Claude for Networking on LinkedIn: 31 Claude Skills

What these skills are

Winning clients through the people you already know, as installable Claude skills.

This is Claude for the part of selling that depends on people: the clients you already worked with, the connections you made years ago, the friend who would happily introduce you if they knew what to say. Not an outreach machine — the research, the preparation and the second look behind conversations you have yourself, in the order the work actually happens.

The pack follows one method in seven stages, and each stage hands a named artifact to the next. Writing your brief hands over who you help in plain words, what you want help with now and what a good introduction looks like, fit written as situations and triggers rather than names, one or two sentences a contact can repeat, and a list of what you can give in five minutes. Mapping your own network starts from your own LinkedIn data export — requested from LinkedIn, not scraped — and hands over each connection read against the brief with the visible match and its reason, closeness in four tiers you correct yourself, the people you once exchanged with often and lost touch with, and about ten names you choose by hand. Research and preparation hand over public facts about one person with a source and a date for each, recent events worth writing about now, and a call plan with three questions and one thing to offer. Writing for a reason hands over which of the five reasons fits this person, two or three sourced points to write from, your own message checked line by line, and a grammar pass that leaves your tone alone. Past clients hand over the list from your own records, a check-in with no ask in it, an after-action review you run with the client, a case study they approved, and a map of who else inside that client faces the problem. Then the asks: one specific introduction tied to the brief, a blurb the introducer can forward unedited, the two permission notes of a double opt-in, a list a friend can add their people to, a partner arrangement written down, and the thank-you that closes the loop. Last, the rhythm: a run of about ten this week, follow-ups due, a private log of what you promised to whom, and a monthly look at what the network actually produced.

The red line: Claude helps you see your own network and prepare each conversation. You choose every person, write every word and send every message yourself. Nothing is scraped, automated or sent for you.

Every fact about a person has a public source and a date; what is unknown stays unknown, and nothing is padded to fill a template. Nobody is ranked: fit is to your brief, closeness is how well you know someone, and you set both in your own words. No skill scores, grades or profiles a person, contact details and messages never go into a shared file, and the connections file is yours to delete when you are done with it.

Where a method is a named one — the double opt-in introduction, dormant ties, the after-action review — the skill says so and uses it as it was written. Fee and finder’s-fee questions in the partner agreement come back marked for a qualified adviser, never as advice.

Each skill is one artifact or one named method: the inputs it needs, where it breaks, a fixed output template, a finish line and the next skill to run. Where a skill fits a Claude surface — a private Project for your brief, your map and your log, memory, Claude Docs, Claude in Chrome, the Gmail and Google Calendar connectors — it says so, and beta features are marked beta.

Mechanically, each skill is one folder with a SKILL.md file. The 31 are grouped into the seven stages, and each one gives full value on its own: run one, run a stage, or work the whole thing through in the order it arrives.

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The 31 skills you get

The set follows the method in seven stages: write your brief, map your own network from your own LinkedIn data export, research and prepare each person, write for a reason, tend past clients, ask and introduce — then keep the weekly rhythm.

1 · Write your brief

1. Networking Brief

Use when: People like you but nobody can say who to send your way

Output: Who you help, the problem you solve, what you want help with now, who you would like to meet, a good introduction, who is not a fit

2. Ideal Client Profile

Use when: “Anyone who needs help with X” is your only answer to “who should I introduce you to”

Output: Fit criteria as situations, roles and triggers, signals you can read in a connections list, poor-fit signs, fit questions

3. Elevator Pitch

Use when: People you are introduced to rule you out because nobody could explain what you do

Output: One or two sentences a contact can repeat, the problem in the client's words, three versions to test, words to drop

4. Five-Minute Favor List

Use when: You want to reach out but feel you have nothing to offer except an ask

Output: What you can give in five minutes, who it suits by situation, what you will not offer, a log with no scorekeeping

2 · Map your own network

5. LinkedIn Data Export Guide

Use when: You want to see your whole network without scraping or a tool that logs in as you

Output: Request steps from LinkedIn's help page, which files to use and leave out, where the file lives, column cleanup, when to delete it

6. Network Fit Map

Use when: You have hundreds of connections and no idea who is relevant to what you do now

Output: Each connection read against the brief, the visible match and its reason, fit left for you to set, a fit floor, a cap per company

7. Closeness Tiers

Use when: You cannot tell who you could actually write to and who would not remember you

Output: A first estimate from your own message exchanges, four tiers in your own words, every tier corrected by you

8. Dormant Ties List

Use when: You only reach out when you need work, so most of your network has gone quiet

Output: People you once exchanged with often and lost touch with, the thread to pick up, what to research, the reason to reconnect

