# Hellofew > AI agents that run your LinkedIn outbound and get you replies. Hellofew is a set of agents that run LinkedIn outbound for one person, from that person's own account. You paste your product page; they work out who to talk to, find those people, write a message for each one, send it, follow up once, and hand you the replies. It costs $49/month. ## What the agents do - **Read your product page and write the ICP** — 5-8 exact LinkedIn job titles, positioning, value proposition, three angles and a sample note. A text box, not a black box: you edit whatever it got wrong. - **Find up to 25 matching people a day** — from a title search, and, warmer, from the people who commented under a watched competitor's post this week or wrote a post about the problem. Each arrives with the reason they were picked, and a signal-sourced lead opens on what that person actually said. - **Write one message per person**, from that person's own profile. A draft too similar to a recent one is discarded and regenerated, so no two people get the same note with the name changed. - **Send from your account** on a schedule you can read before it happens — inside your working hours, at irregular gaps, one follow-up ever. - **Handle replies.** Any inbound message lands in one inbox and cancels everything still queued for that person, automatically. - **Watch the account.** Acceptance rate, LinkedIn's own pushback and connection count are checked continuously, and sending slows or stops on its own. ## What the customer does 1. **Paste a URL**, and correct the ICP if it got something wrong. 2. **Connect LinkedIn.** You sign in on LinkedIn's own page, through Unipile. Your password and 2FA code never reach us; we hold an opaque account id. You pick the country you log in from, and the session is pinned to one address there permanently. 3. **Approve or skip each person** — one click each. The first batch appears about a minute after LinkedIn is connected, and nothing is ever sent that the customer did not approve. Approving the first three is what starts sending; there is no separate switch and no waiting period, and the whole schedule is visible before any of it runs. ## Why the messages get answered Each note is written from the recipient's profile rather than merged from a template, near-duplicates are regenerated, it arrives from a real account inside human working hours, there is exactly one follow-up, and any reply stops everything queued for that person. Volume is not the lever: an account that gets restricted replies at zero. ## The sending limits, in full Published in full. Most of the category says "human-like limits" and stops there; one competitor publishes a daily figure in a blog post. They are constants in the source, not settings. Neither the customer nor the operator can raise them. | Limit | Value | |---|---| | Invitations per day, ceiling | 20 | | Invitations per week, ceiling | 80 (50 on a free LinkedIn account) | | Warm-up ramp | 5 a day, rising to 20 over about three weeks | | Messages per day | 12 ceiling | | New leads per day | 25 | | Minimum gap between invitations | 150 seconds | | Follow-ups per person | 1, ever | | Minimum existing connections | 150, below which the account sends nothing | ## When it refuses to send - Outside your working hours, and within 20 minutes of either end of them. - Weekends, and public holidays in your country. - While the account has fewer than 150 connections. - When LinkedIn returns a rate stop: the account freezes and the whole queue is cancelled rather than paused, because a frozen account with an intact backlog fires all of it on recovery. - When acceptance falls below 15% the daily cap halves; below 8% inviting stops entirely and you are told. A low acceptance rate is what precedes a restriction. - The same local day somebody accepted. A connection request accepted and a pitch arriving minutes later is the clearest automation signature there is. - Ever again, to anybody who asks not to be contacted. That list is global across every customer and is never deleted. ## Who should not buy it If you want a few hundred invitations a week, this is the wrong product. It caps you at 20 a day and cannot be persuaded otherwise. If you have a sales team and a CRM to integrate with, it is too small — it manages one LinkedIn account for one person. ## Price $49/month. One LinkedIn account. No contract; cancel and the queue stops the same day. Reading your product page and writing your ICP is free and needs no card — if what it says about your market is wrong, you have learned that for nothing. Subscribing is what connects LinkedIn and starts finding real people, so the card comes before the LinkedIn connection rather than after it. An account with fewer than 150 connections is asked before payment and turned away, because the sender would refuse to send from it anyway. --- # Hellofew vs the alternatives > None of the four states a daily sending limit, a warm-up ramp, or what happens to your LinkedIn account if the platform objects. Hellofew runs the whole outbound loop for one founder — research, targeting, writing, sending, replies — at $49/month. The comparisons below are with tools that mostly sell breadth: more signals, more channels, more volume. Prices below were read from each vendor's own pricing page on the date shown on that comparison, and each page links to its source. - [Hellofew vs AiSDR](https://hellofew.com/vs/aisdr) — AiSDR from $250/mo, Hellofew at $49/month. Buy theirs if you have a sales team, a CRM you live in, and you want email and LinkedIn run together at volume. - [Hellofew vs Valley](https://hellofew.com/vs/valley) — Valley from $199/seat/mo, Hellofew at $49/month. Buy theirs if you want the widest possible net of buying signals and are comfortable managing the sending pace yourself. - [Hellofew vs Gojiberry AI](https://hellofew.com/vs/gojiberry) — Gojiberry AI from $99/mo, Hellofew at $49/month. Buy theirs if you want outbound to run without you in the loop, and you are relaxed about messages going out that you have not read. - [Hellofew vs lemlist](https://hellofew.com/vs/lemlist) — lemlist from $55/mo, Hellofew at $49/month. Buy theirs if email is your main channel and LinkedIn is one more step in a sequence. For that job it is the better product and we would not pretend otherwise. ## The category gap All four compete on signal breadth, channel coverage and volume. Searching every one of their pricing pages for `linkedin`, `per day`, `daily limit`, `warm-up`, `ban`, `restrict`, `safe` and `rate limit` returns no daily invitation limit, no warm-up ramp, and nothing about what happens to your account if LinkedIn objects. lemlist's "warm-up" is mailbox warm-up for email deliverability, which is a different problem. --- # Hellofew vs AiSDR > AiSDR describes itself as: "Finds in-market buyers using real-time signals, then reaches out with messages that sound like your best rep wrote them." Figures below were read from https://aisdr.com/pricing/ on 8 September 2026. ## The short answer - **Buy AiSDR if** you have a sales team, a CRM you live in, and you want email and LinkedIn run together at volume. - **Buy Hellofew if** you are one founder who wants the whole loop run for you — research, targeting, writing, sending, replies — on the account you have spent years building, for $49 rather than $250. ## Price AiSDR starts at **$250/mo**. Hellofew is **$49/month**. | Plan | Price | What you get | |---|---|---| | Solo | $250/mo | 200 AI-researched contacts/month · 1 user · 1 domain · 3 mailboxes · 1 LinkedIn account | | Explore | quoted | 800 contacts/month · unlimited users · 2 domains · 6 mailboxes · 5 LinkedIn accounts · quarterly contract | | Scale | $2,500/mo | 2,500 contacts/month · 6 domains · 18 mailboxes · 20 LinkedIn accounts · quarterly contract | | **Hellofew** | **$49/month** | One LinkedIn account · 25 matched leads a day · 20 invitations a day maximum · no contract | Solo plan, billed monthly, $2,400/yr annually ## What AiSDR does better Genuinely better. If any of these is what you need, buy theirs. - Native two-way HubSpot and Salesforce sync, which we do not have at all. - Email as a first-class channel with mailbox warm-up — we only do LinkedIn. - Multi-seat and multi-account: 20 LinkedIn accounts on Scale, against our one. - A dedicated GTM engineer for onboarding at the top tier. ## Where we differ - Entry plan is $250/mo — five times ours. - Explore and Scale are quarterly contracts, not month to month. - Contacts are metered: 200/month on Solo, so the cap is on research volume rather than on sending safety. ## What AiSDR's pricing page does not mention A daily sending limit — and neither does anyone else's in this category. All four were checked on 8 September 2026 for any mention of invitation caps, warm-up ramps, or what happens if LinkedIn objects to your account. That absence is the business model rather than an oversight. Volume demos well. But LinkedIn does not publish its limits, restricts accounts that exceed them, and the account it restricts is yours, not your vendor's. Hellofew's whole spec, in public: 20 invitations a day maximum and not raisable; a new account starts at five and takes three weeks to get there; nothing outside working hours or within 20 minutes of either end; weekends and public holidays skipped; irregular gaps by design; an account under 150 connections sends nothing; one follow-up ever; any reply cancels the queue; caps halve under 15% acceptance and inviting stops under 8%, with a blunter check from day four that stops an account whose first ten invitations were all ignored; a LinkedIn flag in the first 24 hours of sending stops the account until a human restarts it; and nothing is sent that the customer did not approve, one message at a time. --- # Hellofew vs Valley > Valley describes itself as: "Every plan includes the whole system: all buying signals, unlimited leads, your writing style, email and LinkedIn." Figures below were read from https://www.joinvalley.co/pricing on 12 October 2026. ## The short answer - **Buy Valley if** you want the widest possible net of buying signals and are comfortable managing the sending pace yourself. - **Buy Hellofew if** you want the agents to choose the people and write to each one, and you want that still working in a year rather than for one good month. ## Price Valley starts at **$199/seat/mo**. Hellofew is **$49/month**. | Plan | Price | What you get | |---|---|---| | Starter | $199/seat/mo | LinkedIn only · prospecting, qualification, research, outreach · unified inbox · ICP scoring · CRM/API integrations · one LinkedIn account per seat | | Plus | $299/seat/mo | Adds email (1,000 messages/mo) · Slack support · onboarding call · customer success manager | | Growth | $499/seat/mo | Plus, with $300 of additional credits every month | | Scale / Studios | quoted · $1,499/mo | Scale is custom pricing from five seats; Studios is done-for-you | | **Hellofew** | **$49/month** | One LinkedIn account · 25 matched leads a day · 20 invitations a day maximum · no contract | Starter, LinkedIn only; $149/seat/mo on a quarterly commitment ## What Valley does better Genuinely better. If any of these is what you need, buy theirs. - Signal coverage: profile viewers, website visitors and job changes, which we do not track. (Post engagers we do.) - They publish sending limits too — roughly 20–25 invitations a day, ramped — and back them with a money-back guarantee if an account is restricted. Nobody else in the category does either, and we do not offer the guarantee. - Email and LinkedIn in one system on Plus; we are LinkedIn only. - A 7-day free trial, and research across 200+ sources against our single search pass. ## Where we differ - $199/seat/mo month-to-month, or $149 only if you commit quarterly — four times ours for the LinkedIn-only tier. - Email is not on the entry plan; it starts at $299/seat. - "Unlimited leads" is the headline. Unlimited lead *discovery* is not the constraint on a LinkedIn account — the sending rate is. ## What Valley's pricing page does not mention A daily sending limit — and neither does anyone else's in this category. All four were checked on 12 October 2026 for any mention of invitation caps, warm-up ramps, or what happens if LinkedIn objects to your account. That absence is the business model rather than an oversight. Volume demos well. But LinkedIn does not publish its limits, restricts accounts that exceed them, and the account it restricts is yours, not your vendor's. Hellofew's whole spec, in public: 20 invitations a day maximum and not raisable; a new account starts at five and takes three weeks to get there; nothing outside working hours or within 20 minutes of either end; weekends and public holidays skipped; irregular gaps by design; an account under 150 connections sends nothing; one follow-up ever; any reply cancels the queue; caps halve under 15% acceptance and inviting stops under 8%, with a blunter check from day four that stops an account whose first ten invitations were all ignored; a LinkedIn flag in the first 24 hours of sending stops the account until a human restarts it; and nothing is sent that the customer did not approve, one message at a time. --- # Hellofew vs Gojiberry AI > Gojiberry AI describes itself as: "Detects warm leads from 15+ buying and social signals, filters them by your ICP, and runs personalized outreach to book qualified demos automatically." Figures below were read from https://gojiberry.ai on 12 October 2026. ## The short answer - **Buy Gojiberry AI if** you want outbound to run without you in the loop, and you are relaxed about messages going out that you have not read. - **Buy Hellofew if** you want the same thing run for you, but with every message readable before it goes out under your name and the schedule visible before it fires. ## Price Gojiberry AI starts at **$99/mo**. Hellofew is **$49/month**. | Plan | Price | What you get | |---|---|---| | Pro | $99/mo | 2 AI agents · 2 LinkedIn senders · up to 1,800 prospects contacted a month · 15+ intent signals · 200 email credits · unified inbox · HubSpot and Pipedrive | | Custom | quoted | More senders and a dedicated customer success manager | | **Hellofew** | **$49/month** | One LinkedIn account · 25 matched leads a day · 20 invitations a day maximum · no contract | Pro plan, monthly; 10% off quarterly, 20% off annual. Free trial, live in five minutes, cancel anytime ## What Gojiberry AI does better Genuinely better. If any of these is what you need, buy theirs. - Signal breadth: 15+ buying and social signals against our three — people commenting under a watched profile's post, people who posted about a watched phrase this week, and reactions. - Two LinkedIn senders on the entry plan, against our one. - Set-up speed, and they say so: live in five minutes. - Genuinely hands-off, if hands-off is what you want. ## Where we differ - Twice our price, and the closest of the four in what it sets out to do. - The pitch is autonomy — "automatically", "agents run outbound for them". An approve-before-send mode exists; ours is the only mode. - "Up to 1,800 prospects contacted per month" across two senders is around 40 a working day per account — roughly double our ceiling. ## What Gojiberry AI's pricing page does not mention A daily sending limit — and neither does anyone else's in this category. All four were checked on 12 October 2026 for any mention of invitation caps, warm-up ramps, or what happens if LinkedIn objects to your account. That absence is the business model rather than an oversight. Volume demos well. But LinkedIn does not publish its limits, restricts accounts that exceed them, and the account it restricts is yours, not your vendor's. Hellofew's whole spec, in public: 20 invitations a day maximum and not raisable; a new account starts at five and takes three weeks to get there; nothing outside working hours or within 20 minutes of either end; weekends and public holidays skipped; irregular gaps by design; an account under 150 connections sends nothing; one follow-up ever; any reply cancels the queue; caps halve under 15% acceptance and inviting stops under 8%, with a blunter check from day four that stops an account whose first ten invitations were all ignored; a LinkedIn flag in the first 24 hours of sending stops the account until a human restarts it; and nothing is sent that the customer did not approve, one message at a time. --- # Hellofew vs lemlist > lemlist describes itself as: "The all-in-one platform for precise outbound at any scale — email, LinkedIn, calls, WhatsApp and SMS from one workflow." Figures below were read from https://www.lemlist.com/pricing on 8 September 2026. ## The short answer - **Buy lemlist if** email is your main channel and LinkedIn is one more step in a sequence. For that job it is the better product and we would not pretend otherwise. - **Buy Hellofew if** LinkedIn is the channel rather than one step in an email sequence, and you want it run end to end on your own account rather than a domain. ## Price lemlist starts at **$55/mo**. Hellofew is **$49/month**. | Plan | Price | What you get | |---|---|---| | Email | $55–69/mo | Unlimited users · 50,000 emails/mo · 650M+ lead database · no LinkedIn automation | | Multichannel | $87–109/mo per user | LinkedIn automation · SMS · WhatsApp · 5 senders per user · unlimited messages | | Enterprise | quoted | Teams of 5+ users | | **Hellofew** | **$49/month** | One LinkedIn account · 25 matched leads a day · 20 invitations a day maximum · no contract | Email plan, annual billing; $69/mo monthly. LinkedIn needs the Multichannel plan. ## What lemlist does better Genuinely better. If any of these is what you need, buy theirs. - By far the widest channel coverage: email, LinkedIn, calls, WhatsApp, SMS in one sequence. - A 650M+ contact database, email finder and verifier — we have none of that. - Email deliverability tooling and inbox warm-up, which is a genuinely hard problem they have solved. - The most mature product of the four, with the deepest integrations. - A 14-day free trial. ## Where we differ - LinkedIn automation is not on the entry plan — it needs Multichannel at $87/mo per user. - Priced per user, so cost scales with the team rather than with usage. - "Unlimited emails & messages" on Multichannel. Unlimited is the opposite of the constraint a LinkedIn account needs. ## What lemlist's pricing page does not mention A daily sending limit — and neither does anyone else's in this category. All four were checked on 8 September 2026 for any mention of invitation caps, warm-up ramps, or what happens if LinkedIn objects to your account. That absence is the business model rather than an oversight. Volume demos well. But LinkedIn does not publish its limits, restricts accounts that exceed them, and the account it restricts is yours, not your vendor's. Hellofew's whole spec, in public: 20 invitations a day maximum and not raisable; a new account starts at five and takes three weeks to get there; nothing outside working hours or within 20 minutes of either end; weekends and public holidays skipped; irregular gaps by design; an account under 150 connections sends nothing; one follow-up ever; any reply cancels the queue; caps halve under 15% acceptance and inviting stops under 8%, with a blunter check from day four that stops an account whose first ten invitations were all ignored; a LinkedIn flag in the first 24 hours of sending stops the account until a human restarts it; and nothing is sent that the customer did not approve, one message at a time. --- # Who Hellofew is for > The people who would buy from you are on LinkedIn. You have not had the hour to find them. Almost everybody who ends up here has the same week: something that works, buyers who are definitely on LinkedIn, and an outbound hour that keeps losing to everything else. What differs is the chair you sit in, and what you stand to lose if the account you sell from gets burned. These pages tell the same product from each of those chairs. At most 20 invitations a day, for $49/month. ## By business - [B2B SaaS](https://hellofew.com/solutions/b2b-saas.md) — The product is good. The pipeline depends on whether you had a spare hour this week. - [Developer tools](https://hellofew.com/solutions/developer-tools.md) — Your GitHub stars are going up. None of the people with a budget have heard of you. - [AI startups](https://hellofew.com/solutions/ai-startups.md) — Your buyer has been pitched forty AI tools this quarter. Yours is the one that actually works. - [Agencies](https://hellofew.com/solutions/agencies.md) — Every good client came from a referral. That is why you cannot predict next quarter. - [Consultancies](https://hellofew.com/solutions/consultancies.md) — You are billable four days a week. The fifth day is supposed to be business development. - [Vertical SaaS](https://hellofew.com/solutions/vertical-saas.md) — Your entire market fits in one conference hall. You cannot afford to annoy any of them. - [Professional services](https://hellofew.com/solutions/professional-services.md) — Clients stay with you for a decade. Finding the next one still depends on who you happened to have lunch with. - [Recruitment agencies](https://hellofew.com/solutions/recruitment-agencies.md) — Every hiring manager you want to work with has blocked three recruiters this week. - [Cybersecurity](https://hellofew.com/solutions/cybersecurity.md) — The CISO you want to reach gets fifty vendor messages a week, and posts the worst ones. - [B2B fintech](https://hellofew.com/solutions/b2b-fintech.md) — The finance team runs month-end on a spreadsheet you could replace in a week. They have never heard of you. ## By role - [Solo founders](https://hellofew.com/solutions/solo-founders.md) — You are the engineer, the support desk and the accountant. Sales is the job nobody else is going to pick up. - [Technical founders](https://hellofew.com/solutions/technical-founders.md) — You can build the whole product in a weekend. Writing one cold message takes you forty minutes and you still hate it. - [Bootstrapped founders](https://hellofew.com/solutions/bootstrapped-founders.md) — There is no runway and no investor to explain a bad quarter to. Every hour and every dollar has to come back. - [Fractional executives](https://hellofew.com/solutions/fractional-executives.md) — Every engagement ends eventually. The next one has to already be in conversation, and you have been too busy doing the work to start one. - [Independent consultants](https://hellofew.com/solutions/independent-consultants.md) — Clients hire you because they trust your judgement. The fastest way to lose that is a cold message that reads like everyone else's. - [Freelancers](https://hellofew.com/solutions/freelancers.md) — The project ends Friday. You spent the last six weeks doing the work instead of finding the next one. - [Agency owners](https://hellofew.com/solutions/agency-owners.md) — Your team is fully booked this quarter. Next quarter has two retainers ending and nothing signed behind them. - [Founding sales hires](https://hellofew.com/solutions/founding-sales-hires.md) — You are the first sales hire. There is no SDR team, no playbook, and a pipeline target the founders wrote on a whiteboard. - [B2B coaches](https://hellofew.com/solutions/b2b-coaches.md) — You spend your days helping leaders have better conversations. Starting one with a stranger on LinkedIn still feels wrong. ## By role and business - [Technical founders of B2B SaaS](https://hellofew.com/solutions/technical-founder-b2b-saas.md) — You can build the integration in an afternoon. The message to the person who would pay for it has been a draft for a month. - [Solo founders of developer tools](https://hellofew.com/solutions/solo-founder-developer-tools.md) — Four hundred GitHub stars, a Discord that answers itself, and not one engineering manager who knows it exists. - [Technical founders of AI startups](https://hellofew.com/solutions/technical-founder-ai-startup.md) — Your model beats the benchmark. Your buyer deleted forty messages this week that said the same thing. - [Bootstrapped vertical SaaS founders](https://hellofew.com/solutions/bootstrapped-founder-vertical-saas.md) — Every customer so far came from someone who knew you from the industry. You ran out of people who know you in March. - [Fractional CMOs](https://hellofew.com/solutions/fractional-cmo.md) — You run demand generation for three clients. Your own pipeline is whoever happens to call when a contract ends. - [Fractional CFOs](https://hellofew.com/solutions/fractional-cfo.md) — The founder needed you six weeks before the raise. They found you two weeks after it. - [Development agency owners](https://hellofew.com/solutions/dev-agency-owner.md) — The big project ends in six weeks. Four of your developers have nothing booked after it, and you have been too busy delivering to notice. - [Marketing agency owners](https://hellofew.com/solutions/marketing-agency-owner.md) — You write campaigns that fill other people’s calendars. Your agency still grows by whoever a client happens to mention you to. - [Independent security consultants](https://hellofew.com/solutions/security-consultant.md) — You found the vulnerability their last three auditors missed. The CISO who should hear about you has muted every message with “security” in it. - [Founders of boutique recruitment firms](https://hellofew.com/solutions/recruitment-firm-founder.md) — Your recruiters are brilliant at finding candidates. Nobody is finding the next hiring manager, and the biggest client just froze headcount. - [Freelance product designers](https://hellofew.com/solutions/freelance-product-designer.md) — The case study took three weekends. Forty people liked it. None of them had a budget. ## Who there is no page for If your buyer is a consumer, a local customer, or "anyone", LinkedIn is the wrong place to find them and this is the wrong product. If you have a sales team, a CRM you live in, or want hundreds of invitations a week, it is too small and too slow on purpose. It runs one LinkedIn account, for one person. --- # The product is good. The pipeline depends on whether you had a spare hour this week. > Hellofew for B2B SaaS. Your SaaS has users who love it and a pipeline that depends on whether you had time this week. Agents find your buyers on LinkedIn and write to each one. You approve. You shipped the thing. A handful of customers use it every day and would be annoyed if it went away. You know, roughly, who else would buy it: a job title, a company size, a problem they complain about in public. They are on LinkedIn right now. But outbound is the hour that loses every argument. A bug report beats it. A customer call beats it. The roadmap beats it. So it happens in bursts — forty invitations on a Sunday night when the numbers look bad, then nothing for three weeks — which is the worst possible pattern for both the reply rate and the account. Hellofew does that hour every day instead. You paste your pricing or product page; agents turn it into the job titles worth looking for, find those people, read each profile, and write one message per person. You spend a minute in the morning approving the ones you like. It sends from your own account, follows up once, and stops the instant somebody answers.  ## What actually goes wrong ### Outbound only happens in the weeks it is least likely to work The week MRR dips is the week you finally sit down and send a batch. By then you are writing from anxiety, the messages read like it, and a burst of invitations from an account that was silent last week is exactly the pattern LinkedIn notices. **What happens instead:** The agents run every weekday whether you had a good week or not, inside your working hours, at irregular gaps. A new account starts at 5 a day and climbs over three weeks to a ceiling of 20. Steady beats heroic, and it is the only pattern that is still working in month six. ### Every tool writes the same note with the name swapped You have received them: "Hi Sam, I noticed you're the Head of Ops at Acme and thought you'd be interested in…" You delete them in under a second. So does your buyer. A search result carries a name, a headline and a location, and a note written from that can only ever be a greeting bolted onto a job title. **What happens instead:** Each person's profile and recent posts are read before anything is written. If they said something worth answering, the note answers it — and every quoted phrase is checked, character for character, against what they actually wrote. A quote that cannot be found is stripped and flagged to you. A draft too close to a recent one is thrown away and rewritten. ### You cannot afford to lose the account the whole company runs on Your LinkedIn profile is the company's front door. Investors check it, candidates check it, your first customers found you through it. The tools built for sales teams treat it as a disposable sending channel, and they can, because it is not theirs. **What happens instead:** Nothing sends from an account with fewer than 150 connections, because a near-empty profile sending invitations is the pattern LinkedIn most reliably restricts. If your acceptance rate falls, the daily cap halves on its own; if it keeps falling, inviting stops and you are told why. None of this makes an account unbannable — nothing can — but every limit is published, so you can check it. ### Replies get lost between LinkedIn, your inbox and your head Someone replied "interesting, send me something" nine days ago and you only noticed because they viewed your profile again. Meanwhile a sequence tool would have sent them a cheerful "just bumping this up" on day four. **What happens instead:** Every reply lands in one inbox and cancels everything still queued for that person — checked twice, right up to the moment of sending. Nobody who has answered you ever gets chased. A weekly digest says how many people replied, and on a quiet week it says why. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: Head of Operations, VP of Customer Success, Director of RevOps, Head of Finance, COO, Founder & CEO. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Day one: paste your product page and read the ICP it writes. It is free and needs no card. If the job titles are wrong, edit them — or learn that your positioning is less clear than you thought, which is worth knowing for nothing. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect LinkedIn on LinkedIn's own sign-in page. About a minute later, your first queue: up to 25 people, each with the reason they were picked and a note written for them. 3. Approve three and sending starts. 5 invitations a day at first, rising over three weeks towards 20, weekdays only, never within twenty minutes of either end of your working day. 4. People who accept get one message written for them, and one follow-up if they do not answer. Replies land in one inbox. Every Monday a digest says how many people replied — including, honestly, the weeks when nobody did.  ## Who this is wrong for If you sell self-serve at $9 a month to anyone with a credit card, LinkedIn outbound is the wrong channel and so is this. If you have three SDRs and a Salesforce instance, it is too small: it runs one LinkedIn account for one person, with no CRM sync. And if what you want is a thousand invitations a month, buy something else — this caps you at 20 a day on purpose. ## Questions **Will it work if my ICP is broad?** It works better if it is not. The first thing it does is read your page and propose five to eight specific job titles. A broad ICP produces a queue you skip most of, and your skips are the signal that the targeting needs tightening. **Can it sell to my existing users' bosses?** It finds people by title, company and profile, not from your product's data. If the buyer is a different title from the user, put that title in the ICP and it will look for them. **Is it safe for my LinkedIn account?** Materially safer than the category, and not risk-free — LinkedIn's terms prohibit automation, and nobody can promise an account will never be restricted. What you get is a hard ceiling of 20 invitations a day, a three-week ramp, and automatic slow-downs, all published so you can check them. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Technical founders](https://hellofew.com/solutions/technical-founders.md) - [Solo founders](https://hellofew.com/solutions/solo-founders.md) - [Technical founders of B2B SaaS](https://hellofew.com/solutions/technical-founder-b2b-saas.md) - [Developer tools](https://hellofew.com/solutions/developer-tools.md) --- # Your GitHub stars are going up. None of the people with a budget have heard of you. > Hellofew for developer tools. Developers ignore cold outreach, but the engineering leader who signs off on your tool still reads LinkedIn. Agents find them and write to each one. You approve. Developers found your tool on their own. They starred the repo, left a thoughtful issue, maybe wired it into a side project. Then the conversation stalls, because the person who can put it on an invoice — the engineering manager, the platform lead, the VP who owns the build pipeline — has never seen it. You know outbound to engineers is a minefield. They can smell a sequence from the first line, and they talk. One smarmy "quick question about your dev workflow" gets screenshotted into a group chat and your tool becomes the one that spams. So you do nothing, and wait for bottom-up adoption to climb a ladder it rarely climbs on its own. Hellofew writes to the people above the developers, one at a time, from what they have actually said. You paste your docs or landing page; agents turn it into the titles that own the budget, find those people, read their profile and recent posts, and draft a note that sounds like one engineer writing to another. You read every one before it goes. It sends from your account and stops the moment they answer.  ## What actually goes wrong ### Bottom-up adoption stops one floor below the budget Forty engineers at a company use your free tier. Nobody there has ever talked to you. When procurement finally asks "what is this and why are we paying nothing for it", the answer is a shrug, and the easiest move is to rip it out. **What happens instead:** The ICP it writes aims above the user: the platform lead, the engineering manager, the head of developer experience. Each one arrives with a fit score you can take apart and the reason they were picked, so you are writing to the person who can say yes, not the person who already did. ### Engineers punish anything that reads like a template A technical buyer reads "I noticed you're the Staff Engineer at Acme" and knows two things at once: nobody looked, and the next four messages are already scheduled. They block, and some of them post the screenshot. **What happens instead:** Nothing is written until their profile and recent posts have been read. If they wrote about a flaky CI run or a migration they regret, the note can answer that — and every quoted phrase is checked, character for character, against what they actually wrote. A quote that cannot be found is stripped and flagged to you before you approve. ### A follow-up sequence is the fastest way to become a meme Your worst nightmare is a thread titled "this devtool emailed me six times". Most outbound tools make that easy: bump, bump, breakup email. With a developer audience, the third message costs you more than the first one earned. **What happens instead:** There is one follow-up, ever, and no setting to add a second. Any reply — including "not interested" — cancels everything still queued for that person, and that is checked twice, right up to the moment of sending. Anyone who asks not to be contacted goes on a permanent do-not-contact list. ### You are the founder, the maintainer and the support desk Between reviewing pull requests, answering Discord and writing the changelog, the hour for outbound never arrives. When it does, it is a Friday-night burst from an account that has been quiet for a month. **What happens instead:** The agents run every weekday, inside your working hours, at irregular gaps. A new account starts at 5 invitations a day and climbs over three weeks to a ceiling of 20. Your part is a minute of reading in the morning, and approving three is what starts it. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: Engineering Manager, Head of Platform Engineering, Director of Developer Experience, VP of Engineering, Staff Software Engineer, CTO. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your docs or landing page and read the ICP it writes — free, no card. If it aims at the developers who already use you rather than the people who buy for them, edit the titles. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect LinkedIn on LinkedIn's own sign-in page. About a minute later, up to 25 engineering leaders, each with the reason they were picked and a note written from their own profile. 3. Approve three and sending starts: 5 a day at first, rising over three weeks towards 20, weekdays only, never at the edges of your working day. Skip anyone who would recognise you from your repo and prefer a direct message. 4. Those who accept get one message and, if they stay quiet, one follow-up. Replies land in one inbox. Monday's digest counts who replied — and on a quiet week, says why.  ## Who this is wrong for If your tool is a free CLI with no paid tier, there is nobody to sell to yet and this will not help. If your buyers are individual developers paying with a personal card, LinkedIn outbound is the wrong channel — they are not reading it. And if you want to message every engineer at a target company at once, this will not do it: it caps you at 20 invitations a day, deliberately. ## Questions **Will it message my existing open-source users?** It looks for people by title and profile, not from your GitHub data. If someone you already know turns up in the queue, skip them — skipping is one click, and nothing sends that you did not approve. **Can the notes be technical?** They are written from what the person actually posted and from your own page. If your page is technical, the angles will be. You can edit the ICP's three angles and the sample note so the voice is yours. **Does it do email too? Developers read email more.** No. It is LinkedIn only, from one account. If email is your main channel, a dedicated email tool will serve you better. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Solo founders of developer tools](https://hellofew.com/solutions/solo-founder-developer-tools.md) - [Technical founders](https://hellofew.com/solutions/technical-founders.md) - [B2B SaaS](https://hellofew.com/solutions/b2b-saas.md) - [AI startups](https://hellofew.com/solutions/ai-startups.md) --- # Your buyer has been pitched forty AI tools this quarter. Yours is the one that actually works. > Hellofew for AI startups. Every buyer has had forty AI pitches this quarter and trusts none of them. Agents write to each person from what they actually said, and you read every note first. You built something real on top of a model — it saves an ops team a day a week, or reads contracts better than the junior who used to. The demo lands every time you get someone on a call. Getting someone on a call is the problem. Because every inbox your buyer owns is full of the same pitch: "AI-powered", "10x", "agents that". Much of it is written by AI, and it reads like it. If your outreach sounds like theirs, it is filed with theirs. The irony is sharp: the AI company is the one that most needs its outbound not to sound generated. Hellofew is agents doing outbound, and the whole design is about not sounding like it. Paste your product page; agents work out who to talk to, find them, read each profile and recent post, and write one note per person grounded in what that person said. Any phrase it quotes is checked against their own words. You approve every message before it goes, from your own account.  ## What actually goes wrong ### Your category is drowning in generated outreach The head of operations you want to reach deleted six AI pitches this morning. All six opened with a compliment about their "impressive background". Whatever you send next is judged against those, in about a second. **What happens instead:** Each note is written from the person's own profile and recent posts, not a template with a name merged in. Reposts are excluded, because thanking someone for an opinion they only forwarded is the fabrication people spot fastest. A draft too close to a recent one is thrown away and rewritten. ### A hallucinated compliment would end the conversation — and your credibility An AI company sending a note that misquotes the recipient is not an ordinary mistake. It is proof, delivered to the exact person you wanted to impress, that your product makes things up. **What happens instead:** Every quoted phrase is compared, character for character, against what the person actually wrote. If it cannot be found, the quotation marks are stripped and the draft is flagged to you, so you see the problem before anyone else does. It is a string check, not a second model asked to mark its own homework. ### Buyers want proof, and you are still finding your first ten Early on, every conversation teaches you something: which title actually owns the problem, which angle gets a reply. Blasting a list burns through exactly the people you would have learned the most from. **What happens instead:** Up to 25 people a day, each with a fit score you can take apart and the reason they were picked. Your skips and their replies are the signal. The ICP is a text box, not a black box — when a title is wrong, you change it, and the next queue follows. ### Moving fast is how accounts get restricted Fundraising momentum makes everything feel urgent, including a thousand invitations this week. Then the founder's profile — the one investors and hires check — gets restricted, right before the round. **What happens instead:** A ceiling of 20 invitations a day, reached over three weeks from 5. If acceptance falls, caps halve on their own; if it keeps falling, inviting stops and you are told. Nobody can promise an account will never be restricted, but these limits are published so you can check them. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: Head of Operations, VP of Customer Support, Director of Legal Operations, Head of AI, Chief Operating Officer, Head of Innovation. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your product page and read the ICP it writes — free, no card. It is a good test of whether your page explains the value without the word "AI" doing all the work. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect LinkedIn. About a minute later, your first queue: up to 25 people, each with what the note was written from shown next to it. 3. Approve three and sending starts: 5 invitations a day, building over three weeks towards 20, weekdays only, inside your working hours. 4. One message to each person who accepts, one follow-up if they are quiet, and every reply in one inbox. Monday's digest tells you who replied — and why, if nobody did.  ## Who this is wrong for If you are selling a consumer AI app, LinkedIn outbound is the wrong channel. If you want fully autonomous outreach with nobody reading the messages, this is deliberately not that — every note waits for your approval. And if you need email sequences alongside LinkedIn, buy a tool that does both; this is LinkedIn only. ## Questions **Isn't using AI to sell AI a bit on the nose?** Only if it reads like it. The point here is that each note is grounded in something the recipient actually said, quotes are verified against their words, and you read every message before it goes. It is AI doing the research and the first draft, with a human deciding. **Can I control how it describes my product?** Yes. It writes the ICP — positioning, value proposition, three angles and a sample note — from your page, and all of it is editable. If it overclaims, fix it there and every draft after follows. **Will it help us find design partners rather than customers?** It finds people who match the titles you give it and writes to them from your angles. If your angle is "we are looking for three teams to build this with", that is what the notes will say. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Technical founders of AI startups](https://hellofew.com/solutions/technical-founder-ai-startup.md) - [B2B SaaS](https://hellofew.com/solutions/b2b-saas.md) - [Technical founders](https://hellofew.com/solutions/technical-founders.md) - [Solo founders](https://hellofew.com/solutions/solo-founders.md) --- # Every good client came from a referral. That is why you cannot predict next quarter. > Hellofew for agencies. Referrals built the agency, and referrals are why revenue swings every quarter. Agents find the clients you would pick and write to each one, from your own account. Your agency is good at the work. Most of your clients found you through somebody who had worked with you before, and the ones who stayed have stayed for years. What you do not have is a way to decide who the next client is, rather than waiting to find out. So the pipeline follows your calendar in the worst way. When you are busy delivering, nobody is selling. When a project ends, you are suddenly selling from a standing start, to anyone, with a slightly desperate note you would never have sent in a good month. Hellofew keeps the selling going while you deliver. Paste your agency's site or a case study page; agents turn it into the titles of the people who hire agencies like yours, find them, read each profile, and write one note per person. You approve them in a minute over coffee. It sends from your own account, follows up once, and stops as soon as anyone replies.  ## What actually goes wrong ### Feast, then famine, then panic Three big projects land at once and you stop thinking about pipeline. Two of them end in the same month. Now you are in the gap, sending forty invitations on a Sunday night and hoping one of them turns into a brief by Friday. **What happens instead:** The agents run every weekday regardless of how busy you are, inside your working hours, at irregular gaps. That steady rhythm — a ceiling of 20 a day, reached over three weeks — is what builds a pipeline that is already warm when the next project ends. ### Agency outreach all sounds the same "We're a full-service agency that helps brands like yours grow." Every marketing director gets ten of those a week. They cannot tell yours from anyone else's, because there is nothing in it about them. **What happens instead:** Each note is written from that person's profile and recent posts. If a head of marketing wrote about a rebrand that is dragging, the note can speak to that — with any quoted phrase checked, character for character, against what they actually posted. Near-identical drafts are thrown away and rewritten. ### Your LinkedIn is your portfolio Prospects look you up before they reply. Your profile carries your case studies, your team, your reputation. Getting it restricted for sending too much would cost you more than the pipeline it was meant to build. **What happens instead:** Nothing sends from an account with fewer than 150 connections, and if acceptance falls, caps halve automatically; if it keeps falling, inviting stops and you are told why. No tool can promise LinkedIn will never restrict an account — this one publishes every limit so you can check it. ### You want clients you would choose, not anyone with a budget The worst clients arrive in the famine months, because you said yes to everything. A pipeline of people you picked on purpose is how you get to say no. **What happens instead:** The ICP is yours to shape: industries, company sizes, the five to eight titles that actually buy. Every person in the queue comes with the reason they were picked, and skipping anyone is one click. Nothing is sent that you did not approve. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: Head of Marketing, Marketing Director, VP of Brand, Head of Digital, Chief Marketing Officer, Head of Product. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your agency site or your strongest case study and read the ICP it writes — free, no card. It is also an honest read on whether your positioning says who you are for. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect LinkedIn — yours, as the founder, since that is the profile prospects will check. About a minute later, up to 25 people who hire agencies like yours, each with a note written for them. 3. Approve three and sending starts: 5 invitations a day, rising over three weeks towards 20, weekdays only, never at the edges of your working day. 4. Accepted connections get one message and one follow-up. Replies land in one inbox and stop everything queued for that person. Monday's digest tells you who replied, and says why on a quiet week.  ## Who this is wrong for If your agency has a business-development team running outreach from several accounts, this is too small — it runs one LinkedIn account for one person. If you sell to local consumer businesses that do not live on LinkedIn, it is the wrong channel. And if you want to reach every marketing director in a region this month, it will not: 20 invitations a day is the ceiling. ## Questions **Can my account manager use it instead of me?** It runs one LinkedIn account, and it should be the account of whoever is doing the selling. For most small agencies that is the founder, because that is the profile prospects look up. **Will it mention our case studies?** It writes angles from the page you give it. Give it a case study page and the angles will draw on that work. You can edit the three angles and the sample note directly. **What if someone we already work with comes up?** Skip them — one click, and they are not contacted. A reply from anyone cancels everything queued for them, anyone who asks not to be contacted is never contacted again, and the ledger of who you have already approached means nobody is approached twice by accident. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Agency owners](https://hellofew.com/solutions/agency-owners.md) - [Development agency owners](https://hellofew.com/solutions/dev-agency-owner.md) - [Marketing agency owners](https://hellofew.com/solutions/marketing-agency-owner.md) - [Consultancies](https://hellofew.com/solutions/consultancies.md) - [Freelancers](https://hellofew.com/solutions/freelancers.md) --- # You are billable four days a week. The fifth day is supposed to be business development. > Hellofew for consultancies. Consulting is sold on trust, and cold outreach is where trust goes to die. Agents write to each buyer from what they said, and you read every message before it goes. Your firm sells expertise. Engagements come from a partner's network, a former client who moved companies, a talk someone half-remembered. It works, and it is slow, and it depends almost entirely on who you happen to know this year. Business development is meant to fill the gap, and it is the first thing a billable week eats. Worse, cold outreach feels beneath the work: a consultant pitching like a SaaS rep undermines the very authority you are selling. So you do not, and the network gets a little older every year. Hellofew does the part you would rather not, in a way you would sign your name to. Paste your firm's site or a service page; agents turn it into the titles of the people who commission work like yours, find them, read each profile and recent post, and write one considered note per person. You approve each one. It sends from your account, follows up once, and stops as soon as they reply.  ## What actually goes wrong ### The network is finite, and you have been drawing on it for years Your best engagements came from people who already knew you. Every year, a few of them retire, change industry, or simply run out of problems you can solve. Nobody new is joining that circle unless you go and meet them. **What happens instead:** The ICP names the five to eight titles that commission your kind of work, and up to 25 matching people arrive each day with a fit score you can take apart and the reason they were picked. It is a way to meet people you would have liked to know anyway. ### A pushy message costs you the authority you are selling A COO who gets "Quick 15 minutes to discuss your transformation journey?" files you with every vendor. A consultant is supposed to have noticed something. That is the job. **What happens instead:** Each note starts from something the person actually said — a post about a stalled programme, a reorganisation, a new role. Quoted phrases are checked against their own words, and anything that cannot be found is stripped and flagged to you. One follow-up, ever. No "just circling back". ### Billable weeks leave no room for rhythm You intend to spend Friday on outreach. Then a client asks for a steering-committee deck by Monday. Business development happens in the gaps between engagements, which is exactly when you need it to have happened already. **What happens instead:** The agents work every weekday, inside your working hours, whether you are on-site or not. Your part is a minute of approving in the morning. The account ramps from 5 a day to a ceiling of 20 over three weeks, and stays there. ### Your profile is your credential Prospects vet you on LinkedIn before they answer: your history, your posts, who you know in common. It took fifteen years to build, and it is not the thing to gamble on a tool built to send as much as it can. **What happens instead:** Nothing sends outside working hours or within twenty minutes of either end, weekends and public holidays are skipped, and a falling acceptance rate halves the caps and then stops inviting. Materially safer than the category, not risk-free — every limit is published so you can check it. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: Chief Operating Officer, VP of Transformation, Head of Strategy, Director of Operations, Chief People Officer, Managing Director. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your firm's site or a service page and read the ICP — free, no card. If the titles are wrong, that is usually a sign the page describes what you do rather than who you do it for. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect the LinkedIn account prospects will look up — usually the partner's. About a minute later, your first queue of up to 25 people, each note shown next to what it was written from. 3. Approve three and sending starts: 5 invitations a day, building over three weeks to a ceiling of 20, weekdays only, never at the edges of the day. 4. One message to each person who accepts, one follow-up if they are quiet. Replies arrive in one inbox, and Monday's digest says who replied — including when nobody did, and why.  ## Who this is wrong for If your firm has a partner group that each wants their own outreach, this runs one account for one person and will not cover it. If your work is won only through formal tenders and procurement portals, LinkedIn outreach is unlikely to move it. And if you need a CRM record of every touch, there is no CRM sync. ## Questions **Will the notes sound too salesy for our clients?** They are written from the recipient's own words and from your positioning, which you can edit. More importantly, you read every one before it sends. If a note would embarrass you, skip it or rewrite it. **Can it target a specific industry?** Yes. The ICP is a text box — name the industries, company sizes and titles you want, and the search follows it. **How many conversations should I expect?** I will not invent a number. The ceiling is 20 invitations a day; how many people reply depends on your offer and your positioning, not on this software. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Independent consultants](https://hellofew.com/solutions/independent-consultants.md) - [Fractional executives](https://hellofew.com/solutions/fractional-executives.md) - [Professional services](https://hellofew.com/solutions/professional-services.md) - [Agencies](https://hellofew.com/solutions/agencies.md) - [B2B coaches](https://hellofew.com/solutions/b2b-coaches.md) --- # Your entire market fits in one conference hall. You cannot afford to annoy any of them. > Hellofew for vertical SaaS. Your whole market is a few thousand people in one industry, and they all talk to each other. Agents write to them one at a time, carefully, from your own account. You built software for one industry — property managers, veterinary groups, freight brokers, construction firms. You know their jargon, their software from 2009, the spreadsheet they all secretly run on. The market is not huge, but it is yours to win. The catch is that it is small and it talks. The operations director you spam today is on a panel with three of your prospects next month. A generic tool treats your market as a list to burn through; in a vertical, the list is finite and every burned name stays burned. Hellofew treats every name as the only one. Paste your product page; agents turn it into the specific titles in your industry, find those people, read their profile and posts, and write one note per person in your market's own language. You approve each one. It sends slowly, from your own account, and a permanent ledger means the same person is never approached twice.  ## What actually goes wrong ### A finite market does not forgive spam There are perhaps four thousand people in the world who buy what you sell. Burn a few hundred of them with a careless sequence and you have not lost a campaign, you have lost a meaningful slice of the whole market. **What happens instead:** Every approach is recorded in a ledger, so nobody is contacted twice by accident, and anyone who asks to be left alone joins a permanent do-not-contact list. One follow-up, ever. The ceiling of 20 a day is deliberately slow, because in your market speed is the thing that does damage. ### Your buyers do not have tech titles The person who buys your software is a regional operations manager, a practice owner, a head of estimating. Generic outbound tools are tuned for VP of Sales and Head of Growth, and they do not know where to look for yours. **What happens instead:** The ICP is written from your page, in your market's terms: five to eight exact titles, which you can edit. Every person found arrives with the reason they were picked and a fit score you can take apart, so you can see immediately if the search has wandered outside your industry. ### Industry people can tell an outsider in one line A note that says "streamline your workflows" to a fleet manager gets deleted. A note that mentions the Monday dispatch scramble gets read. Knowing the industry is your whole advantage, and templated outreach throws it away. **What happens instead:** Each note is written from that person's profile and recent posts, plus the angles drawn from your page. If they posted about a specific headache, the note speaks to it, and any quoted phrase is checked against their own words before you ever see it. ### Everyone knows the founder In a vertical, your personal profile is your brand. You speak at the trade show, you are in the association's group. If that account gets restricted, you have lost the channel your whole industry knows you by. **What happens instead:** Nothing sends from an account under 150 connections, sending stays inside working hours at irregular gaps, and a falling acceptance rate halves your caps and then stops inviting. Nobody can promise LinkedIn will not restrict an account — the limits here are published so you can judge them. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: Regional Operations Manager, Practice Owner, Director of Property Management, Head of Estimating, Fleet Operations Manager, Owner. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your product page and read the ICP — free, no card. Check that the titles are the ones your industry actually uses; edit any that sound like a tech company wrote them. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect your LinkedIn. About a minute later, up to 25 people from your market, each with the reason they were picked and a note written for them. 3. Approve three and sending starts: 5 invitations a day, building over three weeks to 20, weekdays only, skipping public holidays where you are. 4. One message and at most one follow-up per person. Replies arrive in one inbox and cancel anything queued. Monday's digest says who replied, and why if nobody did.  ## Who this is wrong for If your buyers are not on LinkedIn — many owner-operated trades are not — this cannot reach them, and you will see that fast in a thin queue. If you sell to consumers inside the industry rather than the businesses, it is the wrong channel. And if you want to reach the whole market in a month, it will not: that is exactly what the daily ceiling prevents. ## Questions **My market is small. Will it run out of people?** It might, eventually, and that is the honest version. A small market reached slowly and carefully is still a market; one reached in a month with a blunt sequence is not. The daily ceiling of 20 is what makes it last. **Can it avoid our existing customers?** Skip them in the queue — one click — and they are never contacted. Nothing is sent that you did not approve. **Does it know my industry's jargon?** It learns it from your page and from what each person has written. You can edit the ICP's angles and sample note so the vocabulary is exactly right. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Bootstrapped vertical SaaS founders](https://hellofew.com/solutions/bootstrapped-founder-vertical-saas.md) - [B2B SaaS](https://hellofew.com/solutions/b2b-saas.md) - [Bootstrapped founders](https://hellofew.com/solutions/bootstrapped-founders.md) - [Solo founders](https://hellofew.com/solutions/solo-founders.md) --- # Clients stay with you for a decade. Finding the next one still depends on who you happened to have lunch with. > Hellofew for professional services. Accounting, legal and compliance firms win work on trust and referrals. Agents write to each decision-maker from what they said, and nothing goes out you did not read. You run an accounting practice, a boutique law firm, a compliance or HR advisory business. The work is steady and the clients are loyal. New business arrives the way it always has: a referral from a banker, an introduction from an existing client, a partner's golf partner. Which means growth is something that happens to you rather than something you choose. You would like more of a particular kind of client — the fast-growing company, the sector you are strongest in — and there is no way to go and find them that does not feel like cold-calling, which your profession has always looked down on. Hellofew is a quieter way to go and find them. Paste your firm's site or a service page; agents turn it into the titles of the people who hire firms like yours — finance directors, general counsel, founders at a certain stage — find them, read their profile and posts, and write a measured note to each. You approve every one. It sends from your own account at a pace that looks like a person.  ## What actually goes wrong ### Referrals give you clients, not the clients you want The referrals are generous and mostly fine. But you want more scale-ups and fewer tiny sole traders, more of the sector you know best. You cannot ask your network to send you only the good ones. **What happens instead:** The ICP is yours: the industries, company sizes and five to eight titles you want to work with. Up to 25 matching people arrive each day with the reason they were picked, and skipping anyone is one click. ### Your profession punishes anything that looks like selling A finance director who gets "Are you happy with your current accountant?" thinks less of the sender, not more. A lawyer who sends five follow-ups looks like a lawyer with no clients. **What happens instead:** One follow-up, ever, and any reply — including "no thanks" — cancels everything queued for that person. Notes are written from what the recipient actually said, not merged from a template, and you read each one before it goes. Nothing leaves under your name that you did not approve. ### Regulated firms cannot afford a careless message A note that misstates what the recipient said, or promises something your firm cannot say, is not just embarrassing in your line of work. It is the kind of thing that ends up in front of a partner. **What happens instead:** Every quoted phrase is checked against the person's own words, and anything that cannot be found is stripped and flagged to you. The ICP's positioning and angles are editable, so the claims the notes can make are the claims you have signed off. ### The partner's profile is the firm's reputation Prospects vet you on LinkedIn. The senior partner's profile carries twenty years of credibility. Having it restricted because a tool sent too much would be a very public embarrassment. **What happens instead:** Sending stays inside working hours, twenty minutes clear of either end, at irregular gaps, capped at 20 invitations a day after a three-week ramp. A falling acceptance rate halves the caps, then stops inviting. Materially safer than the category, with every limit published — never risk-free. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: Finance Director, Chief Financial Officer, General Counsel, Head of Compliance, Founder & CEO, Head of People. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your firm's site or a service page and read the ICP — free, no card. Correct the titles and the positioning so it only says what your firm is comfortable saying. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect the LinkedIn account prospects will look up. About a minute later, up to 25 people, each with a note and what it was written from. 3. Approve three and sending starts: 5 invitations a day, rising over three weeks towards 20, weekdays only, public holidays skipped. 4. One message per accepted connection, one follow-up at most, and every reply in one inbox. Monday's digest tells you who replied — and on a quiet week, why.  ## Who this is wrong for If your firm's rules prohibit unsolicited approaches altogether, check with your compliance lead first — this cannot make an approach compliant. If you need every touch logged in a practice-management system, there is no CRM sync. And if several partners each want outreach, this covers one person's account only. ## Questions **Is LinkedIn outreach appropriate for a regulated firm?** That is a question for your own regulator and compliance lead, not for software. What this does is keep it measured: you approve every message, the claims come from positioning you control, and there is one follow-up at most. **Will it contact someone who asked us not to?** No. Anyone who asks not to be contacted goes on a permanent do-not-contact list, and that list is never deleted. **Can I use it for a specific service line?** Yes — give it the page for that service and it writes the ICP around it. You can edit the ICP whenever you change focus. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Consultancies](https://hellofew.com/solutions/consultancies.md) - [Fractional CFOs](https://hellofew.com/solutions/fractional-cfo.md) - [Independent consultants](https://hellofew.com/solutions/independent-consultants.md) - [B2B fintech](https://hellofew.com/solutions/b2b-fintech.md) --- # Every hiring manager you want to work with has blocked three recruiters this week. > Hellofew for recruitment agencies. Hiring managers get so many agency pitches they ignore all of them. Agents write to each one from what they actually posted. Business development, not candidate sourcing. You are good at placing people. Your candidates stay, your clients come back. What is hard is winning new clients: the heads of talent and hiring managers who would value you are buried in agency outreach, most of it identical, most of it sent in bulk. And the usual tools make it worse. They are built for sourcing candidates at volume, so they push business development at volume too — the same note to every VP of Engineering in the city. The hiring manager learns to ignore anything that starts with "I specialise in…", and your account starts to look like every other recruiter's. Hellofew is for the business-development side only — finding clients, not candidates. Paste your agency's site or a sector page; agents turn it into the titles that hire through agencies like yours, find those people, read their profile and hiring posts, and write one note per person. You approve each one. It sends from your own account, slowly, and stops the moment they reply.  ## What actually goes wrong ### Hiring managers pattern-match agency pitches instantly "Hi Mark, I noticed you're hiring and I have some excellent candidates…" He has read that sentence forty times this month. He does not open the fortieth. **What happens instead:** Each note is written from what the person actually posted — a role they have struggled to fill, a team they are building, a hiring freeze they just lifted. Any quoted phrase is checked against their own words. Drafts too similar to a recent one are thrown away and rewritten. ### Recruiter accounts are the ones LinkedIn watches hardest Recruiters send more invitations than almost anyone on LinkedIn, and recruiter accounts are restricted accordingly. Mixing high-volume sourcing with business development on the same profile is how an agency owner loses both. **What happens instead:** A ceiling of 20 invitations a day and 80 a week, reached over three weeks, with caps that halve on their own if acceptance falls. Critically: running another automation tool on the same account makes every one of these limits meaningless, so the acceptable-use policy forbids it. ### Business development loses to the desk every time Your day is interviews, offers, a candidate who just got a counter-offer. Client prospecting is what you do when the desk is quiet, which is exactly when you are already short on fees. **What happens instead:** The agents run every weekday inside your working hours. Up to 25 potential clients a day arrive with the reason they were picked; you approve the ones you like in a minute and go back to the desk. ### A reply followed by a chaser loses the client A head of talent replied "not now, maybe in Q1". Your sequence tool sent her a cheerful bump two days later. That is the last time she replies to you. **What happens instead:** Any reply cancels everything still queued for that person, checked twice right up to the moment of sending. There is one follow-up, ever, and anyone who asks not to be contacted is added to a permanent do-not-contact list. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: Head of Talent Acquisition, VP of Engineering, Head of People, Talent Partner, Chief Technology Officer, Director of Finance. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your agency site or your specialist sector page and read the ICP — free, no card. Make sure the titles are the people who hire through agencies, not the candidates you place. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect your LinkedIn. About a minute later, up to 25 potential clients, each with a note written from their profile and posts. 3. Approve three and sending starts: 5 invitations a day, building over three weeks to 20. Stop running any other automation on this account — it breaks every limit here. 4. One message per accepted connection and one follow-up at most. Replies land in one inbox, and Monday's digest counts who replied, including on the weeks nobody did.  ## Who this is wrong for This is not a candidate-sourcing tool, and using it as one would be the wrong product at the wrong pace — it caps you at 20 invitations a day. If you already run a sourcing automation on your LinkedIn account, you cannot run this alongside it. And if your desk has several consultants each doing their own business development, it covers one account only. ## Questions **Can I use it to find candidates?** No. It is built for finding clients: it reads your agency's page and looks for the people who would hire you. Candidate sourcing needs volume this tool deliberately does not have. **I already use LinkedIn Recruiter. Is that a problem?** Running a second automation tool on the same account is prohibited, because we cannot see what the other tool is sending. If Recruiter is used manually, that is not automation — but the safest arrangement is one tool per account. **Will it mention specific candidates?** It writes from your agency's page and the recipient's profile, not from your candidate database. You can edit any note before approving it. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Founders of boutique recruitment firms](https://hellofew.com/solutions/recruitment-firm-founder.md) - [Agencies](https://hellofew.com/solutions/agencies.md) - [Professional services](https://hellofew.com/solutions/professional-services.md) - [Agency owners](https://hellofew.com/solutions/agency-owners.md) --- # The CISO you want to reach gets fifty vendor messages a week, and posts the worst ones. > Hellofew for cybersecurity. CISOs get more vendor outreach than anyone in the enterprise and publicly mock most of it. Agents write each note from what they said, and you approve every one. Your product closes a real gap — a class of misconfiguration nobody catches, an identity problem everyone has. Security leaders who see it get it. The trouble is that security leaders are the most over-pitched buyers in business, and many of them have stopped reading vendor outreach altogether. Some of them go further. "Vendor of the week" screenshots, threads about the worst cold messages, conference talks about how not to sell to a CISO. In your market, a careless message does not just fail, it becomes content. And the fear of that is exactly why you have not done outbound properly. Hellofew is built for the buyer who punishes volume. Paste your product page; agents turn it into the security titles that own your problem, find them, read their profile and posts, and write one restrained note per person, grounded in what they said. You approve every message. It sends slowly from your own account, follows up once, and never again after a reply.  ## What actually goes wrong ### Security leaders treat volume as a red flag A CISO who gets the same note from three people at your company has learned everything about you they need to. Volume signals desperation, and in security, desperation signals a product nobody is buying. **What happens instead:** One LinkedIn account, one person, a ceiling of 20 invitations a day reached over three weeks. That is not a limitation to work around — for this buyer it is the point. Every note is individual, and near-duplicates are thrown away and rewritten. ### FUD is the default, and it is exhausting "Did you know 83% of breaches start with…" Every security vendor opens with a scare statistic. The CISO reading it has spent the week with an actual incident and has no patience left for a hypothetical one. **What happens instead:** Notes are written from what the person has actually said — a post about alert fatigue, a talk about their zero-trust rollout — not from a scare stat. Any quote is checked, character for character, against their own words, and stripped and flagged to you if it cannot be found. ### A misquote to a security leader is a credibility breach Attributing words to a CISO that they did not say is not a small error in your industry. It says you do not check your inputs — which is the one thing a security buyer is paying you to do. **What happens instead:** Quote grounding is a plain string comparison against their own posts and profile, not a second model asked to check its own work. Reposts are excluded, so you never thank someone for an opinion they only forwarded. ### The follow-up sequence is the part they screenshot The first message was fine. It was message four — "Should I assume this isn't a priority?" — that ended up on someone's feed with your logo cropped in. **What happens instead:** One follow-up, ever, and no setting to add more. Any reply cancels everything queued for that person, checked twice right up to the send. Anyone who asks to be left alone is added to a permanent do-not-contact list. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: Chief Information Security Officer, Head of Security Engineering, Director of Security Operations, VP of Information Security, Head of Identity and Access Management, Security Architect. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your product page and read the ICP — free, no card. Look hard at the angles; if any lean on fear, rewrite them there and every draft follows. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect your LinkedIn. About a minute later, up to 25 security leaders, each with the reason they were picked and what the note was written from. 3. Approve three and sending starts: 5 invitations a day, building over three weeks towards 20, weekdays only, inside your working hours. 4. One message to each person who accepts, one follow-up at most, every reply in one inbox. Monday's digest reports who replied — and on a quiet week, why.  ## Who this is wrong for If you sell into large enterprises through channel partners and a field sales team, this is too small — one account, no CRM sync. If you want the whole security team at a target account messaged at once, it will not do that. And if your only message is a scare statistic, fix the positioning first: this writes from your page. ## Questions **Will it message several people at the same company?** Only if they match your ICP and you approve each one. Every person is shown to you before anything is sent, and skipping is one click. **Where does my prospect data go?** The sub-processors, what each sees and how long anything is kept are published in full on the legal pages. Your LinkedIn password and 2FA code never reach us. **Can it guarantee my account is safe?** No, and nobody honestly can — LinkedIn's terms prohibit automation. What you get is a published ceiling of 20 invitations a day, a three-week ramp, and automatic slow-downs that act before LinkedIn does. