Local SMB Lead Gauntlet

SKILL: Local SMB Lead Gauntlet
Google Maps gives you the business and its website, but place_details quietly returns scraped emails, phones, and social handles. Fan those handles out across the networks you choose — Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn for the owner's professional channel — and each lead becomes a complete, verified contact card.

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:
  - niche (required): <niche — ASK THE USER>
      The type of local business to prospect
  - city (required): <city — ASK THE USER>
      City or metro to search in
  - platforms (optional): (optional — e.g. instagram, facebook, twitter, linkedin)
      Comma-separated list of platforms to run — options: places, instagram, facebook, twitter, linkedin. Omit to run all of them; name specific platforms to limit the run.
  - depth (optional): 6 (default — override if you like)
      How many pages of Google Maps results to scan (maps to search_places pages; more pages = more leads). Defaults to 6.
  - country (optional): (optional — e.g. us)
      2-letter country code to region-bias the Maps search and contact scrape (maps to the country param on search_places and place_details). Defaults to the country in {city}.

PLATFORM SELECTION: some steps are gated with "Only run if {platforms} includes X". If the user supplied a `platforms` value, run only the steps whose platform is listed. If the user did NOT supply `platforms`, run ALL steps — every platform the skill supports.

STEPS:
  1. Tool `search_places` — search_places(query="{niche} {city}", pages=6)
     Collect place_id, business name, website, rating, and review_count for each business and keep the ones with a website or phone as the working lead list.
  2. Tool `place_details` — place_details(place_id=<place_id>)
     Pull emails_and_contacts (emails, phone_numbers, instagram/facebook/twitter handles) and owner_name to seed each lead's dossier.
  3. Tool `instagram_user_profile` — instagram_user_profile(username=<instagram_handle>)
     Only run if {platforms} includes instagram: enrich with bio, follower count, public_email, external_url, and category to gauge size and capture a second reachable email.
  4. Tool `facebook_page_details` — facebook_page_details(url=<facebook_url>)
     Only run if {platforms} includes facebook: grab official page contact info (email/phone) and confirm the business is active before adding it to outreach.
  5. Tool `twitter_user_profile` — twitter_user_profile(username=<twitter_handle>)
     Only run if {platforms} includes twitter: pull followers_count and verified status to prioritize the most credible, reachable owners.
  6. Tool `search_linkedin_companies` — search_linkedin_companies(query="<business_name> {city}", page=1)
     Only run if {platforms} includes linkedin: find the business's LinkedIn company page to extend the dossier to the B2B professional channel. Match on name and city to avoid false hits.

DELIVER: A ranked lead sheet of local businesses, each with verified emails, phones, owner name, and the social profiles you chose to enrich (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and optionally a LinkedIn company page) — a ready-to-work contact dossier per place.

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.