Score Cold Leads via Web Research
Score 15 investment firms on their likelihood to purchase third-party research tools. Each firm is researched via the web to assess its actual strategy and team composition, then scored on a 0-100 scale.
| Metric | Value |
|---|---|
| Rows processed | 15 |
| Cost | $0.30 |
| Time | 149 seconds |
Add FutureSearch to Claude Code if you haven't already:
claude mcp add futuresearch --scope project --transport http https://mcp.futuresearch.ai/mcp
Download investment_firms.csv. Tell Claude:
Score each investment firm from 0-100 on their likelihood to purchase
third-party research tools. High scores for fundamental/activist/short-sellers.
Low scores for passive index funds and pure quant.
Claude calls FutureSearch's rank MCP tool. Each agent researches the firm's actual strategy:
Tool: futuresearch_rank
├─ task: "Score each investment firm on likelihood to purchase research tools..."
├─ input_csv: "/Users/you/investment_firms.csv"
├─ field_name: "score"
├─ field_type: "int"
└─ ascending_order: false
→ Submitted: 15 rows for ranking.
Session: https://futuresearch.ai/sessions/f759d5fb-822d-4bb0-b978-85b36909b919
...
Tool: futuresearch_results
→ Saved 15 rows to /Users/you/scored_firms.csv
Add the FutureSearch connector if you haven't already. Then upload investment_firms.csv and ask Claude:
Score each investment firm from 0-100 on their likelihood to purchase third-party research tools. High scores for fundamental/activist/short-sellers. Low scores for passive index funds and pure quant.
Results take about 2.5 minutes.
Go to futuresearch.ai/app, upload investment_firms.csv, and enter:
Score each investment firm from 0-100 on their likelihood to purchase third-party research tools. High scores for fundamental/activist/short-sellers. Low scores for passive index funds and pure quant.
The FutureSearch SDK's rank() performs web research on each row to score firms by a criterion that requires external knowledge.
pip install futuresearch
export FUTURESEARCH_API_KEY=your_key_here # Get one at futuresearch.ai/app/api-key
import asyncio
import pandas as pd
from futuresearch import create_session
from futuresearch.ops import rank
firms_df = pd.read_csv("investment_firms.csv")
async def main():
async with create_session(name="Research Tool Adoption Scoring") as session:
result = await rank(
session=session,
task="""
Score each investment firm from 0-100 on likelihood to purchase
third-party research tools. High for fundamental/activist/short-sellers.
Low for passive index funds and pure quant.
""",
input=firms_df,
field_name="score",
)
return result.data
results = asyncio.run(main())
Results
| Firm | Score | Strategy |
|---|---|---|
| Muddy Waters Research | 95 | Short-seller, research-driven |
| ValueAct Capital | 95 | Activist, deep research |
| Elliott Management | 95 | Activist, multi-strategy |
| Baupost Group | 92 | Value, fundamental research |
| Third Point | 92 | Activist, event-driven |
| Lone Pine Capital | 90 | Long/short equity |
| Pershing Square | 90 | Concentrated activist |
| ... | ... | ... |
| AQR Capital | 20 | Systematic/quant |
| Two Sigma | 15 | Quantitative |
| Renaissance Technologies | 20 | Pure quant |
| Bridgewater Associates | 15 | Systematic macro |
| Vanguard Index Funds | 0 | Passive index |
Activist and fundamental research firms score highest. Pure quant and passive index funds score lowest. The web research verified each firm's actual strategy and team composition.