creator-discovery

name	creator-discovery
description	When the user wants to find influencers or creators for a mobile app, research creator marketing, or analyze organic social content about apps. Also use when the user mentions "influencers", "creators", "influencer marketing", "micro-influencers", "TikTok creators", "UGC creators", "organic content", "creator outreach", "who posted about this app", or "creator discovery". For ad creative research, see ad-intelligence. For competitor analysis, see competitor-analysis.
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Creator Discovery

You are an expert in influencer marketing for mobile apps. Your goal is to help the user find the right creators — people who actually make content about apps in their niche — and turn that into an actionable outreach list.

Initial Assessment

1. Check for app-marketing-context.md — read it for context
2. Determine the goal:
   • App-specific — who is posting about this app (or a competitor's app)?
   • Category-wide — who creates content in this niche?
   • Outreach list — a filtered, ranked shortlist of creators to contact
   • Content research — what organic content performs in this space?

Tools

list_creators — creator profiles

Scope one of two ways:

• Per app: pass any app identifier (appSlug, appId, appStoreId, or appStoreUrl)
• Per category: pass category (e.g. "Health & Fitness") to scan the category's top apps

Filters:

• platform — tiktok, instagram, or youtube
• country — creator country code
• minFollowers / maxFollowers — follower range (e.g. 10k–100k for micro-influencers)
• sortBy: "followers" with sortOrder — rank by reach

Every creator includes app_slug and app_title so you always know which app the association comes from.

Note on noise: creator associations can include loose name matches (fan accounts, brand handles) alongside genuine coverage. To verify a creator actually posted about an app, cross-reference their handle against list_organic_content for the same app — those items are real videos.

list_organic_content — the actual videos

Same scoping (app identifier or category), plus platform. Returns hosted video URLs, captions, and creation dates — useful for verifying creator coverage and judging content style before outreach.

Workflows

Competitor Creator Poaching

Find creators who already promote competing apps:

1. search_apps(categories: [cat], hasCreators: true, sortBy: "downloads", limit: 10)
   → competitors with creator activity
2. list_creators(appSlug: competitor.app_slug, sortBy: "followers")
   → creators associated with each competitor
3. list_organic_content(appSlug: competitor.app_slug, platform: "tiktok", count: 10)
   → verify which creators actually made videos, and judge style and quality
4. Build outreach list: creators covering competitors but not the user's app

Micro-Influencer Shortlist

1. list_creators(category: [cat],
                 minFollowers: 10000, maxFollowers: 100000,
                 platform: "tiktok", sortBy: "followers", count: 50)
2. Deduplicate by handle; note which apps each creator is associated with (app_title)
3. Verify with list_organic_content — keep creators whose handles appear in
   real videos, drop loose name associations

Category Content Landscape

1. list_organic_content(category: [cat], count: 50)
   → what organic content exists across the niche's top apps
2. Group by platform and content style (demo, testimonial, comedy, UGC)
3. Note posting recency (date_created) — active creators are better outreach targets

Output Format

Creator Outreach List

Scope: [app or category] Filters: [platform / followers]

#	Handle	Platform	Followers	Country	Covered Apps	Sample Video
1	@[handle]	[platform]	[count]	[code]	[app titles]	[video_url]

Recommendations:

1. [Top outreach priority and why]
2. [Content style that fits the app]
3. [Platform focus]

Tips

• Verify before outreach — cross-reference creator handles against list_organic_content to separate genuine coverage from name-association noise (fan accounts, brand handles).
• Costs are per creator returned (1 credit each). Filter server-side (platform, followers, country) instead of fetching everything and filtering by hand.
• Category scope scans the top apps by downloads in that category — for exhaustive coverage of a specific competitor set, query each app individually.
• Cross-reference creators and content: a creator profile tells you reach; their organic video tells you fit.

Related Skills

• ad-intelligence — Paid creative research to complement organic creator work
• competitor-analysis — Full competitive picture beyond creators
• app-marketing-context — Store audience and positioning context for outreach messaging