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🛠 Project Overview:
Perera Construction, a leading general contractor in Southern California, is seeking a freelance or contract-based AI engineer / web scraping specialist to build an autonomous lead generation agent.
This system should scan public data sources—city planning portals, permitting databases, construction industry news, RSS feeds, and related sites—for early-stage construction and real estate development leads in targeted markets:
• 🏥 Healthcare
• 🎓 Higher Education
• ⚡ Energy / Utilities
• 🎢 Themed Entertainment
• 🏗️ General Commercial Construction (Tenant Improvements, Capital Projects)
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🔍 Objective:
Design and implement a system that:
• Scrapes data from targeted sources
• Monitors RSS feeds and city websites
• Extracts and filters leads using market-specific construction keywords and location logic (e.g., “hospital expansion + California”)
• Feeds qualified leads into our CRM (HubSpot) with basic enrichment (e.g., company name, project type, location, URL)
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🧩 Key Responsibilities:
• Develop an autonomous AI agent or crawler (Python preferred) using tools like Scrapy, Playwright, or Selenium
• Integrate with news aggregators (e.g. Inoreader, Feedly) and APIs (where available)
• Set up keyword-based filtering with NLP logic for accuracy and relevancy
• Build data pipelines to feed qualified leads into HubSpot CRM (via API or automation)
• Optional: Deploy and host this as a cloud-based bot, ideally with a low-maintenance GUI dashboard
• Recommend and implement scalable architecture for source expansion over time
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💡 Ideal Experience:
• Proven experience in web scraping, automation, or search agents
• Experience with Scrapy, Selenium, Playwright, or Octoparse API
• Knowledge of RSS parsing (e.g., feedparser)
• CRM integration experience (HubSpot preferred)
• Familiarity with construction industry data a plus
• Ability to build autonomous, self-healing agents that run on schedule
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✅ Deliverables:
• Working scraper agent with keyword + region logic
• Feed management for 50–100 news/RSS sources
• Export to CSV and direct push to HubSpot
• Documentation + (optional) Docker/container setup
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📍 Work Style:
• Remote
• Part-time/contract
• Open to individuals or small agencies
• Must be responsive and able to collaborate as needed
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📤 How to Apply:
Please include:
• Examples of similar scraping or AI data automation work
• Tools/stack you’d recommend for this project
• Timeline + budget estimate
• Optional: live demo or GitHub repo
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