Extrovert finds prospects, suggests who to comment on or DM today, and prepares drafts in your voice. Review in 20 minutes a day, or hand the whole job to your Claude.
Great product! Congrats! For how long do you recommend to warmup a lead before sending a DM with a proposal? It’s quite annoying when people send something right after I accept their connection request, it’s equally annoying when they do it like next day or even in a couple of days :-D How many likes/comments does it take to build a relationship?
Also, I’m curious to learn what types of companies benefit the most from you tool - B2B, agencies? How about job candidates? What are the most successful use cases?
For a starting point, I'd suggest 2–3 useful comments over a week or two before connecting. In our usage data, connection acceptance was 27.4% without prior comments vs 41.1% after two.
You can warm up through DMs too. Ask something about their work, a recent post or an event they attended. If there's a real conversation, the proposal can come later when it fits.
For higher-value accounts or a small target market, I'd take longer: several weeks of getting familiar, then occasional, relevant messages. You can keep commenting between DMs without constantly asking for something.
The strongest fit is B2B founders, sales teams and agencies, especially with longer sales cycles. The main use cases are:
Sales: Get on the right people's radar before reaching out, then turn that familiarity into a conversation.
Nurture: Stay in touch with good-fit prospects who said 'not now' or had a demo but didn't buy. This is a big one, because those relationships are easy to forget once the initial outreach ends.
Agencies: Run that same process for clients, with a separate voice and approach for each.
Networking and visibility: Join relevant conversations and build relationships without making every interaction about selling.
For job candidates, the same approach can help you get to know hiring managers and people on the team before asking about opportunities. It's a reasonable use case, but our strongest experience and data are on the B2B sales side.
When you say LinkedIn outreach, do we mean mainly from a social standpoint such as handling posts, replies, newsletters?Or is it more for sales such as researching leads, emailing them, etc.?
Mainly sales outreach, yes, but you can also use it to grow your presence and network on LinkedIn. A few common use cases:
Sales: Find relevant prospects, warm them up through comments, start DM conversations and follow up based on their posts and your conversation history.
Networking and nurture: Stay in touch with potential customers, partners or people you want to know. Keep the relationship going even when there's no immediate reason to sell.
Visibility: Find relevant conversations and contribute useful comments, so the right people see your name and get to know you.
It focuses on LinkedIn comments and DMs. It doesn't send emails or manage your posts or newsletters, but it can work alongside those activities.
thanks a lot@sentineldigi ! Please don't hesitate to try it out, there's a free trial. Aslo pls ping me in the app chat after you do, would love to hear the feedback + help with the setup! :)
Sales is built on trust and relationship building, I hate spamming and sending cold dm's. Yeah surprise it never works! Extrovert makes outreach intelligent, warm and human! Love extrovert!
@ren_saguil1 wowwwww 🤩 thanks so much for such a warm feedback! now we need to ship more cool stuff haha! =)
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Suggesting who to comment on or DM today, and not just dumping a big list, is the smart part. a short daily list I can actually finish beats a huge one I ignore..
thanks a lot @marissa__bronfman, yes, this is exactly the way we're thinking about it :)
The two things we focus on are good drafts and good prioritization.
And I'd argue prioritization matters even more. Drafts are often human-written/corrected, and knowing who needs your attention today, and why, is what makes it or breaks it as a process
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I'm still skeptical about linkedin outreach vs email. Warming someone up through comments sounds reasonable, but does it lead to more booked calls, or mostly more engagement? Would love to see a comparison for the same audience
fair question :) i wouldn't judge this by likes or comment impressions either.
we tested this across 10,000 leads in our own audience. same audience, lead source, messages and sequence. the difference was whether we warmed people up with comments before reaching out.
reply rates, cold → social-first:
ceos: 8% → 50%
sales leaders: 26% → 57%
agency owners: 11% → 53%
we also checked this in broader extrovert usage data. across ~130k connection requests, acceptance was 27.4% with no prior comments vs 41.1% after two comments. first-dm replies were 23.4% with no prior comments vs 31.3% after two.
the part i care about as a founder is what happens AFTER the reply. someone says 'interesting, let's talk next month', then gets busy. We keep those conversations on the radar and suggest follow-ups when there's a useful reason to reconnect.
imo keep email if it works for you. test social-first linkedin on a comparable slice of your icp, then compare qualified calls, customers and time spent. the reply numbers give us a good reason to run that test
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As a fellow marketer, LinkedIn outreach is something I'd love to scale without turning it into obvious automated spam... So the human-review step is a good plus for me.
