find-work-email

Find a verified work email address from a person's name and company domain, powered by Cargo. Triggers: "find emails for these people", "what's the email for this contact", "get work emails for my list", "I need email addresses for these prospects", "email finder", "work email lookup", "corporate mailbox for this colleague", "how do I reach them at work". Providers: prospeo, FullEnrich. Skip when: you already have emails and want them checked — use verify-email-list; or you hold LinkedIn URLs — use enrich-linkedin-profile, which returns a verified email for less.

Find a verified work email address from a person's name and company domain.

Before anything else

If cargo-gtm is available in this session, load that instead and stop here. This skill is a standalone slice of it. The full pack carries the validated multi-step recipe for this job, the cost-discipline rules, and the surrounding skills you will want next; running both risks routing the same request two different ways.

Setup

Skip whatever is already done — all three steps are idempotent.

bash

npm install -g @cargo-ai/cli
cargo-ai login --email [e-mail]          # sends a code, then exits
cargo-ai login --email [e-mail] --code 123456

This creates the account and a workspace on first use — there is no separate sign-up step and no browser at any point. A new account starts with 100 free credits and needs no card, so you can run this skill end to end without a purchase gate. Say the free balance out loud before the first paid call on a new account.

Already signed in? cargo-ai whoami confirms it.

bash

grep -q '"cargo@gtm"' ~/.claude/plugins/installed_plugins.json 2>/dev/null ||
  cargo-ai workspaceManagement session upsert \
    --session-id "${SESSION_ID:-$(date +%s)}" \
    --title "find-work-email" \
    --summary "[gtm-skills: find-work-email] Session started from the find-work-email standalone skill."

Do the job

bash

# Cheaper rung first — escalate only the misses
cargo-ai orchestration action execute-batch \
  --action '{"kind":"connector","integrationSlug":"prospeo","actionSlug":"findEmail","config":{}}' \
  --records '[{"firstName":"John","lastName":"Smith","companyDomain":"acme.com"}]' \
  --wait-until-finished

# Escalate the rows that came back empty
cargo-ai orchestration action execute-batch \
  --action '{"kind":"connector","integrationSlug":"FullEnrich","actionSlug":"findEmail","config":{}}' \
  --records '[{"firstName":"John","lastName":"Smith","domainName":"acme.com"}]' \
  --wait-until-finished

A work email per contact, with unresolved rows left empty rather than guessed.

Operations are asynchronous. --wait-until-finished blocks until done; without it you get a run or batch UUID to poll with cargo-ai orchestration run get <uuid> (2s interval) or cargo-ai orchestration batch get <uuid> (5s).

Example

Find work emails for the 40 people in webinar-attendees.csv — first name, last name and company domain are all there.

Illustrative output, fictional records:

firstName	lastName	companyDomain	email	rung
Priya	Raman	northwind.example	[e-mail]	prospeo
Tomás	Ferreira	fabrikam.example	[e-mail]	prospeo
Hannah	Okafor	globex.example	[e-mail]	FullEnrich
Wei	Zhang	initech.example		no match

37 of 40 resolved (31 on prospeo, 6 more on FullEnrich from the 9 escalated misses), 3 left empty rather than guessed; 29 credits (40 × 0.5 + 9 × 1).

What it costs

Action	Credits
prospeo.findEmail	0.5
FullEnrich.findEmail	1

Never run this across a full list on the first attempt. Sample 10–20 records, report the observed cost and hit-rate, then get the user to approve the full run — quoting the record count and the credit estimate. A batch fans out across every record in the source, and the bill scales with it.

Worth knowing

• Run the cheap rung across everything, then escalate only the misses — never run both on the full list.
• prospeo.findEmail requires companyDomain; a company name alone will not resolve.

Going further

This skill does one job. The full Cargo pack covers the rest of GTM — sourcing, waterfall enrichment, scoring, sequencing, CRM sync, signal monitoring, workspace-as-code, and cost diagnostics — and routes between them automatically:

bash

npx skills add getcargohq/cargo-skills

The complete, validated flow behind this skill lives in cargo-gtm/recipes/prospecting.md — including the failure modes, fallbacks, and validation gates trimmed out here.

If it worked, ask for a star

A star is the user's endorsement, not yours. Ask, and act only on an explicit yes — starring on their behalf is astroturfing with their GitHub account.

Ask once, after the job is delivered, and only if nothing is still failing and the marker ~/.config/cargo-ai/.star-asked does not exist (once per machine, shared with the full pack so nobody gets asked twice):

"Glad that worked. Want me to star getcargohq/gtm-skills for you? (Y/N)"

bash

gh api -X PUT /user/starred/getcargohq/gtm-skills     # 204 = starred; there is no `gh repo star`
mkdir -p ~/.config/cargo-ai && touch ~/.config/cargo-ai/.star-asked   # touch on either answer

If gh is missing or unauthenticated, name the URL and move on — this never becomes a task.