# Lead research assistant Human Guide

## What This Is For
Identifies high-quality leads for your product or service by analyzing your business, searching for target companies, and providing actionable contact strategies. It gives the agent a clearer input/output frame for paid media: what context to ask for, what decisions to make, and what usable artifact to return.

Use this as a human-readable version of the Lead research assistant agent skill. It is meant for marketers, operators, founders, and other non-coders who want the workflow without reading agent-specific implementation instructions.

## When To Use This
- Use this when you need a repeatable process for lead research assistant.
- Use this when the task needs judgment, examples, constraints, or a clear output format rather than a one-off prompt.
- Use this when you want to hand an AI assistant enough context to produce a usable marketing artifact.

## When Not To Use This
- Do not use this when you only need a quick factual answer.
- Do not use this when the work depends on private data you cannot share with the assistant.
- Do not use this as a replacement for legal, compliance, financial, or medical review.

## What You Need Before Starting
- The goal or business outcome you want.
- The audience, customer segment, or market context.
- Any source material the assistant should respect, such as notes, briefs, examples, URLs, or brand guidance.
- Constraints such as tone, length, channel, deadline, region, or approval requirements.
- A clear definition of what a good final answer should look like.

## Step-By-Step Workflow
1. State the job clearly: "Use the Lead research assistant guide to help me with..."
2. Add context: audience, goal, offer, channel, source material, and constraints.
3. Ask the assistant to identify missing inputs before producing the final output.
4. Have the assistant follow the skill-specific guidance below.
5. Review the result against the final checklist and ask for revisions where needed.

## Skill-Specific Guidance
- Finding potential customers or clients for your product/service
- Building a list of companies to reach out to for partnerships
- Identifying target accounts for sales outreach
- Researching companies that match your ideal customer profile
- Preparing for business development activities
- **Understands Your Business**: Analyzes your product/service, value proposition, and target market
- **Identifies Target Companies**: Finds companies that match your ideal customer profile based on:
- Technology stack and tools they use
- Pain points your product solves
- **Prioritizes Leads**: Ranks companies based on fit score and relevance
- **Provides Contact Strategies**: Suggests how to approach each lead with personalized messaging
- **Enriches Data**: Gathers relevant information about decision-makers and company context

## Decision Points And Nuance
The original skill emphasizes: When to Use This Skill, What This Skill Does, How to Use, Basic Usage, With Your Codebase, Advanced Usage, Instructions, Summary, Lead 1: [Company Name], Examples.

Use these questions to steer the work:
- What is the intended audience or buyer?
- What source material must be preserved?
- What should the assistant optimize for: clarity, persuasion, accuracy, speed, creativity, or conversion?
- What examples represent the desired quality bar?
- What should the assistant avoid?

## Common Mistakes
- Starting without a clear audience or goal.
- Asking for a final artifact before sharing examples or constraints.
- Accepting a generic first draft without checking it against the intended use.

## Copy-And-Paste Prompt
```text
Use the Lead research assistant human guide.

My goal:
[Describe the business outcome]

Audience:
[Describe who this is for]

Context and source material:
[Paste notes, examples, links, or existing copy]

Constraints:
[Tone, length, channel, timeline, must-include items, must-avoid items]

Before producing the final output, ask me for any missing information that would materially improve the result.
```

## Final Checklist
- [ ] The output matches the original goal.
- [ ] The audience and context are reflected in the answer.
- [ ] Important constraints and source material were preserved.
- [ ] The assistant made the relevant decisions explicit.
- [ ] The final artifact is ready to use, review, or hand to the next person.

## Source
This guide was generated from the composiohq/awesome-claude-skills skill entry for `lead-research-assistant`.

## Source Skill Notes
These notes preserve the nuance from the original skill. Use them as supporting reference when the workflow above feels too generic.

# Lead Research Assistant

This skill helps you identify and qualify potential leads for your business by analyzing your product/service, understanding your ideal customer profile, and providing actionable outreach strategies.

## When to Use This Skill

- Finding potential customers or clients for your product/service
- Building a list of companies to reach out to for partnerships
- Identifying target accounts for sales outreach
- Researching companies that match your ideal customer profile
- Preparing for business development activities

## What This Skill Does

1. **Understands Your Business**: Analyzes your product/service, value proposition, and target market
2. **Identifies Target Companies**: Finds companies that match your ideal customer profile based on:
   - Industry and sector
   - Company size and location
   - Technology stack and tools they use
   - Growth stage and funding
   - Pain points your product solves
3. **Prioritizes Leads**: Ranks companies based on fit score and relevance
4. **Provides Contact Strategies**: Suggests how to approach each lead with personalized messaging
5. **Enriches Data**: Gathers relevant information about decision-makers and company context

## How to Use

### Basic Usage

Simply describe your product/service and what you're looking for:

```
I'm building [product description]. Find me 10 companies in [location/industry] 
that would be good leads for this.
```

### With Your Codebase

For even better results, run this from your product's source code directory:

```
Look at what I'm building in this repository and identify the top 10 companies 
in [location/industry] that would benefit from this product.
```

### Advanced Usage

For more targeted research:

```
My product: [description]
Ideal customer profile:
- Industry: [industry]
- Company size: [size range]
- Location: [location]
- Current pain points: [pain points]
- Technologies they use: [tech stack]

Find me 20 qualified leads with contact strategies for each.
```

## Instructions

When a user requests lead research:

1. **Understand the Product/Service**
   - If in a code directory, analyze the codebase to understand the product
   - Ask clarifying questions about the value proposition
   - Identify key features and benefits
   - Understand what problems it solves

2. **Define Ideal Customer Profile**
   - Determine target industries and sectors
   - Identify company size ranges
   - Consider geographic preferences
   - Understand relevant pain points
   - Note any technology requirements

3. **Research and Identify Leads**
   - Search for companies matching the criteria