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Competitor Employee Poacher
List a named competitor's employees by seniority — via their personal posts, not the company page.
Run this skill with your agent
1. Connect the MCP server
https://apidirect.io/mcp?token=YOUR_API_KEY
2. Then just say to your agent
Find {target_role}s who work at {competitor} and post on LinkedIn, with a personalized angle for each.
In clients that support MCP prompts (Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor) this skill appears as a prompt named
competitor-employee-poacher.
Any agent can also call get_skill(skill_id="competitor-employee-poacher") to pull these steps on demand.
What it does
Uses author_company + author_title to surface the people who actually work at a rival and post publicly, filtered to the exact role you're hiring — a live, qualifiable sourcing list.
Who it's for: Recruiters and founders sourcing senior or hard-to-find talent.
Inputs
| Input | Required | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
competitor |
Yes | The company to source talent from. | Stripe |
target_role |
Yes | The role/title you're hiring for. | Staff Engineer |
How your agent runs it
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1
search_linkedin_companies(query="{competitor}")Resolve the competitor to its numeric company_id.
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2
search_linkedin(author_company=<company_id>, author_title="{target_role}", sort_by=most_recent)Surface employees in that exact role who post publicly. Collect each author and author_url.
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3
linkedin_person_posts(url=<author_url>)Read each person's recent posts to gauge tenure, interests and an opener before reaching out.
Delivers: A sourcing list — name, profile URL, role signals and a personalized hook — for in-role talent at the competitor.
Tools used
The full playbook
This is exactly what the MCP returns to your agent (via the competitor-employee-poacher prompt or get_skill tool), with your inputs filled in.
SKILL: Competitor Employee Poacher
Uses author_company + author_title to surface the people who actually work at a rival and post publicly, filtered to the exact role you're hiring — a live, qualifiable sourcing list.
You are running this skill on API Direct via its MCP tools. Execute the steps below yourself by calling the named tools in order — values in <angle brackets> come from a previous step. Then deliver the result described at the end.
INPUTS:
- competitor (required): <competitor — ASK THE USER>
- target_role (required): <target_role — ASK THE USER>
STEPS:
1. Tool `search_linkedin_companies` — search_linkedin_companies(query="<competitor>")
Resolve the competitor to its numeric company_id.
2. Tool `search_linkedin` — search_linkedin(author_company=<company_id>, author_title="<target_role>", sort_by=most_recent)
Surface employees in that exact role who post publicly. Collect each author and author_url.
3. Tool `linkedin_person_posts` — linkedin_person_posts(url=<author_url>)
Read each person's recent posts to gauge tenure, interests and an opener before reaching out.
DELIVER: A sourcing list — name, profile URL, role signals and a personalized hook — for in-role talent at the competitor.
Note: each underlying tool call is billed at its normal endpoint price; get_sentiment adds a small per-page surcharge. Page through results as needed but stop once you have enough to deliver the outcome.