Finds and ranks conference attendees worth meeting, researches them into dossiers covering tier, score, and conversation openers, then writes the results into your Clay Audiences for further enrichment or outreach.
Use this Skill when you want to walk into a conference knowing exactly which attendees are worth your time. It finds, scores, and researches attendees against your own goals, then writes ranked people and linked company records into your Clay Audiences with full dossiers ready for further enrichment or outreach.
What it delivers
You get a ranked list of attendees written into Clay Audiences, each with a dossier covering tier, score, attendance evidence, and conversation openers, plus linked company records where a domain is known. These support deciding who to prioritize meeting at the event, though attendance is a well-evidenced belief rather than a confirmed registration.
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How someone would prompt this
Find the best people to connect with at INBOUND this year, score them against companies evaluating marketing automation tools, and add their dossiers to my Clay audience.
Inputs & outputs
What someone provides before the Skill runs, and the reviewable artifacts it returns.
Inputs
Conference details
Name of the event, plus city or year if the name alone is ambiguous
confirm the correct edition before research starts.
Your company and goals
Pick or type the company attending
choose categories like clients, partners, investors, or hires
describe in one line who counts as a good match
say who is attending from your side.
Lanyard account access
Keep the Lanyard email already on file or switch to a different one
if no account exists, supply an email and enter the one-time code sent to it.
Attendee list and files
Optionally supply a CSV of known attendees from this year or last year
choose a durable folder for the working files to live in.
Clay access check
Keep Clay signed in with Audiences enabled
the skill checks this itself and asks you nothing if it connects.
Outputs
Session load reportA printed summary of what landed in Audiences, what's still locked, and the unlock offer, so you know exactly what to review next.
Attendee dossier recordA person record in Clay Audiences with tier, score, attendance evidence, dossier summary, and conversation openers, linked to their company when known.
Representative output
The load report, printed in the session
Real output from a live run against a real conference, on a free account — 144 attendees
found. The conference and the campaign id are left out; the numbers are as they printed. It was
captured when the free allowance was 5 dossiers per campaign; it is up to 8 now, so a run today
writes up to eight.
reading campaign <campaign id>
status complete · 144 contacts known
== the plan ==
5 with a dossier and not yet written
linked_linkedin 5
skipped: ranked_only 139
enrichment allowed: 5 of 25 requested (source: campaign)
139 more are ranked and waiting without a dossier — by tier: 12 S, 15 A, 18 B, 73 C, 21 F
== writing ==
batch 1: 5 attendees
== what is now in Audiences ==
5 attendee record(s) written
5 of them linked to their company
each carries: tier, score, rank, attendance confidence and evidence, the dossier
headline and summary, their company summary, buying signals, conversation
openers and a value prop — every one a column you can filter on
== still locked ==
139 ranked attendee(s) have no dossier yet: 12 S, 15 A, 18 B, 73 C, 21 F
unlocking would cost (5 credits each, account holds 0):
-> tier S 12 contacts 60 credits (more than the balance)
tiers S and A 27 contacts 135 credits (more than the balance)
the top 25 25 contacts 125 credits (more than the balance)
everything locked 139 contacts 695 credits (more than the balance)
suggested: tier S — a batch big enough to be worth reviewing and small
enough to read in one sitting. A heuristic, not a view on who matters.
price it (spends nothing):
python3 drive_load.py <config> unlock --tier S
the balance does not cover it — the quote prints a link to top up.
Run it again with nothing unlocked and it writes nothing, says so, and still shows the offer —
because that is the run somebody checking back is on:
Nothing new to write — everything with a dossier is already in Audiences.
== still locked ==
139 ranked attendee(s) have no dossier yet: 12 S, 15 A, ...
The person record it leaves in Audiences
The shape of one record, read back out of Audiences after that run. The person, their
company and every line written about them are invented here — the run was real and the
fields are exactly the ones it filled, but a real attendee's contact details and a dossier
on how to sell to them are not ours to publish. Expect values of this kind, not these values.
Listed as a speaker on the published agenda for the 2026 edition.
Attendance source
vantageloop.example/the-agenda
Dossier state
enriched
Dossier headline
Scaling high-touch patient access through precision B2B demand generation
Dossier summary
Priya Raman is the Chief Marketing Officer at Vantage Loop, with two decades in…
Their company
Vantage Loop provides AI-powered patient access and revenue-cycle software…
Buying signals
A recent push into AI-driven workflow automation suggests receptivity to…
Value prop
For a CMO navigating a complex healthcare buying committee, <your product> offers…
Conference campaign id
<campaign id>
Linked to a company record for that company's domain, and the link is to that company:
querying people whose company domain matches returns this person and nobody else.
How the Skill runs
Follow the steps in order. Each row includes the full instruction.
1
Introduce the skill and set up files
The skill explains that it uses Lanyard to find conference attendees, confirms your Clay workspace, and picks a durable folder to store config and progress files before asking any questions.
2
Confirm your Lanyard account
The skill checks for an existing Lanyard login, lets you keep that email or switch to a new one, and walks you through a quick email and code sign-in if no account exists yet.
3
Identify the company attending
You pick the company attending the conference from suggested guesses or type your own, since every score depends on getting this right.
4
Confirm the conference and edition
You name the conference, the skill looks up the exact event, and the run stops until you confirm it found the right edition.
5
Describe who you want to meet
Through a short series of choices and one free-text note, you define your goals, say who's attending from your side, and optionally supply an existing attendee list.
6
Review and approve the plan
The skill shows the event details, dossier allowance, columns it will create, and estimated run time, then stops and waits for you to approve both the spend and the workspace writes.
7
Build the Clay workflow
After approval, the skill creates the needed Audience columns and a reusable workflow in your workspace, built once and reused for future conferences.
8
Run the research campaign
The skill starts the Lanyard campaign and reports progress as it moves through researching, ranking, and writing dossiers, which typically takes 10 to 20 minutes.
9
Report results and next steps
The skill verifies the written count against your workspace, lists who was skipped and why, and shows how many attendees remain locked along with an unlock offer.
10
Report results and next steps
The skill verifies the written count against your workspace, lists who was skipped and why, and shows how many attendees remain locked along with an unlock offer.
11
Unlock more dossiers
You can unlock more ranked attendees yourself on the conference page, or ask the skill to price a suggested batch and spend credits only after you explicitly approve it.
12
Add new attendees later
Weeks later, running the same load command re-reads the campaign and writes only attendees who have been newly unlocked, without needing any memory of the earlier session.
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