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# Contact Research

## Overview

Research contacts using Perplexity Sonar Pro and deep web search. Discovers, verifies, and enriches person profiles using multi-source triangulation, and generates conversation intelligence with icebreakers, talking points, and suggested questions.

### Use Cases

* **Sales prep**: Deep research before a first call.
* **Recruiting**: Candidate background with conversation starters.
* **Networking**: Personalized intros before a conference meeting.

## Configuration Fields

### Name

* **Description**: Person's full name.
* **Required**: Yes (unless email or LinkedIn URL is provided)

### Company

* **Description**: Person's current or most recent employer. Helps disambiguate common names.

### Email

* **Description**: Person's email address (optional).

### LinkedIn URL

* **Description**: LinkedIn profile URL or slug (optional).

### Output Variable Name

* **Description**: Variable name to store the research brief and conversation intelligence.
* **Validation**: Only letters, numbers, and underscores.
* **Required**: Yes

## Related Actions

* [Enrich Person](./enrich_person) — faster, cached, fewer fields.
* [Comprehensive Contact Intelligence](./comprehensive_contact_intelligence) — joins this with email + calendar history.
* [Prospect Research](/agent-packs/prospect-research) — the multi-action pack for sales-grade intelligence briefs.