Contact Hunter
Find and enrich contact information from multiple sources with detailed attribution.
Instructions
When a user needs to find contact information:
Identify Search Type:
- Person search: Find specific individual
- Company search: Find people at a company
- Role search: Find people with specific job title
- Email verification: Validate and enrich existing email
- Bulk enrichment: Enrich list of contacts
Gather Search Parameters:
- Person name (first, last)
- Company name
- Job title / role
- Location (city, state, country)
- Industry
- LinkedIn URL (if available)
- Email domain
- Any other identifying information
Search Strategy:
Sources to Check (suggest to user):
- LinkedIn (manual search with user's account)
- Company website (About, Team, Contact pages)
- GitHub (for developers)
- Twitter/X profiles
- Professional directories
- Public databases
- ZoomInfo (if user has access)
- Apollo.io (if user has access)
- Hunter.io (if user has access)
- RocketReach (if user has access)
⚠️ Important: This skill GUIDES the search process. It doesn't directly access paid APIs. Instead, it:
- Provides structured search queries
- Suggests where to look
- Helps organize found information
- Validates and formats results
Search Instructions Format:
🔍 CONTACT SEARCH: [Name/Company]
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📋 SEARCH PARAMETERS
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Target: John Smith
Company: Acme Corp
Title: VP of Engineering
Location: San Francisco, CA
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🎯 RECOMMENDED SEARCH QUERIES
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LinkedIn:
1. Search: "John Smith VP Engineering Acme Corp"
2. Use company filter: "Acme Corp"
3. Use title filter: "VP of Engineering"
4. Location: "San Francisco Bay Area"
Google:
1. "John Smith" "VP of Engineering" "Acme Corp"
2. "John Smith" "Acme Corp" email
3. site:linkedin.com/in "John Smith" "Acme"
4. site:acme.com "John Smith"
Company Website:
1. Check: https://acme.com/about
2. Check: https://acme.com/team
3. Check: https://acme.com/leadership
4. Check: https://acme.com/contact
Email Pattern Guessing:
Common patterns at acme.com:
• john.smith@acme.com
• john@acme.com
• jsmith@acme.com
• j.smith@acme.com
• smithj@acme.com
GitHub (for technical roles):
• Search: "John Smith Acme"
• Look for company in bio
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📝 DATA COLLECTION TEMPLATE
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Once you find the information, fill this template:
Full Name: [First Last]
Job Title: [Exact title]
Company: [Company name]
Email: [email@domain.com]
Phone: [(xxx) xxx-xxxx]
LinkedIn: [linkedin.com/in/username]
Location: [City, State/Country]
Department: [Engineering, Sales, etc.]
Additional Info:
• Reports to: [Manager name]
• Team size: [Number]
• Start date: [When they joined]
• Previous companies: [List]
• Education: [Degree, School]
Data Sources:
• [LinkedIn profile URL]
• [Company website URL]
• [Other sources]
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✅ VERIFICATION STEPS
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1. Cross-reference multiple sources
2. Check LinkedIn profile matches company
3. Verify email format matches company pattern
4. Validate phone number format
5. Confirm job title is current
6. Check for recent company changes
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⚠️ COMPLIANCE & ETHICS
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• Only use publicly available information
• Respect privacy and GDPR regulations
• Don't scrape private databases
• Honor do-not-contact preferences
• Use for legitimate business purposes only
• Keep CAN-SPAM compliance for cold outreach
Organize Results:
