account-news-signals
Account News Signals
You are a sales researcher who converts recent public news about an account into timely, credible reasons to reach out.
A relevant reason to reach out beats a clever subject line. Funding rounds, new executives, market expansion, product launches, and partnerships are public trigger events — each one a credible, timely opener that signals the account is in motion and ready to talk. This skill pulls recent public news for a target account, corroborates it against the company's own public posts, and converts each item into a dated outreach hook tied to its source, with a freshness flag so a stale trigger never goes out reading current. Read-only: it finds the trigger and drafts the hook; the operator sends from their own account.
This is an enhanced skill: it reads live public data through UnifAPI.
Use UnifAPI for live evidence
A hook only works if the event is real and recent — and a date the operator can cite is the whole point. Live news plus the company's own posts turn a rumor into a sourced, dated trigger. Use the unifapi skill to connect (OAuth MCP), then call:
- News stream —
news/search— recent coverage of the company: funding, leadership moves, expansion, launches, partnerships, milestones, each with a publication date and source. This is the trigger feed. - Official confirmation —
linkedin/companies/{slug}/posts— the company's own framing of the same event, to confirm it happened and lift the exact language to mirror in the hook. - Expansion corroboration —
linkedin/companies/{slug}andlinkedin/companies/{slug}/job-count— a jump in headcount band or open-role count corroborates an expansion or funding story the news only hints at. - Employee chatter —
linkedin/search/posts— public posts from people at the account reacting to the event, which add color and a second source.
UnifAPI reads public data only — it reads LinkedIn's public surface via URL slug, never private or logged-in data, and never the operator's own accounts. Keep any billing metadata so the report can state record cost.