Tam Headshot Source

TAM Headshot Source: One Verified Photo per Leader

Acquire a single best headshot for a named leader with minimal wrong-person risk and minimal legal/process overhead. This skill is about finding and saving a source file, not about AI retouching (use asset-headshot / platform headshot skills after you have a good source image).

Invocation

/tam-headshot-source $ARGUMENTS

Arguments:

• Required: Leader full name as in the TAM list (e.g. Danielle Strickland)
• Optional: slug if known (e.g. danielle-strickland); otherwise derive from name
• Optional: dry-run — only list the ranked source URLs to try, do not download

What This Is Not

Source Priority (try in order; stop when satisfied)

Use one primary identity anchor before trusting any face (see Identity gate below).

1. Employer / ministry “Staff” or “Team” page — photo in context with name, title, org (best for disambiguation).
2. Publisher author page (IVP, Zondervan, etc.) — official marketing headshot when present.
3. Conference speaker page (Exponential, Verge, etc.) — often a recent PR headshot.
4. Personal site About page — when clearly maintained and single-subject.
5. Wikipedia / Wikimedia Commons — only if the person has an article and the infobox image is them: open the image file description page, confirm identity, note license (often CC BY-SA — attribution may be required for publication).
6. Amazon Author page — when it shows a clear solo headshot (not cover collage).

LinkedIn profile photo: usable as a last resort for identity verification if you can open the profile in a browser and confirm it is the same person; prefer downloading via a direct image URL the user pastes, or manual save — do not rely on undocumented scraping.

Identity Gate (mandatory)

Before saving any file:

1. Name collision check — if the name is common, cross-check org + book + geography from 09-PLAUSIBLE-TAM-ALPHABETIZED.md or the leader’s profile notes.
2. Same-person signals — match at least two independent signals (e.g. org + book cover photo + city) when the image is not on an official bio page.
3. Reject — group shots where the target is ambiguous, event stage shots where the face is tiny, obvious thumbnails under ~150px unless nothing else exists (then flag low-res in manifest).

If identity cannot be verified, do not download; record status: unverified and the candidate URLs for human review.

Surgical Download Procedure

1. Pick one page from the priority list above (highest that has a usable solo headshot).
2. Get a direct image URL — prefer <img src> or og:image from that page’s HTML; avoid tracker redirects where possible.
3. Download once:

curl -fsSL -o "intelligence/leader-research/profiles/SLUG/media/headshot/SLUG-source.EXT" "DIRECT_IMAGE_URL"

Use the response Content-Type or magic bytes to choose .jpg, .png, or .webp. If format is odd, save bytes and rename after inspection.

4. Record provenance — append one line to the manifest (next section).
5. Optional next step — hand off to asset-headshot with the saved path for cropped/branded sizes (platform work), not part of this skill’s core output.

Output Layout

Default paths (create directories if missing):

intelligence/leader-research/profiles/{slug}/media/headshot/
  {slug}-source.{jpg|png|webp}    # one canonical source file

Shared manifest (create if missing):

intelligence/leader-research/tam-search/HEADSHOT-MANIFEST.csv

CSV columns (header row once):

slug,display_name,status,source_url,retrieved_utc,file_rel_path,license_note,notes

• status: ok | low-res | unverified | not-found
• license_note: e.g. org PR assumed | CC BY-SA 4.0 — see Wikipedia file page | unknown — internal use only

Relationship to Other Skills

Optional Wikipedia batch script

intelligence/leader-research/tam-search/fetch-wiki-headshots.py can download English Wikipedia summary thumbnails into profiles/<slug>/media/headshot/ and append tam-search/HEADSHOT-MANIFEST.csv. It uses last-name word boundaries (avoids e.g. “Roberts” matching “Robertson”), first-name checks, and ministry/author keyword heuristics. Many names still yield not-found, and every ok row needs a human identity + license check before publication. Run: python3 fetch-wiki-headshots.py (optional --limit N). When in doubt, use the manual source priority above.

Headshot Status for the Alphabetized List

The file intelligence/leader-research/tam-search/09-PLAUSIBLE-TAM-ALPHABETIZED.md does not track image inventory. Authoritative progress tracking is HEADSHOT-MANIFEST.csv once you start filling it. You can grep the manifest for slug to see who already has ok.

Checklist (per leader)

• Identity verified against TAM context
• Single primary source URL chosen from priority list
• One file saved under profiles/{slug}/media/headshot/
• Manifest row appended
• If publishing publicly, license/attribution reviewed (especially Wikipedia/Commons)