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Prompt library · 19 tested prompts

Research prompts that work,
tested in Autumn

01 · One line

Sometimes one line is enough

For one person or company you already know, a type word and a name does the job. Autumn picks the fields itself; in our tests, long briefs that listed every field came back no richer.

Profile a person

You know who it is and want everything public about them in one record.

Looks inLinkedInPersonal sitesTalks and podcastsPress

Add the company after the name when the name is common. A long brief listing the fields came back no richer than this one line.

Some of the fields it fills
current_rolespast_roleseducation_historybiorecent_poststalksarticlesawardspress_mentionssocial_handlespersonal_websitegoogle_scholar_urlis_foundercitylinkedin_urlimage_url

Profile a company

Before a call, a deal or a partnership: one record with the company's people, money, product and news.

Looks inCompany siteFunding announcementsPressJob posts

Put the domain in brackets so it researches the right company. Our longer brief asking for each field by name came back with fewer fields than this.

Some of the fields it fills
descriptionfounderskey_peopleheadcountfunding_roundslead_investorspricing_tiershas_free_tiercustomerscompetitorstechnologiesgithub_starsnews_itemsis_hiringcareers_urlgtm_motion

Research an account from its domain

A signup or a target account where all you have is the domain.

Looks inCompany siteFunding announcementsPressJob posts

A bare domain is enough. It resolves the company first, then builds the same full record as a company profile.

Some of the fields it fills
namedescriptionindustryheadquartersheadcountstagefunding_roundsinvestorskey_peoplefounderspricing_modelcustomerscompetitorstechnologiesnews_itemsis_hiringuse_casescustomer_segments

Find a company's tech stack

You sell to teams that run a given tool, or you need to know what a company already pays for.

Looks inDNS recordsSubprocessor listsJob postsSite code

It reads DNS records, subdomains, subprocessor lists, job posts and the site's own code, so tools show up with proof, not a vendor's guess. Versions appear only where the site's code exposes them.

What came back
tech_nametech_categoryevidence
StripepaymentsListed on Ramp's subprocessor page
HubSpotcrmEmail sending record in DNS
Google WorkspaceproductivityEmail sending record in DNS
HackerOnesecurityDomain verification record
LinearproductivityDomain verification record
Next.js 16, React 19frontendRamp's own JavaScript bundles

Part of what came back for ramp.com. Every tool comes with the evidence that shows the company uses it.

Map who reports to whom

You need the real buying path or a team's structure, not a flat list of titles.

Looks inLinkedInTeam pagesPress

Ask for the org chart, not for "reports to" lines in job posts. Most posts never name a manager; the org chart prompt builds the tree from profiles, team pages and press, with evidence for each line.

Top of the tree it returned for Ramp
  • Eric GlymanCo-founder, Co-CEO
    • Geoff CharlesCPO
    • Rahul SengottuveluCTO
      • Ian MacomberVP, Data
    • Gene LeeCo-founder, Growth
      • Jacob WallenbergVP, International
    • William PetrieCFO
    • Colin KennedyChief Business Officer

Each reporting line comes with the source it was read from.

02 · The library

Prompts with rules, for lists and matches

When the answer is a list, or a match you will act on, the rules do the work. Open a prompt, swap in your inputs, drop the columns you don't need and copy it.

03 · Write your own

Every prompt here has three parts

TaskFind 15 companies incorporated in Delaware between 2026-10-16 and 2026-10-30 that look like software or AI startups.

RulesOnly list a founder when a public source ties that person to this specific company. Leave a cell blank rather than guess.

ColumnsColumns: entity_name, incorporation_date, domain, founders, source_urls.

  1. TaskWhat, how many, and the window. A number gives the run an end; a window keeps it current.
  2. RulesWhat counts as proof, and what to do when there is none. This is where most of the quality comes from.
  3. ColumnsThe shape of the table you get back. Name them the way your CRM or sheet already does.

What testing taught us

  1. 01

    For one person or company you already know, one line beats a long brief.

    Profile a person →
  2. 02

    Ask for the thing you want, not a proxy for it: the org chart, not reporting lines in job posts.

    Map who reports to whom →
  3. 03

    Make it state the criteria before it searches, or every row gets the same reason.

    Find lookalikes →
  4. 04

    Name what counts as proof, and ask it to label how it knows.

    Find work emails →
  5. 05

    Let it say unclear. A blank you can see beats a guess you can't.

    Students building in public →
  6. 06

    Point it at the primary source: the company's own careers page, the state registry.

    Companies hiring for a role →
04 · Agents and API

Load them from your agent

The whole library is published as JSON and Markdown, so an agent can fetch the current version of a prompt by name instead of someone rewriting it.

Run a library prompt through the API
LIBRARY=https://www.autumn.ai/resources/prompt-library
SLUG=new-delaware-companies

# 1. Fetch the current prompt by its slug
PROMPT=$(curl -s $LIBRARY/prompts.json \
  | jq -r --arg s "$SLUG" '.prompts[] | select(.slug == $s) | .prompt')

# 2. Start an Autumn task with it
curl -sS https://api.autumn.ai/task \
  -H "X-API-Key: $AUTUMN_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d "$(jq -n --arg p "$PROMPT" '{prompt: $p}')"
Autumn

How we tested

We ran each prompt in Autumn in October 2026 and read the rows against their sources. Prompts that came back padded or generic were rewritten and run again; the lessons above come from those reruns. Example rows show public companies and executives only.

Prompts
19
One line
5
With rules
14
Jobs
5

Run one on your own list

Autumn reads the public web, from registries to job posts, and returns a table with a source on every cell.

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