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My idea is leveraging a person's social/professional network for warm leads.

Basically if you're looking to do business abroad and you need a local to connect you with qualified, vetted people/agencies/clients/leads/distributors/factories on the ground, you can hire a local agent in your selected industry and request x number of leads in certain industry or just ask them to do on the ground tasks for you instead of flying there or sending an employee. You can choose to pay per lead or per deal closed.

How can I validate if there's demand for this service?

Does this already exist? Direct or indirect competitors?

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Darin Gerdes answered

It is a valid question. This is what LinkedIn does. Perhaps find a place where LinkedIn does not operate or borrow much of the model and add your own spin based on a particular subgroup (e.g. dating sites --> J-date for Jewish people).