customer-finder

customer-finder is a skill for Codex from buildfastwithai/gen-ai-experiments. It costs 93 tokens per session (1,113 once invoked), scanned A, a copy of first-customer-finder, MIT.

A research workflow for finding likely first customers, early adopters, design partners, or beta users for a startup. It uses recent public evidence about customer problems, buying interest, and business changes.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to inspect a product or idea, define an ideal customer profile, search public discussions and company pages, and produce a short evidence-backed prospect list.
Why use it?
It helps separate plausible prospects from confirmed buyers and avoids relying only on guesses about who might need the product.

Skill for Codex

Written for Codex: agents/openai.yaml present. Also seen: mentions Codex.

Good fit Use it to inspect a product or idea, define an ideal customer profile, search public discussions and company pages, and produce a short evidence-backed prospect list.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/buildfastwithai/gen-ai-experiments/customer-finder
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add buildfastwithai/gen-ai-experiments --skill customer-finder
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/buildfastwithai/gen-ai-experiments

Made for: Codex.

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README.md
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Per session 93 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 1,113 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin 97% copy Near-identical to another mod in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00093 $0.01113
Opus 5 $0.00046 $0.00557
Sonnet 5 $0.00019 $0.00223
Haiku 4.5 $0.00009 $0.00111

Measured 10d ago against content hash 03492190daa4, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

customer-finder scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 10d ago.

The scan reads SKILL.md. This mod also ships 1 executable file (scripts/generate_report.py), listed below but not scanned — reading those needs a real analyzer, not pattern matching.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

Origin

This is a copy

97% identical to first-customer-finder — 4 lines differ, which has more behind it and is treated as the original. This page carries a canonical link to it rather than competing with it.

skills/customer-finder-skill/customer-finder/SKILL.md · 102 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 102 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Customer Finder

Turn a startup URL or product description into a short, evidence-backed list of plausible first customers. Use public signals, preserve privacy, and distinguish a prospect from a confirmed buyer.

Read references/research-framework.md before researching or scoring prospects. Read references/report-artifact.md before creating the final report.

Workflow

1. Understand the product

  • Inspect the supplied URL, repository, landing-page copy, or product description.
  • Identify the product, outcome, buyer, user, price or buying motion, geography, and strongest use case.
  • Define one primary ICP, one adjacent ICP, pain triggers, positive signals, and disqualifiers.
  • Infer missing context when safe and label the inference. Ask one concise question only when ambiguity would materially change the search.

2. Build a public-signal search plan

Search current public sources for:

  • explicit tool or alternative requests
  • first-person descriptions of the target problem
  • manual workflows and repeated workaround complaints
  • migration, churn, or competitor-frustration signals
  • public company changes that create timing, such as hiring, launching, expanding, or adopting a relevant workflow

Use multiple query angles and source types. Prefer original pages over search snippets. Record the source URL, source type, publication date when visible, and the exact evidence supporting qualification.

3. Research safely

  • Use public, intentionally shared professional or business information only.
  • Do not bypass login walls, paywalls, access controls, rate limits, or robots restrictions.
  • Do not use data brokers, leaked datasets, private groups, personal email discovery, phone enrichment, or sensitive personal information.
  • Do not infer protected traits or target people using health, financial hardship, political belief, sexuality, religion, or other sensitive attributes.
  • Prefer companies, public professional profiles, public requests, and community posts relevant to the product.
  • Quote minimally and paraphrase by default. Link every material pain or timing signal.

Read the full file on GitHub · 102 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 10d ago First seen · 102 lines · 93 tokens per session scan A 03492190daa4

Subscribe to this mod's changes

customer-finder is a skill published in the GitHub repository buildfastwithai/gen-ai-experiments (763 stars, last pushed today), licensed MIT. It adds 93 tokens to every session and 1,113 once invoked, about $0.0005 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. It is 97% identical to first-customer-finder, differing in 4 lines, and is treated as a copy.

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