find-engineering-firm

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Use whenever the user wants to find, shortlist, vet, or enrich US engineering firms — civil, structural, MEP, mechanical, electrical, geotechnical, transportation, environmental, and manufacturing. **For real-world engineering (buildings, infrastructure, manufacturing) — NOT software engineering.** Triggers on "find civil engineering firms in Florida for transportation", "shortlist three structural engineering firms with high-rise experience", "MEP consultancy for a hospital project", or "pull contact info for these 12 engineering firm domains", even when described indirectly (PE-stamped drawings, building-permit review). Drives the ServiceGraph API (api.servicegraph.co) — a 100k+ US firm catalog filterable by industry, services, location, size, ratings. Defer software-dev / "engineering team" / SaaS-architecture asks to find-software-developer. Skip in-house engineering-manager hires, DIY questions, software-product comparisons (Revit, AutoCAD), non-US firms, individual freelancers.

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# find-engineering-firm Drive the **ServiceGraph API** (`https://api.servicegraph.co`) to find, shortlist, and enrich US **real-world** engineering firms — buildings, infrastructure, energy, manufacturing — via the `pro_services` dataset. The catalog tags firms with `industry:engineering_services` and a ~23-tag service sub-taxonomy. **This is NOT for software engineering.** "Software engineering firm", "engineering team", "engineering manager hire", "system architecture review" — those are all software-developer territory. The first thing this skill confirms is that the user means real engineering, not software. **Always pin `industry:engineering_services`.** Note the **`_services` suffix** — older docs sometimes show `industry:engineering` but the literal pin returns zero results in the live catalog. Sub-disciplines are typically structured `service_provided` tags (`civil-engineering`, `structural-engineering`, `mep-engineering`, etc.) — confirm exact names via `/v1/datasets/pro_services/fields?include_values=1`. Surveying is `surveying-mapping`, not `surveying`. Any HTTP client works (curl, fetch, requests). Examples below use curl. ## When NOT to use this skill The dominant failure mode is firing on software-engineering asks. Refuse those. - **Software / SaaS / app-development asks** — even when phrased as "software engineering firm", "engineering team partner", "build our platform" → defer to `find-software-developer`. - **In-house "engineering manager" hires** — i...

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nostrband/ServiceGraph
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