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Research a company (positioning, stack, team, news)

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EXAMPLES · WHAT THIS PROMPT PRODUCES

Sample output

**Company brief — Ramp (corporate cards & spend management)**

**What they do:** Ramp provides corporate cards, bill pay, and expense management software that automatically finds and eliminates wasteful spend. The pitch is unusual: a finance tool whose explicit goal is to make you spend *less*.

**ICP + positioning:** Mid-market and growth-stage companies (50–2,000 employees) with finance teams drowning in manual reconciliation. Positioned against Brex (Ramp = savings/efficiency vs. Brex = founder-friendly rewards) and legacy Concur (Ramp = modern, automated).

**Key people:**
- Eric Glyman — CEO/co-founder; posts frequently on AI-in-finance and "time and money saved" framing.
- Karim Atiyeh — CTO/co-founder; technical, product-velocity focused.
- (Note: verify current titles/links directly — leadership pages shift.)

**Tech stack (detectable):** React front-end, AWS infra, Stripe Issuing rails historically, heavy internal ML for transaction categorization.

**Funding & growth:** Multiple large rounds at a multi-billion valuation; consistently reports rapid revenue and cardholder growth. Aggressively expanding into AI-driven finance automation.

**News (last 90 days):** New AI agent features for autonomous expense workflows; continued enterprise push.

**3 sales hooks:**
1. Their "save money" narrative pairs naturally with cost-reduction tooling.
2. Rapid headcount growth = onboarding/procurement strain.
3. Public AI-automation push signals appetite for adjacent automation vendors.

*Confirm all figures and personnel against live sources before outreach.*

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PROMPT TEMPLATE · v1.0.0

Research <COMPANY>.
Deliver a one-page brief:
- What they do (2 sentences)
- ICP + positioning
- Key people (titles, LinkedIn, recent posts)
- Tech stack if detectable
- Funding and growth signals
- News from last 90 days
- 3 hooks for sales outreach.