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Ask a contact for a referral at a company

Your connections at the company, and a short referral request to the one you choose. You approve it.

  • You start it: When you start it
  • Asks you first
Use in CuiarRun from your AI agent

What it does

The task

Find my first-degree LinkedIn connections who work at company. List each one with the role, the team and the time at the company. When I choose one person, draft a message of at most 100 words that says how we know each other, names the job job url and makes it easy to say no. Ask me before you send it. Send only one message, to the person I choose.

  • It works in LinkedIn, in the workspace you pick, and signs in with passwords from your Cuiar vault.
  • It runs once, when you start it.
  • It stops for your approval before it sends, posts, pays, books or changes a record.

What you give it

BlankWhat to giveExample
companyThe company you apply toPinegrove Health
job urlThe link to the job posthttps://pinegrove.example/careers/product-analyst

What you get back

An example run with the example values above. Your run uses your own data.

3 connections at Pinegrove Health

  • Ana Ruiz, Senior Data Scientist, 2 years (you worked together at Fernway)
  • Tom Lindgren, Recruiter, 8 months
  • Yusuf Kaya, Product Manager, 3 years (you met at the Berlin Data Summit)

You chose Ana Ruiz.

Draft: "Hi Ana, I hope the new team is going well. Pinegrove has a Product Analyst opening (link).

Would you be open to referring me? I can send my resume and a short note. No problem at all if not."

Waiting for your approval to send.

Run it in Cuiar

  1. 01

    Open it

    Click Use in Cuiar on this page. The side panel opens with the task in the composer.

  2. 02

    Fill in 2 blanks

    Type company and job url. Tab moves to the next blank.

  3. 03

    Run it

    Run sends it to the agent. Follow each step in the panel, and stop it at any time.

From the terminal

cuiar exec "Find my first-degree LinkedIn connections who work at Pinegrove Health. List each one with the role, the team and the time at the company. When I choose one person, draft a message of at most 100 words that says how we know each other, names the job https://pinegrove.example/careers/product-analyst and makes it easy to say no. Ask me before you send it. Send only one message, to the person I choose."

Run it from your AI agent

Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other MCP clients reach Cuiar at https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp. Add the server one time, then ask for the task in plain words, or call run_task yourself.

1. Add Cuiar to Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http cuiar https://mcp.cuiar.com/mcp

2. Ask your agent

Use the Cuiar tool run_task to run my "Ask a contact for a referral at a company" template with company = Pinegrove Health; job url = https://pinegrove.example/careers/product-analyst.

Setup for other agents: AI agents.

The tool call

{
  "name": "run_task",
  "arguments": {
    "task": "Find my first-degree LinkedIn connections who work at Pinegrove Health. List each one with the role, the team and the time at the company. When I choose one person, draft a message of at most 100 words that says how we know each other, names the job https://pinegrove.example/careers/product-analyst and makes it easy to say no. Ask me before you send it. Send only one message, to the person I choose."
  }
}

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