Agent skill · marketing growth · jeremylongshore
find-design-agency
Use whenever the user wants to find, shortlist, vet, or enrich US design and creative agencies — graphic design, UX/UI, product design, brand identity, packaging, illustration, motion design, and creative direction. Triggers on "find me a UX/UI design agency for our SaaS product", "shortlist three brand-identity studios in NY", "packaging design firm for a CPG launch", or "pull contact info for these 10 design studio domains", even when described indirectly (brand refresh, design our app, build our visual system). Drives the ServiceGraph API (api.servicegraph.co) — a 100k+ US firm catalog filterable by industry, services, location, size, ratings. Defer to find-marketing-agency for marketing-led engagements where design is one of several services. Defer to find-web-developer when the deliverable is a built website. Skip in-house designer hires, "design me a logo" DIY asks, design-software comparisons, consumer/personal-design (weddings, hobby projects), non-US firms, individual freelancers.
Why this skill is useful
Integrates with the ServiceGraph API to access a specialized dataset of US design agencies, providing specific filtering and enrichment capabilities not readily available to the AI.
What it needs
Requires servicegraph account access. About 8k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 2,604 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
find-design-agency Overview Drive the ServiceGraph API (https://api.servicegraph.co) to find, shortlist, and enrich US design and creative agencies via the proservices dataset. The catalog tags firms with industry:designcreative and a ~13-tag service sub-taxonomy spanning graphic design, UX/UI, product design, brand identity, packaging, illustration, motion, and creative direction. Always pin industry:designcreative. Sub-disciplines are typically structured serviceprovided tags (graphic-design, ui-ux-design, product-design, branding, etc.). Two known drifts: the UX/UI tag is ui-ux-design, not ux-ui-design; and there is no industrial-design tag — use product-design plus a hardware keyword. Confirm exact names via /v1/datasets/proservices/fields?includevalues=1. Any HTTP client works (curl, fetch, requests). Examples below use curl. Sibling skills — defer when scope is different Marketing-led engagements where design is one of several services (PR + content + paid + design) → find-marketing-agency. This skill is for design-led engagements where the design work IS the primary deliverable. Build-the-website work (coded marketing site, ecommerce, custom CMS) → find-web-developer. Design agencies often partner with web devs; if the user wants the built artifact, fire web-developer. Custom software with design needs (SaaS app, internal tool) → find-software-developer when the deliverable is software. Pure design (Figma files, brand systems, print collateral) stays here. When NOT to use this skill Consumer/personal design — weddings, hobby projects, Etsy side projects, custom holiday cards, personal portfolio sites. Catalog is B2B procurement only. DIY — "design me a logo", "make me a hero illustration", "redesign my app's onboarding flow". In-house designer hires (Lead Designer, UX Researcher, Brand Designer). Design-software product comparisons (Figma vs Sketch vs Adobe XD, Webflow vs Framer). Knowledge questions ("explain the difference between UX and UI"). …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
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