AI Ark List Builder
AI Ark list building end to end, from targeting definition to a clean leads.csv. Previews are free but exports cost about 1 credit per record, so this skill always checks the worst pages of the results, not the first, before spending anything. Covers title strategy, industry and geography filters, keyword logic, and the exact preview-then-export workflow that stops a bad filter from becoming an expensive export.
Pipeline Playbooks · Open Source, MIT Licensed
Build a cold email lead list with AI Ark: precise targeting, a free preview, a mandatory back-page quality check, then a confirmed export before credits get spent.
When to use this
- Building a fresh list for a new campaign or client
- Expanding a list that's running dry
- Fixing a noisy list dragging in the wrong people
- Any time you're about to spend AI Ark credits
What it covers
- Defining targeting: titles, industries, employee size, geography, keywords
- Title strategy in order: exact titles, seniority plus department, hybrid
- The preview-then-export flow that protects credits
- Checking the worst pages, not the first, before exporting
- Widening or tightening a segment that's short on volume
- Company-level keyword logic versus unreliable person-level keywords
- The export script: preview, submit, fetch, resumable via tracking ID
- Mandatory list hygiene and MX check before anything gets sent
Install just this skill
Every skill folder is self-contained. Run this from your project root to pull just this one into .claude/skills/ai-ark-list-builder/:
npx degit joelwylie7/cold-email-playbooks/.claude/skills/ai-ark-list-builder .claude/skills/ai-ark-list-builder
Want the whole system, not just one skill?
Related skills
AI Ark API
Pure API reference for AI Ark's lead database: the three filter shapes, the 401 trap on company keywords, export polling, and the traps that quietly return wrong results.
List Hygiene
The mandatory final pass every lead list gets before it touches a sending tool: dedup, exclusion lists, and an automatic MX check that drops Mimecast and Barracuda domains.
Email Verification
Runs Kitt verification on lists you bring from elsewhere, and draws the hard line on the one mistake that costs money for nothing: re-verifying an already-verified AI Ark export.