |
| idempotency_key | any | no |
Raw JSON schema
{
"$defs": {
"QueryInput": {
"additionalProperties": true,
"description": "The structured filter start_campaign runs. Build it with translate_icp from free\ntext (recommended), or construct it directly from this schema's vocabulary.",
"properties": {
"predicates": {
"description": "all predicates must hold for a lead to count as a confirmed match",
"items": {
"$ref": "#/$defs/QueryPredicateInput"
},
"title": "Predicates",
"type": "array"
},
"rank": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"description": "optional field to sort/prioritize results by (same vocabulary as predicate fields)",
"enum": [
"ads_state",
"areas_served",
"booking_state",
"category",
"detected_tech",
"digital_maturity_score",
"emergency_24_7",
"first_review_at",
"has_contact_form",
"has_h1",
"has_hours",
"has_meta_description",
"has_real_site",
"has_robots",
"has_schema_org",
"has_sitemap",
"has_title",
"has_viewport",
"has_website",
"in_local_pack",
"is_claimed",
"is_franchise",
"is_social_only",
"licensed",
"locations_in_campaign",
"low_star_reviews_30d",
"low_star_reviews_60d",
"low_star_reviews_90d",
"multi_location",
"outdated_state",
"page_count",
"platform",
"rating",
"review_count",
"review_trend_state",
"runs_google_ads",
"runs_meta_ads",
"seo_basics_state",
"serp_rank",
"tech_state",
"titles_identical",
"total_photos",
"website_social_only",
"website_state",
"years_in_business"
],
"title": "Rank"
},
"discovery": {
"anyOf": [
{
"additionalProperties": true,
"type": "object"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"description": "OPTIONAL non-Maps discovery directive. Omit it (the default) to discover local businesses on Google Maps, which is what vertical/geo describe. Two other modes exist, both with NO geography (vertical/geo are then not required). mode \"launch_feeds\": companies that RECENTLY LAUNCHED — and, optionally, the named founders behind them — from Product Hunt, Y Combinator and TinyLaunch; keys target_type (\"person\" for named founders or \"company\"; both bill 1 credit per validated lead), role (default \"founder\"), launch_window_days (1-365, default 90), category_keywords (e.g. [\"b2b\", \"saas\"]; empty keeps everything). mode \"web_search\": long-tail ONLINE businesses Google Maps never had, found by organic search — keys search_queries (1-5 queries, each a separate paid search; say what the business IS, e.g. [\"marketing agencies for dentists\"]), search_location (search locale, default \"United States\"), search_depth (10-100, default 60). It finds COMPANIES ONLY (billed 1 credit) and cannot carry the city-keyed signals runs_google_ads / serp_rank / runs_meta_ads / in_local_pack / ads_state. Filter platform membership with the detected_tech and tech_state fields instead. Firmographics (funding stage, headcount, revenue, technology spend) are NOT available in any mode and must never be written into a search query. Prefer translate_icp, which emits this block for you; a malformed or unknown-mode block is rejected at submit with a 422 naming the problem, never silently run as a Maps campaign. A mode may also be temporarily unavailable when its costs are not covered: submitting it returns a 422 that says so, and nothing is charged.",
"title": "Discovery"
}
},
"title": "QueryInput",
"type": "object"
},
"QueryPredicateInput": {
"additionalProperties": true,
"properties": {
"field": {
"description": "the business attribute to filter on. The enum is the supported vocabulary; x-field-catalog documents each field's meaning, type, allowed ops, an example value, and — for the *_state verdict fields — the exact values to compare against. An unknown predicate field is rejected at submit with a 422 naming it.",
"enum": [
"ads_state",
"areas_served",
"booking_state",
"category",
"detected_tech",
"digital_maturity_score",
"emergency_24_7",
"first_review_at",
"has_contact_form",
"has_h1",
"has_hours",
"has_meta_description",
"has_real_site",
"has_robots",
"has_schema_org",
"has_sitemap",
"has_title",
"has_viewport",
"has_website",
"in_local_pack",
"is_claimed",
"is_franchise",
"is_social_only",
"licensed",
"locations_in_campaign",
"low_star_reviews_30d",
"low_star_reviews_60d",
"low_star_reviews_90d",
"multi_location",
"outdated_state",
"page_count",
"platform",
"rating",
"review_count",
