Build a deduped, validated list of local businesses with Clay — gyms, restaurants,
clinics, retailers, agencies, any physical-location category — from a business type
plus locations, or from a known brand whose locations you want. Use whenever
someone asks: find local businesses in a city, source gyms in Brooklyn, build a
list of HVAC companies near Austin, get all the coffee shops in these zip codes,
list every location of a franchise brand, or scrape Google Maps listings.
It asks the franchise question first (location or brand? — that decides the
dedupe), discovers via the cheapest viable arm, normalizes domains before
deduping, and ships unique, post-validated survivor…
