truffle

Guide · 2026-11-08

Shopify lead generation with Claude Code

Set up Claude Code to find, research and qualify Shopify merchants for you: install the Truffle plugin, write prompts that work, and turn results into outreach.

What you get

Claude Code can browse and write, but it has no list of Shopify stores and burns a lot of context reading raw storefront HTML. Truffle adds both: an index of German Shopify stores to search, and research tools that return a short brief per store instead of a 60,000-token homepage.

Install

In Claude Code, add the marketplace and install the plugin:

/plugin marketplace add maurorisso/truffle
/plugin install truffle@truffle

Prompts that work

Be concrete about who you sell to and what makes a store a fit. The agent maps your sentence to filters such as product count, price, apps present or missing, theme and store age.

  • "Find German candle shops with 10 to 200 products that don't use Klaviyo yet."
  • "Which jewellery brands started selling in the last year and ship to Austria and Switzerland?"
  • "Research these ten domains and tell me what each sells, how active it is and who runs it."
  • "Pick the three best fits for my product and draft a short first message to each."

How the agent works through it

  • index_stats: learns what the index holds and which filters exist.
  • search_stores: runs several searches with different keywords to build a candidate list.
  • research_stores: researches ten stores at a time in brief mode and scores each for fit.
  • research_store: goes deep on the best few, including the business details and every contact channel.

From leads to outreach

Ask for a table with store, what they sell, size, why they fit and the contact channel to use. Then ask the agent to draft an opening message for each, referencing something specific it found: a new collection, a missing feature, the apps they run. Keep the first message short and about them.

Explore the data

Ask your agent

“Find German Shopify stores that fit my product, research the best 20 and give me a lead table.”

With Truffle in Claude Code, your agent filters this list, researches every store live and gives you the email, phone, contact form and socials for each one.