How does the warmup work in practice? Is it liking/commenting on their posts before the DM, or something more?
yeah, comments and likes before the first dm are part of it. a typical starting point is a couple of useful comments on their posts, then a connect request
but the dm itself can be part of the warmup too :)
we're currently getting around a 45% reply rate in our own outreach. we often open with something about the person: a question, an observation, sometimes a joke based on their posts or profile. no pitch in that first message. the commercial conversation can come later, once there's a reason for it
because this isn't a fixed sequence, each dm is drafted around that person and the conversation so far
say someone posts about attending a conference. you ask “how did it go?” and now you have a conversation. that's also a useful way to reconnect with someone who's gone quiet, without repeating your pitch
your own posts help here too. if they replied to your DM, it gives linkedin another signal to help your posts show up in their feed
Extrovert doesn't write or publish those posts for you, but if you're posting separately, the touches add up: they see your content, see your comments, and occasionally get a dm that's relevant to them
that's the workflow we're trying to make easy. thoughtful, manual-quality outreach, without spending half your day on linkedin =)
we do cold outreach at Dial too, so this is a question I actually need answered for my own use, not just curiosity. LinkedIn is notoriously trigger-happy about restricting accounts that look automated, and "hand the whole job to your agent" sounds like exactly the pattern their detection is built to catch. is the pacing/rate-limiting tuned per account based on how LinkedIn treats that specific profile's normal activity, or is there a global default that assumes every user looks the same to LinkedIn's side
@galdayan thanks for asking this! the account's normal activity matters a lot here
to answer directly: limits are configurable per account, and you control them. we don't automatically learn each profile's baseline and adjust the limits for you
from what we see in our own data, sudden activity spikes and repetitive timing patterns are what trigger linkedin's detect mechanisms mostly. an account that's been quiet suddenly doing lots of outreach is very different from one that's been consistently active. Also even a small batch sent at exactly 9am every day can create a repetitive pattern.
on our side, we vary the timing, space actions out and keep them within your configured working hours and daily limits. anything over the limit waits until the next day.
you can set separate limits for dms, comments, reactions and connection requests on each account. for a lightly used account, start lower. for an established, consistently active account, you have more room to increase them gradually. also count whatever you're doing manually or through other tools on that same profile.
and handing the work to your agent doesn't bypass any of this. it can review drafts and approve actions, but those actions still go through the same pacing and account limits
so the agen't can't really mess it up, which is an important guardrail
if the account hasn't been doing much, i'd absolutely ramp up slowly rather than switch on a full outreach workload overnight. that's important whichever tool you use
p.s. checked your product, looks cool! in a way very similar to what we're building. A real-world tooling for agents =)
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Congrats Oleg and team!
I've used Extrovert for my LinkedIn comments since June. This weekend I connected it to Claude and tried the new features from the chat.
Lead Finder was the highlight. Previews are free, so Claude could test filters before spending credits. My first search for LinkedIn ghostwriters returned 709 people, including book ghostwriters and a photographer. One tighter search later it was down to 138, and most of them fit.
It also helped me tidy up. I was at 739 of 750 prospects, so Claude found the 136 who hadn't posted in 30 days, removed them after I confirmed, and is now trimming the rest down to my ICP. The two-comment warm-up and the DM playbook are next.
One thing I'd love to see next is outgoing signals. When I scroll my feed, I like the posts I want to come back to later. A signal that turns those likes into a campaign would cover the people I want to reach who don't engage with my posts.
@selim_uysal hey, Selim :) Thanks to lot for weighing in
really appreciate you taking the time to support us and write this. Very grateful for your consistent feedback. We've been changing a lot of things in the product based on our chats!
