Find and shortlist SEO agencies

Find and shortlist US SEO agencies via ServiceGraph API

Company hiring an external SEO agency to own search strategy—narrow scope vs. find-marketing-agency.

• · Search scope: industry (marketing_agency) + service (seo), sub-specialty (keyword search across firm text)
• · Shortlisting criteria (size, vertical, local vs. national, link-building focus, etc.)

• · Firm discovery with tag/check/explore tiers
• · Search results: firm names, brief cards
• · Firm details (URL, phone, email, social, address) for shortlist

• · ServiceGraph API (https://api.servicegraph.co)
• · ServiceGraph MCP server (preferred for authed tier)

• · Procurement intent: hiring external SEO agency, not building in-house team or general marketing comparison
• · Bearer token for /search and /get
• · Quota: 200 unique firms/month (/search), 50 unique /get

• · User wants full-service marketing (SEO + PPC + content) → defer to find-marketing-agency instead
• · User wants web development shop that happens to do SEO → defer to find-web-developer
• · Exhausting quota without prioritizing shortlist → incomplete evaluation

• · Sibling skill boundary: defers to find-marketing-agency if scope is multi-service, find-web-developer if dev-heavy
• · Four-tier funnel with quota tracking
• · MCP preference for authed calls
• · SEO sub-flavor (technical, local, link, on-page, ecommerce, B2B) inferred via keyword search, not separate tags