Occasionally a filter reports that it is not ready:
Skills filter is preparing
Skills filter is not active yet
Some filters are backed by derived indexes that are rebuilt in the background. While a rebuild runs, that one filter is unavailable so it cannot return a half-built answer. Every other filter keeps working normally, and your counts on those stay accurate.
What to do
- Remove the filter and re-run. The rest of the filter set is unaffected.
- Approximate it while you wait. The keyword filter matches what a company does and is often a better proxy than a skills tag anyway, and the title filter carries most of the intent that people put into skills.
- Retry later in the day. Rebuilds are not manual, so there is nothing to trigger on your side.
If the message persists for more than a day on the same account, send support@argorant.com the filter set you were using. Do not work around it by exporting more than you need: an export is priced per contact, and a wide export is a permanent cost for a temporary problem.