Agent skill · marketing growth · jeremylongshore
find-software-developer
Use whenever the user wants to find, shortlist, vet, or enrich US software development firms — custom software, web development, mobile app development, backend/API development, DevOps/cloud, system integration, and hosting. Triggers on "find a software dev shop in Austin", "shortlist three custom-software firms with healthcare experience", "we need a mobile app developer for our iOS launch", or "pull contact info for these 10 dev shop domains", even when described indirectly (build a tool, ship a feature, technical partner). Drives the ServiceGraph API (api.servicegraph.co) — a 100k+ US firm catalog filterable by industry, services, location, size, ratings. Defer to find-web-developer for strictly website/landing-page projects. Defer AI/ML, ML pipelines, model building, and data-engineering asks — those are a sibling industry, not software development. Skip in-house engineer hires, code-writing/debugging tasks, cloud-product comparisons, hardware/civil engineering, non-US firms, individual freelancers.
Why this skill is useful
Integrates with the ServiceGraph API to access a specialized dataset of US software development firms, which the AI wouldn't reliably know how to query or filter on its own.
What it needs
Requires curl installed locally. Requires servicegraph account access. About 7k tokens when loaded. Last updated 2026-08-07. 2,604 stars on the source repository.
What this skill does
find-software-developer Overview Drive the ServiceGraph API (https://api.servicegraph.co) to find, shortlist, and enrich US software development firms via the proservices dataset. The catalog has tens of thousands of US IT-services firms tagged across ~21 service sub-tags including web-development, mobile-app-development, api-integration (singular), devops-services, cloud-services, system-integration, application-modernization, staff-augmentation, and managed-services. The catalog has no custom-software, devops, api-integrations (plural), or hosting tag — for those user-facing concepts, pin application-modernization + web-development (for custom software), devops-services, or api-integration (singular) as the closest tags and add the keyword. Always pin industry:itservices. This skill exists to do that automatically — the user shouldn't have to think about catalog taxonomy. Any HTTP client works (curl, fetch, requests). Examples below use curl. Sibling skills — defer when scope is narrow Strictly website / landing-page work (build or refresh a marketing site, simple WordPress) → find-web-developer. If unsure, this skill is the safer default — it covers web dev too. AI/ML modeling specifically (recommendation engines, LLM apps, ML pipelines as the core deliverable) → find-ai-consultancy. Those firms live in a sibling industry (dataaiconsulting), not itservices. Strictly marketing work (SEO, paid media, branding, content) → find-marketing-agency or find-seo-agency. Prerequisites ServiceGraph access, either: the ServiceGraph MCP server (https://mcp.servicegraph.co) loaded in your harness — this plugin's .mcp.json wires it up; OAuth 2.1 + PKCE keeps credentials in the harness sandbox — or a ServiceGraph API key (vk…, minted at <https://servicegraph.co/profile/api-keys>) available as SERVICEGRAPHAPIKEY in the environment or .env.local for the REST path (setup steps under Auth below). An HTTP client for the REST path — the examples use curl. …
How to use it
Reference it in AdaL, Claude Code, Cursor or any coding agent — nothing to install:
@skills jeremylongshore/find-software-developer