# sales-prospecting

A prospecting skill for finding companies, ranking accounts, sizing TAM, and tracking champions who leave customers.

- skill · `type=skill` · Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Gemini CLI, OpenCode · 309 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/sales-prospecting/SKILL.md
- Updated: 2026-10-17
- HTML: https://affpapa.org/en/nevibecode/skills/sales-prospecting

## What it does

sales-prospecting starts by asking for the goal, then sends the request to one of 7 routes: new-company discovery, customer lookalikes, account ranking, event prospecting, expansion, TAM sizing, or champion tracking. Results can be handed off to a sheet or CSV, while enrichment stays opt-in.

Searches use Crustdata tools from plain JavaScript inside `execute({ code })`. The skill scores accounts with FIT × TIMING × WARMTH, checks categorical values through autocomplete, and splits work into stages. A wrong filter value can produce zero rows, so the value should be verified before the search runs.

## Install

### Claude Code (native platform)

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

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

### Codex

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

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

### Cursor

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

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

### GitHub Copilot

1. **GitHub CLI**
```bash
gh skill install crustdata/skills sales-prospecting
```

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

### Gemini CLI

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

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

### Windsurf (Devin Desktop)

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

### OpenCode

**Skills CLI (Vercel)**
```bash
npx skills add crustdata/skills --skill sales-prospecting -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/sales-prospecting/SKILL.md

## When to use it
- build a fresh company list from an ICP and signals
- find accounts resembling the best customers
- rank an account book by sales priority
- size a target market with available numbers
- track champions who leave existing customers

## Example prompts
- Build a fresh list of companies matching our ICP and rank the accounts by priority.
- Find companies that resemble our best customers and send the result to CSV.
- Check which champions have left current customers and prepare them for follow-up.

## Source text · SKILL.md · MIT

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```text
---
name: sales-prospecting
description: >
  Prospecting hub. Opens by asking your GOAL, then routes to 7 sub-skills - find new
  companies, lookalikes of best customers, rank my accounts, event prospecting,
  expansion radar, TAM builder, champion tracker (with live watcher). Iterative
  Crustdata search, FIT x TIMING x WARMTH scoring, opt-in enrichment, handoff to
  sheet or CSV. Use for "build me a list", "find companies like <customer>", "who
  should I prospect", "rank my accounts", "who's hot in my book", "list for
  <conference>", "upsell targets", "how big is this market", "track champions who
  leave customers".
display-name: Sales Prospecting
category: recruiting
icon: list-filter
summary: "Seven playbooks: build target lists, rank your book, size the market, track champions."
sample-prompts:
  - "Rank my accounts and tell me who to work first this week"
  - "Find companies that look like our best customers"
  - "Which champions just left our customers?"
---

# Sales Prospecting

The prospecting hub. **Always open with: "What's your goal?"** and show the 7 sub-skills. Route, then run that sub-skill's recipe exactly. Every recipe below was live-tested — follow it, including the gotchas.

## Step 0: context (never blocks)

- If `config/gtm-config.md` or `config/persona-profile.md` exist in the working directory, read them for ICP, what you sell, buyer titles, customer list, and stack.
- If they don't exist, ask 1-2 quick questions inline ("Who do you sell to — industry, size, geo? Which titles buy?") or point the user at the **icp-builder** skill to build the config properly. A missing config must never block a run.
- Confirm the ask in one line before spending credits.

---

## THE GOAL MENU (show this first)

1. **Find new companies** — "I have an ICP, build me a fresh list"
2. **Lookalikes** — "find companies like my best customers"
3. **Rank my accounts** — "here are my accounts (book / territory / CSV) — who do I work first?"
4. **Event prospecting** — "who's at <conference> that I should meet?"
5. **Expansion radar** — "where can I grow inside my existing customers?"
6. **TAM builder** — "how big is my market, with real numbers?"
7. **Champion tracker** — "alert me when champions leave my customers" (live watcher)

---

## HOW EVERY SEARCH RUNS (Code Mode ground rules)

All Crustdata data tools run inside `execute({ code })` — a **plain-JavaScript script** (author against the typed surface from `get_schema`, but write zero type annotations; a `: Type`, `as`, or generic is a parse error that fails the whole run before any spend).

- **Every script opens with a query comment** — `// user query: ...` for the user's literal ask, `// model query: ...` for a derived step. Scripts without one are rejected before running.
- **One I/O primitive**: `const r = await callTool(name, params)` returns `{ ok: true, data }` or `{ ok: false, status, errorType, message }`. **Always branch on `r.ok`** — a failed call does not abort the script, so an unchecked failure silently proceeds on empty data and looks like "no results".
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