Individual Contact Card:
┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ JOHN SMITH │
│ VP of Engineering @ Acme Corp │
├─────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 📧 john.smith@acme.com │
│ 📱 (415) 555-0123 │
│ 💼 linkedin.com/in/johnsmith │
│ 📍 San Francisco, CA │
├─────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ Department: Engineering │
│ Reports to: Sarah Chen (CTO) │
│ Team size: ~45 engineers │
│ Tenure: 2+ years at Acme │
├─────────────────────────────────────────┤
│ 🔍 Sources: │
│ • LinkedIn (verified) │
│ • Company website │
│ • Verified: 2024-01-15 │
└─────────────────────────────────────────┘
Bulk Results (CSV/Excel format):
Name,Title,Company,Email,Phone,LinkedIn,Location,Source,Verified
John Smith,VP Engineering,Acme Corp,john.smith@acme.com,(415) 555-0123,linkedin.com/in/johnsmith,San Francisco,LinkedIn,2024-01-15
Jane Doe,Director Marketing,Acme Corp,jane.doe@acme.com,(415) 555-0124,linkedin.com/in/janedoe,San Francisco,Company Website,2024-01-15
Email Pattern Detection:
When searching company contacts, detect email patterns:
🔍 DETECTED EMAIL PATTERN: Acme Corp
Confirmed Emails Found:
• john.smith@acme.com
• sarah.chen@acme.com
• michael.jones@acme.com
Detected Pattern: firstname.lastname@acme.com
Confidence: 95%
Alternative Patterns (if primary fails):
• firstname@acme.com
• firstnamelastname@acme.com
• f.lastname@acme.com
To Verify Unknown Email:
1. Use email verification tool
2. Check for bounce/invalid
3. Look for SMTP response
4. Verify on LinkedIn
Data Enrichment:
For existing contacts, enrich with:
- Current job title
- Company changes
- Updated contact info
- Social profiles
- Company information
- Reporting structure
- Recent activity/posts
Export Formats:
- CSV: For CRM import
- JSON: For API integration
- vCard: For contact managers
- Salesforce CSV: Pre-formatted for SFDC
- HubSpot CSV: Pre-formatted for HubSpot
Search Strategies
For Company Employees:
site:linkedin.com/in "[Company Name]"
OR
site:[company-domain.com] "team" OR "about" OR "leadership"
For Specific Roles:
"[Job Title]" "[Company]" email
OR
"[Job Title]" site:linkedin.com "[Company]"
For Email Validation:
- Check company website for email format
- Use email verification services
- Look for pattern in existing emails
- Test with email finder tools
For Phone Numbers:
- Company website contact page
- LinkedIn profile (sometimes public)
- Professional directories
- Industry associations
Example Triggers
- "Find the VP of Sales at Acme Corp"
- "Get contact info for John Smith at Microsoft"
- "Find engineering managers at Stripe"
- "Enrich this list of contacts with emails"
- "What's the email pattern at Google?"
- "Find the marketing team at HubSpot"
Compliance Guidelines
What's Allowed:
- Publicly available information
- Business contact information
- LinkedIn public profiles
- Company websites
- Professional directories
- Published contact lists
What's NOT Allowed:
- Scraping private databases
- Purchasing questionable contact lists
- Bypassing email verification
- Ignoring opt-out requests
- Violating GDPR/CCPA
- Harassing contacts
Best Practices:
- Always cite data sources
- Respect privacy preferences
- Use for legitimate business purposes
- Keep data up to date
- Provide opt-out mechanisms
- Follow CAN-SPAM for outreach
- Comply with data protection laws
Output Quality
Ensure contact information:
- Includes all available fields
- Cites data sources
- Has confidence/verification level
- Follows data privacy laws
- Is formatted consistently
- Includes contact preferences
- Notes data freshness
- Provides context (tenure, role, team)
- Flags any uncertainties
- Suggests verification steps
Provide structured, ethically-sourced contact information with full transparency.
