Quick context so the question makes sense: I run LinkedIn lead gen (I book qualified sales calls). Right now the way I find prospects is fully manual. I follow a handful of "watering hole" creators in my niche, people whose audience is basically my ideal client. Every time one of them posts something good, I go through everyone who liked or commented, pick out the people who match my ICP, then send a connection request and start a normal human conversation. No pitch, just a real chat. It works. It's just slow because I do all of it by hand. I want to automate the sourcing part. The workflow in my head: 1. Watch a list of creators. When one of them posts, catch it. 2. Pull everyone who engaged with that post (likers + commenters). 3. Enrich and score each person against my ICP (title, industry, company size, signals on their profile). 4. Every morning I get a CSV of the highest-scoring, most relevant people from the last day of engagement. 5. I do the human part myself: connection request + warm DM, zero automation on the actual messaging. The wall I keep hitting is LinkedIn itself. We all know how aggressive it is about automation, rate limits and restrictions. My account is literally my business, so a ban isn't "annoying," it's fatal. So my honest question for the people here who have actually built this kind of thing: If this were your system, how would you build it so it's safe and reliable? Specifically: - Where would you pull the engagers from? Apify actors, PhantomBuster, an unofficial API, a separate throwaway scraping account? What's actually low risk right now? - Would you keep the read-only scraping completely off my main profile, and only ever send connects from the main account? - What daily and weekly numbers do you treat as safe in 2026 for connects and DMs on a warmed account? - For scoring/enrichment, what are you using? Clay, a custom LLM step, something lighter? - And honestly, where's the line where this stops being worth automating and

Now Imagine An automated pipeline that turns a short prospect description into a verified, ready-to-contact lead list - no manual research required. I Built this "LinkedIn Lead Scraper & Enrichment Workflow" With the help of Claude code. What it does? ~You describe the kind of person you want to reach — job title, industry, location, and company size. ~The system searches LinkedIn for matching people. ~verifies and enriches each one with a work email, phone, and company website. ~fills in any gaps with a web search. ~Delivers the finished list straight into a shared Google Sheet. ~Every contact is deduplicated automatically, so re-running a search never creates repeat rows ,it just keeps existing contacts up to date. The Pipeline:- (Five automated stages run in sequence for every search) 1).Define the target:-You submit job title, industry, location, and company size through a simple form. 2).Search LinkedIn:-Matching profiles are pulled directly from LinkedIn based on your criteria. 3).Verify & enrich:-Each person is matched against a business database for a work email, phone, and company site. 4).Fill the gaps:-If anything's still missing, a web search finds the company's official site. 5).Deliver & dedupe:-The finished row lands in your Google Sheet — updating any existing match instead of duplicating it. Dropping a proper demo video of this workflow tomorrow.. I would like to hear from you guys, feedbacks are always welcomed 👇 Harsh Singh

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Hey everyone, I run an AI automation agency from home based in the UK London. Recently, my pipeline has been a bit slow, so I set a strict goal for myself: cold calling 5 hours a day on Monday to Friday. But honestly? I've still been procrastinating. 😅 I actually worked as an appointment setter a few years ago, so the skill is in me. The problem is that working from home means I'm missing that bustling "sales floor" energy, which makes it so much harder to just pick up the phone and get started. I already use Focusmate to body double for my development sessions, and it works wonders for keeping me on track. I want to apply that same concept to sales. Here's what I'm looking for: - Another appointment setter or founder who also needs to make cold calls. - We hop on a Zoom/Google Meet, quickly state our goals for the session, mute our mics, and dial for 50 minutes. - Afterward, we unmute, recap how we did, and hold each other accountable. I think doing this with someone else who is also making calls would create a great "power hour" energy to get our motivation up and generate more sales. Is anyone in a similar boat and want to partner up for some sessions? Shoot me a DM or comment!

read something today thats been stuck in my head. the team behind AI 2027 https://ai-2027.com/ put out a follow up, AI 2040. if 2027 was the warning, this is the "ok so what do we actually do" part. the idea is kind of wild. they basically say if the race to superintelligence keeps going like now, it ends bad. either we lose control or power ends up in the hands of like 5 people. so instead of just predicting that, they wrote out the good ending and called it Plan A. Plan A is: slow down on purpose. push superintelligence back to 2040, make all AI research public so no country can hide what its building, set it up so nobody can secretly sprint ahead. kind of like the nuclear standoff logic but for compute. and they dont even say this is what WILL happen. its what they think should happen. then they map out 4 darker paths for if we dont. honestly i hope it goes something like this. would be kind of incredible if it actually did. but a whole "everyone slows down together" global deal is a big ask, im not naive about it. so whats your read, is slowing down on purpose even possible or are we already past that point? and if you got your own version of how the next 10 years go, drop it, id genuinely like to hear it. https://ai-2040.com/