Claude Skill

People OSINT Researcher

A Claude skill that builds a structured profile on any person from public information. Hand it a name, get a sourced briefing back in minutes.

The People OSINT Researcher is a Claude skill that gathers public, open-source intelligence (OSINT) about a person and writes it into one structured profile. Give it a name. Get a sourced briefing back. Every line traces to a URL.

The Problem

You've got a call in an hour with someone you've never met. A podcast guest. A potential partner. A sales prospect who replied "sure, let's talk." And all you know is their name.

So you start the usual scramble. Google the name. Sixteen people share it. You guess which LinkedIn is theirs. You open their X profile, their newsletter, a podcast they were on, three browser tabs that turn into eleven. You copy a line from one bio, a follower count from another, a city from a third, and paste it all into a notes doc you'll never look at again. Forty minutes later you have a pile of tabs and a half-formed picture, and you still can't say what this person actually does for a living.

Then the call starts and you're winging it.

This skill ends that scramble. Hand Claude the name and it does the digging, the cross-checking, and the writing.

What this Claude skill does

  • Runs a parallel first-pass sweep: searches the name across LinkedIn, X, YouTube, newsletters, podcasts, books, and courses in one batch.
  • Pins down the real person: when a name returns many people, it surfaces candidates and asks before writing, so it never merges two strangers into one profile.
  • Pulls bios from the source: fetches their /about page, LinkedIn headline, newsletter About, and podcast show-note bios, where the accurate copy actually lives.
  • Cross-verifies conflicts: when two sources disagree on city or company, it trusts the source closest to the person and flags the discrepancy instead of guessing.
  • Writes a structured profile to a file: tagline, positioning, offers, content pillars, key stats, career, notable appearances, and voice notes, saved to 00-inbox/.
  • Leaves blanks honestly: no info means a blank field, never a confabulated number or invented bio line.

Why it's amazing!

  • Walk into any meeting already knowing who you're talking to.
  • Stop juggling eleven tabs to assemble one paragraph.
  • Trust what you read, because every claim points back to a source URL.
  • Get a written profile you can reuse, not a pile of browser history.

Who it's for

Anyone who needs to know who they're about to talk to. Founders prepping a partnership pitch, Founders researching a new hire, podcast hosts researching a guest, salespeople before a discovery call, recruiters, and anyone tracking the real players in their niche. Anyone who's ever opened a call knowing nothing but a name.

How it works

Ask Claude something like:

  • "Research Alex Hormozi."
  • "Build a profile on the founder of Acme before my call tomorrow."
  • "Who is @AlexHormozi on X? I'm booking him for a podcast."
  • "OSINT this person: Jane Smith, AI marketer in Iowa, has a YouTube channel."
  • "I'm pitching a partnership next week. Background this person for me."

You'll get a structured profile back, saved as a markdown file:

  • Tagline: their public one-liner, in their own words
  • About: a 2-4 sentence bio pulled from their own copy
  • Positioning: who they help, with what, how they're different
  • Offers / Products: courses, services, books, with links
  • Content Pillars: the topics they post about
  • Key Stats: subscriber and follower counts they highlight publicly
  • Notable Appearances: podcasts, articles, events, with links
  • Voice / Style Notes: how they sound, so you can mirror or anticipate it
  • Sources: every URL the profile drew from

Pairs well with these other skills

The profile is the starting briefing — after it saves, these skills pick up right where it leaves off:

FAQ

Does it cost anything to run?

The core research runs on standard web search and page fetching, no API key required. The optional deeper passes (full X timeline, LinkedIn post scrape) use other skills that may need their own keys.

Is this legal and ethical?

Yes, it's defensive and educational, public info only. Public bios, public posts, public websites, public statements. It won't dig for private contact info, home addresses, family members, financial records, or anything behind a login.

How accurate is it?

Every claim in the profile traces to a source URL, and conflicting sources get flagged rather than silently resolved. If it can't verify something, it leaves the field blank instead of guessing.

What if two people share the same name?

It stops and asks. When a name is ambiguous, it surfaces a few likely candidates and waits for you to confirm before writing, so you never get a profile that blends two different people.

Will it invent details to fill out the profile?

No. Blank fields stay blank. A confabulated subscriber count or made-up bio is worse than an empty line, so it won't pad with generic filler.

Where does the profile get saved?

The report gets saved to a markdown file named after the person (like alex-hormozi.md). If a profile with that name already exists, it asks before overwriting.

Can it go deeper than the first profile?

Yes. After saving, it offers deeper passes, like a full recent X timeline, a LinkedIn post history, or a transcript pull on a flagship video to study their positioning and voice.

Safe To Install

Please read before installing. Any skill you copy online is someone else's code running inside your Claude, and a lot of what's out there should give you pause. Most authors who give skills away don't give a second thought to quality or security. Most are vibe-coded slop pushed out untested, and some are the occasional bad actor hiding an exploit in plain sight. (Read about OpenClaws ClawHub security nightmare). Every skill we publish is vetted by a programmer with 20+ years of professional experience and checked line by line for anything that touches your files without reason. With Stim-Pack Studios Claude Skills, you get peace of mind knowing you're installing safe, vetted code, not a stranger's guess.

Add it to your Claude workflow

If you ever walk into meetings knowing nothing but a name, or prepping a sales call with a prospect who just said yes, or vetting a new hire before the interview, researching a podcast guest, sizing up a partner before the pitch...the list goes on. This Claude skill collapses the eleven-tab scramble into a single sourced briefing.

Install the People OSINT Researcher Claude skill and know who you're talking to before you say hello.