9. Hand-Picked Shortlist

Use when: The map is done and you need to decide who you will actually write to this week

Output: About 10 names you choose, your reason for each, fit and tier as you set them, company cap checked, names set aside

3 · Research and prepare

10. Person Research Brief

Use when: You want to write something specific and refuse to guess or pad

Output: Public facts about one person's work, each with a source and date, unknowns stated, what you share, open questions

11. Trigger Event Scan

Use when: You want a real reason to write now, not “just checking in”

Output: Recent public events with date and source, which one is worth a congratulation, what is too old or too private

12. Coffee Chat Prep

Use when: Someone said yes to a call and you want it to feel like a conversation, not a sales meeting

Output: What you know and where it came from, three questions you want answered, one thing to offer, what you will not pitch, how to close

4 · Write for a reason

13. Reason to Write Picker

Use when: You know who to write to and not what to say that is not an ask

Output: The five reasons, which fits this person, why it is useful to them, the reasons that would be a pitch in disguise

14. Talking Points

Use when: You want help thinking about what to say, not a message that sounds like AI wrote it

Output: Two or three sourced points for the chosen reason, nothing pushed, no message assembled

15. Message Checklist

Use when: You wrote the message yourself and want a second look before you send it

Output: Your own message checked line by line against the checklist, flags only, no rewriting

16. Grammar Check

Use when: You want the message clean without it stopping sounding like you

Output: Grammar, spelling and punctuation fixes only, each change shown before and after, tone and length untouched

5 · Tend past clients

17. Past Client Reconnect List

Use when: Your easiest next project is with someone you already worked with, and you have not spoken in a year

Output: Past clients from your own records, last real exchange, what has changed, the thread to pick up, no ranking by value

18. Client Check-In

Use when: Clients only hear from you when there is a renewal or an invoice

Output: A no-ask conversation plan, what changed, one useful thing to bring, questions, what you will not sell, a note to log

19. Client After-Action Review

Use when: A project just ended and you are about to move on without learning or asking anything

Output: With the client: what was meant to happen, what happened, why, what to keep and change, what they want next

20. Client Case Study

Use when: You want something worth sharing with a past client and their peers that they have approved

Output: A short case from an interview, the client's approval of naming and numbers, a sourced figure list, a one-page version

21. Client Relationship Map

Use when: You know one person at a client and the work could help a second team you have never met

Output: Who you know inside a client, two-way dependencies, who else faces the problem, facts separate from guesses

6 · Ask and introduce

22. Introduction Ask

Use when: “Let me know if you hear of anyone” has never produced a name

Output: When to ask, one specific introduction tied to the brief, the easy way to say no, what you offer back, what not to say

23. Forwardable Intro Blurb

Use when: Someone agreed to introduce you and the introduction has not happened, because they have to write it

Output: A short note the introducer can forward unedited: who you are, why this person, what you would ask, how to decline

24. Double Opt-In Introduction

Use when: You want to connect two people without putting either on the spot

Output: Two separate permission notes, what each side gains, the introduction once both say yes, a graceful line for a no

25. Shared Introduction List

Use when: A friend or partner offers to help and needs a way to add people without you seeing their contacts

Output: Your brief shared with a friend or partner, their people added against it, an owner column, what stays private, how to retire it

26. Partner Agreement

Use when: Another firm keeps sending you work, or could, and nothing about it is written down

Output: Each side's work, who each introduces to the other and why, how introductions and loop closing work, fee questions for an adviser, review date

27. Thank-You Note

Use when: Someone introduced you and you never told them how it went

Output: A thank-you within days, what happened next (only what may be shared), a give back, a reminder to update the introducer

7 · Keep the rhythm

28. Run of Ten Plan

Use when: You network in bursts when work dries up, then stop when it returns

Output: This week's run of about 10 people, reason and status per person, what is ready, what waits for research

29. Follow-Up Tracker

Use when: Good conversations die because nobody wrote back after the first reply

Output: Replies due, one polite follow-up and when, when to stop, times found in your calendar, threads found in your inbox

30. Personal CRM Log

Use when: You promised an introduction three weeks ago and cannot remember to whom

Output: Who you spoke to and when, what they need, what you promised and by when, next touch date, facts only

31. Monthly Network Review

Use when: You cannot tell whether the network is working until the pipeline is empty

Output: Where introductions and work came from, which reasons got replies, promises kept and open, gaps, the brief updated

Where to start, and how the skills chain

Start with the Networking Brief. Everything downstream reads it: the fit map judges each connection against it, the reason to write is judged useful against it, the introduction ask is tied to it, and the monthly review sends you back to update it. Then the Ideal Client Profile, so fit is written as situations and triggers you can actually read in a connections list, and the Elevator Pitch, so the person who wants to help you has a line they can repeat. After that there is no compulsory sequence — bring the thing that is in front of you. A project ending on Friday? Start at the Client After-Action Review. Someone offered an introduction three weeks ago and it has not happened? Start at the Forwardable Intro Blurb. Every skill lists the inputs it needs, so it tells you when the stage before it is the one that is actually missing.

