Build me a leads list out of my own Instagram and LinkedIn network

In the same week, Alec Ellin had the AI mine his own Instagram and LinkedIn connections and turn them into a leads list — prospecting built from the network he already had rather than a purchased list.

How it works

Give the AI access to his Instagram and LinkedIn network
Agent works through the connections
Compiles them into a leads list

Why it’s worth knowing

The leads did not come from a database or a scrape of strangers — the agent treated his own follow graph as the prospecting database and turned friends-of-record into a pipeline.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on shipwithmuse.live. See the original ↗

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