PROSPECT RESEARCH · Workflow idea

Find profiles that fit your search and keep outreach in human hands.

Describe the roles, industry, and location relevant to a prospecting question. Gather matching public professional profile pages with their visible titles in a review list, so a team member can confirm relevance and permission before a record is retained or anyone is contacted.

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Starts with
Prospecting criteria
Produces
A shortlist of public profile links and visible professional descriptions, awaiting a person’s relevance and privacy review.
Category
Sales

01 / The starting point

A clear request.
A useful direction.

A team member’s stated role, industry, and location preferences for public profile research

“Find potentially relevant public professional profiles and organize them for review, without contacting people or making eligibility decisions automatically.”
An example request · Make it specific to your team.

02 / The work

5 tasks.
One useful outcome.

Helps a sales or research team turn a focused prospecting question into a shortlist that is easier to assess.

  1. Define a focused prospecting question

    Specify the role, industry, and location needed for the research, using criteria relevant to the team’s purpose.

  2. Gather potentially relevant public profiles

    Collect profile links and visible professional descriptions that appear to match the stated criteria.

  3. Organize results for review

    Keep the profile reference and reason for a possible match together, and remove obvious repeats.

  4. Verify the person and relevance

    Have a team member check the original profile, confirm that the match is suitable, and remove unrelated or uncertain results.

  5. Approve record changes and contact

    Require an authorized person to confirm the permitted purpose, recipient, and exact message before retaining a prospect record or contacting anyone.

03 / The result

Something useful.
Something to build on.

A shortlist of public profile links and visible professional descriptions, awaiting a person’s relevance and privacy review.

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Find professional profiles for a prospect list

Sales · Example outcome

The handoff

A shortlist of public profile links and visible professional descriptions, awaiting a person’s relevance and privacy review.

Keep in mind

Public information can be outdated or describe the wrong person, and a profile’s visibility does not grant permission for every use. Collect only work-relevant details, follow applicable privacy and contact rules, and require a person to verify each profile and approve any record change or outreach.

04 / Make it yours

Set the brief.
Set the standard.

A few choices shape the work around your team.

Define appropriate prospect criteria

Use role-related business criteria and avoid sensitive personal characteristics or unrelated information.

Set privacy, retention, and access rules

Limit the shortlist to teammates with a business need and define when unneeded profile details are removed.

Document review and outreach requirements

Name who verifies matches, approves prospect record changes, and checks contact permission and message wording.

Test ambiguous and unrelated matches

Review similar names, incomplete profiles, and weak matches; confirm uncertain results remain unapproved and no outreach is sent automatically.

Keep exploring

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Bring approved professional and company research together for a person to verify before deciding whether to reach out.

Review finance-hiring prospects

Organize public finance job postings into distinct company and role summaries for a sales or research team to assess.

Review public-comment prospects

Organize relevant public discussion and profile details for research, while keeping personal information and outreach under human review.

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