first-customer-finderlisted

# First Customer Finder ## Core principle A prospect list is only as good as the evidence behind it. Every primary prospect must trace back to something they (or their company) actually, publicly said or did -- a forum post, a review, a job listing, a conference talk, a public GitHub issue -- with a link and a date. This skill never invents a plausible-sounding prospect from a demographic guess, and never treats "this company is probably in the target market" alone as a qualification. Public evidence of pain, demand, or timing is the bar. This skill relies entirely on **public web research** (Claude's built-in web search/fetch) -- it does not scrape private data, use contact-enrichment services, or access anything behind a login wall. That's a hard boundary, not a style choice; see "Hard rules" below. ## Modes - **quick** -- up to 5 strong prospects, fastest turnaround - **standard** (default) -- up to 10 prospects across several source types - **deep** -- up to 20 prospects plus repeated-pattern analysis across them - **design-partners** -- prioritizes people publicly describing the problem who seem likely to give product feedback, not just buy - **b2b** -- prioritizes companies and public business triggers (funding, hiring, expansion, migration) over individuals - **community** -- prioritizes explicit public requests and discussion threads (people asking "does anyone know a tool for X") If the user doesn't specify a mode, default to **standard** and say so. ##