On your later note, can you please clarify what you mean by "outgoing signals"? Not sure I fully understood: you like a post in the feed, and you want to add the post's author to your campaign? Or how do you imagine this working?
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thanks a lot@svetlana_ragimova , apreciate the question!
For a starting point, I'd suggest 2–3 useful comments over a week or two before connecting. In our usage data, connection acceptance was 27.4% without prior comments vs 41.1% after two.
You can warm up through DMs too. Ask something about their work, a recent post or an event they attended. If there's a real conversation, the proposal can come later when it fits.
For higher-value accounts or a small target market, I'd take longer: several weeks of getting familiar, then occasional, relevant messages. You can keep commenting between DMs without constantly asking for something.
The strongest fit is B2B founders, sales teams and agencies, especially with longer sales cycles. The main use cases are:
Sales: Get on the right people's radar before reaching out, then turn that familiarity into a conversation.
Nurture: Stay in touch with good-fit prospects who said 'not now' or had a demo but didn't buy. This is a big one, because those relationships are easy to forget once the initial outreach ends.
Agencies: Run that same process for clients, with a separate voice and approach for each.
Networking and visibility: Join relevant conversations and build relationships without making every interaction about selling.
For job candidates, the same approach can help you get to know hiring managers and people on the team before asking about opportunities. It's a reasonable use case, but our strongest experience and data are on the B2B sales side.
When you say LinkedIn outreach, do we mean mainly from a social standpoint such as handling posts, replies, newsletters?Or is it more for sales such as researching leads, emailing them, etc.?
thanks@cloudalchemist!
Mainly sales outreach, yes, but you can also use it to grow your presence and network on LinkedIn. A few common use cases:
Sales: Find relevant prospects, warm them up through comments, start DM conversations and follow up based on their posts and your conversation history.
Networking and nurture: Stay in touch with potential customers, partners or people you want to know. Keep the relationship going even when there's no immediate reason to sell.
Visibility: Find relevant conversations and contribute useful comments, so the right people see your name and get to know you.
It focuses on LinkedIn comments and DMs. It doesn't send emails or manage your posts or newsletters, but it can work alongside those activities.
Looks really interesting!
thanks a lot@sentineldigi ! Please don't hesitate to try it out, there's a free trial. Aslo pls ping me in the app chat after you do, would love to hear the feedback + help with the setup! :)
Love Extrovert and the team of @oleg_sobolev and @dmitry_bergelson !
Sales is built on trust and relationship building, I hate spamming and sending cold dm's. Yeah surprise it never works! Extrovert makes outreach intelligent, warm and human! Love extrovert!
@ren_saguil1 wowwwww 🤩 thanks so much for such a warm feedback! now we need to ship more cool stuff haha! =)
Suggesting who to comment on or DM today, and not just dumping a big list, is the smart part. a short daily list I can actually finish beats a huge one I ignore..
thanks a lot @marissa__bronfman, yes, this is exactly the way we're thinking about it :)
The two things we focus on are good drafts and good prioritization.
And I'd argue prioritization matters even more. Drafts are often human-written/corrected, and knowing who needs your attention today, and why, is what makes it or breaks it as a process
I'm still skeptical about linkedin outreach vs email. Warming someone up through comments sounds reasonable, but does it lead to more booked calls, or mostly more engagement? Would love to see a comparison for the same audience
fair question :) i wouldn't judge this by likes or comment impressions either.
we tested this across 10,000 leads in our own audience. same audience, lead source, messages and sequence. the difference was whether we warmed people up with comments before reaching out.
reply rates, cold → social-first:
ceos: 8% → 50%
sales leaders: 26% → 57%
agency owners: 11% → 53%
we also checked this in broader extrovert usage data. across ~130k connection requests, acceptance was 27.4% with no prior comments vs 41.1% after two comments. first-dm replies were 23.4% with no prior comments vs 31.3% after two.
the part i care about as a founder is what happens AFTER the reply. someone says 'interesting, let's talk next month', then gets busy. We keep those conversations on the radar and suggest follow-ups when there's a useful reason to reconnect.
imo keep email if it works for you. test social-first linkedin on a comparable slice of your icp, then compare qualified calls, customers and time spent. the reply numbers give us a good reason to run that test
As a fellow marketer, LinkedIn outreach is something I'd love to scale without turning it into obvious automated spam... So the human-review step is a good plus for me.
