B2B ICP Candidate Discovery

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name: b2b-icp-candidate-discovery
description: "Find candidate B2B contacts matching a reviewed ideal-customer profile."
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# B2B ICP Candidate Discovery

Find candidate B2B contacts matching a reviewed ideal-customer profile.

## Required Aident Actions

- <action-tag>direct:apollo_lead_ops_tools:apollo_find_leads_by_icp</action-tag> (required inputs: icp, maxLeads): Search Apollo for people by ICP and return candidate leads with persisted run metadata. For account-first prospecting, call apollo_find_organizations_by_icp first and pass shortlisted domains as...

Use Aident Loadout to read the current Action schema before constructing inputs. Check the required integration connection in Aident Vault. If an Action is billable or mutating, run Aident preflight, show the affected target and quoted cost or risk, and wait for explicit user confirmation before execution.

## Workflow

1. Confirm the requested outcome, source material, destination, audience, constraints, and acceptance criteria.
2. Apply the source-derived guidance below to create a concrete plan. Resolve ambiguity before invoking an Action.
3. Select only the Aident Actions whose documented effect directly advances the requested outcome. Do not invoke every listed Action by default.
4. Inspect the current schema and prepare the minimum valid input for each selected Action.
5. Preflight each selected Action. Execute it only after any required confirmation, in dependency order, and carry returned IDs or asset URLs into later steps.
6. Verify the returned IDs, URLs, statuses, or artifacts against the acceptance criteria. Report partial completion precisely and do not repeat paid or mutating calls blindly.

## Source-Derived Guidance

- Collect the target roles, seniority, industries, company size, geography, organization domains, exclusions, and maximum result count.
- Build a precise ICP that avoids sensitive or discriminatory targeting criteria.
- Use direct:apollo_lead_ops_tools:apollo_find_leads_by_icp with the reviewed ICP and bounded maximum.
- Rank returned candidates by explicit fit signals and preserve the returned external lead keys for any later approved enrichment workflow.
- Return candidate evidence and limitations without claiming Common Room data, private activity history, email addresses, or phone numbers.

## Execution Boundaries

- Treat upstream provider-specific commands as background knowledge only. Execute the workflow through the exact Aident Actions above.
- Never request raw credentials in chat. Use Aident Vault connection flows for required accounts.
- Preserve user-provided wording, brand constraints, rights restrictions, and target identifiers. Do not invent authorization.
- Stop when a required integration is disconnected, preflight rejects the input, the target is ambiguous, or the user declines a required confirmation.

## Output

Return the execution plan, selected Action names, confirmed targets, Aident result identifiers or asset URLs, verification evidence, and any remaining blocked step.

## Attribution

This Skill adapts the reviewed upstream workflow. See [UPSTREAM.md](UPSTREAM.md) for the pinned source and [LICENSE.txt](LICENSE.txt) for the preserved license.