You enter a ZIP at checkout. The same search our subscribers run scores every candidate business in it, looks up who decides at each one, and emails you the CSV. One ZIP, one payment, nothing renews.
“What location should I target with 0 experience?” · “I just ordered my first vending machine. I need a location.”
Both of those are verbatim from our coach log. The second one is the more urgent version: somebody has already spent three or four thousand dollars, the machine is coming, and the list of places to put it is a blank page.
Building that list by hand is not hard. It is long. You open a map, draw a radius, and start writing down every office park, gym, apartment complex, warehouse and clinic inside it. Then for each one you work out roughly how many people are on site on a Tuesday, whether there is already a machine, and who you would even ask. Done properly it is twenty-odd hours. Done badly it is a list of buildings you have driven past, ranked by nothing.
Because a person is no longer doing it. The $297 Fast-Start Kit was the same idea built by hand, which meant it took days and it cost what a few hours of somebody's attention costs. The software that does this for subscribers got good enough that running it once for one ZIP is a few dollars of Google and Apollo calls, so the price is what the work costs plus a margin, not what a person costs.
That is also why it arrives in minutes instead of business days. Nothing is waiting on a human unless something breaks, and if something does break you get an email saying so and a person picks it up.
One file, up to fifty rows, eighteen columns. Opens in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets.
The name Google has for it, which venue family it belongs to (office, gym, apartment complex, clinic, warehouse, hotel, school), and the street address, city, state and ZIP. Rows that had to be pulled from a neighbouring town to fill fifty say so in the notes column rather than quietly claiming your ZIP.
The same vending score the app puts on a lead card, built from the venue type and how much foot traffic its public review volume implies. A is 80 and up, B is 65 to 79, C is 50 to 64, D is below that. The file is sorted by it, so the first rows are the ones worth the drive.
The raw inputs behind the score, printed next to it. If you disagree with how we weighted something, you have the numbers to re-sort the file yourself.
Every row gets one. For an apartment complex that is the Community Manager, for a plant it is the Plant Manager, for an office it is Facilities or Office Manager. This is the line the walk-in script is written around: you are not asking for "the owner", you are asking for a specific role that exists at that kind of building.
We look each business up in public business-contact data and take the most senior matching title. Some rows come back with a name and a direct email, some come back with a name only, and some come back with nothing but the title. The column is blank when we did not find one. We are not going to fill it with a guessed address pattern.
The published number and site for the business itself, where Google lists them. That is your fallback on every row where no individual resolved: a phone number and a title is still a conversation you can have on Monday.
| The other way | What it costs | What you are left with |
|---|---|---|
| Building the list yourself | 20–30 hours | The same fifty businesses, ranked by whichever one you remembered |
| A vending locator | $400–$1,500 per placement | One location, a contract you did not write, and no list |
| The Fast-Start Kit | $297, a few business days | Fifty hand-built locations, plus a 14-day plan and 90 days of the app |
| This | $97, a few minutes | Fifty scored rows and a CSV you can sort, filter and work |
The locator figure is the range published in our own locator services review, which is where you should read it in context before paying one.
The Fast-Start Kit is still there at $297 if you want the plan and the app access bundled with the list. This page is the list on its own.
It does not close anything, and it does not know what the inside of the building looks like. The score says a venue plausibly supports a machine — the category it is in, and the foot traffic its review volume implies. It cannot tell you whether there is already a machine in the lobby, whether there is an outlet on the right wall, or whether the manager is having a bad week. You still find that out by walking in, and it still takes somewhere around fifteen to twenty pop-ins to land a placement. Ranking changes which doors you try first. It does not change the arithmetic.
Send the contact form inside 30 days and we refund the whole thing. We will not ask you why and we will not make you prove you tried. We would rather have your goodwill than your $97.
Cheapest first. Everything here is a one-time purchase — nothing on this page renews.
The file is yours to keep; the VendBuddy app is the separate monthly thing that does the list-building continuously, if you ever want that part automated.
Payment is handled by Stripe; the file is generated by VendBuddy and emailed to you. How many rows resolve a named contact depends on how many businesses your ZIP actually contains and how much of their contact data is public, so the result varies by ZIP density. VendBuddy sells documents and software. We make no representation about the income, profit, or number of placements any operator will achieve — results depend on your market, your effort, and factors outside anyone’s control. Nothing here is legal advice; have a local attorney review any agreement before you rely on it.