AI Lead Search for Telegram: Describe Your Buyer, Get Scored Leads
AI lead search for Telegram works like a brief to a sharp assistant. You describe the buyer in a sentence, the way they would describe their own problem, and Leadgram returns people from public Telegram chats who are asking for exactly that. Every lead comes with a 0-100 intent score, a short reason, the group and the original message, so you know who to answer first.
- Intent score
- 0-100
- Every lead ranked, with a reason
- Public chats read
- 24/7
- New messages keep arriving
- Search languages
- EN · RU · UA
- Free ranked leads
- 50 / mo
- No Telegram account needed
What AI lead search does
AI lead search finds people in public Telegram chats by what they mean, not by the words they happen to use. You type who you are looking for, such as “online schools unhappy with their course platform”, and get a ranked list of real messages from people with that need, each scored 0-100 for buying intent.
It is built for people who live off fresh demand: agencies, freelancers, SaaS founders and B2B sales teams. Instead of scrolling twenty groups every morning, you read the handful of people who actually asked for help today.
Write the search in plain English, Russian or Ukrainian
Get people, not channels: every result is a message someone wrote
See why each lead matched before you spend a minute on it
Search Telegram messages by meaning, not keywords
Buyers rarely use your keywords. A school owner tired of lagging video will not write “looking for a course platform”. She writes that students complain and asks who has moved 400 people before September.
A keyword bot set to “platform” misses her, then pings you about someone who is perfectly happy with theirs. Semantic search compares the meaning of your query with the meaning of each message and still checks the exact words, so both the obvious requests and the oddly phrased ones come up.
The same post pasted into five chats shows up once, so one busy seller cannot flood your list.
We run our webinars on a platform the students already know, works fine for us
Students keep complaining the videos freeze on mobile and I can't keep apologising. Has anyone moved about 400 students to something better before September?
Buying intentHot · 91
Ha, or half your students are on café wifi
What comes back: scored leads with a reason
Every result is one person plus the message that made them a lead. The score tells you where to start. The reason tells you whether the score deserves your trust.
Start from the top. A score in the 80s or 90s usually means a direct request with a detail attached, such as a deadline, a budget or a size. The 50s and 60s are people still comparing options: worth a helpful reply, not a pitch. Below that, save the search and re-run it in a few days to see who is new.
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Tamsin R.
91intent scoreOnline course creators· public group · 40 min ago
Students keep complaining the videos freeze on mobile. Has anyone moved about 400 students to something better before September?
Why · Course owner ready to switch platforms, has a size and a deadline.
- JBWarm
Jonas B.
62intent scoreOnline course creators· public group · 3h ago
Thinking about moving off our course platform at some point. Those of you who switched, which one did you pick and would you pick it again?
Why · Course creator comparing platforms, no date yet.
Intent score 0-100: how clearly the message asks to buy, hire or switch
Reason: a one-line summary of the need, with place or budget when the person gave one
Source: the public group, the time and a link to the original message
Contact: the Telegram handle, plus any phone, email or site written in the message
See also: How the 0-100 intent score is calculated
Describe your buyer in plain words
The best searches read like a brief to a colleague: who the buyer is, what hurts and what they want to change. One or two sentences is plenty, and you can rewrite the search as often as you like.
Compare two searches. “CRM” brings back everyone who has ever mentioned the word. “Small clinics tired of losing patient bookings in WhatsApp” brings back people with that exact problem, even when none of them wrote “CRM”.
Name the buyer: “dental clinics”, “Shopify stores”, “IT teams relocating”
Add the trigger: switching, hiring, launching, unhappy with, needed by a date
Add a place or language when it matters: “in Warsaw”, “Ukrainian-speaking”
Skip boolean operators and long keyword lists; plain sentences work better here
Three sellers, three searches
The same search box works for very different businesses. What changes is the sentence you type and what you do with the answer.
