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

Hey everyone 👋 Kaloyan here, 19, from Sofia, Bulgaria. Bit of a confession since this room is all about getting paid for what we build. Last year I co-founded a LinkedIn agency. One campaign we ran hit 596,806 impressions in 16 days - 15 people, zero ad spend. Looked amazing. And the business still almost died, because impressions don't pay rent. Booked calls do. That lesson cost me three months and a co-founder. So I scrapped it and got obsessed with one question: what actually turns LinkedIn attention into booked sales calls? I'm building the answer into kalitora.com now, but the real work is the daily experiments on my own profile: lead-magnet formats, hooks, comment-to-DM flows. I keep every number. Why I'm actually here: most of you are miles ahead of me on n8n and agents. I want to learn that properly, because half my experiments now need automation I can't build yet. So here's a fair trade: if you ever have a LinkedIn question lgorithm, content that converts, profile setup, turning post-commenters into actual conversations ask me. Straight answer, real numbers, no guru fluff. And a genuine question for the agency owners here: where do your clients actually come from today? Referrals? Cold outbound? Content? I'm trying to map what's really working for people who've already got something running curious what you'd say.

I've been running my digital agency solo since 2012. (well, solo + some AI's) I've always done all the sales myself. I took a few year break (was the CMO of a computer gaming company) and am back restarting in the AI world, and expanding... will open several new agencies serving different niches. I am willing to teach people how to run these new agencies... no, you won't pay me anything as long as you're willing to work and go through a 3-part training. First you learn to do the outreach, sales and marketing (or show me you know how) then I'll put some people in your group and teach you how to train and manage others. Finally, I'll help you with the agency stuff, and promote you to run your own agency. Yes, you will OWN the agency. No, there still won't be an investment besides your time and loyalty. (the way I do it, it will be a "win-win") Feel free to ask questions here or by DM. You'll earn 40% of your sales as you go, + 10% of your team. The main package is $950 + $597 a month so you make around $250 per month per clients. We have other services as well, both less and more. As a lead magnet/loss leader to bring people into our "world", we give away free websites, as long as we provide any service. (see the video I attached) That's what you'll be seeking more or less, and I close the deals at first. I ran this exact same system/program years ago with an outside sales company, and we opened 22 physical locations in the southern United States. Different products of course... this is easier. Anyone interested, send me a DM or something and I'll send you more info...

A few months ago I started building AI content systems for clients. No editors. No script writers. No managers. No scheduling tools. Just AI running 24/7 doing all of it automatically. The results surprised even me. One client hit 5,251,777 views on a single reel. 93.9% of that came from people who had never seen their account before. 2.8 million brand new accounts reached. 204 days of total watch time generated. No paid ads. No cold outreach. Just consistent content the algorithm rewarded because it never stopped. The same system brought in 42 inbound leads and helped close $25,800 worth of clients across four different people. Here is what I learned building this. Most businesses do not have a content problem. They have a consistency problem. The moment you remove the human bottleneck, the algorithm does the rest. AI does not get tired. It does not call in sick. It does not forget to post on a Tuesday because something came up. That is the whole thing. If you are building something similar or want to understand how the system actually works, drop a comment below. Happy to break it down.

I started my Ai agency/ business around 3 4 months ago. Started off going into a builder loophole.... Successfully wasted 6 months 💀 So I did the inevitable pick the phone up and call people ... ( hated it , still hate it).. Landed a tech partnership with an existing company running for 3 4 years. Met with 50+ businesses face to face. Honestly I came really close to signing big deals but ig that comes down to more and more repetitions of sales. As of now I have 1 interested client for a custom ai powered crm ( hoping it goes well and I sign them) If any of you have seen success in the sales part hit me up would love to connect and try new strategies.