Automate remembering, not sending
Clay writes the note. Slack queues one card. You click Connect. Twenty minutes a day. Nothing bots LinkedIn.
The loop
- 01Import the list you already paid forSprouts into Clay. Do not re-enrich. Name, LinkedIn URL, department, title, company. He ran this on a list he already had.
- 02Write a note under 200 charactersClay formula, zero credits. No pitch. If department is blank, fall back to company so you never get an empty ‘work in ___’ line.
- 03Draft a one-question first messageClay AI column: no pitch, no product, no links, reference their role, exactly one easy question. 0.2 credits a row. Test five before the batch.
- 04Sheets is the state machine. Make fires one.Status Queued/Sent, Date Sent, Accepted, Msg 1 Sent. Make searches Queued with limit 1 so cards come one at a time.
- 05Slack the card. A human clicks Connect.Paste-ready note, LinkedIn URL. You open the profile and send. Accepted rows get the first message the same way. Nothing hits LinkedIn via API, bot, or plugin.
Most LinkedIn ‘automation’ is a bot that gets the account restricted. Tharun’s version automates the memory: who is queued, what to paste, who already accepted. The click stays human. Twenty minutes a day is the constraint, not a slogan.
The interesting gate is the one-at-a-time card. Make limit 1, so you never get a dump of fifty connects. Notes stay under 200 characters. The first message asks one question and does not pitch.