A web agency searches “small businesses that need a website before they open” and replies to a bakery owner who just posted her opening date.
A relocation consultant searches “families moving to Portugal asking about residence permits” and answers while the question is still fresh.
A SaaS founder searches “teams fed up with tracking orders in spreadsheets” and reads how buyers describe the pain, then reuses their words on the landing page.
How fresh the results are
Leadgram does not search an old archive bought last year. It reads public Telegram chats 24/7 and adds new messages as people write them, so a request posted today can show up in today's search.
Here is what happens to a message on its way to your list.
Step 1: Listen
New messages from public groups are picked up as they are posted.
Step 2: Drop the noise
Obvious bots, scam posts and spam are dropped by fast filters before any model reads them; the rest is checked again later.
Step 3: Join the pieces
“Need a dev.” “Budget $500.” “DM me.” Three messages from one person become one request.
Step 4: Translate
Each request is translated to English for scoring; the original text stays attached.
Step 5: Score intent
Models decide whether it is a real request and how strong it is, from 0 to 100.
Step 6: Match your search
Your query is matched by meaning and exact words, then re-ranked for relevance.
AI search vs keyword bots vs member parsers
All three sit under “Telegram lead generation”, but they answer different questions. Choose by what you want at the end of the day: a list of names, a stream of alerts, or people with a stated need.
| Question | Leadgram AI search | Keyword bot | Member parser |
|---|---|---|---|
| What you get | People asking for what you sell | Every message containing your word | Usernames of group members |
| Catches different wording | Matches by meaning | Only the words you listed | Does not read messages |
| Ranks by buying intent | 0-100 score | No | No |
| Shows why | Reason plus source message | The matched word | No |
| Your Telegram account | Not needed | Usually, to add the bot or join groups | Usually, the parser signs in as you |
| Best for | Finding buyers to reply to today | Tracking a brand or one exact term | Building a broad audience list |
See also: Compare Telegram lead generation tools side by sideMember scraping vs AI search, explained
Save a search, then take leads further
Once a search brings back the right people, save it. A saved search keeps the query, the group it ran against and the scored results, and reopens from the sidebar in one click. Re-run it whenever you want fresh leads.
When one exact name is the whole point, such as your brand or a competitor, mention tracking is the better tool. And when a list is ready, export it to CSV with score, message, group, date and source link for your CRM or outreach tool.
See also: How saved searches workTrack brand and competitor mentions in TelegramWhat goes into the CSV export
Frequently asked questions
How is semantic search different from keyword search in Telegram?
Keyword search returns every message that contains your word, including the ones with no interest in buying, and misses people who describe the need differently. Semantic search compares meaning, so “students complain the videos freeze” can match “schools unhappy with their course platform”. Leadgram combines both, then scores each match 0-100 for buying intent.
Can I search messages across all Telegram groups at once?
Yes. One search covers every public group Leadgram reads, without opening them one by one. That is not every chat on Telegram: the shared pool is public groups only. Invite-only groups you add as your own sources on a paid plan are searched too, but only for your workspace. Direct messages are never searched.
How do I write a search that returns good leads?
Name the buyer, the trigger and, when it matters, the place: “dental clinics in Warsaw replacing their booking system” beats “CRM”. One or two plain sentences, written the way the buyer would describe the problem, work better than boolean operators or keyword lists. If the results are mostly people chatting about the topic, add the trigger: switching, hiring, launching.
How fresh are the results?
Leadgram reads public Telegram chats 24/7 and adds new messages as they are written, cleaned, translated and scored. A request posted today can appear in today's results. To check again later, reopen a saved search and re-run it.
Which languages does AI lead search understand?
You can write your search in English, Russian or Ukrainian. Messages are translated to English before scoring and the original text stays with the lead, so a query in one language can find a request written in another.
Find your next leads in Telegram
Run a search, review scored matches with the reason they fit and the source group, and export a clean list — all from public signal, no Telegram login.