Why AI is making your LinkedIn worse (not better)
AI is making a LinkedIn problem worse right now; and most of us building AI offers are walking straight into it. A few weeks ago I onboarded a founder who'd been working with a strategist using AI tools to mass-produce his content. Daily posts. Beautiful carousels. Reels. The whole machine running at full tilt. Three months in: → 500,000+ impressions → Hundreds of comments → Zero sales calls → Zero inbound enquiries → Zero pipeline The AI wasn't broken. It was doing exactly what it was told. The strategy...now that was broken and AI just made it broken at scale. Here's the trap I'm watching midlife founders walk into right now: AI makes content cheap to produce. Which means everyone is producing more of it. Which means the bar for what actually converts on LinkedIn has gone UP, not down. More content ≠ more leads. More reach ≠ more revenue. If you're building, launching, or monetising AI offers and you want LinkedIn to actually move the needle for you, here's what's working across the client accounts I'm watching every week: 1. Use AI to research your audience, not just to write to them. Feed your call transcripts, sales objections, DM conversations, and customer feedback into a model. Ask it to surface the patterns you're missing. The questions your buyers are actually asking. The language they use that you're not using back. That's where the gold is; most people skip it and go straight to "write me a post." 2. Use AI to clone your voice, not replace it. The "sounds robotic" problem is real, but it's solvable. Build a voice model from your actual content — your past posts, voice notes, livestream transcripts. Then use it as a writing partner, not a writing replacement. The output should sound like you on your sharpest day, not like a LinkedIn template generator. 3. Build for depth, not just frequency. LinkedIn is rewarding learning content right now — articles, in-depth videos, newsletters that actually teach. Five posts a week of shallow AI-generated takes won't out-perform one piece of long-form content that genuinely helps your buyer think differently. AI is brilliant at helping you go deep faster. Use it that way.