Utility Lead Intelligence Platform#

AI-assisted B2B prospecting and outreach automation for utility cost-reduction sales teams. The platform runs a full pipeline from lead discovery to personalized email delivery — with two human approval checkpoints and no email ever sent without explicit review.


What This Book Covers#

This Jupyter Book is the deep technical documentation for every agent in the platform:

  • What the agent does and why

  • File names and key functions with line numbers

  • Agentic concepts, tools, and technologies used

  • Data flow diagrams and DB write tables


Platform Overview#

The platform is structured around a pipeline of specialized agents:

Agent

Entry Point

Role

Scout

agents/scout/scout_agent.py

Discovers companies from news, Google Maps, Yelp, and directory scraping

Analyst

agents/analyst/analyst_agent.py

Enriches contacts, scores leads 0–100, estimates utility savings

Writer

agents/writer/writer_agent.py

Generates personalized outreach emails via LLM + Critic review loop

Outreach

agents/outreach/outreach_agent.py

Sends emails via SendGrid/Instantly, manages 3-touch follow-up sequences

Tracker

agents/tracker/tracker_agent.py

Classifies replies via LLM, updates lead status, alerts sales team

Orchestrator

agents/orchestrator/orchestrator.py

Chains all agents, manages task dispatch, retry, health monitoring, and weekly reports

Chat Agent

agents/chat_agent.py

Natural-language interface — intent classification, confidence-gated routing, 6 tools


Pipeline Flow#

Scout finds companies (news + APIs)
        │
        ▼
Analyst enriches contacts + scores 0–100
        │
        ▼
  [HUMAN REVIEW #1]  ← Leads page: approve or skip each company
        │
        ▼
Writer drafts personalized email → Critic reviews → rewrites if needed
        │
        ▼
  [HUMAN REVIEW #2]  ← Email Review page: approve / edit / reject
        │
        ▼
Outreach sends email via SendGrid + schedules follow-ups (Day 3 / 7 / 14)
        │
        ▼
Tracker classifies replies → updates lead status → alerts sales team

Full Tech Stack#

Layer

Technology

Purpose

Agent framework

LangChain (create_agent, @tool, AgentExecutor)

ReAct loops, tool calling, LLM message wrapping

LLM (local)

Ollama + llama3.2

Default LLM provider — runs on-machine

LLM (cloud)

OpenAI gpt-4o-mini

Optional — set LLM_PROVIDER=openai

Tracing

LangSmith

Visual trace per agent run — LLM calls, tool args, latency

Search

Tavily API

Web search + news search for company discovery

Maps

Google Places API v1

Business discovery + phone lookup

Business search

Yelp Business Search API

Company discovery + phone fallback

Contact enrichment

Apollo, Hunter.io, Prospeo, Snov.io

Decision-maker email/title waterfall

Email verification

ZeroBounce

Email address validation

HTML parsing

BeautifulSoup4

Directory scraping with pagination

Email delivery

SendGrid SDK

Outreach sending with open/click tracking

Email delivery (alt)

Instantly API

Alternative provider via EMAIL_PROVIDER env var

Webhooks

FastAPI + Uvicorn

SendGrid inbound reply/open/click/bounce webhooks (port 8002)

Webhook security

HMAC-SHA256 (hashlib, hmac)

SendGrid webhook signature validation

ORM

SQLAlchemy

All DB reads and writes across all agents

Database

PostgreSQL

External — not in Docker

Containerization

Docker + nginx

2 containers: api + frontend

Scheduling

Airflow (add-on)

Optional daily pipeline scheduling


How to Read This Book#

Chapter

What it covers

System Architecture

Full pipeline flow, all 8 stages, data model, company status lifecycle, agent responsibilities, config reference

Agentic Design

What “agentic” means here, every agentic concept used (Tool Use, ReAct, HITL, Critic loop, Win-Rate Learning…), where each fires in the pipeline

Agents: Deep Technical Walkthrough

One chapter per agent — file names, function names, line numbers, tech stack, data flow diagrams

Start with System Architecture for the big picture, then Agentic Design to understand the reasoning patterns, then dive into individual agent chapters in pipeline order: Scout → Analyst → Writer → Outreach → Tracker → Orchestrator → Chat Agent.