"review_trend_state",
"runs_google_ads",
"runs_meta_ads",
"seo_basics_state",
"serp_rank",
"tech_state",
"titles_identical",
"total_photos",
"website_social_only",
"website_state",
"years_in_business"
],
"title": "Field",
"type": "string",
"x-field-catalog": {
"ads_state": {
"description": "paid-ads verdict ADS_PRESENT/NO_ADS_FOUND, null when unresolved",
"example": "NO_ADS_FOUND",
"ops": [
"eq",
"neq",
"exists"
],
"type": "str",
"values": [
"ADS_PRESENT",
"NO_ADS_FOUND"
]
},
"areas_served": {
"description": "service-area city names parsed from the site",
"example": "Phoenix",
"ops": [
"contains",
"not_contains"
],
"type": "list[str]"
},
"booking_state": {
"description": "online-booking verdict BOOKING_PRESENT/BOOKING_ABSENT, null when unresolved",
"example": "BOOKING_ABSENT",
"ops": [
"eq",
"neq",
"exists"
],
"type": "str",
"values": [
"BOOKING_PRESENT",
"BOOKING_ABSENT"
]
},
"category": {
"description": "the business vertical/type — goes in the top-level `category`, NOT a predicate",
"example": "plumber",
"ops": [
"eq"
],
"type": "str"
},
"detected_tech": {
"description": "tech/widgets detected on the site (e.g. shopify, calendly, toast, doordash)",
"example": "shopify",
"ops": [
"contains",
"not_contains"
],
"type": "list[str]"
},
"digital_maturity_score": {
"description": "0-100 composite web-maturity score (low = bigger digital gap)",
"example": 50,
"ops": [
"lt",
"lte",
"gt",
"gte",
"eq",
"neq"
],
"type": "float"
},
"emergency_24_7": {
"description": "site advertises 24/7 emergency service",
"example": true,
"ops": [
"eq",
"exists"
],
"type": "bool"
},
"first_review_at": {
"description": "the date of the business's EARLIEST Google review (ISO, e.g. 2024-01-15) -- only set when the reviews we fetched are provably its ENTIRE review history. This is an AGE FLOOR ('has existed at least since this date'), never an opening date: a long-established business that only recently got its first review looks new by this measure. Blank/null when we only saw part of its history and cannot know the true first review -- a real, unbilled outcome, not an error. Use this to answer how-long-has-this-business-existed style asks by comparing against a cutoff date; never present it as a founding or opening date",
"example": "2024-01-15",
"ops": [
"eq",
"neq",
"lt",
"lte",
"gt",
"gte",
"exists"
],
"type": "str"
},
"has_contact_form": {
"description": "the site has a contact/inquiry form",
"example": false,
"ops": [
"eq",
"exists"
],
"type": "bool"
},
"has_h1": {
"description": "the homepage has a non-empty <h1> heading, read from raw served HTML (may read absent on client-rendered sites; prefer the seo_basics segment for render-safe SEO health)",
"example": false,
"ops": [
"eq",
"exists"
],
"type": "bool"
},
"has_hours": {
"description": "business lists opening hours",
"example": true,
"ops": [
"eq",
"exists"
],
"type": "bool"
},
"has_meta_description": {
"description": "the homepage has a meta description (basic SEO)",
"example": false,
"ops": [
"eq",
"exists"
],
"type": "bool"
},
"has_real_site": {
"description": "has a real website (not social-only / not empty)",
"example": false,
"ops": [
"eq",
"exists"
],
"type": "bool"
},
"has_robots": {
"description": "the site has a /robots.txt, read from raw served HTML (may read absent on client-rendered sites; prefer the seo_basics segment for render-safe SEO health)",
"example": false,
"ops": [
"eq",
"exists"
],
"type": "bool"
},
"has_schema_org": {
"description": "the site has schema.org structured data",
"example": false,
"ops": [
"eq",
"exists"
],
"type": "bool"
},
"has_sitemap": {
"description": "the site has a /sitemap.xml, read from raw served HTML (may read absent on client-rendered sites; prefer the seo_basics segment for render-safe SEO health)",
"example": false,
"ops": [
"eq",
"exists"
],
"type": "bool"
},
"has_title": {
"description": "the homepage has a non-empty <title>",
"example": true,
"ops": [
"eq",
"exists"
],
"type": "bool"
},
"has_viewport": {
"description": "the site is mobile-friendly (has a viewport meta tag)",
"example": false,
"ops": [
"eq",
"exists"
],
"type": "bool"
},
"has_website": {
"description": "business has any website at all",
"example": false,
"ops": [
"eq",
"exists"
],
"type": "bool"
},
"in_local_pack": {
"description": "appears in the Google Maps local 3-pack for its category+city",
