# Connect with agency founders posting about client acquisition

125 accounts and 250 people, 250 LinkedIn connection requests and about 158 verified work emails for the follow-up.

Family: [LinkedIn outbound](https://www.routergrowth.com/workflows/linkedin-outbound.md) · HTML page: https://www.routergrowth.com/workflows/linkedin-agency-founders

## Give this to your agent

```text
Using RouterGrowth, run this workflow: Connect on LinkedIn with agency founders who posted about client acquisition or lead generation this month, then message the ones who accept and email the rest. 250 people, personalized from their posts.
Show me the price before every call, and stop after each stage with a sample of the results so I can adjust.

1. Source the accounts: company.search x 13 searches. Companies matching the industry, size and location, ten or so per search.
2. Qualify on firmographics: company.enrich x 125 companies. Headcount, industry and location to keep the accounts that fit.
3. Find the people: people.search x 250 profiles. 2 contacts per account by title and seniority, with current role.
4. Get the contact: contact.find x 175 (250 tried, 70% found), contact.verify x 175 verdicts, linkedin.profile x 250 profiles read. Charged on a match only: a miss is free, so the estimate is a ceiling.
5. Context for the first line: web.scrape x 125 pages, social.posts x 750 posts. One page per account and a few recent posts per person, so the opener is about them.
6. Run the outreach: email.send x 474 (158 contacts x 3 steps), linkedin.invite x 250 requests, linkedin.message x 75 (30% accepted). Connection request first, email to the rest; both from accounts you own.
7. Read the replies: email.messages x 48 inbox reads, linkedin.messages x 25 inbox reads. Poll the inboxes, classify replies, hand the warm ones to a human.

Before sending: email.domain x 1, email.inbox x 1, on a domain I own.

Budget for one run: about $11.98 plus $4.66 one-time setup. Run routergrowth inspect on any capability before the first call to confirm the quote.
```

## Why this works

Agency founders who post about client acquisition are describing their own bottleneck. They buy what fills the pipeline.

The first line, as your agent would write it:

> Your post about referrals drying up is something I hear from a lot of agency founders. What have you tried besides referrals?

## The workflow, stage by stage

Source the accounts → Qualify on firmographics → Find the people → Get the contact → Context for the first line → Run the outreach → Read the replies

| # | Stage | Calls | Cost |
|---|---|---|---:|
| 1 | Source the accounts | `company.search` x 13 | $0.03 |
| 2 | Qualify on firmographics | `company.enrich` x 125 | $0.89 |
| 3 | Find the people | `people.search` x 250 | $0.10 |
| 4 | Get the contact | `contact.find` x 175, `contact.verify` x 175, `linkedin.profile` x 250 | $4.12 |
| 5 | Context for the first line | `web.scrape` x 125, `social.posts` x 750 | $2.20 |
| 6 | Run the outreach | `email.send` x 474, `linkedin.invite` x 250, `linkedin.message` x 75 | $4.50 |
| 7 | Read the replies | `email.messages` x 48, `linkedin.messages` x 25 | $0.15 |
| + | One-time setup | `email.domain` x 1, `email.inbox` x 1 | $4.66 once |

One run: $11.98 for 2,735 calls. Assumptions: 2 contacts per account unless the brief says otherwise, 70% email find rate, 90% verification pass, 3 emails per contact, 30% LinkedIn accept rate. Prices are the catalog's at the time this page was built; `routergrowth inspect` returns the exact quote before a call.

### Source the accounts

Companies matching the industry, size and location, ten or so per search.

### Qualify on firmographics

Headcount, industry and location to keep the accounts that fit.

### Find the people

2 contacts per account by title and seniority, with current role.

### Get the contact

Charged on a match only: a miss is free, so the estimate is a ceiling.

### Context for the first line

One page per account and a few recent posts per person, so the opener is about them.

### Run the outreach

Connection request first, email to the rest; both from accounts you own.

### Read the replies

Poll the inboxes, classify replies, hand the warm ones to a human.