How does the warmup work in practice? Is it liking/commenting on their posts before the DM, or something more?
thanks for the question@kastelicjakob !
yeah, comments and likes before the first dm are part of it. a typical starting point is a couple of useful comments on their posts, then a connect request
but the dm itself can be part of the warmup too :)
we're currently getting around a 45% reply rate in our own outreach. we often open with something about the person: a question, an observation, sometimes a joke based on their posts or profile. no pitch in that first message. the commercial conversation can come later, once there's a reason for it
because this isn't a fixed sequence, each dm is drafted around that person and the conversation so far
say someone posts about attending a conference. you ask “how did it go?” and now you have a conversation. that's also a useful way to reconnect with someone who's gone quiet, without repeating your pitch
your own posts help here too. if they replied to your DM, it gives linkedin another signal to help your posts show up in their feed
Extrovert doesn't write or publish those posts for you, but if you're posting separately, the touches add up: they see your content, see your comments, and occasionally get a dm that's relevant to them
that's the workflow we're trying to make easy. thoughtful, manual-quality outreach, without spending half your day on linkedin =)
we do cold outreach at Dial too, so this is a question I actually need answered for my own use, not just curiosity. LinkedIn is notoriously trigger-happy about restricting accounts that look automated, and "hand the whole job to your agent" sounds like exactly the pattern their detection is built to catch. is the pacing/rate-limiting tuned per account based on how LinkedIn treats that specific profile's normal activity, or is there a global default that assumes every user looks the same to LinkedIn's side
@galdayan thanks for asking this! the account's normal activity matters a lot here
to answer directly: limits are configurable per account, and you control them. we don't automatically learn each profile's baseline and adjust the limits for you
from what we see in our own data, sudden activity spikes and repetitive timing patterns are what trigger linkedin's detect mechanisms mostly. an account that's been quiet suddenly doing lots of outreach is very different from one that's been consistently active. Also even a small batch sent at exactly 9am every day can create a repetitive pattern.
on our side, we vary the timing, space actions out and keep them within your configured working hours and daily limits. anything over the limit waits until the next day.
you can set separate limits for dms, comments, reactions and connection requests on each account. for a lightly used account, start lower. for an established, consistently active account, you have more room to increase them gradually. also count whatever you're doing manually or through other tools on that same profile.
and handing the work to your agent doesn't bypass any of this. it can review drafts and approve actions, but those actions still go through the same pacing and account limits
so the agen't can't really mess it up, which is an important guardrail
if the account hasn't been doing much, i'd absolutely ramp up slowly rather than switch on a full outreach workload overnight. that's important whichever tool you use
p.s. checked your product, looks cool! in a way very similar to what we're building. A real-world tooling for agents =)
Congrats Oleg and team!
I've used Extrovert for my LinkedIn comments since June. This weekend I connected it to Claude and tried the new features from the chat.
Lead Finder was the highlight. Previews are free, so Claude could test filters before spending credits. My first search for LinkedIn ghostwriters returned 709 people, including book ghostwriters and a photographer. One tighter search later it was down to 138, and most of them fit.
It also helped me tidy up. I was at 739 of 750 prospects, so Claude found the 136 who hadn't posted in 30 days, removed them after I confirmed, and is now trimming the rest down to my ICP. The two-comment warm-up and the DM playbook are next.
One thing I'd love to see next is outgoing signals. When I scroll my feed, I like the posts I want to come back to later. A signal that turns those likes into a campaign would cover the people I want to reach who don't engage with my posts.
@selim_uysal hey, Selim :) Thanks to lot for weighing in
really appreciate you taking the time to support us and write this. Very grateful for your consistent feedback. We've been changing a lot of things in the product based on our chats!
On your later note, can you please clarify what you mean by "outgoing signals"? Not sure I fully understood: you like a post in the feed, and you want to add the post's author to your campaign? Or how do you imagine this working?