Prospect developer-focused companies

dev-marketing-prospectorskillsetup L1★24

What it does

Prospect SaaS companies in a specific tech vertical

Best for

Finding warm-signal SaaS prospects in a specific vertical that pass all 5 hard filters (exact fit + product + dev-facing + funded + headcount) with sourced signals

Inputs

· Tech vertical name (e.g. AI Agentic, DevTools)
· Funding stage range
· Max headcount

Outputs

· 9-column prospect table (Company|URL|LinkedIn|Headcount|Signal|Sources|Geography|Pain Point|Sources)

Requires

· Crunchbase
· PitchBook
· GitHub
· LinkedIn
· TechCrunch
· Y Combinator directory
· multiple credible sources

Preconditions

User provides all 3 inputs (vertical, funding, headcount); vertical definition read from references/vertical-definitions.md

Failure modes

· Vertical definition missing (use new vertical protocol)
· Company adjacent instead of exact fit
· Funding/headcount data stale

Trust signals

· Every data point backed by source URL
· Self-reported claims flagged
· Inferences stated explicitly
· 8-step workflow with exact-fit test