prospect
anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins
Convert ICP descriptions to ranked, enriched lead lists with emails and phone numbers via Apollo.
What is prospect?
Prospect turns a plain-English ideal customer profile into a structured search across Apollo's database, returning decision-maker contacts enriched with company data, email addresses, and phone numbers. Use it to quickly generate qualified lead lists from job title, industry, company size, and geography filters.
- Parse natural language ICP descriptions into structured company and person filters
- Search Apollo's company database by industry, employee count, location, and domain
- Enrich top companies with revenue, funding, headcount, and firmographic data
- Find decision-maker contacts matching job titles and seniority levels
- Bulk-match leads to reveal personal emails and phone numbers
- Rank results by ICP fit (Strong/Good/Partial) in a sortable table
How to install prospect
npx skills add https://github.com/anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins --skill prospect- Apollo account with API access and available credits
- MCP integration with Claude AI Apollo MCP enabled
How to use prospect
- 1.Describe your ideal customer profile in plain English (job title, industry, company size, geography)
- 2.The skill parses your description into structured filters (titles, seniorities, industries, locations)
- 3.It searches Apollo's company database using those filters
- 4.Top companies are enriched with revenue, funding, and headcount data
- 5.Decision-maker contacts matching your criteria are found and ranked by ICP fit
- 6.Personal emails and phone numbers are revealed via bulk-match (with credit warning)
- 7.Results appear in a ranked table; choose next actions (save to Apollo, export, refine search, or deep-dive a company)
Use cases
- Generate a list of VP Engineering contacts at Series B+ SaaS companies in the US for outreach
- Find procurement managers at 1000+ employee manufacturing firms for B2B sales
- Identify SDR leaders at companies already using Salesforce and Outreach
- Build a target list of heads of marketing at European e-commerce companies
- Create a CTO prospect list for fintech startups in New York with 50-500 employees
- Sales development representatives (SDRs) and account executives
- Sales leaders building target account lists
- Business development and partnership managers
- Marketing teams running account-based marketing (ABM) campaigns
- Recruiters sourcing decision-makers at specific companies
prospect FAQ
The skill will ask 1–2 clarifying questions. At minimum, you need a job title/role and either an industry or company size to proceed.
The skill warns you of exact credit consumption before enriching leads. Bulk-match (email/phone reveal) is the most expensive step; company enrichment and person search are cheaper.
Yes. After results are shown, you can bulk-create contacts in Apollo via the contacts_create endpoint with deduplication enabled.
You can adjust filters (title, industry, company size, location) and re-run the search. You can also deep-dive a specific company with `/apollo:company-intel`.
Yes. The skill offers export as a CSV-style table for easy copy-paste into spreadsheets or CRM tools.
Full instructions (SKILL.md)
Source of truth, from anthropics/knowledge-work-plugins.
name: prospect description: "Full ICP-to-leads pipeline. Describe your ideal customer in plain English and get a ranked table of enriched decision-maker leads with emails and phone numbers." user-invocable: true argument-hint: "[describe your ideal customer]"
Prospect
Go from an ICP description to a ranked, enriched lead list in one shot. The user describes their ideal customer via "$ARGUMENTS".
Examples
/apollo:prospect VP of Engineering at Series B+ SaaS companies in the US, 200-1000 employees/apollo:prospect heads of marketing at e-commerce companies in Europe/apollo:prospect CTOs at fintech startups, 50-500 employees, New York/apollo:prospect procurement managers at manufacturing companies with 1000+ employees/apollo:prospect SDR leaders at companies using Salesforce and Outreach
Step 1 — Parse the ICP
Extract structured filters from the natural language description in "$ARGUMENTS":
Company filters:
- Industry/vertical keywords →
q_organization_keyword_tags - Employee count ranges →
organization_num_employees_ranges - Company locations →
organization_locations - Specific domains →
q_organization_domains_list
Person filters:
- Job titles →
person_titles - Seniority levels →
person_seniorities - Person locations →
person_locations
If the ICP is vague, ask 1-2 clarifying questions before proceeding. At minimum, you need a title/role and an industry or company size.
Step 2 — Search for Companies
Use mcp__claude_ai_Apollo_MCP__apollo_mixed_companies_search with the company filters:
q_organization_keyword_tagsfor industry/verticalorganization_num_employees_rangesfor sizeorganization_locationsfor geography- Set
per_pageto 25
Step 3 — Enrich Top Companies
Use mcp__claude_ai_Apollo_MCP__apollo_organizations_bulk_enrich with the domains from the top 10 results. This reveals revenue, funding, headcount, and firmographic data to help rank companies.
Step 4 — Find Decision Makers
Use mcp__claude_ai_Apollo_MCP__apollo_mixed_people_api_search with:
person_titlesandperson_senioritiesfrom the ICPq_organization_domains_listscoped to the enriched company domainsper_pageset to 25
Step 5 — Enrich Top Leads
Credit warning: Tell the user exactly how many credits will be consumed before proceeding.
Use mcp__claude_ai_Apollo_MCP__apollo_people_bulk_match to enrich up to 10 leads per call with:
first_name,last_name,domainfor each personreveal_personal_emailsset totrue
If more than 10 leads, batch into multiple calls.
Step 6 — Present the Lead Table
Show results in a ranked table:
Leads matching: [ICP Summary]
| # | Name | Title | Company | Employees | Revenue | Phone | ICP Fit |
|---|
ICP Fit scoring:
- Strong — title, seniority, company size, and industry all match
- Good — 3 of 4 criteria match
- Partial — 2 of 4 criteria match
Summary: Found X leads across Y companies. Z credits consumed.
Step 7 — Offer Next Actions
Ask the user:
- Save all to Apollo — Bulk-create contacts via
mcp__claude_ai_Apollo_MCP__apollo_contacts_createwithrun_dedupe: truefor each lead - Load into a sequence — Ask which sequence and run the sequence-load flow for these contacts
- Deep-dive a company — Run
/apollo:company-intelon any company from the list - Refine the search — Adjust filters and re-run
- Export — Format leads as a CSV-style table for easy copy-paste
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