## Run it from the command line

```bash
# RouterGrowth workflow: Connect on LinkedIn with agency founders who posted about client acquisition or lead gener
npm install -g routergrowth && routergrowth setup

# one-time setup
routergrowth run -c email.domain -i '{"domain":"<domain>"}'
routergrowth run -c email.inbox -i '{}'

# 01 Source the accounts  (company.search x 13)
routergrowth run -c company.search -i '{"query":"<query>"}'

# 02 Qualify on firmographics  (company.enrich x 125)
routergrowth run -c company.enrich -i '{"domain":"<domain>"}'

# 03 Find the people  (people.search x 250)
routergrowth run -c people.search -i '{}'

# 04 Get the contact  (contact.find x 175, contact.verify x 175, linkedin.profile x 250)
routergrowth run -c contact.find -i '{"first_name":"<first_name>","last_name":"<last_name>","company_domain":"<company_domain>"}'
routergrowth run -c contact.verify -i '{"email":"<email>"}'
routergrowth run -c linkedin.profile -i '{}'

# 05 Context for the first line  (web.scrape x 125, social.posts x 750)
routergrowth run -c web.scrape -i '{"url":"<url>"}'
routergrowth run -c social.posts -i '{"platform":"<platform>","handle":"<handle>"}'

# 06 Run the outreach  (email.send x 474, linkedin.invite x 250, linkedin.message x 75)
routergrowth run -c email.send -i '{"inbox_id":"<inbox_id>","to":"<to>"}'
routergrowth run -c linkedin.invite -i '{}'
routergrowth run -c linkedin.message -i '{"text":"<text>"}'

# 07 Read the replies  (email.messages x 48, linkedin.messages x 25)
routergrowth run -c email.messages -i '{"inbox_id":"<inbox_id>"}'
routergrowth run -c linkedin.messages -i '{}'
```

## Questions

### Can an AI agent send LinkedIn connection requests?

Yes, from your own account. You connect it once through a hosted sign-in, then linkedin.search, linkedin.invite and linkedin.message run as you, inside daily caps the platform enforces.

### How many invitations can it send a day?

Up to 30 a day per account, 20 in the first week, and 180 a week. The limit is enforced on every call, so a workflow of 300 people is spread over a couple of weeks.

### What should the connection note say?

One line about something the person posted. social.posts reads their recent posts so the agent can write a note that could only have been sent to them.

### What happens after someone accepts?

linkedin.messages shows who accepted and who replied. The agent messages the people who accepted and, in the workflows that say so, emails the ones who did not.

### What does this workflow cost to run?

About $11.98 for one run of 2,735 calls, plus $4.66 once for the sending inboxes. Each call is quoted before it runs and a lookup that finds nothing is not charged, so the figure is a ceiling. There is no subscription: the run is paid from a prepaid balance.

## Related

- [Connect with sales leaders posting about hiring SDRs](https://www.routergrowth.com/workflows/linkedin-hiring-sdrs.md)
- [Connect with RevOps leaders posting about switching CRM](https://www.routergrowth.com/workflows/linkedin-switching-crm.md)
- [Connect with founders posting about AI agents](https://www.routergrowth.com/workflows/linkedin-ai-agents.md)
- [Connect with marketing leaders posting about outbound results](https://www.routergrowth.com/workflows/linkedin-outbound-results.md)
- Guide: [LinkedIn automation for AI agents: search, invite, message and read replies from one prompt](https://www.routergrowth.com/use-cases/linkedin-automation-for-ai-agents.md)
- Guide: [LinkedIn lead generation: turn competitor commenters into a qualified lead list](https://www.routergrowth.com/use-cases/competitor-commenters-to-leads.md)
- Skill: [Multichannel intent outbound](https://www.routergrowth.com/skills/multichannel-intent-outbound.md)
- Skill: [Cold email pipeline](https://www.routergrowth.com/skills/cold-email-pipeline.md)

Adjust the volumes and assumptions: https://www.routergrowth.com/free-gtm-tools/workflow-generator#q=Connect%20on%20LinkedIn%20with%20agency%20founders%20who%20posted%20about%20client%20acquisition%20or%20lead%20generation%20this%20month%2C%20then%20message%20the%20ones%20who%20accept%20and%20email%20the%20rest.%20250%20people%2C%20personalized%20from%20their%20posts.