# Find Contact

> Find a named human to email at a target company plus a verifiable address, and rate the confidence honestly. Use after a company dossier exists and before any draft is written. Also use when a first contact went nowhere and a different person is being considered.

- Skill: `faaz17/find-contact` (Agent Skill)
- Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add faaz17/find-contact`
- Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/faaz17/find-contact/raw
- Safety review: pending
- Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex
- Category: Productivity
- Author: Faaz17 (https://skillmd.com/u/faaz17)
- Updated: 2026-09-17
- Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/faaz17/find-contact

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# /find-contact, find a real human

Usage: `/find-contact Space42`

The most useful output of this skill is sometimes "no verifiable address exists, here is the better route instead". A guessed address bounces, and a bounce from a personal Gmail damages every future email to that domain.

## Steps

1. **Read the dossier** at `shared/companies/<slug>.md`. It already names the team worth targeting.

2. **Delegate to the `contact_finder` agent.** Its seniority ladder, source list and rating rules are the method.

3. **Target the right level.** An engineering manager or team lead on the relevant team, first. A senior engineer on that team, second — they cannot hire but they forward, and internal forwards work. A head of engineering only at small companies. `careers@` last, and expect nothing from it.

4. **Verify the address against a published source.** Papers with correspondence addresses, conference speaker pages, the company's own team page, GitHub, personal sites. Record the URL.

5. **Rate it, and do not upgrade the rating hopefully.** `verified` means seen published. `pattern` means guessed from a company convention. `unverified` means guessed. Only `verified` may be sent to.

6. **Check the person still works there,** and record the date of the evidence.

7. **When nothing verifies, name the best alternative** — LinkedIn message, contact form, or an introduction through a mutual connection — and say why the direct route failed.

8. **Append to the dossier** in the format in `agents/contact_finder.md`, and update the person's `tracker.md` row.

## Output format

```
## Contact found: <company>

**Primary**
<name> · <title> (as of YYYY-MM) · <email>
Verification: verified | pattern | unverified
Source: <URL>
Still there: <evidence, date>
Why them: <one line>

**Backup:** <name and details, or none found>

**If unverified**
Best route: <alternative>
Why the direct route failed: <one line>

**Sendable?** yes | no — <reason>
**Next:** /cold-email <person> <company>
```

## Rules

- Never fabricate a name, a title or an address.
- Never present a pattern-guess as found.
- One primary contact per company. A list of five people is a spray plan, not a contact.
- No scraping, no bulk enrichment tools, no paid address databases. Individually found, publicly published sources only.
- Addresses stay in this repo. Never into the Hermes vault, never into a public remote.
- If the only reachable route is `careers@`, say so — that is a signal to use the company's formal process and write the email differently.