"example": false,
"ops": [
"eq",
"exists"
],
"type": "bool"
},
"is_claimed": {
"description": "the Google listing is claimed/managed by the owner",
"example": false,
"ops": [
"eq",
"exists"
],
"type": "bool"
},
"is_franchise": {
"description": "the business name matches a known national franchise brand (dated list); False means no match on this list, NOT verified independent — never claim independence from this field alone",
"example": false,
"ops": [
"eq",
"exists"
],
"type": "bool"
},
"is_social_only": {
"description": "the only web presence is a social page (Facebook/Instagram/etc.)",
"example": true,
"ops": [
"eq",
"exists"
],
"type": "bool"
},
"licensed": {
"description": "site states licensed/insured",
"example": true,
"ops": [
"eq",
"exists"
],
"type": "bool"
},
"locations_in_campaign": {
"description": "how many businesses in this search share this name or domain at different addresses (>1 = multi-location/chain in this run)",
"example": 3,
"ops": [
"lt",
"lte",
"gt",
"gte",
"eq",
"neq"
],
"type": "int"
},
"low_star_reviews_30d": {
"description": "how many of this business's Google reviews are rated 2 stars or less, counting back 30 days from the date we FETCHED its reviews (not today's date). null means we could not prove we saw the whole 30-day window -- a real, unbilled outcome, not an error, and NOT the same as a proven zero (zero means we saw the whole window and it was clean). For a plain yes/no 'does this business have a reputation problem' ask, use review_trend_state instead of a raw count",
"example": 3,
"ops": [
"lt",
"lte",
"gt",
"gte",
"eq",
"neq"
],
"type": "int"
},
"low_star_reviews_60d": {
"description": "how many of this business's Google reviews are rated 2 stars or less, counting back 60 days from the date we FETCHED its reviews (not today's date). null means we could not prove we saw the whole 60-day window -- a real, unbilled outcome, not an error, and NOT the same as a proven zero (zero means we saw the whole window and it was clean). For a plain yes/no 'does this business have a reputation problem' ask, use review_trend_state instead of a raw count",
"example": 3,
"ops": [
"lt",
"lte",
"gt",
"gte",
"eq",
"neq"
],
"type": "int"
},
"low_star_reviews_90d": {
"description": "how many of this business's Google reviews are rated 2 stars or less, counting back 90 days from the date we FETCHED its reviews (not today's date). null means we could not prove we saw the whole 90-day window -- a real, unbilled outcome, not an error, and NOT the same as a proven zero (zero means we saw the whole window and it was clean). For a plain yes/no 'does this business have a reputation problem' ask, use review_trend_state instead of a raw count",
"example": 3,
"ops": [
"lt",
"lte",
"gt",
"gte",
"eq",
"neq"
],
"type": "int"
},
"multi_location": {
"description": "the same business record was found in multiple data sources and merged into one canonical record during dedupe (a dedupe multiplicity) — NOT chain/multi-site detection; use locations_in_campaign for multi-location/chain filtering",
"example": false,
"ops": [
"eq",
"exists"
],
"type": "bool"
},
"outdated_state": {
"description": "outdated-website verdict OUTDATED/CURRENT, null when unresolved",
"example": "OUTDATED",
"ops": [
"eq",
"neq",
"exists"
],
"type": "str",
"values": [
"OUTDATED",
"CURRENT"
]
},
"page_count": {
"description": "how many of home/contact/about/team pages resolved",
"example": 1,
"ops": [
"lt",
"lte",
"gt",
"gte",
"eq",
"neq"
],
"type": "int"
},
"platform": {
"description": "site builder/platform (wix, squarespace, wordpress, godaddy, weebly, shopify, custom)",
"example": "wix",
"ops": [
"eq",
"neq"
],
"type": "str"
},
"rating": {
"description": "average star rating, 0-5",
"example": 4.2,
"ops": [
"lt",
"lte",
"gt",
"gte",
"eq",
"neq"
],
"type": "float"
},
"review_count": {
"description": "number of reviews",
"example": 30,
"ops": [
"lt",
"lte",
"gt",
"gte",
"eq",
"neq"
],
"type": "int"
},
"review_trend_state": {
"description": "recent-reviews verdict — NEGATIVE_WAVE when the business received 3 or more reviews rated 2 stars or less in the last 90 days, STABLE when it did not, null when we could not see the whole 90-day window (a real, unbilled outcome — not an error, and not the same as STABLE). Use this for 'recent bad reviews', 'wave of 1-star reviews', 'reputation problems lately'. It is about RECENT ratings only — for overall rating or review volume use rating / review_count instead",
