Run LinkedIn outbound from your terminal

An awesome way to run LinkedIn prospecting from your terminal, OpenAI's new work agent and an AI phone replacing the iPhone feature by feature.

OpenAI launched ChatGPT Work last week, an agent that can prep for a sales meeting, update a recurring deck from new Slack messages, and stay on a project for hours unattended. It's built on GPT-5.6 and rolling out to Pro, Enterprise, and Edu plans first. If your Monday morning routine still starts with “let me pull last week's notes,” this is worth a test drive. Read the launch details.

Aligned Raises $60M to Build an “AI Deal Brain”

Aligned, the digital sales room platform used by 70,000 sellers a month, just closed a $60M Series B. The money's going toward autonomous buyer and seller agents plus a feature called the AI Deal Brain that tracks a deal's health automatically. Net revenue retention hit 125% last year, so buyers clearly like the shared-workspace model over email threads. More on the raise.

This AI Phone Just Replaced an iPhone, Feature by Feature

The agentic phone OS that won OpenAI's Hackathon is now a daily driver. Developer Isa Usmanov says it's finding contacts, emailing investors, and rescheduling meetings on his behalf, all by voice. His measure of success: "how little time I have to spend on it while getting more done." If that's not the dream KPI for every SDR's tech stack, what is? Watch the demo.

Your finance close runs in #finance. Stripe and QuickBooks reconciled, runway updated, posted Sunday night without you asking.

Engineering review lands in #eng. Viktor pulled the open PRs, left comments on auth-refactor, flagged a dependency blocking api-pagination.

Campaign brief lands in #growth: Meta CPA up 18%, recommendation to pause broad match, a draft landing page already deployed for the variant test.

You hired him on day zero. He lives in Slack and Microsoft Teams alongside your contractors and investors, connects to 3,000+ tools, pushes back when you ship something dumb.

"Viktor is now an integral team member, and after weeks of use we still feel we haven't uncovered the full potential." Patrick, Director, Yarra Web.

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There's a workflow going around right now that's changing how outbound teams think about LinkedIn prospecting. Instead of bouncing between tabs, dashboards, and CSV exports, reps are running their entire outbound motion from a terminal using Claude Code + MCP.

Here's how it works. You install Claude Code locally, connect it to your outbound platform (HeyReach, for example) via MCP, and suddenly Claude can read your lead lists, clean them, build campaigns, write personalized connection messages, and launch sequences. All from one prompt. No UI. No tab switching.

The framework underneath is simple but sharp:

1. Markets: define who you're going after (family offices, mid-market SaaS, whatever your ICP is).

2. Segments: break those markets into slices by title, company size, or signal (just raised, just hired a VP Sales, etc.).

3. Personas: map each segment to a messaging angle. CEOs get a different opener than Directors of RevOps.

4. Campaign buckets: decide between blank connection requests (follow up after acceptance) or personalized messages (higher effort, higher conversion). Claude handles the copy either way.

The real unlock is that Claude sees your campaign context, past messages, reply history, and lead metadata. It's not writing cold. It's writing informed. And because it's running through MCP, it can clean your list, remove bad titles, filter duplicates, and build the campaign in one pass before a single message goes out.

If your outbound still starts with a spreadsheet export, this is the upgrade. Forward this to your SDR team.

What it replaces: the patchwork of Apollo exports, LinkedIn Sales Navigator tabs, and manual copy-paste that most SDRs use to build a prospect list. Clay pulls data from 75+ sources (LinkedIn, Crunchbase, job boards, company news) into one enrichment table, then uses AI to write personalized outreach lines based on what it finds.

Who it's for: outbound teams building targeted account lists who are tired of enrichment work eating half their prospecting time. It's overkill if you're doing fewer than 50 leads a month.

Why now: Clay just crossed a wave of integrations with tools like Alta and Attio, making it a genuine hub instead of one more point solution. Pricing starts free for 100 credits, with paid plans from $149/month. If your list building still lives in a spreadsheet, this is the upgrade.

HubSpot's Breeze Prospecting Agent is now free for all paid users. It builds outbound lists and drafts sequences right inside your CRM, no separate tool needed.

Gong launched Revenue Harness and Mission Big Dipper. Both push toward continuous AI coaching instead of the old once-a-quarter call review.

Alta raised $25M to build a single AI orchestration layer across your CRM, outbound, and ad tools instead of adding another point solution.

Outify launched its AI SDR system on Product Hunt, built around a “Deal Chaser” agent that keeps following up after the first email until the deal closes or dies.

Know a rep who's still sending 500 cold emails a week and getting crickets? Forward them this issue. The Warm Intro Machine might be the highest-ROI thing they read all quarter.

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