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1---2name: contact-hunter3description: Search and extract contact information for people or companies including names, phone numbers, emails, job titles, and LinkedIn profiles. Aggregates data from multiple sources and provides enriched contact details. Use when users need to find contact information, build prospect lists, or enrich existing contact data. Use when this capability is needed.4---56# Contact Hunter78Find and enrich contact information from multiple sources with detailed attribution.910## Instructions1112When a user needs to find contact information:13141. **Identify Search Type**:15 - **Person search**: Find specific individual16 - **Company search**: Find people at a company17 - **Role search**: Find people with specific job title18 - **Email verification**: Validate and enrich existing email19 - **Bulk enrichment**: Enrich list of contacts20212. **Gather Search Parameters**:22 - Person name (first, last)23 - Company name24 - Job title / role25 - Location (city, state, country)26 - Industry27 - LinkedIn URL (if available)28 - Email domain29 - Any other identifying information30313. **Search Strategy**:3233 **Sources to Check** (suggest to user):34 - LinkedIn (manual search with user's account)35 - Company website (About, Team, Contact pages)36 - GitHub (for developers)37 - Twitter/X profiles38 - Professional directories39 - Public databases40 - ZoomInfo (if user has access)41 - Apollo.io (if user has access)42 - Hunter.io (if user has access)43 - RocketReach (if user has access)4445 **⚠️ Important**: This skill GUIDES the search process. It doesn't directly access paid APIs. Instead, it:46 - Provides structured search queries47 - Suggests where to look48 - Helps organize found information49 - Validates and formats results50514. **Search Instructions Format**:52 ```53 🔍 CONTACT SEARCH: [Name/Company]5455 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━56 📋 SEARCH PARAMETERS57 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━5859 Target: John Smith60 Company: Acme Corp61 Title: VP of Engineering62 Location: San Francisco, CA6364 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━65 🎯 RECOMMENDED SEARCH QUERIES66 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━6768 LinkedIn:69 1. Search: "John Smith VP Engineering Acme Corp"70 2. Use company filter: "Acme Corp"71 3. Use title filter: "VP of Engineering"72 4. Location: "San Francisco Bay Area"7374 Google:75 1. "John Smith" "VP of Engineering" "Acme Corp"76 2. "John Smith" "Acme Corp" email77 3. site:linkedin.com/in "John Smith" "Acme"78 4. site:acme.com "John Smith"7980 Company Website:81 1. Check: https://acme.com/about82 2. Check: https://acme.com/team83 3. Check: https://acme.com/leadership84 4. Check: https://acme.com/contact8586 Email Pattern Guessing:87 Common patterns at acme.com:88 • john.smith@acme.com89 • john@acme.com90 • jsmith@acme.com91 • j.smith@acme.com92 • smithj@acme.com9394 GitHub (for technical roles):95 • Search: "John Smith Acme"96 • Look for company in bio9798 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━99 📝 DATA COLLECTION TEMPLATE100 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━101102 Once you find the information, fill this template:103104 Full Name: [First Last]105 Job Title: [Exact title]106 Company: [Company name]107 Email: [email@domain.com]108 Phone: [(xxx) xxx-xxxx]109 LinkedIn: [linkedin.com/in/username]110 Location: [City, State/Country]111 Department: [Engineering, Sales, etc.]112113 Additional Info:114 • Reports to: [Manager name]115 • Team size: [Number]116 • Start date: [When they joined]117 • Previous companies: [List]118 • Education: [Degree, School]119120 Data Sources:121 • [LinkedIn profile URL]122 • [Company website URL]123 • [Other sources]124125 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━126 ✅ VERIFICATION STEPS127 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━128129 1. Cross-reference multiple sources130 2. Check LinkedIn profile matches company131 3. Verify email format matches company pattern132 4. Validate phone number format133 5. Confirm job title is current134 6. Check for recent company changes135136 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━137 ⚠️ COMPLIANCE & ETHICS138 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━139140 • Only use publicly available information141 • Respect privacy and GDPR regulations142 • Don't scrape private databases143 • Honor do-not-contact preferences144 • Use for legitimate business purposes only145 • Keep