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Independent security consultants](https://hellofew.com/solutions/security-consultant.md) - [B2B SaaS](https://hellofew.com/solutions/b2b-saas.md) - [Technical founders](https://hellofew.com/solutions/technical-founders.md) - [Developer tools](https://hellofew.com/solutions/developer-tools.md) --- # The finance team runs month-end on a spreadsheet you could replace in a week. They have never heard of you. > Hellofew for B2B fintech. Finance leaders are sceptical, busy and bound by procurement. Agents find them, write to each one from what they said, and send slowly from your own account. You built something for finance teams — spend management, reconciliation, treasury, payments. You have seen the spreadsheets. You know the day each month when the controller does not go home. Your product removes that day. But finance leaders are the most sceptical buyers there are, and for good reason: a bad vendor in their stack is an audit finding. They do not answer breezy messages, they do not click links from strangers, and they remember who pushed. Most outbound tools are built to push. Hellofew is built to be considered rather than pushed. Paste your product page; agents turn it into the finance titles that feel your problem, find those people, read their profile and posts, and write one careful note each. You approve every message before it goes. It sends from your own account, follows up once, and stops as soon as they reply.  ## What actually goes wrong ### Finance buyers do not trust fast talkers A controller who gets "We can save you 40% on AP costs, got 15 minutes?" hears a number with no source and a vendor in a hurry. Both are reasons to say no. **What happens instead:** Notes are written from the person's own words and your positioning — no invented percentages, and nothing the ICP's angles did not say. Any quoted phrase is checked against what they actually wrote. You read every message before it sends. ### Month-end means they are unreachable for a week You send a batch on the 29th. The whole finance function is closing the books. By the time they surface, your message is under two hundred others. **What happens instead:** The agents send steadily every weekday rather than in batches, inside working hours and skipping public holidays, so nothing depends on one unlucky send day. Replies arrive in one inbox whenever they come. ### Long cycles need a relationship, not a sequence Fintech deals take months and involve procurement, security review and a CFO. A five-step sequence that ends with a breakup email burns the relationship you will need in month three. **What happens instead:** One follow-up, ever. Any reply cancels everything queued for that person, and the ledger of everyone you have contacted means nobody is approached twice by accident. It opens the conversation and gets out of the way. ### Your profile carries regulatory credibility In fintech, trust is the product. Prospects and partners check the founder's profile. A restricted account looks, to a finance buyer, like a company that cuts corners. **What happens instead:** A ceiling of 20 invitations a day reached over three weeks, nothing from an account under 150 connections, and caps that halve then stop if acceptance falls. Materially safer than the category, with every limit published — not a guarantee. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: Financial Controller, Chief Financial Officer, Head of Finance Operations, VP of Finance, Head of Treasury, Accounts Payable Manager. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your product page and read the ICP — free, no card. Check the angles for any claim your compliance team would not sign off, and edit it out. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect your LinkedIn. About a minute later, up to 25 finance leaders, each with a note and what it was written from. 3. Approve three and sending starts: 5 invitations a day, rising over three weeks towards 20, weekdays only, public holidays skipped. 4. One message per accepted connection, one follow-up at most. Replies land in one inbox. Monday's digest tells you who replied, and why when nobody did.  ## Who this is wrong for If you sell consumer financial products, LinkedIn outbound is the wrong channel. If your deals run through an enterprise sales team with a CRM that must log every touch, this has no CRM sync and covers one account. And if your marketing claims have not been through compliance, sort that first — the notes are written from your page. ## Questions **Will it make claims about savings or returns?** Only if your own page does. The ICP's positioning and angles are drawn from what you give it, and you can edit them. Every note waits for your approval. **Can I target finance teams at a certain company size?** Yes. Put the size and industry in the ICP along with the titles, and the search follows it. **Is our prospects' data handled properly?** Every sub-processor, what each one sees and how long data is kept are published on the legal pages, and anyone can be removed permanently by asking. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Fractional CFOs](https://hellofew.com/solutions/fractional-cfo.md) - [B2B SaaS](https://hellofew.com/solutions/b2b-saas.md) - [Professional services](https://hellofew.com/solutions/professional-services.md) - [Founding sales hires](https://hellofew.com/solutions/founding-sales-hires.md) --- # You are the engineer, the support desk and the accountant. Sales is the job nobody else is going to pick up. > Hellofew for solo founders. You are the product, support, finance and sales, and sales is the job that slips. Agents find your buyers on LinkedIn and write to each one. You approve. There is no one else. Every morning starts with a list, and the list is honest: fix the thing that broke overnight, answer the two customers who wrote in, ship the change you promised last week. Somewhere near the bottom is "find new customers", and it has been near the bottom since spring. You know outbound works when you do it. The problem is that doing it properly — finding the right people, actually reading what they do, writing something that is not embarrassing, remembering who to follow up with — is an hour a day you do not have. And the tools that promise to take it off your hands are built to send as much as they can get away with, from an account that is yours, not theirs. I built Hellofew because I was in exactly that position with my own product and was not willing to hand my account to something designed to burn it. You paste your product page; agents work out who to talk to, find them, read each profile and write one message per person. Your part is a minute in the morning, approving the ones you like. It sends from your account, follows up once, and stops the moment anyone answers.  ## What actually goes wrong ### Outbound is the first thing that goes when the week gets busy It is not that you forgot. It is that every other job on the list has a person waiting on the other end of it, and outbound does not. So it waits, and the pipeline you will need in two months quietly does not get built. **What happens instead:** The agents do the daily part — searching, reading, writing, scheduling — whether or not you had time. What is left for you is a queue to approve, and approving is fast because every draft shows the reason that person was picked and what the note was written from. ### There is nobody to check the message before it goes out under your name In a company, someone would read the sequence before it went live. Alone, whatever the tool writes goes straight to a stranger with your face next to it, and you find out it was bad from the silence. **What happens instead:** Nothing sends that you did not approve, one message at a time, for ever. Every quoted phrase is checked character for character against what the person actually wrote, and a quote that cannot be found is stripped and flagged to you rather than sent. ### Your LinkedIn account is also your company's only sales team If the account gets restricted, it is not a rep who loses a channel. It is the whole business losing the one place prospects, customers and investors can find the person behind it. **What happens instead:** Sending starts at 5 invitations a day and climbs over three weeks to a ceiling of 20 that neither of us can raise. If people stop accepting, the cap halves on its own; if it keeps falling, inviting stops and you are told why. Nothing can promise an account will never be restricted — this is built to be materially safer than the category, with every limit published so you can check it. ### You cannot tell whether it is working or whether you are just busy A quiet week could mean the targeting is off, the account stopped sending, or everyone is on holiday. Alone, there is nobody to ask, so you assume the worst or, worse, assume it is fine. **What happens instead:** Every Monday a digest says how many people replied. On a quiet week it says why — the account is still warming up, the queue was not approved, acceptance is low — and names the one thing to do about it. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: Founder & CEO, Head of Operations, Operations Manager, Head of Growth, Director of Customer Success, COO. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your product page and read the ICP it writes — five to eight job titles, three angles, a sample note. It is free and needs no card. If it misreads your market, you learned that for nothing. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect LinkedIn on LinkedIn's own sign-in page. About a minute later your first queue arrives: up to 25 people, each with the reason they were picked and a note written for them. 3. Approve three and it starts. 5 invitations a day at first, weekdays only, inside your working hours, rising over three weeks towards 20. Five minutes each morning is the whole commitment. 4. People who accept get one message, and one follow-up if they stay quiet. Replies land in one inbox and cancel everything queued for that person. The Monday digest tells you how many replied — and why, if nobody did.  ## Who this is wrong for If you have not yet worked out who your buyer is, this will not tell you — it will reflect your confusion back as a queue you skip most of. If you sell to consumers, LinkedIn is the wrong channel. And if you want hundreds of invitations a week to make up for lost time, buy something else: this caps you at 20 a day on purpose. ## Questions **How much of my time does it actually take?** A few minutes a morning to approve or skip the queue, and however long you want to spend on replies. Setup is about ten minutes, most of it reading and correcting the ICP. **Will prospects know it is automated?** Each message is written from that person's own profile and posts, arrives from your account during your working hours at irregular gaps, and you have read it before it goes. There is one follow-up, never a sequence of bumps. **What if I go on holiday?** Nothing sends that you have not approved, so an unapproved queue simply waits. Weekends and public holidays in your country are skipped automatically. Cancel any time and the queue stops the same day. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Bootstrapped founders](https://hellofew.com/solutions/bootstrapped-founders.md) - [Technical founders](https://hellofew.com/solutions/technical-founders.md) - [B2B SaaS](https://hellofew.com/solutions/b2b-saas.md) - [Solo founders of developer tools](https://hellofew.com/solutions/solo-founder-developer-tools.md) --- # You can build the whole product in a weekend. Writing one cold message takes you forty minutes and you still hate it. > Hellofew for technical founders. You would rather write a migration than a cold message. Agents find the people who need what you built, read their profiles and draft each note. You approve. You built something that works. You can explain, in detail, why it is better than the alternatives. You can even name the kind of company that needs it. What you cannot do is open LinkedIn, find a stranger, and write three sentences to them that do not make you wince. So you do what engineers do: you avoid it, then try to automate it. And every automation you look at is a template engine with a mail-merge field for the first name, pointed at your account at whatever volume you are willing to risk. You know exactly what that produces, because you delete dozens of them a week. Hellofew does the part you hate, and does it the way you would if you had the patience. You paste your product page; agents turn it into specific job titles, find those people, read their profile and recent posts, and write one note per person from what is actually there. You read the queue, skip anything that sounds wrong, and approve the rest. It sends from your account and stops the moment someone replies.  ## What actually goes wrong ### You write feature lists when the buyer wants to hear about their problem Your first draft always opens with what the product does, because that is what you know best. The reader does not care yet. They care about the thing in their week that is annoying them, and you do not know what it is because you have not read their profile properly. **What happens instead:** Before anything is written, the person's profile and recent posts are read. The note opens on what they said or do, not on your feature list — and the ICP it works from includes three angles written from your product page, which you can edit like any other text. ### You do not trust software to write in your name You have seen what language models do when they are asked to be personal: they invent. A compliment on a post the person never wrote. A reference to a talk they did not give. The one person who can catch that is the stranger you are trying to impress. **What happens instead:** Every quoted phrase in a draft is checked, character for character, against what the person actually wrote. Reposts are excluded, so you never praise someone for words they only forwarded. A quote that cannot be found is stripped and the draft is flagged to you. And nothing sends until you approve it. ### You want to see the logic, not a black box A tool that says "94% match" and nothing else is asking for trust it has not earned. You would like to know why a person was picked, and what the thing will do tomorrow before it does it. **What happens instead:** Every lead carries a fit score broken into its parts and the reason it was picked. The sending schedule — who, at what time, under which cap — is visible before it runs. The limits are constants in the source, published in full. ### You would rather fix the rate limit than get your account flagged You think about systems in terms of limits and back-off. Most outreach tools do not: they give you a volume slider, and the only feedback loop is LinkedIn restricting you. **What happens instead:** The ceiling is 20 invitations a day and 80 a week, ramping from 5 over three weeks. Acceptance rate is watched like an error rate: below threshold the cap halves, further below it inviting stops, and a blunter check runs from day four. A LinkedIn flag in the first 24 hours stops the account until you restart it. None of that makes an account unbannable; it makes it much harder to get there by accident. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: VP of Engineering, Head of Platform, Director of Operations, CTO, Head of Data, Engineering Manager. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your product page and read the ICP: five to eight job titles, three angles, a sample note. Edit the angles in your own words if they read too salesy — it is a text box, not a black box. Free, no card. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect LinkedIn through LinkedIn's own sign-in page. Your password and 2FA code never reach us. About a minute later: up to 25 people with a score breakdown and a draft each. 3. Approve three and sending starts, at 5 invitations a day, rising over three weeks towards 20. The schedule is visible before it runs. 4. People who accept get one message and one follow-up at most. Replies land in one inbox and cancel the queue for that person. On Monday the digest reports replies and, on quiet weeks, the reason.  ## Who this is wrong for If you want an API, webhooks and a CRM sync to wire into your own stack, this is not that — it runs one LinkedIn account with no integrations. If your buyer is a developer who lives on GitHub rather than LinkedIn, the channel is probably wrong. And if you want to tune volume upwards, you cannot: the caps are constants. ## Questions **Can I edit the prompts or the messages?** You edit the ICP — titles, positioning, angles — and you can edit any individual draft before approving it. There is no prompt console; the inputs that matter are the ICP and your approvals. **How do you connect to LinkedIn?** Through Unipile. You sign in on LinkedIn's own page; we hold an opaque account id, never your password. The session is pinned to one address in the country you choose. **Why can I not raise the limits?** Because the failure mode of a raisable limit is that somebody raises it. The caps are constants in the source, set well below what the category runs, so a bad week cannot talk either of us into spending your account. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Technical founders of B2B SaaS](https://hellofew.com/solutions/technical-founder-b2b-saas.md) - [Technical founders of AI startups](https://hellofew.com/solutions/technical-founder-ai-startup.md) - [Developer tools](https://hellofew.com/solutions/developer-tools.md) - [Solo founders](https://hellofew.com/solutions/solo-founders.md) --- # There is no runway and no investor to explain a bad quarter to. Every hour and every dollar has to come back. > Hellofew for bootstrapped founders. No runway to burn and no hours to waste. Agents find your buyers on LinkedIn, write to each one from their profile and send from your account. You approve each one. Bootstrapping means the arithmetic is always visible. You know your MRR to the dollar, your costs to the cent, and exactly how many months you can keep going. A sales tool at a few hundred a month is not a line item, it is a decision about whether to keep paying yourself. Growth has to come from somewhere, and paid acquisition does not pay back at your price point. Outbound on LinkedIn does, when you do it — but you only do it when there is time, and there is never time. The tools that would help are priced for funded teams and built to burn through an account you cannot afford to lose. Hellofew costs $49/month and runs the outbound you keep meaning to do. You paste your product page; agents find the right people, read each profile and write one message per person. You approve the queue in a few minutes each morning, it sends from your account at a deliberately low rate, follows up once, and stops when someone answers. No contract, and cancelling stops the queue the same day.  ## What actually goes wrong ### Sales tools are priced for companies with a sales budget You look at the pricing page, see a starting price that is a meaningful fraction of your MRR, and close the tab. Then you go back to doing it by hand, which means not doing it. **What happens instead:** It is $49/month, one plan, no seats, no contract. A year is $588, and you know what one customer is worth to you. If a month of it only teaches you that your positioning is unclear, you learned that for the price of a month. ### Your time is the scarcest thing you have, and outbound eats it An hour a day finding and writing to people is five hours a week not spent on the product that keeps the current customers paying. So you trade next quarter's pipeline for this week's features, every week. **What happens instead:** The agents do the searching, reading, writing and scheduling. Your part is approving a queue of up to 25 people a morning, each with the reason they were picked and the draft already written. ### You cannot afford to be the founder who spammed their market Your niche is small. The people you want to sell to know each other, and a clumsy mass message gets screenshotted into a group chat. That reputation does not recover, and there is no marketing budget to paper over it. **What happens instead:** Each note is written from that person's own profile and posts, and a draft too close to a recent one is thrown away and rewritten. One follow-up, never five. Anyone who asks not to be contacted is added to a permanent do-not-contact list that is never deleted. ### You need to know whether it is paying for itself Dashboards full of invitations sent and profiles viewed tell you nothing about whether the money is coming back. You need one number, and you need it to be honest. **What happens instead:** The number that matters is replies, and the Monday digest leads with it. When a week is quiet, it says why — still warming up, queue not approved, acceptance falling — so you are never paying for a tool that silently stopped working. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: Owner, Managing Director, Operations Manager, Head of Marketing, Office Manager, General Manager. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your product page and read the ICP it writes before paying anything. Five to eight job titles, three angles and a sample note. If it gets your market wrong, that cost you nothing. 2. Subscribe at $49/month — one plan, no contract — and connect LinkedIn. About a minute later your first queue: up to 25 people, each with a note written for them. 3. Approve three and it starts, at 5 invitations a day, rising over three weeks towards 20. Weekdays only, never at the edges of your working day. 4. Replies land in one inbox and stop everything queued for that person. The Monday digest tells you how many people replied, which is the only number worth paying for.  ## Who this is wrong for If your product sells for less than a month of this, LinkedIn outbound probably does not pay back and you should not buy it. If your customers are consumers or tiny businesses that are not on LinkedIn, the channel is wrong. And if you need email sequences too, this is LinkedIn only. ## Questions **Is there a free trial?** Reading your product page and writing the ICP is free and needs no card. Subscribing is what connects LinkedIn and starts finding real people, because that is the first part that costs real money to run. **Can I pause it in a slow month?** Nothing sends that you have not approved, so an unapproved queue waits. You can also cancel at any time; the queue stops the same day and there is no contract. **How many customers should I expect?** I will not quote you a number. Replies depend on your offer and your market, not on this software. What is fixed is the ceiling: 20 invitations a day at most, after a three-week ramp. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Bootstrapped vertical SaaS founders](https://hellofew.com/solutions/bootstrapped-founder-vertical-saas.md) - [Solo founders](https://hellofew.com/solutions/solo-founders.md) - [Vertical SaaS](https://hellofew.com/solutions/vertical-saas.md) - [B2B SaaS](https://hellofew.com/solutions/b2b-saas.md) --- # Every engagement ends eventually. The next one has to already be in conversation, and you have been too busy doing the work to start one. > Hellofew for fractional executives. Your pipeline is your network, and it runs dry just as a client engagement ends. Agents find companies that need you and write to each one. You approve every word. You sell your own time, a few days a week, to companies that need a senior hand but not a full-time hire. The work is good. The clients are happy. And every few months you look at the calendar and realise two engagements end in the same quarter and nothing is lined up behind them. Your pipeline has always been referrals and your network, which works until it does not. Outbound would fix it, but your LinkedIn profile is not a sales channel — it is your reputation. Every former colleague, every past CEO you worked with, sees what you post and who you message. One clumsy template sent at volume and the people most likely to refer you start to wonder. Hellofew runs outbound the way a careful person would do it themselves. You paste your services or about page; agents work out which companies and titles need what you do, find those people, read each profile and write one note per person. You approve every one before it goes. It sends from your account, slowly, follows up once, and stops the instant somebody replies.  ## What actually goes wrong ### Feast, famine, and the gap between engagements When you are busy, you do not prospect because you are busy. When an engagement ends, you prospect in a panic, and a sudden burst of messages from an account that was silent for months reads exactly like what it is. **What happens instead:** The agents work every weekday whether you are busy or not, so the pipeline fills while you are still delivering. Sending ramps from 5 a day over three weeks to a ceiling of 20, at irregular times inside your working hours — a steady pattern rather than a panic. ### Your profile is your reputation, and your network is watching A fractional exec lives on trust. Former clients check your profile before referring you. If they hear from a founder friend that you sent them a copy-paste pitch, that referral quietly never happens. **What happens instead:** Each note is written from the recipient's own profile and posts, never merged from a template, and you read every one before it goes. Every quoted phrase is checked against what they actually wrote. A permanent do-not-contact list means anyone who asks never hears from you again. ### The buyer is hard to find by title You are not selling to "Head of Marketing" — the company needing a fractional CMO usually does not have one. You are selling to a founder or CEO at a certain stage, with a certain gap, and a job-title search does not know that. **What happens instead:** The ICP is written from your own page and you can edit it: the titles, the stage, the angles. Every lead arrives with a fit score broken into its parts and the reason it was picked, and your skips are what show you where the targeting is off. ### You cannot afford to lose the account that holds your network Years of connections, recommendations and conversations live on that profile. A restriction does not cost you a channel; it cuts you off from the people who send you work. **What happens instead:** Nothing sends from an account under 150 connections, the cap halves if acceptance drops, and inviting stops if it keeps dropping — before LinkedIn has to act. A flag in the first 24 hours stops sending until you restart it. That is materially safer than the category, not a guarantee; the limits are published so you can check them. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: Founder & CEO, Co-Founder, Managing Director, President, General Manager, Chief Executive Officer. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your services or about page. It writes an ICP — who needs you, five to eight titles, three angles, a sample note. Correct it; nobody knows your buyer like you do. Free, no card. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect LinkedIn on LinkedIn's own sign-in page. About a minute later: up to 25 people, each with a reason and a draft written from their profile. 3. Approve three and it starts, gently: 5 invitations a day, rising over three weeks towards 20. Nothing goes out that you have not read. 4. One follow-up at most. Replies land in one inbox and stop the queue for that person. By the time the current engagement ends, the next conversations are already open.  ## Who this is wrong for If your work comes entirely through a placement firm or a platform, you do not need this. If you want to reach every Series A CEO in a country this month, the caps will frustrate you. And if you share one LinkedIn account with a partner or firm, it is not built for that — one account, one person. ## Questions **Will my existing connections get messages?** It looks for new people matching your ICP. Anyone who asks not to be contacted is added to a permanent list, and anyone you skip is never messaged. **Can it write in my voice?** You edit the positioning and angles it writes from your page, and you can edit any draft before approving. What it will not do is sound like a template, because each note is written from the recipient's profile. **I sell several services. Can it handle that?** It works from one ICP at a time. If you sell two quite different things, pick the one you most want more of — a sharp ICP beats a broad one every time. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Fractional CMOs](https://hellofew.com/solutions/fractional-cmo.md) - [Fractional CFOs](https://hellofew.com/solutions/fractional-cfo.md) - [Independent consultants](https://hellofew.com/solutions/independent-consultants.md) - [Consultancies](https://hellofew.com/solutions/consultancies.md) --- # Clients hire you because they trust your judgement. The fastest way to lose that is a cold message that reads like everyone else's. > Hellofew for independent consultants. You are paid for expertise and hired on trust, and a spammy message undoes both. Agents find who needs you, read their profile, and draft each note. You approve. You left a firm to work for yourself, and most of your first clients came from people who already knew you. That list runs out. Now the question is how to reach the people who need what you do but have never heard of you — without becoming the consultant who spams LinkedIn. The tension is that the thing you sell is judgement, and outreach is where your judgement is most visible. A thoughtful note to the right person is the best first impression you can make. A templated pitch to a thousand people is the worst, and the tools built for it treat your name as a sending address. Hellofew finds the right people and writes to them the way you would if you had the hours. You paste your services page; agents turn it into specific job titles and angles, find those people, read their profile and recent posts, and draft one note each. You approve every message. It sends from your account at a deliberately modest pace, follows up once, and stops as soon as someone replies.  ## What actually goes wrong ### Referrals are wonderful and completely unpredictable Two great months, then a quiet one, then a flurry of work you cannot take on. You cannot plan hiring an associate, or a holiday, on a pipeline that depends on who happened to mention you at dinner. **What happens instead:** A small, steady stream of new conversations every week, started by the agents whether you had time or not. Up to 25 matched people a day in your queue, and a Monday digest that tells you how many replied. ### Your expertise does not fit in a template The value of your work is in the specifics — the particular regulation, the particular migration, the particular failure you have seen three times. A generic pitch strips that out and leaves you sounding like every other consultant. **What happens instead:** Each note is written from what the recipient actually does and says, using angles drawn from your own page. Every quote is checked verbatim against their posts, and a draft too close to a recent one is rewritten rather than sent. ### Chasing feels desperate, and you know it Sequence tools send four follow-ups by default. From a consultant, the third "just checking in" reads as a person who needs the work more than the client needs them. **What happens instead:** One follow-up, ever, and there is no setting to add more. Any reply cancels everything still queued for that person, checked again right before each send, so nobody who answered you gets chased. ### Your LinkedIn profile is your storefront and your CV Prospects check it before a call. Former colleagues check it before referring you. It holds the recommendations it took a decade to collect. Losing it to an automation tool would be losing the business. **What happens instead:** Sending ramps from 5 a day over three weeks to a hard ceiling of 20, only inside your working hours. If acceptance falls, the cap halves; if it keeps falling, inviting stops and you are told. Materially safer than the category — no one can honestly promise more than that. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: Chief Operating Officer, VP of Operations, Head of Transformation, Director of Supply Chain, Head of Procurement, Managing Director. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your services page and read the ICP: five to eight titles, your positioning, three angles, a sample note. Edit anything — the specifics are yours. Free, no card. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect LinkedIn on LinkedIn's own sign-in page. About a minute later, up to 25 people appear with the reason they were picked and a draft each. 3. Approve three and sending starts at 5 invitations a day, building over three weeks towards 20. Weekends and public holidays are skipped. 4. One follow-up at most. Replies land in one inbox. Each Monday the digest reports replies — and on a quiet week, the reason.  ## Who this is wrong for If most of your work comes through a framework agreement or procurement portal, outbound will not move it. If you want to broadcast to thousands of prospects, the limits will not let you. And if you work under a firm's brand with a shared account, this is built for one person's own profile. ## Questions **Will it message people I already know?** It searches for new people matching your ICP. You see every person before anything is sent and can skip anyone, and anyone who asks to be left alone is never contacted again. **Does it work for niche expertise?** Better than for broad offers. A narrow ICP produces a queue you approve most of, and each note can speak to a specific problem instead of a general capability. **Is it against LinkedIn's rules?** LinkedIn's terms prohibit third-party automation, and it may restrict accounts it believes are automated. That risk is yours to weigh. What this does is keep your activity well below the category, with the limits published in full. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Consultancies](https://hellofew.com/solutions/consultancies.md) - [Fractional executives](https://hellofew.com/solutions/fractional-executives.md) - [Independent security consultants](https://hellofew.com/solutions/security-consultant.md) - [Professional services](https://hellofew.com/solutions/professional-services.md) --- # The project ends Friday. You spent the last six weeks doing the work instead of finding the next one. > Hellofew for freelancers. Between projects you prospect; during them you cannot. Agents find companies that need your skills and write each note from their profile. You approve every one. You are a developer, designer or writer who works for businesses. The work is the part you are good at and the part you enjoy. Finding it is the part that decides whether next month pays the rent. Freelance platforms race you to the bottom on price. Your network is generous but finite. LinkedIn is where the people who hire freelancers directly actually are — but reaching out properly takes time you only have when you are not being paid, and mass-messaging tools make you look like one more agency spamming founders. Hellofew keeps outreach going while you are heads-down on client work. You paste your portfolio or services page; agents work out who hires people like you, find them, read their profile and write one note each. You approve the queue in a few minutes. It sends from your account at a careful pace, follows up once, and stops the moment someone replies.  ## What actually goes wrong ### You only look for work when you have none While a project runs, you are delivering. When it ends, you start prospecting from zero, and the gap between the last invoice and the next one is the part of freelancing nobody talks about. **What happens instead:** The agents search, read and write every weekday, so conversations are already open when a project wraps. Your part is approving the morning queue — minutes, not an afternoon. ### Your pitch sounds like every other freelancer's "Hi, I'm a freelance designer with ten years of experience…" The founder reading it has had five of those this week. What would stand out is something that shows you actually looked at their product. **What happens instead:** Each note is written from the person's own profile and recent posts — what they are building, what they said is broken. Every quote is checked verbatim against their words, and a draft too similar to a recent one is rewritten. ### You are your own brand, and one bad message travels Clients hire freelancers on trust. If a founder shares your copy-paste message in a Slack community as an example of what not to do, that community is where your next three clients were. **What happens instead:** Nothing sends that you did not read and approve. One follow-up, ever. Anyone who asks not to be contacted goes on a permanent do-not-contact list, across every customer, that is never deleted. ### You cannot risk the account your portfolio lives on Your recommendations, your case studies, your whole professional history is on that profile. It is the first thing a prospect checks after a platform profile. **What happens instead:** Sending starts at 5 invitations a day and climbs over three weeks to a ceiling of 20. Below 150 connections it sends nothing, because that is the pattern LinkedIn restricts most. Safer than the category by design, with every limit published — never a promise that nothing can go wrong. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: Founder, Head of Product, Marketing Director, CTO, Head of Content, Product Manager. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your portfolio or services page and read the ICP: who hires you, five to eight titles, three angles. Correct anything. Free, no card. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect LinkedIn on its own sign-in page. About a minute later, up to 25 people appear, each with a draft written from their profile. 3. Approve three and it starts: 5 invitations a day, rising over three weeks towards 20, inside your working hours only. 4. One follow-up at most. Replies land in one inbox and cancel the queue for that person. The Monday digest tells you how many replied.  ## Who this is wrong for If your clients are consumers or small local businesses who are not on LinkedIn, this is the wrong channel. If you mainly win work through platform bidding, it will not replace that. And if you want to message hundreds of startups a week, the caps will not allow it. ## Questions **Can I use it between projects only?** Yes. Nothing sends without approval, and you can cancel any time — the queue stops the same day and there is no contract. Keeping it running during projects is what closes the gap, though. **Does it attach my portfolio?** Messages are text, as LinkedIn messages are. The ICP it writes from your page shapes the angle; you can edit any draft to add a link before approving. **What about a free LinkedIn account?** It works, with less headroom. Free accounts invite without a note and get a personalised message after acceptance, with a weekly ceiling of 50 rather than 80. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Freelance product designers](https://hellofew.com/solutions/freelance-product-designer.md) - [Independent consultants](https://hellofew.com/solutions/independent-consultants.md) - [Agency owners](https://hellofew.com/solutions/agency-owners.md) - [B2B SaaS](https://hellofew.com/solutions/b2b-saas.md) --- # Your team is fully booked this quarter. Next quarter has two retainers ending and nothing signed behind them. > Hellofew for agency owners. The team is billable and the pipeline is you. Agents find companies that need your agency, write each note from their profile, and send from your account. You run a small agency. You have people whose salaries depend on the work you bring in, and you are still the person who brings it in. When you are selling, delivery suffers; when you are in delivery, the pipeline dries up. Everyone in agency life knows the shape of that curve. Outbound is the obvious fix, and every agency owner has received the proof that it is usually done badly: "We help companies like yours scale with…" from someone who never looked at the company. Your name is on the agency. Your LinkedIn is where prospects check who you are. Sending that kind of message from it would cost more than it won. Hellofew runs outbound from your own account, carefully. You paste your agency's services page; agents turn it into the titles that buy from agencies like yours, find those people, read their profile and recent posts, and write one note per person. You approve each one in a few minutes a morning. It sends at a deliberately low rate, follows up once, and stops as soon as someone answers.  ## What actually goes wrong ### The pipeline only gets built when delivery is quiet A big project lands and you are in client meetings all month. Then it ships, you look up, and there is nothing in the pipeline for the team. Payroll does not wait for the next referral. **What happens instead:** The agents prospect every weekday regardless of how busy delivery is. You spend minutes approving the queue, not an afternoon writing to people, and conversations keep opening while the team is billable. ### Agency outreach has a reputation, and it is not good Founders and marketing heads get agency pitches every day, most of them templated. The bar to be read is showing you looked at their actual business before writing. **What happens instead:** Each note is written from the recipient's own profile and posts — a launch they announced, a hire they mentioned, a problem they complained about. Quotes are checked verbatim against their words, and near-duplicates are rewritten so no two people get the same pitch. ### Your personal profile is the agency's credibility Prospects look up the founder before they take a call. If that profile gets restricted, the agency loses its most trusted face and its main route to new clients at the same time. **What happens instead:** Sending ramps from 5 a day to a ceiling of 20 over three weeks, only in your working hours. If people stop accepting, the cap halves; if it gets worse, inviting stops. It is built to be much safer than the category, and the limits are published so you can hold it to that. ### Replies go cold while you are in a workshop A prospect replies at ten in the morning. You see it at seven in the evening, after a day of client calls, and meanwhile a sequence tool has already sent them a follow-up that makes it look like nobody read their answer. **What happens instead:** Any reply cancels everything still queued for that person, checked again just before each send. Replies land in one inbox, and the Monday digest reports how many came in. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: Head of Marketing, VP of Marketing, Founder & CEO, Head of Product, Chief Marketing Officer, Director of Digital. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your agency's services page. It writes an ICP — five to eight titles, three angles, a sample note. Sharpen it to the work you most want more of. Free, no card. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect your own LinkedIn account. About a minute later, up to 25 people appear with a reason and a draft each. 3. Approve three and sending begins at 5 invitations a day, rising over three weeks towards 20. The whole schedule is visible before it runs. 4. One follow-up at most. Replies land in one inbox. On Monday the digest reports replies, and on a quiet week, why.  ## Who this is wrong for If you want every account manager at your agency prospecting from their own profile, this is not built for teams — it runs one LinkedIn account for one person. If you need CRM sync, there is none. And if your plan is to win on volume, the caps will stop you. ## Questions **Can my team use it too?** Not on the same workspace. It is one LinkedIn account per workspace, run for one person, with no seats. That is a deliberate limit, not a missing feature. **Can I use it for clients?** No. The account you connect must be yours and connected by you. Running outreach on a client's behalf from their account is outside what this is for. **How does it know what we sell?** It reads the page you give it and writes an ICP — titles, positioning, angles — which you edit. The sharper that page is about one kind of work, the better the queue. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Agencies](https://hellofew.com/solutions/agencies.md) - [Development agency owners](https://hellofew.com/solutions/dev-agency-owner.md) - [Marketing agency owners](https://hellofew.com/solutions/marketing-agency-owner.md) - [Freelancers](https://hellofew.com/solutions/freelancers.md) --- # You are the first sales hire. There is no SDR team, no playbook, and a pipeline target the founders wrote on a whiteboard. > Hellofew for founding sales hires. You are the first seller, with no SDRs, no playbook and a target. Agents find your buyers, write each note from their profile and send from your own account. They hired you to prove that someone other than the founders can sell this. You have a product that is still changing, a market that is still being figured out, and a quota. You also have your own LinkedIn account, which is the one channel that came with you to this job and will come with you to the next one. The playbook says hire SDRs and buy a sequencing tool. You do not have the SDRs, and the sequencing tools want you to send at a volume that turns your profile into a spam channel — the profile you will still need when this startup becomes a line on it. Hellofew does the prospecting an SDR would, from your account, at a pace you would sign your name to. You paste the product page; agents write the ICP, find matching people, read their profile and posts, and draft one note each. You approve every message. It sends slowly, follows up once, and stops when anyone replies.  ## What actually goes wrong ### You are closing and prospecting with the same eight hours Demos and follow-ups fill the day, so prospecting happens at night or not at all. Then the pipeline empties, and the demos stop, and the whiteboard number looks further away. **What happens instead:** The agents search, read and write every weekday. Your part is approving up to 25 people each morning, each with the reason they were picked and a draft already written. ### The ICP is a guess, and you are supposed to validate it Nobody knows yet exactly who buys. The founders have hunches. You need a way to test titles and angles quickly without burning through the market. **What happens instead:** The ICP is a text box you edit — titles, positioning, three angles. Every lead shows a fit score broken into its parts, and your skips show you where the targeting is wrong. Replies, reported every Monday, are the test. ### Your LinkedIn is your career, not the company's asset When you move on, the account goes with you. So does your reputation with every buyer you messaged. A restriction, or a reputation for spam, follows you to the next role. **What happens instead:** A hard ceiling of 20 invitations a day, reached over a three-week ramp from 5. If acceptance drops, the cap halves; if it keeps dropping, inviting stops before LinkedIn acts. Much safer than the category — never risk-free, and the limits are published so you can check. ### You will be asked for numbers, and they had better be honest The founders want to know what is working. A tool that reports thousands of invitations sent makes a nice chart and tells them nothing. **What happens instead:** The Monday digest leads with replies, the only number that matters, and on a quiet week it says why. No vanity metrics to explain away. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: Head of Operations, VP of Finance, Director of IT, Head of People, Chief Operating Officer, Operations Director. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your company's product page and read the ICP it writes. Edit it to match what the founders believe and what you have heard on calls. Free, no card. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect your own LinkedIn account. About a minute later, up to 25 people appear, each with a draft written from their profile. 3. Approve three and it starts: 5 invitations a day, building over three weeks towards 20. Nothing sends that you did not read. 4. Replies land in one inbox and stop the queue for that person. The Monday digest reports replies — the number to take to the founders.  ## Who this is wrong for If you need activity logged in Salesforce or HubSpot, there is no CRM sync — you would be copying replies across by hand. If the plan is to hire three SDRs next quarter and run them all from one tool, this is one account for one person. And if leadership wants hundreds of touches a week, the caps will not bend. ## Questions **Does it sync with our CRM?** No. It runs one LinkedIn account and keeps its own ledger of everyone contacted and every reply. If CRM sync is a requirement, a tool built for sales teams is the better choice. **Whose account does it use?** Yours, connected by you on LinkedIn's own sign-in page. The account must be yours; we never see the password. **Can the company pay for it?** Yes, it is a normal subscription at $49/month with no contract. It is still tied to one person's LinkedIn account. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [B2B SaaS](https://hellofew.com/solutions/b2b-saas.md) - [Technical founders of B2B SaaS](https://hellofew.com/solutions/technical-founder-b2b-saas.md) - [Solo founders](https://hellofew.com/solutions/solo-founders.md) - [B2B fintech](https://hellofew.com/solutions/b2b-fintech.md) --- # You spend your days helping leaders have better conversations. Starting one with a stranger on LinkedIn still feels wrong. > Hellofew for B2B coaches. Coaching is sold on trust, and a pushy message ends it before it starts. Agents find the leaders and HR heads who buy coaching and draft each note. You approve. You coach executives and leadership teams. Companies pay for it, usually through a people or L&D budget, sometimes a CEO directly. Your best clients came through word of mouth, and your calendar has gaps that word of mouth does not fill. Selling coaching is delicate. The whole relationship is built on trust and discretion, and the category is full of people posting motivational quotes and sending "I help leaders unlock their potential" to anyone with a title. Your LinkedIn profile is how a Head of People decides whether you are serious. It cannot become a broadcast channel. Hellofew reaches the people who buy coaching, one careful message at a time. You paste your coaching page; agents turn it into the titles and angles that fit, find those people, read their profile and recent posts, and draft a note each. You approve every word before it goes. It sends from your account slowly, follows up once, and stops as soon as anyone replies.  ## What actually goes wrong ### Word of mouth fills the calendar in waves A cohort of clients finishes at the same time and suddenly there are three empty slots a week. You only realise the pipeline is empty when the invoices stop. **What happens instead:** The agents find and write to new people every weekday, so conversations are open before the current engagements end. Your part is approving the morning queue. ### The coaching category sounds the same "Unlock your leadership potential." "Empower your team." Buyers have learned to ignore it. What cuts through is something specific to their situation — a reorganisation they posted about, a new role they just started. **What happens instead:** Each note is written from the recipient's own profile and posts. People new in a role are recognised as new, and every quote is checked verbatim against what they wrote — nothing is attributed to someone who never said it. ### Pressure is the opposite of what you sell A coach who follows up four times is demonstrating exactly the behaviour they would coach a client out of. It is worse than not writing at all. **What happens instead:** One follow-up, ever, and no setting to add more. Any reply cancels the queue for that person. Anyone who asks not to be contacted goes on a permanent list and never hears from you again. ### Your reputation is the only asset the business has There is no product, no platform, only you. A restricted account, or a reputation for spam in a small HR community, is not a setback — it is the business. **What happens instead:** Sending ramps from 5 a day over three weeks to a ceiling of 20, only in your working hours, and nothing at all from an account under 150 connections. If acceptance falls, sending slows and then stops. Safer than the category, openly limited — never a promise LinkedIn will not act. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: Chief People Officer, Head of Learning & Development, VP of People, HR Director, Founder & CEO, Head of Talent. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your coaching page and read the ICP: who buys, five to eight titles, three angles, a sample note. Adjust the tone until it sounds like you. Free, no card. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect LinkedIn on its own sign-in page. About a minute later, up to 25 people appear with a draft each. 3. Approve three and it starts at 5 invitations a day, rising over three weeks towards 20. Nothing goes out unread. 4. One follow-up at most. Replies land in one inbox. Each Monday the digest tells you how many people replied.  ## Who this is wrong for If you coach individuals who pay out of their own pocket, the buyer is often not findable by job title and this is the wrong tool. If you want to fill a group programme with hundreds of sign-ups, the caps will frustrate you. And if you mostly win through a coaching platform or panel, outbound will not change that. ## Questions **Who should I target — the leader or HR?** Whoever holds the budget. Put those titles in the ICP; it can include both a Head of L&D and a CEO, and your approvals and replies will show which works. **Will it feel pushy?** You read every message before it goes. There is one follow-up, never more, and any reply stops everything queued for that person. **Is my data and my prospects' data safe?** Your LinkedIn password never reaches us. Anyone who asks to be removed is added to a global do-not-contact list within one working day, and the sub-processors are listed in full on the legal pages. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Independent consultants](https://hellofew.com/solutions/independent-consultants.md) - [Fractional executives](https://hellofew.com/solutions/fractional-executives.md) - [Consultancies](https://hellofew.com/solutions/consultancies.md) - [Professional services](https://hellofew.com/solutions/professional-services.md) --- # You can build the integration in an afternoon. The message to the person who would pay for it has been a draft for a month. > Hellofew for technical founders of B2B SaaS. You wrote the product and you would rather write more of it than a cold message. Agents find your SaaS buyers on LinkedIn and write to each one. You approve. You are the one who wrote the thing. You know exactly which query is slow, which customer asked for the export, and why the pricing page says what it says. What you do not know is what to say to a stranger called Head of Operations that does not make you wince when you read it back. So the pattern is familiar. A good week of shipping, then a guilty Sunday evening in LinkedIn search, twenty tabs of profiles, three half-written notes that all begin “Hi, I’m the founder of”, and nothing sent. The product gets better every week. The number of people who have heard of it does not move. It is not that you cannot sell. It is that selling, done properly, is reading a profile carefully and writing one honest sentence to one person, and that task loses to a failing test every single time. There is always a failing test. Hellofew takes that task off your hands without taking your name off it. You paste your product page; agents propose the job titles worth finding, find those people, read each profile and recent post, and write one note per person. You review the queue the way you review a pull request: approve, skip, or edit the line you would have written differently.  ## What actually goes wrong ### Writing to strangers feels like a context switch you pay for all day Twenty minutes on a cold note is not twenty minutes. It is the morning you were going to spend on the migration, broken into pieces, and a note at the end of it that still sounds like a template because you were thinking about the migration. **What happens instead:** The writing happens before you open the queue. You read what was drafted and why, which is a review, not a blank page. Approving a batch takes about a minute, and that minute is the whole of your part. ### You explain the product the way it is built, not the way it is bought Your first instinct is to tell people it uses a queue and a diff engine, because that is the interesting part. The buyer does not care. They care that the Friday reconciliation stops. You know this, and you still write the architecture into every message. **What happens instead:** The first thing the agents do is read your page and write the ICP back to you: five to eight job titles, the positioning, three angles, and a sample note. It is written from the buyer’s side of the table. You edit anything that is wrong, and you see your own product described in the words your customers would use. ### A script would get this done faster, and a script would get the account restricted You have thought about it. A headless browser, a list, a loop with a sleep in it. You also know what a platform sees when an account that was quiet for six months sends sixty invitations at exact intervals on a Tuesday night. **What happens instead:** This is the loop, written by somebody who thought about that first. A new account starts at 5 invitations a day and ramps over three weeks to a ceiling of 20, with irregular gaps, only inside your working hours and never within twenty minutes of either end. The ceilings are constants in the source rather than settings, so there is no flag to flip at midnight. ### Nobody hears about the release you worked hardest on You shipped the feature three prospects asked for. The changelog has eleven readers. The prospects who asked for it were in a call six months ago and have forgotten your name. **What happens instead:** Every note is written from the recipient’s own profile and recent posts, so the angle is their problem rather than your release. If someone wrote about the exact thing you just fixed, the note says so, and the quote is checked character for character against what they actually posted before it is allowed to reach you. ### Replies arrive while you are heads-down, and you find them a week late LinkedIn notifications are the first thing you mute when you are shipping. A buyer who said “sure, show me” on Wednesday hears back the following Thursday, by which time they have moved on. **What happens instead:** Replies land in one inbox, and any reply cancels everything still queued for that person — checked twice, right up to the moment of sending — so nobody gets an automated follow-up after answering you. The Monday digest says who replied, so the week you were heads-down still ends with a list. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: Head of Operations, Director of Finance Operations, VP of Customer Success, Head of RevOps, Operations Manager, COO. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your product page — free, no card — and read the ICP it writes. If the titles are the users rather than the buyers, fix them now; it is the cheapest correction you will make all month. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect LinkedIn on LinkedIn’s own sign-in page. About a minute later there is a queue of up to 25 people, each with a fit score you can take apart and the reason they were picked. 3. Approve three and sending starts at 5 invitations a day, climbing over three weeks to 20. Skip anyone whose company you would not want as a customer; the skips teach you as much as the approvals. 4. People who accept get one message and at most one follow-up. On Monday the digest tells you how many replied. If nobody did, it says why — so you are debugging your targeting, not guessing.  ## Who this is wrong for If your product is sold bottom-up to developers who never look at LinkedIn, this is the wrong channel and you should spend the hour on docs and a launch post instead. If you have raised a round and are hiring an SDR team next quarter, you want a tool with seats and a CRM sync; this runs one account for one person. And if you would never read a draft before it goes out, do not buy it — approving each message is not optional. ## Questions **Can I just edit the prompt instead of approving messages?** No. You edit the ICP, the positioning and the angles, which is where the instructions live, and then every message waits for you. Approval is the only way anything sends, and it cannot be switched off. **Does it expose an API or a CSV export of leads?** No. It is one loop for one account — search, read, write, send, reply — and it is not a lead database. If you want raw lists to feed your own tooling, a data provider is the better purchase. **Will prospects know it was drafted by software?** They will see a note from you, from your account, that refers to something they actually wrote, and nothing is sent that you have not read. A draft too similar to a recent one is discarded and rewritten, so nobody receives the same note with their name swapped in. **Is it safe to run on my own profile?** Safer than anything else in the category, not risk-free. LinkedIn’s terms prohibit automation and nobody can promise an account will never be restricted. What you get is a hard ceiling of 20 a day, a three-week ramp, and automatic slow-downs when acceptance falls, all published. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Technical founders](https://hellofew.com/solutions/technical-founders.md) - [B2B SaaS](https://hellofew.com/solutions/b2b-saas.md) - [Solo founders of developer tools](https://hellofew.com/solutions/solo-founder-developer-tools.md) - [Technical founders of AI startups](https://hellofew.com/solutions/technical-founder-ai-startup.md) --- # Four hundred GitHub stars, a Discord that answers itself, and not one engineering manager who knows it exists. > Hellofew for solo founders of developer tools. Developers love your tool and nobody with a budget has heard of it. Agents find the engineering leaders who sign off on it and write to each one. You approve. The developers found you. They starred the repo, filed the issues, wrote the nice thread about how it saved them a weekend. Some of them use it at work, on a free tier, on a laptop their employer does not know about. The person who would turn that into a contract is two levels above them. A Head of Platform, a Director of Engineering, a VP who owns the tooling budget and has never visited your docs. They are on LinkedIn, and you are the only person at the company, so you are also the only person who could write to them. And writing to them is the part of this job you are worst at and least want. Developers smell a sales message from the first word, and you are a developer. Every draft you write sounds either like a README or like the thing you hate receiving. Hellofew finds those buyers and writes to them for you, from your own account. You paste your pricing or product page; agents propose the titles who hold the budget, find them, read what they post, and write one note per person that talks about their team’s problem rather than your feature list. You approve each one before anything sends.  ## What actually goes wrong ### Usage is bottom-up; the budget is top-down You can see the company domains in your sign-ups. Eleven people from one bank use your tool. The bank has never paid you, because the eleven people are not the person who pays, and none of them is going to go and argue for a line item on your behalf. **What happens instead:** The ICP targets the title that signs, not the one that installs. You can steer it — put Head of Platform or Director of Developer Experience in the titles, and the agents look for those people, score them on fit, and tell you why each one was picked. ### Developer audiences punish anything that reads like marketing One cringeworthy message and it is screenshotted in a Slack you are not in. You know the tone engineers trust — specific, short, a little dry — and you also know you will not have time to write it forty times. **What happens instead:** Each note is written from the person’s own profile and recent posts, not merged from a template, and a draft too close to a recent one is thrown out and rewritten. If it quotes something they wrote, the quote is checked character for character against the post, and stripped and flagged to you if it cannot be found. ### You are the support desk, the release manager and the salesperson The issue queue is never empty. A release takes a day longer than planned. Outbound is the job with no deadline, so it is the one that slides, every week, for a year. **What happens instead:** The agents do the research and writing every weekday regardless. Your part is a minute of approving in the morning, and it starts sending the moment you approve the first three — there is no campaign to set up and no sequence builder. ### A blown LinkedIn account is a blown founder brand For a solo devtools founder, your profile is the company. It is where conference organisers, potential acquirers and your best users find you. Losing it to a sending tool would cost more than any deal it could win. **What happens instead:** Nothing sends from an account with fewer than 150 connections. If acceptance falls, the daily cap halves on its own; if it keeps falling, inviting stops and you are told. A blunter check runs from day four, and a LinkedIn flag in the first day of sending stops everything until you restart it yourself. Materially safer than the category — not a guarantee, because nothing is. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: Head of Platform Engineering, Director of Engineering, VP of Engineering, Engineering Manager, Developer Experience, Head of Infrastructure, CTO. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your pricing or product page — free, no card. Check whether the ICP picked the buyers or the users; for a developer tool it is usually worth moving the titles one level up. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect LinkedIn. About a minute later there are up to 25 people in the queue, each with a score and the reason they fit. 3. Approve three and it starts: 5 invitations a day at first, rising over three weeks towards 20, weekdays only, skipping public holidays where you live. 4. Accepted connections get one message and one follow-up at most, and any reply stops the rest. The Monday digest counts replies — the one number that says whether the targeting is right.  ## Who this is wrong for If your buyer genuinely is the individual developer paying with a personal card, LinkedIn is the wrong place to find them and this is the wrong tool. If you are open source with no paid tier yet, there is nothing for a budget holder to buy, so wait. And if you want to announce a launch to everyone at once, that is a post, not outbound. ## Questions **Can it use my sign-up data to find the companies already using the tool?** No. It finds people on LinkedIn by title, company and profile. It does not connect to your product analytics. You can shape the ICP around the kinds of companies your users work at. **Will it spam developers in my community?** It writes to the titles in your ICP, and you approve every person before anything goes out. Anyone who asks not to be contacted goes on a permanent do-not-contact list across every customer, and is never messaged again. **What if nobody accepts?** Then you find out quickly and without damage. If acceptance falls, the cap halves; below a floor, inviting stops and the digest says why. A low accept rate is almost always targeting, and it is cheaper to learn that at 5 a day than at a hundred. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Solo founders](https://hellofew.com/solutions/solo-founders.md) - [Developer tools](https://hellofew.com/solutions/developer-tools.md) - [Technical founders of B2B SaaS](https://hellofew.com/solutions/technical-founder-b2b-saas.md) - [Technical founders](https://hellofew.com/solutions/technical-founders.md) --- # Your model beats the benchmark. Your buyer deleted forty messages this week that said the same thing. > Hellofew for technical founders of AI startups. Your buyers get forty AI pitches a week and delete them all. Agents write to each one from what they actually posted, and you approve every message first. You built something that genuinely works. Not a wrapper — you fine-tuned it, you evaluated it, you know its failure cases better than anyone. It saves the right kind of team hours a week, and you can prove it on their own data. The problem is that every Head of Operations on LinkedIn now receives the same message several times a day: an AI company, a vague promise about agents, a meeting link. They have learned to delete anything that contains the word “AI” in the first line. Your message, which is true, looks exactly like the thirty that are not. The obvious answer in your world is to automate outreach with a model. You also know precisely how that goes: fluent, confident, generic, and occasionally quoting a prospect saying something they never said. You would not ship that to a customer, and you should not ship it to a prospect. Hellofew is that automation built by someone who worried about the same things. Agents read each person’s profile and recent posts before writing, every quoted phrase is checked verbatim against what they actually wrote, and nothing leaves your account until you have read it and approved it.  ## What actually goes wrong ### Your category has trained buyers to ignore you “Revolutionise your workflow with AI agents.” Your buyer has read that sentence so many times it has become invisible. Anything that opens with the technology gets filed with the rest, however good the technology is. **What happens instead:** The ICP and the angles are written from the buyer’s problem, not your stack. Each note opens on something the person said or does, and the draft that reads like the other thirty is the one that gets discarded and regenerated when it is too close to a recent message. ### You know how models hallucinate, and so does your prospect The fastest way to lose a technical buyer is a cold message that quotes them saying something they never said. It is fluent, plausible and wrong, and only one person on earth can detect it — the person you most wanted to impress. **What happens instead:** Quotes are checked with a string comparison, not a second model call: every quoted span must appear verbatim in what they actually wrote, after normalising case and punctuation. If it does not, the draft is regenerated once; if it still does not, the quotation marks are stripped and the problem is flagged to you. Reposts are excluded, so it never praises someone for words they merely shared. ### Your time is worth more on the model than on the pipeline An afternoon of outreach is an afternoon not spent on the eval that decides whether the next customer renews. Every hour you spend writing to strangers is an hour of the thing only you can do. **What happens instead:** Your part is reviewing the queue: approve, skip, edit. The research and writing happen before you look. Approving three is what starts sending, and there is no campaign builder to learn. ### Early-stage AI startups get judged by the founder’s profile Investors, candidates and design partners all look at your LinkedIn. An account restricted halfway through a raise is not a sales problem; it is a credibility problem you would have to explain. **What happens instead:** An account under 150 connections sends nothing at all. The ramp starts at 5 a day and never exceeds 20; acceptance is watched from day four, and a LinkedIn flag in the first day stops the account until you restart it yourself. Materially safer than the category, with every limit published — but not a promise that nothing can happen. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: Head of Operations, VP of Customer Support, Director of Claims, Head of Legal Operations, Chief Operating Officer, Director of Data. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your product page — free, no card — and check the angles it writes. If any lead with the technology, rewrite them around the outcome; that one edit shapes every note that follows. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect LinkedIn. About a minute later, a queue of up to 25 people, each with what the note was written from shown underneath it. 3. Approve three and sending starts at 5 a day, rising over three weeks to 20. Read the evidence line on each draft — it is how you know nothing was made up. 4. Accepted connections get one message and one follow-up at most. The Monday digest reports replies, and when a week is quiet it tells you why rather than dressing it up.  ## Who this is wrong for If you sell an API to developers who integrate it themselves, LinkedIn outbound to operations leaders is the wrong motion. If you have a sales team running enterprise pilots with procurement, you need seats and a CRM; this runs one account for one person. And if you want a fully autonomous agent sending without review, this deliberately is not that — approving each message is the design. ## Questions **Which model writes the messages?** The research pass and the drafting are given their own, stronger model than the rest of the pipeline, because they are the only part a prospect ever sees. Whichever model it is, nothing reaches the prospect until you have approved it. **Does it mention that the message was drafted by AI?** The message comes from you, from your account, and you have read it before it goes. Whether you mention how you work is your call; the point of approval is that every note is one you would send yourself. **Can it target people who posted about a specific problem?** It finds people by the titles in your ICP, then reads their recent posts. A person whose posts match your angle is scored higher and the note is written from what they said; it does not run keyword searches across all of LinkedIn. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Technical founders](https://hellofew.com/solutions/technical-founders.md) - [AI startups](https://hellofew.com/solutions/ai-startups.md) - [Technical founders of B2B SaaS](https://hellofew.com/solutions/technical-founder-b2b-saas.md) - [B2B SaaS](https://hellofew.com/solutions/b2b-saas.md) --- # Every customer so far came from someone who knew you from the industry. You ran out of people who know you in March. > Hellofew for bootstrapped vertical SaaS founders. You know one industry better than anyone selling to it, and every customer so far came from someone you already knew. Agents find the next ones on LinkedIn. You spent years inside one industry — dental groups, freight forwarders, property managers, commercial kitchens — and you built the software you wished you had had. The first twelve customers were former colleagues, a supplier you got on with, the operator from the conference dinner. That warm network was the whole go-to-market, and it is finished. Everyone who knew you has either bought or said no. The next hundred customers are strangers with the same job title in the same industry, and there is no marketing budget, because there is no funding and you would like to keep it that way. Paid ads in a niche industry are expensive and mostly reach the wrong people. A generic outbound tool writes to operations directors at clinics like they are VPs at a software company. And you do not have the evenings to write two hundred careful notes yourself. Hellofew does the writing and the finding for you, at $49/month. You paste your product page; agents propose the titles your industry actually uses, find those people, read each profile, and write a note that sounds like someone who has done the job. You approve each one, and it sends from your own account — the one people in your industry already recognise.  ## What actually goes wrong ### Your warm network was finite, and you have used it The referrals slowed down. The industry group chat already knows about you. The growth you had was real, but it was borrowed from relationships, and the relationships have all been asked. **What happens instead:** Up to 25 new people a day who match your ICP, each with a fit score you can take apart and the reason they were picked. They are strangers, but they are the same strangers your warm network was — the same job, the same problems, a different town. ### Your industry uses titles no generic tool understands In your world the buyer is a Practice Manager, a Regional Operations Lead, a Head of Estates. A tool built for software sales goes looking for “VP of Sales” and gives you a list you would not send a single note to. **What happens instead:** The ICP is written from your page and is fully editable: five to eight exact job titles, which you correct in a text box. If your industry calls the buyer something odd, write that down and the agents look for exactly that. ### Bootstrapped means every dollar of spend has to be obvious You compared the category: $250 a month here, $199 there, per-seat pricing, quarterly contracts. Against your MRR, that is a customer’s worth of revenue every month on a bet. **What happens instead:** $49/month, one account, no contract, cancel and the queue stops the same day. A year costs $588, and you know what one customer in your industry is worth, so the arithmetic is yours to do. If it does not clear the bar, do not buy it. ### A small industry remembers who spammed it In a niche, everybody knows everybody. A burst of identical messages to every operations lead in the region is discussed at the next trade show, and your name is attached to it. **What happens instead:** No two people get the same note with the name swapped — near-duplicates are thrown out and rewritten. There is one follow-up, ever, and any reply cancels everything else queued for that person. Anyone who asks not to be contacted is on a permanent list and never hears from you again. