CTOx

Walk any independent professional — consultant, fractional executive, agency owner, solo founder, advisor — from a fuzzy "I help everyone" identity to an ultra-specific niche AND a pain-sorted list of real prospects with decision-maker contacts and tailored openers. This is the full niche-discovery → testable-ICP → prospecting pipeline (the same one built for fractional CTO Carl Maloney in this repo). Trigger this skill whenever the user says "who do I want to be when I grow up", "who should I be when I grow up", "help me find my niche", "I don't know who my customer is", "who exactly should I sell to", "help me figure out my positioning / ICP", "who needs what I do right now", "build me a target list for my consulting/fractional/agency practice", or any variant where someone selling their own expertise needs to (a) figure out their edge and (b) find who's in the situation that needs it. Use it even when the person doesn't explicitly say "niche" — if they're an independent professional unsure of their positio

Find the best data sources for any vertical. Describe your niche, ICP, or industry and this skill discovers the public + commercial data sources that reveal which companies are in pain (a trigger or problem), verifies the actual fields exist, and scores every source on 7 criteria — quality, scale, price, freshness, accessibility, granularity, and pain-signal strength — ranking cheap + high-quality first. Use when someone asks "what data exists for [vertical]", "where can I find a list of [company type]", "how do I find companies with [problem/trigger]", "best data source for [industry]", or wants to build a targeting / prospecting dataset.

Comprehensive Exa.ai skill - semantic search, Research API, Answer endpoint, Websets, LinkedIn discovery, and company research