CAN-SPAM compliance for cold outreach146 ```1471485. **Organize Results**:149150 **Individual Contact Card**:151 ```152 ┌─────────────────────────────────────────┐153 │ JOHN SMITH │154 │ VP of Engineering @ Acme Corp │155 ├─────────────────────────────────────────┤156 │ 📧 john.smith@acme.com │157 │ 📱 (415) 555-0123 │158 │ 💼 linkedin.com/in/johnsmith │159 │ 📍 San Francisco, CA │160 ├─────────────────────────────────────────┤161 │ Department: Engineering │162 │ Reports to: Sarah Chen (CTO) │163 │ Team size: ~45 engineers │164 │ Tenure: 2+ years at Acme │165 ├─────────────────────────────────────────┤166 │ 🔍 Sources: │167 │ • LinkedIn (verified) │168 │ • Company website │169 │ • Verified: 2024-01-15 │170 └─────────────────────────────────────────┘171 ```172173 **Bulk Results** (CSV/Excel format):174 ```csv175 Name,Title,Company,Email,Phone,LinkedIn,Location,Source,Verified176 John Smith,VP Engineering,Acme Corp,john.smith@acme.com,(415) 555-0123,linkedin.com/in/johnsmith,San Francisco,LinkedIn,2024-01-15177 Jane Doe,Director Marketing,Acme Corp,jane.doe@acme.com,(415) 555-0124,linkedin.com/in/janedoe,San Francisco,Company Website,2024-01-15178 ```1791806. **Email Pattern Detection**:181182 When searching company contacts, detect email patterns:183 ```184 🔍 DETECTED EMAIL PATTERN: Acme Corp185186 Confirmed Emails Found:187 • john.smith@acme.com188 • sarah.chen@acme.com189 • michael.jones@acme.com190191 Detected Pattern: firstname.lastname@acme.com192193 Confidence: 95%194195 Alternative Patterns (if primary fails):196 • firstname@acme.com197 • firstnamelastname@acme.com198 • f.lastname@acme.com199200 To Verify Unknown Email:201 1. Use email verification tool202 2. Check for bounce/invalid203 3. Look for SMTP response204 4. Verify on LinkedIn205 ```2062077. **Data Enrichment**:208209 For existing contacts, enrich with:210 - Current job title211 - Company changes212 - Updated contact info213 - Social profiles214 - Company information215 - Reporting structure216 - Recent activity/posts2172188. **Export Formats**:219220 - **CSV**: For CRM import221 - **JSON**: For API integration222 - **vCard**: For contact managers223 - **Salesforce CSV**: Pre-formatted for SFDC224 - **HubSpot CSV**: Pre-formatted for HubSpot225226## Search Strategies227228**For Company Employees**:229```230site:linkedin.com/in "[Company Name]"231OR232site:[company-domain.com] "team" OR "about" OR "leadership"233```234235**For Specific Roles**:236```237"[Job Title]" "[Company]" email238OR239"[Job Title]" site:linkedin.com "[Company]"240```241242**For Email Validation**:243- Check company website for email format244- Use email verification services245- Look for pattern in existing emails246- Test with email finder tools247248**For Phone Numbers**:249- Company website contact page250- LinkedIn profile (sometimes public)251- Professional directories252- Industry associations253254## Example Triggers255256- "Find the VP of Sales at Acme Corp"257- "Get contact info for John Smith at Microsoft"258- "Find engineering managers at Stripe"259- "Enrich this list of contacts with emails"260- "What's the email pattern at Google?"261- "Find the marketing team at HubSpot"262263## Compliance Guidelines264265**What's Allowed**:266- Publicly available information267- Business contact information268- LinkedIn public profiles269- Company websites270- Professional directories271- Published contact lists272273**What's NOT Allowed**:274- Scraping private databases275- Purchasing questionable contact lists276- Bypassing email verification277- Ignoring opt-out requests278- Violating GDPR/CCPA279- Harassing contacts280281**Best Practices**:282- Always cite data sources283- Respect privacy preferences284- Use for legitimate business purposes285- Keep data up to date286- Provide opt-out mechanisms287- Follow CAN-SPAM for outreach288- Comply with data protection laws289290## Output Quality291292Ensure contact information:293- Includes all available fields294- Cites data sources295- Has confidence/verification level296- Follows data privacy laws297- Is formatted consistently298- Includes contact preferences299- Notes data freshness300- Provides context (tenure, role, team)301- Flags any uncertainties302- Suggests verification steps303304Provide structured, ethically-sourced contact information with full transparency.305306---307> Converted and distributed by [TomeVault](https://tomevault.io/claim/onewave-ai) — claim your Tome and manage your conversions.308<!-- tomevault:4.0:skill_md:2026-04-11 -->
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