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: Practice Manager, Operations Director, Regional Operations Manager, Head of Estates, Group Operations Manager, Managing Director. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your product page — free, no card. Correct the job titles into the words your industry actually uses; the rest of the month depends on it. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect LinkedIn. About a minute later there are up to 25 people in your queue, each with a note written from their profile. 3. Approve three and sending starts at 5 a day, rising over three weeks towards 20, weekdays only, skipping public holidays in your country. 4. Accepted connections get one message and one follow-up at most. Every Monday the digest counts replies, and a quiet week comes with the reason.  ## Who this is wrong for If the people who buy your product are not on LinkedIn — plenty of trades and small independent businesses are not — this cannot find them, and you should spend the money on the trade press instead. If you sell to large enterprises through procurement and tenders, cold notes are not how that works. And if your industry is so small that there are only two hundred possible buyers in the world, write to them yourself, by hand. ## Questions **My buyers barely use LinkedIn. Will it still work?** Only if they are there to be found. The agents search LinkedIn by title and company, so a buyer who has no profile or never logs in will not see your note. Check your own network: if your existing customers are active on LinkedIn, their peers usually are too. **Can I make the notes mention that I worked in the industry?** Yes. Put it in your positioning and angles when you edit the ICP — the drafts are written from what you tell it about yourself plus what the recipient wrote. Just make sure it is true, because it is going out under your name. **What does it cost me in time each day?** About a minute to approve or skip the queue. There is no sequence to design and no list to upload. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Bootstrapped founders](https://hellofew.com/solutions/bootstrapped-founders.md) - [Vertical SaaS](https://hellofew.com/solutions/vertical-saas.md) - [Solo founders](https://hellofew.com/solutions/solo-founders.md) - [B2B SaaS](https://hellofew.com/solutions/b2b-saas.md) --- # You run demand generation for three clients. Your own pipeline is whoever happens to call when a contract ends. > Hellofew for fractional CMOs. You build pipelines for clients all month and your own pipeline is whoever calls. Agents find founders who need a CMO and write to each one. You approve. You are good at this. You have built the funnel, rewritten the positioning, fixed the attribution and hired the first marketer for companies that could not afford a full-time CMO. Your clients’ pipelines are healthier than they have ever been. Yours is a referral and a prayer. Every engagement ends eventually — the client raises and hires a full-time head, or the budget changes — and every time, there is a gap of two or three months while you find the next one. You know exactly how you would fix this for a client. You have never had the hours to do it for yourself. The irony is the worst part. You would tell any founder that outbound needs to run steadily, weekly, before you need it. And your own outbound happens in the fortnight after a contract ends, when you are writing from urgency and it shows. Hellofew runs it steadily for you. You paste your services page; agents propose the founders and CEOs who fit your kind of engagement, find them, read what they post, and write one note to each. You approve in a minute between client calls, and it sends from your own account while you do the billable work.  ## What actually goes wrong ### The gap between engagements is where the money goes A contract ending in eight weeks feels like plenty of time until you realise a founder takes six weeks to decide to hire a fractional CMO, and you have not started any conversations. **What happens instead:** The agents work every weekday whether you have three clients or none. By the time a contract ends, there have been weeks of conversations started, instead of a scramble. ### Your audience is marketers’ worst critics: founders who have been pitched A founder who needs a CMO has usually been pitched by five agencies this month. They can tell a template instantly, and a fractional CMO sending a template is the worst possible advertisement for your judgement. **What happens instead:** Each note is written from the founder’s own profile and recent posts. If they wrote about a growth problem, the note speaks to that problem — and any quote is checked against their actual words before it reaches you. Near-duplicates are thrown away and rewritten. ### You cannot be seen spraying the network your reputation lives in Your LinkedIn is your portfolio. Former clients, investors who refer you and peers who pass on work all see it. A tool that fires hundreds of invitations a week is a risk to the one channel your business depends on. **What happens instead:** A hard ceiling of 20 invitations a day and 80 a week, reached over a three-week ramp. If acceptance falls the cap halves on its own; if it falls further, inviting stops. The limits are published and cannot be raised by you or by me — materially safer than the category, not a guarantee. ### Replies from prospects get buried under client messages Your LinkedIn inbox is full of client threads, recruiters and agency pitches. A founder who said “let’s talk in January” disappears under them by Friday. **What happens instead:** Replies to your outreach land in one inbox and cancel everything still queued for that person, so no founder who answered gets an automated nudge. The Monday digest lists who replied that week. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: Founder & CEO, Co-founder, CEO, Chief Revenue Officer, Managing Director, Head of Growth. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your services or about page — free, no card. Check that the ICP describes the stage and size of company you actually want as a client, not just any founder. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect LinkedIn. About a minute later, up to 25 founders and CEOs in the queue, each with a reason and a note written from their profile. 3. Approve three and sending starts at 5 a day, climbing over three weeks towards 20, only during your working hours. 4. Accepted connections get one message and one follow-up at most. The Monday digest counts replies — the number that tells you whether your next engagement is lined up.  ## Who this is wrong for If most of your work comes from a network of VCs who refer portfolio companies to you, that channel is better than cold outreach and you should protect it. If you run a marketing agency with a team to feed, you need more volume and more seats than this gives. And if you want to post content and be found, that is a different job — this writes one-to-one messages, not posts. ## Questions **Can it target founders who just raised?** It reads each person’s profile and recent posts; someone who has posted about a raise or about hiring will have that reflected in the note and in their score. It does not subscribe to funding databases. **Will it mention my past clients?** Only what you put in your positioning and angles. The drafts are written from what you give it and from what the recipient wrote, and you approve every one. **What if I land three clients and need to pause?** Stop approving and nothing new sends. Cancel and the queue stops the same day. The contacted ledger and the do-not-contact list stay with your account, so you never re-message someone you already wrote to when you start again. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Fractional executives](https://hellofew.com/solutions/fractional-executives.md) - [Consultancies](https://hellofew.com/solutions/consultancies.md) - [Fractional CFOs](https://hellofew.com/solutions/fractional-cfo.md) - [Independent consultants](https://hellofew.com/solutions/independent-consultants.md) --- # The founder needed you six weeks before the raise. They found you two weeks after it. > Hellofew for fractional CFOs. Founders need a CFO the month before a raise and remember you the month after. Agents find the ones who need you now and write to each one. You approve. You clean up the books, build the model the investors actually believe, and make the board pack stop being a panic. For a startup that is not ready for a full-time CFO, you are the difference between a raise that closes and one that stalls in diligence. The timing never works in your favour. Founders do not think about finance until something forces it: a term sheet, a diligence request, a cash-flow scare. By then they grab whoever an investor mentioned, and you only hear about it afterwards. The fix is obvious. Be in touch with the right founders before the crisis, steadily, in a way that is useful rather than salesy. And it never happens, because month-end for your existing clients is every month, and prospecting is the thing that can always wait until next week. Hellofew does it every week for you. You paste your services page; agents find founders, CEOs and heads of finance at the stage you work with, read what they post, and write one careful note per person. You approve each one, and it sends from your own account in your working hours.  ## What actually goes wrong ### Your work is invisible until someone needs it urgently A good fractional CFO is the reason nothing dramatic happened. That is hard to market. Founders do not search for you; they panic, and then ask an investor for a name. **What happens instead:** The agents reach the founders who fit your practice before the panic. If someone posted about hiring, about a raise, or about a finance problem, the note speaks to that — and any quote is checked against what they actually wrote. ### Month-end eats every week that prospecting was scheduled for Close for client A, board pack for client B, a cash-flow model for client C. The two hours you blocked for business development become two hours of reconciliations, again. **What happens instead:** Your part is a minute of approving in the morning. The research and writing happen before you open the queue, every weekday, whether or not it is month-end. ### Finance is a trust business, and a template kills trust A CFO who sends a sloppy, generic message is advertising sloppiness. Your prospects are about to hand you their bank access; the first thing they see from you has to be precise. **What happens instead:** Every note is written for one person from their profile. Near-duplicates are thrown out and rewritten, and nothing goes out that you have not read. One follow-up, ever — a CFO who chases five times is not one anybody hires. ### Your LinkedIn is where investors send founders to check you When an investor refers a founder, the founder looks you up. A restricted account, or one visibly blasting invitations, costs you the referrals that matter most. **What happens instead:** At most 20 invitations a day, 80 a week, reached over three weeks. Acceptance is watched from day four and caps halve on their own if it falls. Nothing sends from an account under 150 connections. Materially safer than the category, with limits published — not a promise that LinkedIn will never object. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: Founder & CEO, CEO, Chief Operating Officer, Head of Finance, Finance Manager, Managing Director. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your services page — free, no card. Make sure the ICP names the stage you work with; a pre-seed founder and a Series B CEO need very different notes. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect LinkedIn. About a minute later there are up to 25 people in your queue, each with the reason they fit. 3. Approve three and sending starts at 5 a day, climbing over three weeks towards 20, never outside your working hours. 4. Accepted connections get one message and one follow-up at most. The Monday digest counts replies, and says plainly when a week produced none.  ## Who this is wrong for If your work comes reliably through accountants, lawyers and VCs who refer you, that channel is better than cold outreach. If you run a finance firm with a team of bookkeepers to keep busy, you need more volume and seats than one account can give. And if your clients are small local businesses that do not live on LinkedIn, this will not find them. ## Questions **Can it tell which startups are about to raise?** Not from a funding feed. It reads each person’s profile and recent posts, so a founder who has written about fundraising or hiring a finance lead will score higher and get a note that reflects it. **Is it appropriate for a regulated profession?** Every message waits for your approval, so you decide what goes out under your name. Anyone who asks not to be contacted is added to a permanent do-not-contact list. Whether cold outreach suits your professional body’s rules is for you to check. **How much of my week does it take?** About a minute a day to approve or skip. Replies land in one inbox, and the Monday digest summarises the week. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Fractional executives](https://hellofew.com/solutions/fractional-executives.md) - [B2B fintech](https://hellofew.com/solutions/b2b-fintech.md) - [Fractional CMOs](https://hellofew.com/solutions/fractional-cmo.md) - [Professional services](https://hellofew.com/solutions/professional-services.md) --- # The big project ends in six weeks. Four of your developers have nothing booked after it, and you have been too busy delivering to notice. > Hellofew for development agency owners. Your developers are booked until the big project ends, and then half of them are on the bench. Agents find the next clients on LinkedIn while you deliver. You started the agency because you are a good engineer and people kept asking you to build things. Now there are eight of you, the work is good, and the clients who have worked with you would hire you again tomorrow. But the pipeline is feast and famine. While a big project is running, you are the lead developer, the account manager and the person who fixes the deploy on Friday night. Nobody is selling. Then it ends, and you are staring at a bench of salaried developers and a list of old clients to email. Everyone tells you to do outbound. The tools that sell outbound to agencies sell it as volume — hundreds of connection requests to every CTO in the region, the same message about “scaling your engineering team”. You have received those. You delete them. Hellofew runs your outbound steadily instead, from your own account, while you deliver. You paste your services page; agents find CTOs and founders at companies that fit the work you do, read what they post, and write a note that talks about their problem rather than your tech stack. You approve each one in the morning, before stand-up.  ## What actually goes wrong ### Feast and famine is a pipeline problem you only notice at the famine Selling stops the week a big contract starts, because you are needed on it. The next time you look up, the contract is ending and there is nothing behind it. It has happened three times and you have promised yourself it will not happen again. **What happens instead:** The agents work every weekday regardless of how busy delivery is. Your only job is a minute of approving, so the pipeline keeps moving through the months you would otherwise have stopped selling. ### CTOs get more agency pitches than anyone on LinkedIn “We are a team of passionate developers helping companies scale.” A CTO receives that sentence daily, from agencies around the world, with a portfolio link. There is nothing in it for them to answer. **What happens instead:** Each note is written from the person’s own profile and recent posts. If they wrote about a legacy system, a hiring freeze or a missed deadline, the note speaks to that — with any quote checked against their actual words. A draft too close to a recent one is discarded and rewritten. ### Your profile is the agency’s credibility Prospects check the founder before they check the website. An owner’s account that gets restricted halfway through a pitch cycle takes the agency’s main sales channel with it. **What happens instead:** Nothing sends from an account with fewer than 150 connections. A new account starts at 5 a day and never exceeds 20; if acceptance falls, the cap halves, and if it keeps falling, inviting stops and you are told. Every limit is published. It is materially safer than the category, not immune. ### One follow-up too many and you are the agency that spammed them A sequence tool would chase a CTO four times over a fortnight. The fourth message is the one they screenshot and post as an example of what not to do. **What happens instead:** One follow-up, ever, and any reply — even “not now” — cancels everything else queued for that person, checked twice right up to the send. Anyone who asks not to be contacted is on a permanent list. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: CTO, VP of Engineering, Head of Product, Founder & CEO, Director of Digital, Head of Engineering. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your services page — free, no card. Tighten the ICP to the size and kind of company you do your best work for, not everyone who might need software. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect your own LinkedIn. About a minute later there are up to 25 people in the queue, each with a reason and a note. 3. Approve three and sending starts at 5 a day, climbing over three weeks towards 20, only inside your working hours. 4. Accepted connections get one message and one follow-up at most. The Monday digest counts replies, so you can see the next quarter’s pipeline forming before the bench does.  ## Who this is wrong for If you have a business development team, each with their own account, you need seats and a CRM sync; this runs one account for one person. If your work comes through platforms or tenders, cold notes are the wrong route. And if you want to reach every CTO in a country this quarter, buy a volume tool — this caps you at 20 a day on purpose. ## Questions **Can my business development person use it on their account?** It runs one LinkedIn account, connected by the person who owns it. If that person is your BD lead rather than you, it works the same; it is just one account per workspace. **Can it attach case studies?** The notes are short and written for one person. You can put your strongest proof points in the positioning and angles, and the drafter uses them where they fit the recipient. **Does it sync to our CRM?** No. Replies land in its own inbox. If your agency lives in a CRM with a sales process around it, that is a reason to choose a larger tool. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Agency owners](https://hellofew.com/solutions/agency-owners.md) - [Agencies](https://hellofew.com/solutions/agencies.md) - [Marketing agency owners](https://hellofew.com/solutions/marketing-agency-owner.md) - [Freelancers](https://hellofew.com/solutions/freelancers.md) --- # You write campaigns that fill other people’s calendars. Your agency still grows by whoever a client happens to mention you to. > Hellofew for marketing agency owners. You write outreach that works for clients all week and your agency grows by referral. Agents find the next client on LinkedIn and write to each one. You approve. Your team writes copy that converts, runs ads that pay back, and knows the difference between a good hook and a clever one. Clients stay, because the work is good. New clients arrive when an existing one mentions you at a dinner. You know that is not a strategy. You would never let a client run their growth on referrals and luck. But every hour you have goes to client deliverables and the team, and the agency’s own marketing is the last job on a very long list. Worse, you are the hardest possible audience for outreach tools. You can tell a template from the first line. Everything the automation tools produce looks exactly like what you tell your own clients never to send, and you would rather send nothing than send that under your name. Hellofew writes to your prospects the way you would, if you had the time. You paste your agency’s services page; agents find the marketing leaders and founders who fit your work, read their profiles and recent posts, and write one note per person. You edit the ones you want to sharpen, approve the rest, and it sends from your account.  ## What actually goes wrong ### Referrals are lumpy, and the lumps decide your hiring Two referrals in a month and you hire. A quiet quarter and you are wondering which contractor to let go. The agency’s growth is at the mercy of other people’s conversations. **What happens instead:** Up to 25 matched people a day, researched and written to, every weekday. It will not replace referrals, but it stops them being the only source. ### You have high standards for copy, which is why you send nothing Every draft you try in an outreach tool is something you would redline in a client’s campaign. So you close the tool and tell yourself you will write them properly at the weekend. **What happens instead:** The note is written from the recipient’s profile and posts, not merged from a template, and every draft is shown to you before it goes. Edit what you would redline; approve what you would have written. A draft too close to a recent one is discarded and rewritten automatically. ### Your prospects are marketers, and marketers are the most-pitched people on LinkedIn A Head of Marketing gets agency pitches daily, most promising leads or a “quick audit”. They have seen every trick, including the one where you pretend to have noticed something specific. **What happens instead:** When a note references something they wrote, the quote is checked character for character against the post. If it cannot be found, it is stripped and flagged to you. Reposts are excluded, so it never compliments someone for words they only shared. ### Your agency’s reputation is your LinkedIn Your profile is where prospects check your thinking and your client list. An account restricted for over-sending is a loud public failure for someone who sells marketing judgement. **What happens instead:** At most 20 invitations a day, reached over a three-week ramp from 5, only in your working hours, at irregular gaps. If acceptance falls, the cap halves on its own. Materially safer than the category and fully published — but LinkedIn’s terms prohibit automation, and nobody can promise it never objects. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: Head of Marketing, VP of Marketing, Marketing Director, Chief Marketing Officer, Founder & CEO, Head of Demand Generation. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your agency’s services page — free, no card — and read the ICP back. Edit the angles until they sound like your pitch on its best day; every note inherits them. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect LinkedIn. About a minute later there are up to 25 people in the queue, each with a note and the line it was written from. 3. Approve three and sending starts at 5 a day, rising over three weeks towards 20. Edit the first week’s drafts heavily if you like — it is the fastest way to learn what the drafter gets right. 4. Accepted connections get one message and at most one follow-up. The Monday digest counts replies and, on a quiet week, says why.  ## Who this is wrong for If your agency sells to local businesses and consumers, LinkedIn is not where your buyers are. If you have account executives who each need their own sending account and a CRM, this is too small. And if you want to offer outbound as a service to your own clients across many accounts, this is not a white-label platform — it is one account for one person. ## Questions **Can I run it on my clients’ accounts?** No. The account you connect must be yours, connected by you, one per workspace. It is built for your own agency’s outreach, not as a service you resell. **Can I control the tone?** Yes. Edit the positioning, angles and sample note in the ICP, and edit any draft before approving it. Nothing sends that you have not read. **What if a prospect asks to be left alone?** They are added to a global, permanent do-not-contact list and are never messaged again, by you or by any other customer. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Agency owners](https://hellofew.com/solutions/agency-owners.md) - [Agencies](https://hellofew.com/solutions/agencies.md) - [Development agency owners](https://hellofew.com/solutions/dev-agency-owner.md) - [Fractional CMOs](https://hellofew.com/solutions/fractional-cmo.md) --- # You found the vulnerability their last three auditors missed. The CISO who should hear about you has muted every message with “security” in it. > Hellofew for independent security consultants. CISOs ignore vendor pitches by reflex, and yours looks like one. Agents write to each security leader from what they posted, and you approve every message first. You are independent because you are good: penetration testing, cloud reviews, incident response, the audit prep that actually passes. Your clients trust you with the keys, and they send friends when they remember to. Security leaders are the most pitched people on LinkedIn. Every vendor in the industry is writing to them, all the time, about zero-trust and platforms and threat intelligence. They have learned to treat any cold message as noise, and a surprising number of those messages are themselves phishing. So your honest, specific offer arrives looking exactly like the noise. And you, of all people, know how a message that fakes familiarity reads — like a social engineering attempt — and you would not send one. Hellofew writes to them carefully instead. You paste your services page; agents find security leaders at the kind of companies you work with, read their profiles and recent posts, and write one short note per person with no pretend familiarity. Every quote is checked against what they actually wrote, and nothing leaves your account until you approve it.  ## What actually goes wrong ### Security leaders filter cold messages harder than anyone A CISO’s LinkedIn inbox is a wall of vendor pitches. They reply to people they know, people who reference something real, and nobody else. Your message has about a second to be the second kind. **What happens instead:** Each note is written from the person’s profile and recent posts, so it opens on what they have said or done rather than on a product category. A draft too close to a recent one is thrown away and rewritten. ### A fabricated detail is indistinguishable from a phishing lure “Loved your talk at the conference” to someone who never gave one is annoying from a salesperson. From a security consultant it looks like pretexting, and it ends the relationship before it starts. **What happens instead:** Quotes are verified with a string comparison, not another model: every quoted phrase must appear verbatim in what they actually wrote. If it does not, the draft is regenerated once, and failing that, the marks are stripped and it is flagged to you. Reposts are excluded, and the profile read does not show up in their “who viewed your profile” before your message does. ### Billable work always wins the week A test runs over, a report needs rewriting, an incident call eats a Thursday. Business development is always the thing you will do when the engagement finishes. **What happens instead:** The research and writing run every weekday. Your part is a minute of reviewing the queue — approve, skip or edit — and approving three is what starts it. ### Your reputation is the whole business An independent consultant is only as good as their name. Being visibly restricted for automated outreach, in an industry obsessed with doing things properly, would be a story people tell. **What happens instead:** At most 20 invitations a day and 80 a week, ramped over three weeks from 5. Nothing sends from an account under 150 connections, acceptance is checked from day four, and a LinkedIn flag in the first day stops sending until you restart it. LinkedIn’s terms prohibit automation, so this is materially safer than the category, not risk-free — and every limit is published so you can audit it. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: Chief Information Security Officer, Head of Information Security, Head of Security, VP of Engineering, IT Director, Head of Compliance. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your services page — free, no card. Check the ICP for the size of organisation you actually serve; a CISO at a bank and a Head of Security at a startup need very different notes. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect LinkedIn on LinkedIn’s own sign-in page. Your password and two-factor code never reach this service. About a minute later there are up to 25 people in the queue. 3. Approve three and sending starts at 5 a day, rising over three weeks towards 20. Read the evidence line under each draft; it shows exactly what the note was written from. 4. Accepted connections get one message and one follow-up at most. The Monday digest counts replies and explains a quiet week rather than hiding it.  ## Who this is wrong for If your work comes through a security firm or a platform that sells your hours, cold outreach may conflict with that arrangement. If you sell to government or large enterprises through frameworks and tenders, this is not how those buyers are reached. And if you need to reach hundreds of organisations quickly after a disclosure, this caps you at 20 a day on purpose. ## Questions **Does it ever see my LinkedIn password?** No. You sign in on LinkedIn’s own page through Unipile; your password and two-factor code never reach this service, which holds only an opaque account id. **Where does prospect data go?** Every vendor that touches it is listed on the sub-processors page, with what they see and where. The legal pages set out retention, and a do-not-contact record is kept permanently so nobody who asked to be left alone is ever contacted again. **Can I review exactly what it read before writing?** Yes. Each draft in the queue shows what it was written from, so you can check the evidence before approving. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Independent consultants](https://hellofew.com/solutions/independent-consultants.md) - [Cybersecurity](https://hellofew.com/solutions/cybersecurity.md) - [Consultancies](https://hellofew.com/solutions/consultancies.md) - [Fractional executives](https://hellofew.com/solutions/fractional-executives.md) --- # Your recruiters are brilliant at finding candidates. Nobody is finding the next hiring manager, and the biggest client just froze headcount. > Hellofew for founders of boutique recruitment firms. Your consultants source candidates all day and nobody is winning new clients. Agents find hiring managers on LinkedIn and write to each one. You approve every note. You built a specialist recruitment firm: one sector, one kind of role, a small team who actually understand what the candidates do. Clients who use you once come back, because you send three good CVs instead of thirty. Client development is still on you, and it is the job with no hours in it. Your LinkedIn time goes to sourcing candidates, because that is what fills the roles you already have. Winning new clients is what you do when a big one freezes hiring — which is exactly when every other firm is doing the same. Hiring managers know what a recruiter’s business development message looks like: “I have an exceptional candidate who would be perfect for your team.” They have received hundreds. They delete them on sight, and some of them block you. Hellofew handles your client development separately from your sourcing, from your own account. You paste your firm’s page; agents find the hiring managers and heads of talent in your specialism, read what they post — about the roles they are struggling to fill — and write one honest note per person. You approve each one, and it sends while your team gets on with the desk.  ## What actually goes wrong ### Business development only happens when a big client goes quiet You meant to keep a steady stream of new client conversations. Then the desk got busy, and the stream stopped, and now one client’s hiring freeze is a quarter of your revenue. **What happens instead:** The agents look for hiring managers every weekday, whether the desk is busy or not. Your part is a minute of approving in the morning. ### Hiring managers have learned to ignore recruiters on sight Unsolicited CVs, “exceptional candidate” teasers, agencies ringing the switchboard. Every hiring manager in your sector has a reflex for recruiter messages, and your firm is filtered with the rest. **What happens instead:** The note is written from the person’s profile and posts, not from a candidate pitch. If they posted that a role has been open for four months, the note speaks to that — and any quote is checked character for character against what they wrote before it reaches you. ### Your LinkedIn account is also your sourcing tool A recruiter’s account being restricted is not an inconvenience; it is the tool the whole business runs on. You cannot risk it on something that fires off hundreds of invitations on top of your normal activity. **What happens instead:** This is capped at 20 invitations a day and 80 a week, reached over three weeks, and it slows itself if acceptance falls. But be honest with yourself: your sourcing activity counts against the same account, and running another automation tool alongside breaks the limits entirely. Materially safer than the category, not immune. ### Chasing is what makes recruiters unpopular The third “just following up” to a hiring manager is how a firm ends up on a blocked list. In a niche sector, that list gets shared. **What happens instead:** One follow-up, ever. Any reply cancels everything else queued for that person, checked twice up to the send, and anyone who asks not to be contacted is on a permanent list across every customer. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: Head of Talent Acquisition, Talent Acquisition Manager, Engineering Manager, Head of People, VP of Engineering, Director of Finance. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your firm’s page — free, no card. Make sure the ICP targets the hiring side of your specialism, not candidates; the titles decide everything. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect your LinkedIn. About a minute later there are up to 25 hiring managers and talent leaders in the queue, each with a reason. 3. Approve three and sending starts at 5 a day, climbing over three weeks towards 20, during working hours only, never at the edges of the day. 4. Accepted connections get one message and one follow-up at most. The Monday digest counts replies — the number that tells you whether new clients are on the way.  ## Who this is wrong for This is not a candidate sourcing tool; if you want to message hundreds of candidates about roles, use LinkedIn Recruiter. If your firm runs every consultant’s client development through a CRM with activity targets, you need seats and integrations this does not have. And if your LinkedIn account already runs another automation tool or extension, do not connect it here — two tools on one account make every published limit meaningless. ## Questions **Can I use it to message candidates?** It is built for client development: finding the people who hire, and writing to them. Candidate outreach at volume is a different job, and LinkedIn Recruiter is the right tool for it. **Will it clash with my own LinkedIn activity?** Your manual activity happens on the same account, so keep an eye on your own invitation habits. What must not run alongside it is another automation tool or browser extension; that is prohibited because we cannot see what it is doing. **Can each of my consultants have their own?** Each workspace runs one LinkedIn account for one person. It suits the founder’s own client development, not a team of consultants. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Recruitment agencies](https://hellofew.com/solutions/recruitment-agencies.md) - [Agency owners](https://hellofew.com/solutions/agency-owners.md) - [Professional services](https://hellofew.com/solutions/professional-services.md) - [Independent consultants](https://hellofew.com/solutions/independent-consultants.md) --- # The case study took three weekends. Forty people liked it. None of them had a budget. > Hellofew for freelance product designers. Your portfolio is beautiful and your next project depends on who saw your last post. Agents find the product leaders who hire designers and write to each one. You design products people can actually use. Onboarding that stops people leaving, dashboards that make sense, design systems that save engineers weeks. The clients you have had are happy, and your portfolio shows it. Finding the next client is guesswork. You post the case study, a few designers and a recruiter like it, and you wait. Dribbble and the job boards are a race to the bottom. The people who actually hire freelance designers — heads of product, founders, design leads at teams that are stretched — are on LinkedIn, and have never seen your work. Writing to them feels like begging. Every note you try reads like a cover letter, and you would rather be designing than drafting the fortieth version of “I’d love to help with your product.” Hellofew writes those notes for you, and it writes them about the other person. You paste your portfolio or services page; agents find the product and design leaders who fit your work, read their profiles and recent posts, and write one short note per person that speaks to what they are building. You approve each one, and it sends from your own account.  ## What actually goes wrong ### Your pipeline is the algorithm’s mood this week A post does well and you get two enquiries. The next one sinks, and it is quiet for a month. Your income depends on a feed you do not control. **What happens instead:** Up to 25 matching product and design leaders a day, found and written to every weekday, regardless of how your last post did. It does not replace posting; it stops posting being the only way in. ### The people who hire you are not the people who like your posts Designers admire your work. Founders and heads of product buy it. The first group is who your content reaches, and the second group rarely sees it. **What happens instead:** The ICP targets the buyers — heads of product, founders, design leads at stretched teams — with five to eight titles you can edit. Each person comes with a fit score and the reason they were picked. ### Every message you write sounds like a cover letter “Hi, I’m a product designer with eight years’ experience and I’d love to help.” It is about you, not them, and you know it, and you cannot seem to write it any other way. **What happens instead:** Notes are written from the recipient’s profile and recent posts, so they open on what the other person is building. If they posted about their onboarding or a redesign, the note speaks to that, and any quote is checked against what they actually wrote. ### Chasing a lead feels desperate, and not chasing loses it A head of product said “maybe next month” and you never followed up because you did not want to seem pushy. Next month they hired someone else. **What happens instead:** One follow-up, ever, if they have not answered. Any reply cancels everything else queued for them. Replies land in one inbox, and the Monday digest lists who wrote back. ### Your LinkedIn is your storefront For a freelancer, the profile is the portfolio, the reference check and the business card. Losing it would cost you the clients who find you there. **What happens instead:** Nothing sends from an account with fewer than 150 connections. A new account starts at 5 a day and never exceeds 20, and if acceptance falls the cap halves on its own. Materially safer than the category — LinkedIn prohibits automation, so nothing is risk-free — with every limit published. ## What your morning looks like instead One card per person: who they are, what the message was written from, and the message itself. Approve, skip, or edit. Nothing goes out that you have not read.  *An illustration. The person is invented.* Typical titles the agents would look for: Head of Product, VP of Product, Founder & CEO, Design Lead, Head of Design, Product Director. Yours are written from your own page, and you edit them. ## Your first month 1. Paste your portfolio or services page — free, no card. Check the ICP names buyers, not other designers; that is the most common thing to correct. 2. Subscribe at $49/month and connect LinkedIn. About a minute later there are up to 25 product and design leaders in the queue, each with a reason and a note. 3. Approve three and sending starts at 5 a day, rising over three weeks towards 20. On a free LinkedIn account invitations go without a note and the personal message follows acceptance. 4. Accepted connections get one message and one follow-up at most. The Monday digest counts replies, and a quiet week comes with the reason.  ## Who this is wrong for If you are fully booked through an agency or a long retainer, you do not need this yet. If your clients are small local businesses rather than product teams, LinkedIn is the wrong place to find them. And if you want a job rather than clients, recruiters and job boards are the better route — this writes to buyers of freelance work. ## Questions **Can it link to my portfolio?** Put your portfolio and your strongest projects in the positioning and angles; the drafter uses them where they fit. Every note is short, and you can edit any draft before approving it. **Does it work with a free LinkedIn account?** Yes, with a lower weekly ceiling of 50. Free accounts invite without a note, and the personalised message is sent after the person accepts. **Is $49/month worth it for a freelancer?** A year costs $588. You know what one project is worth to you. If a single project from it does not clear that bar, do not buy it. ## Start Paste your page at https://hellofew.com/signup and read what it writes about your market — free, no card. $49/month when you connect LinkedIn. ## Related - [Freelancers](https://hellofew.com/solutions/freelancers.md) - [Agency owners](https://hellofew.com/solutions/agency-owners.md) - [B2B SaaS](https://hellofew.com/solutions/b2b-saas.md) - [Development agency owners](https://hellofew.com/solutions/dev-agency-owner.md) --- # Terms of service — Hellofew > A machine-readable summary. The operative document is the HTML page at > https://hellofew.com/legal/terms, and it governs. Nothing here is a substitute for reading it. Entity: Hellofew, Bengaluru, India. Contact: adarsh@hellofew.com. Privacy: adarsh@hellofew.com. Last updated: 2026-09-11. ## What the service does Reads a page you provide, works out who to contact, finds matching people on LinkedIn through your own connected account, writes a message for each, and — once you approve — sends from your account at a deliberately low rate. ## The LinkedIn position, stated plainly Automating LinkedIn is contrary to the LinkedIn User Agreement. LinkedIn may restrict, suspend or close an account it believes is automated. The customer accepts that risk; the account is theirs, not ours. What we do about it is the published cap of 20 invitations a day and 80 a week, a three-week warm-up ramp, sending only inside working hours from one fixed address, and automatic slowdown and freeze when acceptance falls or LinkedIn pushes back. These protections depend on the customer not running a second automation tool on the same account. ## Payment $49/month, billed in advance through Dodo Payments as merchant of record. Cancel any time; access continues to the end of the paid period. If a payment fails, sending stops. ## Liability Total liability is limited to the amount paid in the preceding twelve months. Not liable for lost profits, lost business, lost data, or for a LinkedIn account being restricted or closed. Nothing limits liability for death or personal injury caused by negligence, for fraud, or for anything else the law does not permit to be limited. ## Law Governed by the laws of India. --- # Privacy policy — Hellofew > A machine-readable summary. The operative document is the HTML page at > https://hellofew.com/legal/privacy, and it governs. Nothing here is a substitute for reading it. Entity: Hellofew, Bengaluru, India. Contact: adarsh@hellofew.com. Privacy: adarsh@hellofew.com. Last updated: 2026-09-11. ## Retention | Data | Kept for | |---|---| | Account and workspace records | For as long as the account exists | | ICP and drafts | For as long as the account exists | | Prospect records (name, headline, employer, public profile) | While the lead is active, then 12 months | | Provider payloads fetched from LinkedIn | 30 days | | Activity ledger (what was sent, when, to whom) | 24 months | | Warning and error logs | 14 days | | Resolved incidents | 90 days | | Aggregate daily counters (no personal data) | Indefinitely | | Suppression list (do-not-contact) | Indefinitely, by design | | Backups | 30 days | ## Never stored - Your LinkedIn password - Your LinkedIn two-factor codes - Your LinkedIn session cookies - Your card number or bank details ## Roles For customer account data we are the controller. For the data of people a customer contacts, the customer is the controller and we are the processor. ## Removal Anyone contacted through Hellofew can ask to be removed, by replying to the message or emailing adarsh@hellofew.com. They are added to a global do-not-contact list within one working day. Global means across every customer, not only the one who contacted them. That list is the one thing retention never deletes, because deleting it would re-expose the person who asked to be left alone. ## Sub-processors - **Hetzner Online GmbH** — Hosting: application servers and the database. Sees: All service data. Germany 🇩🇪. - **Unipile** — Holds the LinkedIn session and performs LinkedIn actions on the customer's behalf. Sees: LinkedIn credentials and session, profile data of the customer and the people they contact. France 🇫🇷. - **Anthropic** — Large language model inference: writing ICPs and outreach drafts. Sees: Public web page text, prospect profile fields, and the drafts generated from them. United States 🇺🇸. - **Dodo Payments** — Subscription billing and merchant of record. Sees: Name, email, billing address, payment details. United States / global. - **Resend** — Transactional email: sign-in, alerts, digests. Sees: Email address, message content. United States 🇺🇸. - **Cal.com** — The booking calendar on the marketing site, for the intro call. Sees: Name, email and timezone given when booking; IP address and browser of visitors who load the calendar. United States 🇺🇸. --- # Data processing agreement — Hellofew > A machine-readable summary. The operative document is the HTML page at > https://hellofew.com/legal/dpa, and it governs. Nothing here is a substitute for reading it. Entity: Hellofew, Bengaluru, India. Contact: adarsh@hellofew.com. Privacy: adarsh@hellofew.com. Last updated: 2026-09-11. ## Roles The customer is the controller of the personal data of people they contact. Hellofew is the processor, and processes it only to provide the service and only on the customer's instructions. ## Sub-processors | Vendor | Purpose | What they see | Location | |---|---|---|---| | Hetzner Online GmbH | Hosting: application servers and the database | All service data | Germany 🇩🇪 | | Unipile | Holds the LinkedIn session and performs LinkedIn actions on the customer's behalf | LinkedIn credentials and session, profile data of the customer and the people they contact | France 🇫🇷 | | Anthropic | Large language model inference: writing ICPs and outreach drafts | Public web page text, prospect profile fields, and the drafts generated from them | United States 🇺🇸 | | Dodo Payments | Subscription billing and merchant of record | Name, email, billing address, payment details | United States / global | | Resend | Transactional email: sign-in, alerts, digests | Email address, message content | United States 🇺🇸 | | Cal.com | The booking calendar on the marketing site, for the intro call | Name, email and timezone given when booking; IP address and browser of visitors who load the calendar | United States 🇺🇸 | ## Retention | Data | Kept for | |---|---| | Account and workspace records | For as long as the account exists | | ICP and drafts | For as long as the account exists | | Prospect records (name, headline, employer, public profile) | While the lead is active, then 12 months | | Provider payloads fetched from LinkedIn | 30 days | | Activity ledger (what was sent, when, to whom) | 24 months | | Warning and error logs | 14 days | | Resolved incidents | 90 days | | Aggregate daily counters (no personal data) | Indefinitely | | Suppression list (do-not-contact) | Indefinitely, by design | | Backups | 30 days | ## The suppression exception A do-not-contact record is kept indefinitely and is the one category deletion does not reach. Removing it would re-expose somebody who asked never to be contacted, which is the opposite of what they asked for. --- # Sub-processors — Hellofew > A machine-readable summary. The operative document is the HTML page at > https://hellofew.com/legal/subprocessors, and it governs. Nothing here is a substitute for reading it. Entity: Hellofew, Bengaluru, India. Contact: adarsh@hellofew.com. Privacy: adarsh@hellofew.com. Last updated: 2026-09-11. ## Every vendor that touches customer data | Vendor | Purpose | What they see | Location | Basis | |---|---|---|---|---| | Hetzner Online GmbH | Hosting: application servers and the database | All service data | Germany 🇩🇪 | Within the EEA | | Unipile | Holds the LinkedIn session and performs LinkedIn actions on the customer's behalf | LinkedIn credentials and session, profile data of the customer and the people they contact | France 🇫🇷 | Within the EEA | | Anthropic | Large language model inference: writing ICPs and outreach drafts | Public web page text, prospect profile fields, and the drafts generated from them | United States 🇺🇸 | Standard Contractual Clauses | | Dodo Payments | Subscription billing and merchant of record | Name, email, billing address, payment details | United States / global | Standard Contractual Clauses | | Resend | Transactional email: sign-in, alerts, digests | Email address, message content | United States 🇺🇸 | Standard Contractual Clauses | | Cal.com | The booking calendar on the marketing site, for the intro call | Name, email and timezone given when booking; IP address and browser of visitors who load the calendar | United States 🇺🇸 | Standard Contractual Clauses | --- # Acceptable use policy — Hellofew > A machine-readable summary. The operative document is the HTML page at > https://hellofew.com/legal/acceptable-use, and it governs. Nothing here is a substitute for reading it. Entity: Hellofew, Bengaluru, India. Contact: adarsh@hellofew.com. Privacy: adarsh@hellofew.com. Last updated: 2026-09-11. ## Required - The LinkedIn account you connect must be yours, and you must connect it yourself. - One LinkedIn account per workspace. - You are responsible for who you contact and on what lawful basis. - Removal requests are honoured, by you and by us on your behalf. ## Prohibited - Running a second automation tool on the same LinkedIn account — a browser extension counts. It makes every published limit meaningless, because we cannot see what the other tool is doing. - Importing purchased or scraped lists without a lawful basis to contact them. - Working around a suppression. - Reselling or reverse-engineering the service. ## Reporting A message that broke these rules can be reported to adarsh@hellofew.com, which also adds the reporter to the global do-not-contact list on request.