They chain. net-networking-brief, net-ideal-client-profile, net-elevator-pitch and net-five-minute-favor-list set what you are asking for and what you can give first. net-linkedin-data-export gets your own network data out of LinkedIn, net-network-fit-map reads it against the brief, net-closeness-tiers says who you could actually write to, net-dormant-ties-list finds the people you lost touch with and net-hand-picked-shortlist is where you choose this week’s ten by hand. net-person-research-brief and net-trigger-event-scan give you sourced facts and a reason that is current, and net-coffee-chat-prep turns a yes into a conversation. net-reason-to-write picks the reason, net-talking-points gives you two or three points to write from, then you write the message and net-message-checklist and net-grammar-check look at what you wrote without rewriting it. net-past-client-list, net-client-check-in, net-client-after-action-review, net-client-case-study and net-client-relationship-map work the people who already paid you. net-introduction-ask makes one specific ask, net-forwardable-blurb makes it easy to forward, net-double-opt-in-intro is how you introduce two people without putting either on the spot, net-shared-intro-list lets a friend or partner add their people, net-partner-agreement writes down an arrangement that keeps producing work, and net-thank-you-note closes the loop. Then net-run-of-ten plans the week, net-follow-up-tracker catches the replies, net-personal-crm-log remembers what you promised, and net-monthly-network-review tells you whether any of it is working.

The sources behind each method are in resources/evidence-and-sources.md, inside the pack.

Setup guide

1. Download the pack. One zip: an install folder with 31 ready-to-upload skill zips, a skills folder with the same 31 skills as readable SKILL.md files, and resources/evidence-and-sources.md, which names the source behind each method.
2. Install your skills. In Claude Code, add the marketplace and install networking-on-linkedin-pack, and all 31 load at once. In Claude, turn on code execution in Settings → Capabilities, then go to Customize → Skills and upload one zip per skill from the install folder. Prefer working from files? Add the SKILL.md files to your Project knowledge instead; it works, just less cleanly. Keep your connections file, contact details and anything a contact told you in confidence in a private Project, and out of Claude memory.
3. Write the brief, then bring this week's ten names. Run the Networking Brief first: who you help, what you want help with now and what a good introduction looks like. Everything downstream reads it — the fit map judges connections against it, the reason to write is judged useful against it, the introduction ask is tied to it. Then request your LinkedIn data export, map your own network, and pick about ten people by hand. After that, bring what is in front of you: a past client you have lost touch with, a call on Thursday, an introduction someone offered and never wrote. Each skill lists the inputs it needs and names the next skill to run, so one answer turns into the chain on its own.

Where to start

The quality bar

Every skill in the pack holds the same standard:

• One method, applied properly: each skill carries the real mechanics — the tiers, the order of the pass, the two permission notes, the review questions — not a generic “gather, analyse, recommend”
• Every skill says when not to use it, and which skill in the pack fits instead
• The same shape every time: a fixed output template and a short “done when” check before handover
• No invented facts. No made-up quotes, results, numbers or details about anyone. Every fact about a person has a public source and a date; what is unknown stays unknown
• Nobody is ranked. Fit is to your brief, closeness is how well you know someone, and you set both in your own words. No skill scores, grades or profiles a person, and contact details and messages never go into a shared file
• The red line: Claude helps you see your own network and prepare each conversation; you choose every person, write every word and send every message yourself. Nothing is scraped, automated or sent for you

Who made this

Polar Bear is a people ops consultancy for human-size teams (20 to 200 people). Built by ex-McKinsey founders with a dream to make AI work for People, not instead of them. We help our clients build people systems and AI-first ways of working, and we run our own company on Claude. This pack is the free, self-serve version of how we work.

This pack is for the person whose next project comes from someone who already knows them. If you run a consultancy, a boutique or an agency and want your team working this way — AI carrying the mapping, the research and the preparation so people do the part only people can do — that’s what we build with clients.

Meet Pauline. Want your team winning work this way? Bring the stage you are stuck on and we will pick the skills for it. Book a 30-minute call · Pauline on LinkedIn

Install in Claude Code

Two lines, and every skill in the pack loads at once.

/plugin marketplace add polar-bear-org/claude-skills
/plugin install networking-on-linkedin-pack@polar-bear-skills

Using Claude on the web instead? Download the zip and upload each skill from its install folder under Customize → Skills.