Use company discovery when you want to build a new list from criteria such as market, location or company size. Use company enrichment when you already know the company or domain and want to add missing information to that record.

Describe the business problem behind the list, not just a collection of filters. Tell your agent what makes a company relevant and which signals should count as evidence of a good match.

• Name the target industries, locations, company sizes or stages that matter.
• Include useful signals such as products, keywords, technologies or funding profile.
• Add exclusions and explain why a plausible-looking company may still be a poor fit.

Use a broad search when the defining criteria matter more than where the companies are listed. Ask for a focused source when the list must come from a particular ecosystem, directory or cohort. If the source does not matter, describe the outcome and let your agent select the available tool.

Ask for a small representative sample first. Check which results are strong matches, which are false positives and which expected companies are missing, then give your agent that feedback before it expands the search.

• Ask the agent to explain briefly why each company matched your brief.
• Keep source links so important details can be checked before outreach or analysis.
• Request deduplication before combining results from more than one search or source.

Use this prompt to test the brief with a small sample before building the complete company list.