find-design-agency

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Use whenever the user wants to find, shortlist, vet, or enrich US design and creative agencies — graphic design, UX/UI, product design, brand identity, packaging, illustration, motion design, and creative direction. Triggers on "find me a UX/UI design agency for our SaaS product", "shortlist three brand-identity studios in NY", "packaging design firm for a CPG launch", or "pull contact info for these 10 design studio domains", even when described indirectly (brand refresh, design our app, build our visual system). Drives the ServiceGraph API (api.servicegraph.co) — a 100k+ US firm catalog filterable by industry, services, location, size, ratings. Defer to find-marketing-agency for marketing-led engagements where design is one of several services. Defer to find-web-developer when the deliverable is a built website. Skip in-house designer hires, "design me a logo" DIY asks, design-software comparisons, consumer/personal-design (weddings, hobby projects), non-US firms, individual freelancers.

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# find-design-agency Drive the **ServiceGraph API** (`https://api.servicegraph.co`) to find, shortlist, and enrich US design and creative agencies via the `pro_services` dataset. The catalog tags firms with `industry:design_creative` and a ~13-tag service sub-taxonomy spanning graphic design, UX/UI, product design, brand identity, packaging, illustration, motion, and creative direction. **Always pin `industry:design_creative`.** Sub-disciplines are typically structured `service_provided` tags (`graphic-design`, `ui-ux-design`, `product-design`, `branding`, etc.). Two known drifts: the UX/UI tag is **`ui-ux-design`**, not `ux-ui-design`; and there is **no `industrial-design` tag** — use `product-design` plus a hardware keyword. Confirm exact names via `/v1/datasets/pro_services/fields?include_values=1`. Any HTTP client works (curl, fetch, requests). Examples below use curl. ## Sibling skills — defer when scope is different - **Marketing-led engagements** where design is one of several services (PR + content + paid + design) → `find-marketing-agency`. This skill is for **design-led** engagements where the design work IS the primary deliverable. - **Build-the-website work** (coded marketing site, ecommerce, custom CMS) → `find-web-developer`. Design agencies often partner with web devs; if the user wants the built artifact, fire web-developer. - **Custom software with design needs** (SaaS app, internal tool) → `find-software-developer` when the deliverable is software. Pure...

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nostrband/ServiceGraph
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