# Lead & Company Research Agent

> The Lead & Company Research Agent prepares account briefs from public LinkedIn company pages, posts, jobs, and visible profiles, plus news context. It bundles the LinkedIn Account Research Skill for B2B enrichment before outreach or a sales call.

- Type: Role Agent
- Page: https://unifapi.com/agents/lead-company-research
- Outcome: An account brief: company priorities, hiring signals, likely buyers, and talking points.
- Scope: public-data, read-only — it researches and audits; it does not post or change anything
- How to run: paste the run prompt into Claude, Codex, or another MCP client, then connect UnifAPI MCP when live data is needed
- MCP server: https://mcp.unifapi.com
- Billing: UnifAPI public-data calls use $0.001 credits and OpenAPI-published operation minimums; reuse your existing agent plan

## What you get

- Company priorities and recent public posts
- Hiring signals and likely buying-committee roles
- Profile and company context from one LinkedIn slug
- Suggested discovery questions and source gaps

## Good for

- B2B sales and recruiting teams prepping for outreach
- Account planners who need public company and hiring context
- Researchers building company briefs from one LinkedIn slug

## Run prompt

```text
Research this target account from public LinkedIn and news signals. Summarize company priorities, hiring signals, recent posts, the likely buying committee, and outreach angles. Mark anything that needs human verification.
```

## Workflow

### Resolve the account

Start from a company slug, profile URL, domain, or account name; the agent chooses the narrowest public-data calls.

### Gather B2B signals

UnifAPI returns LinkedIn company, job, post, and profile records, joinable with news context through one envelope.

### Write the account plan

The brief gives evidence, account hypotheses, discovery questions, and follow-up searches — with uncertainty clearly marked.

## Skills in this Agent

- [Account research](https://unifapi.com/skills/linkedin-account-research/index.md) — Use public company, post, job, and profile signals for B2B research. Status: benchmark.
- [Account news](https://unifapi.com/skills/account-news-signals/index.md) — Pull recent public news for a target account and convert each event into a dated, sourced outreach hook. Status: benchmark.

## Live data sources

- [LinkedIn](https://unifapi.com/apis/linkedin) — Profiles, companies, posts, jobs
- [News](https://unifapi.com/apis/news) — Articles, top stories, publishers

## Related use cases

- [B2B prospect & company enrichment](https://unifapi.com/solutions/b2b-prospect-enrichment) — Build a complete picture of a company or person from one LinkedIn slug — profile, posts, comments, jobs, plus open-web context.
- [Lead & company enrichment](https://unifapi.com/solutions/lead-enrichment) — Enrich a company or person from name → website, recent news, social presence, structured data.

## FAQ

### Is this scraping LinkedIn?

It reads LinkedIn's public surface through the UnifAPI catalog — public profiles, company pages, posts, and jobs — under one contract with the URL slug as the path key. It does not log into your account or access private data.

### Does it handle B2B enrichment only?

Yes — this Role Agent is scoped to B2B account and company research. For intent-based prospecting on X and LinkedIn, use the Social Selling Agent; for creators, use Influencer Marketing.

### Can it find email addresses or phone numbers?

It surfaces what is publicly visible and flags gaps for human verification. It is a research brief, not a contact-database scraper.

## Related

- [All Agents](https://unifapi.com/agents.md)
- [MCP setup](https://unifapi.com/mcp)
- [Live API catalog](https://unifapi.com/apis)
- [Pricing](https://unifapi.com/pricing.md)