LeadFinder - AI Prospecting Lead Generation

Turn AI Prospecting Into Your Own SaaS Business

LeadFinder is a self-hosted AI-powered prospecting and lead generation SaaS application built with CodeIgniter 4.

Instead of manually searching the web for potential customers and opportunities, users simply describe what they are looking for. LeadFinder interprets the request, searches available public web sources, evaluates the results and presents relevant opportunities with AI-generated analysis and match scoring.

Useful results can then be saved as prospects for later review and follow-up.

Built for SaaS Owners

LeadFinder is not only a prospect search interface. It includes the core functionality required to operate your own branded prospecting SaaS.

As the platform owner, you can create subscription plans, control daily search allowances, manage prospect credits, monitor users and subscriptions, configure PayPal billing, customize branding and activate AI functionality.

Simple Customer Workflow

1. The customer describes the prospects or opportunities they want to find.
2. LeadFinder AI interprets the request and performs the prospect search.
3. Available results are evaluated and presented with AI analysis and match scoring.
4. The customer reviews the opportunities.
5. Useful opportunities can be added to the customer's Prospects area.
6. The customer can inspect the original source and continue their own sales or outreach process.

Flexible Prospecting

LeadFinder is not restricted to one industry. Customers can search for many types of opportunities, including businesses needing services, companies hiring developers, organizations looking for suppliers, potential buyers, local service opportunities and other publicly discoverable commercial needs.

White-Label SaaS

The included administration system allows the platform owner to customize the product branding and operate LeadFinder under their own business identity.

The owner controls their customer pricing and subscription plans, allowing LeadFinder to be used as the foundation of a recurring-revenue SaaS business.

Usage-Based Business Model

LeadFinder separates customer subscriptions, daily AI search allowances and prospect credits. This allows the platform owner to control usage while creating different subscription tiers.

Higher-value plans can provide increased search allowances and prospect capacity, while additional usage can be monetized separately when configured by the platform owner.

Please note: LeadFinder discovers and evaluates publicly available opportunities. Search results depend on available indexed information and are not guaranteed to produce a prospect for every query.

Features

• AI-powered prospect and opportunity discovery
• Natural-language prospect searching
• Public web search integration
• AI-generated prospect analysis
• Prospect match scoring
• Search-result freshness and availability indicators
• Add search results directly to Prospects
• Dedicated saved Prospects area
• Detailed prospect pages
• Original source links
• Prospect credit system
• Daily AI search limits
• Multiple SaaS subscription plans
• Customer subscription management
• PayPal payment integration
• PayPal Sandbox support for testing
• Payment and billing event tracking
• Customer credit management
• AI usage metering
• Platform usage dashboard
• User management
• Subscription management
• White-label branding
• Custom platform logo and identity
• Dedicated Admin CMS
• AI activation management
• Responsive customer dashboard
• Secure authentication
• Automated web-based installation wizard
• Built with CodeIgniter 4
• Designed for self-hosted SaaS deployment

Requirements

• PHP 8.2 or newer
• MySQL or MariaDB database
• Apache or compatible web server
• URL rewriting / mod_rewrite support
• PHP cURL extension
• PHP OpenSSL extension
• PHP JSON support
• PHP Mbstring extension
• PHP Intl extension
• Writable application storage directories as required by CodeIgniter 4
• HTTPS recommended for production installations
• PayPal developer/business credentials are required to enable PayPal checkout
• Active LeadFinder AI service/usage is required for AI-powered prospect searching

Important: AI usage and third-party payment processing are external services and are not included as unlimited resources with the source-code purchase.

Instructions

Installation

LeadFinder includes a guided web-based installation wizard.

1. Upload the LeadFinder files to your hosting account.
2. Create an empty MySQL/MariaDB database and database user.
3. Configure your domain or subdomain to point to the application's public directory as described in the included installation documentation.
4. Open your LeadFinder URL in a web browser.
5. The installation wizard will automatically start on a fresh installation.
6. Complete the server and system requirement checks.
7. Enter your database credentials.
8. Configure the application URL and basic application settings.
9. Create the platform administrator account.
10. Configure the initial branding information.
11. Review the installation information and complete setup.
12. Sign in to the Admin CMS.

After Installation

From the Admin CMS:

1. Review and configure your subscription plans.
2. Configure customer credit and search allowances.
3. Customize the LeadFinder branding.
4. Configure PayPal if you want to accept customer subscriptions.
5. Activate the AI service.
6. Create or register a customer account for testing.
7. Perform a test AI prospect search.
8. Add a result to Prospects and verify credit metering.
9. Test subscription and payment processing before launching publicly.

Documentation

The download package includes separate Installation Instructions and a Minimum User Manual covering the customer workflow, prospect management, Admin CMS, billing configuration and basic SaaS business model.