# account-research

A skill that researches a company by combining public data with your own history of dealing with them, then returns a plan, org chart, stack or battlecard.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 307 installs · ★ 11
- Author: crustdata
- License: MIT · policy=mirror · the beginning of the file is at the end of this page
- Source: https://github.com/crustdata/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/account-research/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-17
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/crustdata-account-research

## What it does

The skill opens with two questions: what you want out of the research, and where your context sits — CRM, call recorder, team chat, email. From there it routes to one of four modes: an account deep-dive with a plan, an org chart, a tech stack with a wedge, or a competitive battlecard.

Everything runs through the Crustdata MCP server. Calls are plain JavaScript scripts inside the `execute` tool, and each script has to start with a comment naming its source. Branch on `r.ok` after every call — a failure does not stop the script, so an unchecked error quietly returns empty data that reads like a genuine miss.

Some projections are plan-gated. Asking `person_search` for a field such as `professional_network.followers` fails the whole call with a 403 that names the field; drop it and re-run. Identification and autocomplete cost nothing, while search and enrichment spend Crustdata credits, so the skill asks before a large run.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add crustdata/skills --skill account-research -a claude-code
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `~/.claude/skills/account-research/SKILL.md` — Copy the whole skill folder; for one project use .claude/skills/account-research/

### Codex

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add crustdata/skills --skill account-research -a codex
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.agents/skills/account-research/SKILL.md` — For all projects use ~/.agents/skills/

### Cursor

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add crustdata/skills --skill account-research -a cursor
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.cursor/skills/account-research/SKILL.md` — Cursor also reads .agents/skills/ and .claude/skills/

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install crustdata/skills account-research
```

2. **Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.github/skills/account-research/SKILL.md`

### Gemini CLI

1. **Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add crustdata/skills --skill account-research -a gemini-cli
```

2. **Platform CLI**
```bash
gemini skills install https://github.com/crustdata/skills --path skills/account-research
```

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

**Manually: put the files in place**
- File: `.devin/skills/account-research/SKILL.md` — The legacy .windsurf/skills/ path still works

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add crustdata/skills --skill account-research -a opencode
```

### Claude.ai

**Claude.ai**
- Zip the folder and upload it in Settings → Capabilities → Skills

Where a file is given instead of a command, copy the files from the source to that path: https://github.com/crustdata/skills/tree/HEAD/skills/account-research/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- build an account plan from public data plus your own email and call history
- map who runs a company and who reports to whom
- find out what a target runs today and where you can get in
- prepare a battlecard against a named competitor
- check headcount, funding and recent news before a call

## Example prompts
- Account plan for acme.com. We sell a data-quality platform to engineering teams.
- Org chart for Ramp: who runs engineering and who reports to whom?
- Build me a battlecard against our closest competitor

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: account-research
description: >
  Know a company completely. Opens by asking your goal and where your context lives
  (CRM? call recorder? team chat? email?), then routes to 4 modes - account deep-dive & plan
  (external + your internal history with them), org chart (who runs it), tech stack &
  wedge, competitive battlecard. Use for "tell me about <company>", "account plan for
  <company>", "org chart for <company>", "what's their tech stack", "battlecard for
  <competitor>", "how do we beat <X>", "research this account".
display-name: Account Research
category: sales-gtm
icon: building-2
summary: "Know a company before you call it: account plan, org chart, tech stack, or battlecard."
sample-prompts:
  - "Account plan for acme.com. We sell a data-quality platform to engineering teams."
  - "Org chart for Ramp: who runs engineering and who reports to whom?"
  - "Build me a battlecard against our closest competitor"
---

# Account Research

One job: **know a company completely** — what's publicly true (Crustdata + web) AND what your team already knows about them (CRM, calls, team chat, email). Most research skips the second half; that's where deals are actually won.

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## Code Mode ground rules (read once, apply everywhere)

All Crustdata calls run inside the `execute` tool of the Crustdata MCP server ([install.crustdata.com/mcp](https://install.crustdata.com/mcp)) as a plain-JavaScript script. Every snippet in this skill follows these rules:

- **Plain JavaScript only.** Author against the typed tool surface from `get_schema`, but the script body carries zero type annotations — a `: Type`, `as`, or generic is a parse error that fails the whole run before any tool call.
- **Open every script with a source-labeled comment**: `// user query: ...` or `// model query: ...`. Scripts without one are rejected before running (zero spend).
- **One I/O primitive:** `const r = await callTool(name, params)` → `{ ok: true, data }` or `{ ok: false, status, errorType, message }`. **Always branch on `r.ok`** — a failed call does not abort the script; an unchecked failure silently proceeds on empty data and looks like "no results".
- **Return the smallest projection.** Only what the script `return`s reaches the model. Shape results in-script (`project`, `pick`, plain `.map`), never return whole profiles.
- **Fan out independent calls** with `await parallelMap(items, fn)`; batch first with `chunk`. Never parallelize cursor pagination or dependent stages (search → enrich stays sequential; parallelize within a stage).
- **`fields` is a response whitelist.** The result carries only the groups you list; an omitted group reads as `undefined` later and looks like missing data. List every group you read.
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