# Lead Research > Lead Research - Skill: `handsomeboy990/lead-research` (Agent Skill, multi-file: 4 files) - Install (CLI): `npx skillmds@latest add handsomeboy990/lead-research` - Raw SKILL.md: https://api.skillmd.com/api/skills/handsomeboy990/lead-research/raw - Safety review: pending - Works with: Claude Code, Claude.ai, OpenAI Codex - Category: Research & Search - Author: Handsomeboy990 (https://skillmd.com/u/handsomeboy990) - Updated: 2026-09-17 - Page: https://skillmd.com/skills/handsomeboy990/lead-research --- # Lead Research Client discovery found who fits and shows a signal. Lead research turns one of those prospects into an approach that lands: the specific, current reason to reach out, the right person, the channel, and an angle grounded in something real about them. It is the difference between a personalised message a busy person reads and a template they delete. Every fact is sourced, and outreach is prepared, not sent. ## 1. Research the organisation, currently ``` current what is true about them now: a recent announcement, a launch, a hire, a change, a stated goal, a public problem; the recency is what makes the outreach timely context the situation the provider's offering fits into: the pain, the growth, the transition the organisation is in sourced every fact from a live source, per opportunity-core; never a guessed detail about the company that a recipient would know is wrong ``` ## 2. Research the person ``` right person the actual decision-maker or influencer for what the provider offers, not just any senior name; approaching the wrong role wastes the approach real the person is real, their role is current, and the detail used to personalise is real and public; never a fabricated name or an invented personal detail respect public professional information only; nothing that crosses from research into intrusion, per data-privacy principles angle what about this person's stated priorities, role, or public work connects to the offering ``` ## 3. Find the real, current reason to reach out ``` reason the specific, true reason this outreach makes sense now: the signal from discovery, deepened into a concrete opening; "I saw you just raised a Series A and are hiring backend engineers" is a reason, "I help companies like yours" is not timing why now: the reason is current, not months stale; a signal has a shelf life, and outreach on a fresh one is welcome where a stale one is noise value the reason connects to a value the provider can actually deliver, not a manufactured hook that leads nowhere ``` ## 4. Identify the contact path ``` channel the right channel for this person and context: a professional network, email, a mutual connection, a public form; the channel that fits how this person is actually reachable real a real contact point from a live source; never a fabricated or guessed email address, which bounces and burns the domain sequence the approach, prepared: the opening grounded in the real reason, the value, a light ask; handed over for the provider to send, or to send only on explicit per-message confirmation ``` ## 5. Prepare, do not send ``` draft the outreach is drafted and handed to the provider; grounded in the research, specific to this prospect, honest about what the provider offers confirm nothing is sent on the provider's behalf without explicit confirmation for that specific message, per opportunity-core and the delegation model honest the draft claims only what the provider can deliver; an outreach that oversells sets up a relationship that fails at the first meeting ``` ## 6. Prohibitions - Never invent a fact about the organisation or the person. - Never fabricate a contact name, email, or channel; a guessed email bounces and damages the sender. - Never personalise with an invented or intrusive personal detail; public professional information only. - Never manufacture a reason to reach out that leads to no real value. - Never approach the wrong role because the name is more senior. - Never send outreach on the provider's behalf without explicit per-message confirmation. - Never draft an outreach that oversells what the provider can deliver. ## 7. Protocol 1. Take a qualified prospect from `client-discovery`. 2. Research the organisation's current situation from live sources. 3. Identify the right person and research their public professional context. 4. Find the specific, current, true reason to reach out, connected to real value. 5. Identify the real contact channel and a real contact point. 6. Draft the outreach angle, grounded and honest; hand it over. 7. Send only on explicit per-message confirmation. ## 8. Auto-critique Score from 0 to 5: organisation researched currently from live sources, the right person identified with real public context, a specific and current and true reason to reach out, a real contact channel and point, outreach drafted honestly and grounded, nothing invented, nothing sent without confirmation. Threshold: no axis below 3, average at least 4. A fabricated fact, contact, or personal detail, or outreach sent without confirmation, is an automatic zero regardless of the average, per opportunity-core. ## 9. Interfaces - Upstream: `opportunity-core` for grounding, `client-discovery` supplies the qualified prospect and the signal. - Downstream: the outreach message and `cover-letter` for the drafting; `market-research` for the wider context; a CRM or messaging connector to send, on confirmation. - Lateral: `source-research` and `source-verification` in `research/` for the gathering; `data-privacy` in `engineering/` for the boundary between research and intrusion. ## 10. Live sources, connectors, and consent This skill reads whatever business, professional-network, and search sources the runtime exposes, and drafts using them. It prepares outreach; it does not send it without explicit per-message confirmation, and it never uses a messaging or CRM connector to contact a person on the provider's behalf silently. When a source cannot be reached, it names what the provider should look up, rather than inventing facts about a real person, because a personalised message built on a wrong or invented detail is worse than a generic one: it signals carelessness to exactly the person the provider wants to impress.