The Claude + LinkedIn outreach system (the exact prompts)
Last week I booked 28 meetings. No cold calls, no ads, no VA, no agency. Just Claude and LinkedIn.
Almost nobody talks about this combination, and I do not understand why. Most people open Claude to write a caption, post it, and close the tab. That is a habit, not a workflow. It has no pipeline attached to it.
Here is the system that actually moves the needle, and the exact prompts so you can run it yourself today.
The whole thing fits in one line: Claude does the thinking. LinkedIn does the reaching. You do the closing.
How the system works
Outreach is really five jobs in a row: find the right people, start a relevant conversation, follow up without being annoying, reply in a way that keeps it warm, and handle the objection before the call. Claude is genuinely good at all five if you ask it the right way.
The six prompts below cover that entire loop. Copy them, swap in your offer and your ideal customer, and you have a repeatable motion instead of a blank message box.
1. A connection note that feels handwritten
The fastest way to get ignored is a templated "I came across your profile" note. This prompt forces something specific and human.
You are writing a LinkedIn connection note to a cold prospect.
Their profile:
[paste their headline, their "about" section, and 1 or 2 recent posts]
Write a connection request that:
- references one specific, genuine detail from their profile or recent activity
- sounds like a busy human typed it in 20 seconds, not a template
- has zero flattery, zero "I came across your profile", zero pitch
- does not mention my company or product at all
- stays under 280 characters
Give me 3 variations, each with a different angle.
Pro tip: pick the one that sounds most like you, then change one word so it is unmistakably human.
2. Twenty ways to start a relevant conversation
When you do not know what to say, you default to "I help X do Y." Nobody replies to that. This gives you twenty real angles in about two minutes.
I sell [your offer] to [your ideal customer, for example "SaaS founders who do their own sales"].
Brainstorm 20 distinct angles I can use to open a relevant LinkedIn conversation with this audience. Each angle should hit a different pain point, trigger event, or shared context, not a generic "I help X do Y".
For each angle, give me one opening line I could actually send.
Pro tip: keep the 5 that make you think "that is exactly what they are dealing with." Throw the rest away.
3. A follow-up sequence that does not sound robotic
Most deals are lost in the follow-up, not the first message. This builds five touches that each earn their place.
Write a 5-message LinkedIn follow-up sequence for a prospect who accepted my connection but has not replied yet.
Context:
- my offer: [paste]
- who they are: [paste]
- send timing: day 0, day 3, day 7, day 14, day 21
Rules for every message:
- under 400 characters
- conversational, like a note to a peer
- each message uses a different angle (value, curiosity, social proof, a question, a graceful exit)
- never say "just bumping this" or "following up"
End the last message with a polite close that leaves the door open.
Pro tip: the goal of a follow-up is a reply, not a yes. Optimise every line for "easy to respond to."
4. The perfect reply to keep it warm
A prospect replied, and now you are staring at the box trying not to sound thirsty. Hand Claude the thread.
Here is my current LinkedIn conversation with a prospect:
[paste the whole thread]
Write my next reply. It should:
- match their tone and energy
- answer anything they asked
- move us one small step toward a 15-minute call, without being pushy
- end with a low-friction next step they can say yes to in one line
Give me 2 options: one softer, one more direct.
Pro tip: when in doubt, send the softer one. You can always escalate. You cannot un-pitch.
5. Objection handlers, ready before the call
Walk into the call already knowing what they will push back on, and you sound calm because you have heard yourself say the answer.
My offer: [paste]
My ideal customer: [paste]
List the 8 objections this kind of prospect is most likely to raise on a first call. For each one, give me a 2 to 3 sentence response that reframes the objection instead of arguing with it.
Then give me 3 questions I can ask early in the call to surface the real objection before it derails the conversation.
Pro tip: read these out loud once before the call. Your voice does the rest.
6. Bonus: build your target list
Great prompts on the wrong people still go nowhere. Start with a tight list.
I sell [your offer]. My best customers tend to be [describe 2 or 3 traits of your best customers].
Write the exact LinkedIn Sales Navigator filters I should use to find 200 look-alike prospects: job titles, seniority, industry, company headcount, geography, and 3 keyword searches. Then rank the filters from highest to lowest intent.
Pro tip: tighter is better. 200 perfect-fit people beat 2,000 maybes every time.
Where this breaks down, and how to fix it
Here is the honest catch. The thinking takes minutes. The reaching takes hours.
Doing this by hand for 200 prospects means visiting every profile, sending connections inside LinkedIn's daily limits, waiting, coming back on the right day to follow up, and never losing track of who replied. That is a part-time job on top of your actual job. And the moment you try to speed it up with a random Chrome extension blasting messages, you put your account at risk.
That gap is exactly why I built Ampliflow. You keep the thinking and the closing. Ampliflow runs the reaching: it imports your list, sends connections and follow-ups on safe, human-paced limits from the cloud with no extension and nothing running on your laptop, auto-pauses the second someone replies, and drops every conversation into one inbox. The same prompts above, running across hundreds of people, without the account anxiety.
Start tomorrow
The prompts are yours. Copy them, adapt the brackets to your own offer, and start a real conversation tomorrow morning. If you want the reaching handled so you can stay on the thinking and the closing, that is the entire reason Ampliflow exists.