The problem this solves
Agencies are a distinct kind of account: one relationship can bring a dozen client deployments, and the person who decides is usually the founder or managing director rather than a department head. They are also hard to list well. Agency directories are pay-to-play and stale, and the useful qualifier - what the agency actually builds with - is invisible in any directory and visible only in the technologies detected on the agency's own site and the sites it has shipped for clients.
For a company whose product complements <technology>, the agencies already fluent in it are the fastest route to distribution. The list has to be precise on size, because a two-person studio and a 400-person network need different conversations, and it has to carry the evidence, because the first message to a founder should name the specific project or property where the technology was seen.
How the mission runs
- Search for agencies in the size band. The Prospecting Agent runs a company search for marketing, digital and web agencies with 10 to 200 employees, using industry classification and headcount from live firmographics. Freelancer collectives and holding-company networks fall outside the band and are excluded.
- Detect the technology on their properties. Technographics are checked on each agency's own domain, and where the agency publishes a portfolio the agent reads the client sites it links to and checks them too. An agency qualifies if <technology> is detected on its own site or on at least one client property, and the row records which.
- Find the founder or managing director. People search identifies the founder, CEO or managing director, and the email finder and verification return a deliverable address. At agencies with several partners, the one who leads client services or partnerships is preferred, since that person owns tooling decisions.
- Write companies and people into Attio. Each agency is created or updated in Attio as a company with the founder as a linked person, and a note on the company records the technology evidence: the property where it was seen and the date. The batch is reviewed before anything is written.
The prompt
This is the exact objective the agent receives. Swap the obvious placeholders for your own domain, segment or channel and run it as-is from the console, Slack, or the API.
What comes back
Up to 150 agencies in Attio, each a company record with headcount, location and a note naming where <technology> was detected, plus the founder or managing director as a linked person with a verified email. The summary shows how many agencies were found in the size band, how many showed the technology on their own site versus client work, and how many produced a verified founder.
Make it yours
- Require the technology on client work specifically, which selects agencies that ship it for others rather than merely using it internally.
- Add a second technology and ask for agencies running both, which finds the ones already living in your stack.
- Send the list to HubSpot or Pipedrive, or to Google Sheets for a partnerships team review.
Frequently asked questions
How does the agent find client sites?
It reads the agency's portfolio and case-study pages through the site crawl capability and follows the links to the client domains it names, then runs technographics on those domains. Agencies without a public portfolio are judged on their own site only, and the row says so.
Can the size band be changed?
Yes. Name any headcount range; the same search runs against live firmographics so the band is accurate at run time.
Is the founder always the right contact?
For agencies under 50 people, almost always. Above that, ask for the head of partnerships or the director of technology instead, and the agent applies that preference.