Find Candidate Engineering Contact
leadgen_find_contactFind engineering decision-maker candidates for any company from public search snippets. Get CTO, VP Engineering, Head of Engineering profiles for manual verification.
Instructions
Searches public, search-engine-indexed snippets (not a LinkedIn scrape) for a likely engineering decision-maker at a company — CTO, VP Engineering, Head of Engineering, etc.
IMPORTANT: results are UNVERIFIED candidates parsed from search snippet text. They are a starting point for manual confirmation (open the profile URL yourself, or verify via a mutual connection / company site team page), not a guaranteed accurate contact. Never send outreach based solely on this tool's output without a human sanity-check.
Args:
company_name (string): required
role_hint (string, optional): a specific title to prioritize, e.g. "Head of Engineering". Defaults to trying CTO, VP Engineering, Head of Engineering, Engineering Lead, Director of Engineering.
Returns: JSON with schema: { "company_name": string, "candidates": [ { "name_guess": string | null, "title_guess": string | null, "profile_url": string | null, "snippet": string, "verified": false // always false — see IMPORTANT note above } ], "count": number }
Examples:
Use when: "Who leads engineering at ElectreeFi?" -> company_name="ElectreeFi"
Use when: "Find their Head of Data" -> company_name="Acme Corp", role_hint="Head of Data"
Don't use when: you need a verified email address (this tool does not find or guess emails)
Error Handling:
Returns "No candidates found" if search turns up nothing matching common engineering-leadership titles
Returns an error if BRAVE_API_KEY is not configured
Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| role_hint | No | Preferred title to look for, e.g. 'CTO'. Defaults to trying several common engineering-leadership titles. | |
| company_name | Yes | Company name to search for. |