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research-prospect

Run ad-hoc web research on a prospect (company URL or person) — Firecrawl scrapes the marketing site, key pages (pricing, careers, blog), and surfaces a brief.

activeNeeds a keyActs undeclared245 words

Filed under Prospecting and list building.

From Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system · 61 skills · 290 · pushed 2026-08-20

What it does when it runs

Run ad-hoc web research on a prospect (company URL or person) — Firecrawl scrapes the marketing site, key pages (pricing, careers, blog), and surfaces a brief. Read-only. Use when the user says 'research this prospect', 'tell me about [company]', 'do a deep dive on [domain]', 'pull a brief on this lead', or 'crawl the marketing site for [name]'. Side-effecting on the Firecrawl side (API call), no local DB writes.

Read from the skill and the 1 file bundled beside it. A skill’s own description is written to be selected by an agent, so it describes the job and not the dependencies.

Keys and connectors you must supply
  • FIRECRAWL_API_KEY
Hosts it reaches
  • acmecorp.com
Tool permissions it declares
No allowed-tools in the frontmatter. It does act, so it runs under whatever permissions your session already grants.
Actions present in the files
shell

Ask about research-prospect

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Install it

View source on GitHub ↗
git clone --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --sparse https://github.com/Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system.git /tmp/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system
git -C /tmp/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system sparse-checkout set ".claude/skills/research-prospect"
mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills/research-prospect
cp -R "/tmp/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system/.claude/skills/research-prospect/." ~/.claude/skills/research-prospect/

Picked up without a restart. A project skill of the same name is shadowed by your personal one. For one repository only, swap ~/.claude/skills for .claude/skills. Claude Code docs ↗

The folder is the same in every client that implements the format — 46 of them — so if yours is not above, only the destination changes.

Before you install: this skill will not complete its job on a bare agent. It needs FIRECRAWL_API_KEY, which you have to obtain separately.

The skill

Source on GitHub ↗

Reproduced in full from Othmane-Khadri/YALC-the-GTM-operating-system/blob/5686d1f2f526346133f78eef3349fc5a655757b4/.claude/skills/research-prospect/SKILL.md, which is licensed MIT (repository). 245 words, 10 headings.

Research Prospect

I'll wrap research. Take a URL, run a Firecrawl scrape against the canonical pages, and produce a brief.

When This Skill Applies

  • "research this prospect"
  • "tell me about [company]"
  • "do a deep dive on [domain]"
  • "pull a brief on this lead"
  • "crawl the marketing site for [name]"

NOT this skill (use enrich-with-signals instead):

  • "pull buying signals" — that's structured PredictLeads data, not narrative research.

NOT this skill (use personalize-message with --enrich instead):

  • "personalize a message for them" — that auto-pulls research as part of the personalization.

Workflow

Step 0 — Ask for the URL

"What's the company URL or LinkedIn profile?"

Step 1 — Validate URL

Step 2 — Shell out

cd ~/Desktop/gtm-os && set -a && source .env.local && set +a && \
  npx tsx src/cli/index.ts research --url <url>

Step 3 — Parse output

CLI emits a brief markdown summary + key facts table.

Step 4 — Render the brief verbatim

Don't summarize the summary — pass through what the CLI returns.

Step 5 — Offer follow-ups

"Want me to (a) personalize a message for someone at this company via personalize-message, (b) check buying signals via enrich-with-signals?"

Notes

  • Requires FIRECRAWL_API_KEY in ~/.gtm-os/.env.
  • Firecrawl call cost varies by depth (default: 1 credit per ~5 pages).
  • Read-only on the local DB — research output is rendered in chat, not persisted.

Files bundled with it

These load only when the skill asks for them, so they cost nothing until it runs.

Other skills for the same job

Different authors, same problem. Matched on the words in the skill name, across every library in the catalogue except this one.

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