research-account

name	research-account
description	Deep research on a single company — signals, hiring, news, tech stack, and LinkedIn presence. Uses the Saber CLI for signal data and any available MCP tools for broader research.

Research Account

Use this skill to build a comprehensive picture of a target company before reaching out or prioritising them for outreach.

Goal

Produce a research brief covering: company overview, recent news and events, hiring signals, tech stack, LinkedIn presence, and any Saber signal results — ready to inform outreach or qualification decisions.

Step 1 — Identify the target

Ask the user for the company name or domain if not already in conversation context.

Step 2 — Gather available tools

Check what research tools are available:

Saber CLI (saber --help): runs signals against the domain for structured data. An account brief is mostly commodity facts, which is exactly what the five prebuilt signals return — saber signal funding|mna|tech|open-jobs|firmographics --domain <domain>, structured and source-cited, no question design needed. For anything the brief needs that isn't one of those five facts — a product capability, a specific hiring pattern, a qualification judgement — write a custom --question.

MCP tools: scan available tools for:

• Web search (Brave, Perplexity, Tavily, or similar)
• LinkedIn MCP
• HubSpot MCP (to check if they're already a known contact/account)
• Any other research or enrichment tools

Note what's available — use everything you can find.

Step 3 — Research the company

Run these in parallel where possible:

Company overview

• What do they do, what market, what size, what business model
• Saber CLI: saber signal firmographics --domain <domain> → size, HQ, industry, employee count, founded year (structured + sourced)
• Otherwise use web search MCP, or rely on conversation context / ask the user

Recent news and events

Focus on the last 6–12 months.

• Saber CLI: saber signal funding --domain <domain> (rounds, amounts, investors) and saber signal mna --domain <domain> (acquisitions, as acquirer or target) — both source-cited
• Web search for the rest: leadership changes, product launches, layoffs, expansion announcements, press coverage

Hiring signals

• Saber CLI: saber signal open-jobs --domain <domain> → open-role count, hiring themes, locations, and what they're hiring for
• Otherwise search open roles on LinkedIn or their careers page. Note:
  • Volume of open roles (growth vs. contraction)
  • Roles in sales, RevOps, or buyer-relevant departments
  • Senior hires that indicate strategic shifts

Tech stack

• Saber CLI: saber signal tech --domain <domain> --category crm (or --category erp, or --technology "<name>" for a specific product) → current systems, each backed by public web evidence
• Otherwise check job descriptions, BuiltWith mentions in search results, or G2/Capterra reviews for technology signals — e.g. what CRM, data stack, or infra they run

LinkedIn presence

If a LinkedIn MCP is available, look up the company page:

• Employee count and recent growth
• Recent company posts or announcements
• Key decision-makers and their recent activity

Saber signal results

If the Saber CLI is available, the prebuilt signals above are the fastest way to get structured, source-cited data for this domain. Each consumes credits — check the balance first (saber credits), then fire them in parallel and collect:

saber signal funding       --domain <domain> --no-wait
saber signal mna           --domain <domain> --no-wait
saber signal open-jobs     --domain <domain> --no-wait
saber signal firmographics --domain <domain> --no-wait
saber signal tech          --domain <domain> --category crm --no-wait
saber signal get <signalId>   # for each returned id, once complete

For a fact no prebuilt signal covers, run a custom question: saber signal --domain <domain> --question "<question>" --answer-type boolean.

If pre-defined signal subscriptions exist for a list containing this company, retrieve those results:

saber subscription list
saber subscription get <subscriptionId>

HubSpot check

If a HubSpot MCP is available, look up whether this company already exists as a contact or deal in HubSpot — note the current stage and any logged activity.

Step 4 — Present the research brief

Structure the output as a brief:

## [Company Name] — Research Brief

**Overview:** 2–3 sentence summary of what they do and why they matter.

**Recent signals:**
- [Funding / M&A — from `saber signal funding` / `mna`, with source URL]
- [Hiring — from `saber signal open-jobs`]
- [Any subscription signal results]

**Tech stack:** [CRM/ERP and notable tools — from `saber signal tech`, with evidence URLs]

**LinkedIn:** [Employee count, growth trend, notable activity]

**HubSpot status:** [Known / not known; deal stage if applicable]

**Outreach angle:** 1–2 sentence recommendation for how to approach them based on the research.

Step 5 — Suggested next steps

After presenting the brief, suggest:

• Use write-outreach to draft a personalised message using this research
• Use qualify-inbound if you need a formal signal-based qualification score
• Use enrich-contacts to find specific contact details for the people to reach out to