"example": "NEGATIVE_WAVE",
"ops": [
"eq",
"neq",
"exists"
],
"type": "str"
},
"runs_google_ads": {
"description": "the business runs Google Search ads (advertiser-level, any campaign)",
"example": false,
"ops": [
"eq",
"exists"
],
"type": "bool"
},
"runs_meta_ads": {
"description": "the business runs active Meta/Facebook ads (Ad Library). EXPERIMENTAL: the resolver is unverified and OFF by default (needs --enable-meta); without it this yields needs_review, never a confident answer",
"example": false,
"ops": [
"eq",
"exists"
],
"type": "bool"
},
"seo_basics_state": {
"description": "render-safe SEO health verdict: SEO_BASICS_MISSING (2+ of no title/no meta description/no H1/identical titles/no sitemap+robots) or SEO_BASICS_PRESENT; null when unresolved or the site is client-rendered (title/meta/H1 injected at runtime, so raw HTML can't be trusted) — prefer this over the raw has_title/has_h1/etc. fields for SEO-health filtering",
"example": "SEO_BASICS_MISSING",
"ops": [
"eq",
"neq",
"exists"
],
"type": "str",
"values": [
"SEO_BASICS_MISSING",
"SEO_BASICS_PRESENT"
]
},
"serp_rank": {
"description": "Google organic position for its category+city, 1=top. Prefer page thresholds: <=10 'page 1', <=50 'top 50', >10 'not on page 1', eq 1 'ranked #1'. Never emit a value above 100 or compare against the not-ranked sentinel. Approximate (keyword-proxy): a business may rank for a narrower term than category+city, so 'not ranking' can under-count.",
"example": 10,
"ops": [
"lt",
"lte",
"gt",
"gte",
"eq"
],
"type": "int"
},
"tech_state": {
"description": "platform-membership verdict from the site crawl — TECH_DETECTED / TECH_NONE_DETECTED, null when the site could not be crawled or is client-rendered (a runtime-injected widget is invisible in served HTML). Pair it with detected_tech to name the platform",
"example": "TECH_DETECTED",
"ops": [
"eq",
"neq",
"exists"
],
"type": "str",
"values": [
"TECH_DETECTED",
"TECH_NONE_DETECTED"
]
},
"titles_identical": {
"description": "the <title> tag is identical across every crawled page (thin/templated-site smell), read from raw served HTML (may read absent on client-rendered sites; prefer the seo_basics segment for render-safe SEO health)",
"example": true,
"ops": [
"eq",
"exists"
],
"type": "bool"
},
"total_photos": {
"description": "number of listing photos",
"example": 10,
"ops": [
"lt",
"lte",
"gt",
"gte",
"eq",
"neq"
],
"type": "int"
},
"website_social_only": {
"description": "the business's only web presence is a social/directory page like Facebook, no real website",
"example": true,
"ops": [
"eq",
"exists"
],
"type": "bool"
},
"website_state": {
"description": "website-presence verdict — WEBSITE_NONE / WEBSITE_SOCIAL_ONLY / WEBSITE_PRESENT, null when unresolved",
"example": "WEBSITE_NONE",
"ops": [
"eq",
"neq",
"exists"
],
"type": "str",
"values": [
"WEBSITE_NONE",
"WEBSITE_SOCIAL_ONLY",
"WEBSITE_PRESENT"
]
},
"years_in_business": {
"description": "the FOUNDING YEAR (a 4-digit year like 1998), parsed from 'since/established YYYY' — NOT a duration. To find businesses younger than N years, use years_in_business > (current_year - N); older than N, use < that value",
"example": 1998,
"ops": [
"lt",
"lte",
"gt",
"gte",
"eq",
"neq"
],
"type": "int"
}
}
},
"op": {
"description": "comparison operator",
"enum": [
"eq",
"neq",
"lt",
"lte",
"gt",
"gte",
"contains",
"not_contains",
"in",
"exists"
],
"title": "Op",
"type": "string"
},
"value": {
"default": null,
"description": "comparison value; omit for op='exists'",
"title": "Value"
}
},
"required": [
"field",
"op"
],
"title": "QueryPredicateInput",
"type": "object"
}
},
"properties": {
"query": {
"$ref": "#/$defs/QueryInput"
},
"vertical": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Vertical"
},
"geo": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Geo"
},
"category": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Category"
},
"location": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Location"
},
"idempotency_key": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "string"
},
{
"type": "null"
}
],
"default": null,
"title": "Idempotency Key"
}
},
"required": [
"query"
],
"title": "start_campaignArguments",
"type": "object"
}