Scott — Autonomous Prospect Research Agent

Most outbound pipelines start with a cold list someone half-built in a spreadsheet. Scott builds it for you — continuously, on a schedule, qualified against your ICP before you ever see a name.

He scrapes YC companies, Product Hunt launches, IndieHackers posts, and Twitter/X profiles. For every prospect, he runs ICP qualification against your criteria. Verified emails come from Hunter.io (confidence threshold configurable, free tier works). The output is a clean, enriched, deduplicated list ready for outreach.

Varconi uses Scott internally to run our own pipeline. 72 ICP-qualified prospects sourced in the first week of deployment.

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What Scott does: → Scrapes YC (batch and recent), Product Hunt (launches and makers), IndieHackers (posts and founders), Twitter/X (keyword + profile search) → Qualifies every prospect against your ICP before surfacing them — no manual filtering → Finds verified emails via Hunter.io (confidence >70% threshold, configurable) → Deduplicates across sources — no repeat contacts → Exports enriched CSV ready for Otto or any email tool → Runs on a schedule — continuously feeds your pipeline without you touching it → Logs every run with source breakdown and qualification stats

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Output format (per prospect):

• Company / Name
• Role + LinkedIn URL
• Email (verified, confidence score)
• Source (YC / PH / IH / Twitter)
• ICP match reason
• Scraped at timestamp

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Setup (60 seconds):

1. Drop SOUL.md and AGENTS.md into your OpenClaw workspace
2. Add your ICP criteria to SOUL.md
3. Set DEEPSEEK_API_KEY and HUNTER_API_KEY in your environment
4. Run: python3 scripts/scott.py
5. Schedule with OpenClaw cron for continuous sourcing

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Requires: OpenClaw, DeepSeek API key (~$0.002/run), Hunter.io API key (free tier: 25 searches/month)

Compatible with: Otto (email outreach agent), any CSV-based outreach tool