LinkedIn outreach from Claude

Last updated 19 September 2026

Claude can run your LinkedIn outreach once it has the tools. HeyLead is an MCP server that gives it them: find the right people, write to them in your voice, follow up, handle replies.

Claude Code

claude mcp add heylead -- uvx heylead

This needs uv installed.

Claude Desktop

Add HeyLead as a local MCP server in claude_desktop_config.json, then restart the app:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "heylead": {"command": "uvx", "args": ["heylead"]}
  }
}

If Claude Desktop cannot find uvx, give its full path (run which uvx in a terminal).

Connect your account

1. Sign in at heylead.dev with Google.
2. Connect LinkedIn.
3. Open Settings → Integrations → Chat client, press "Copy setup message", and paste it into Claude.

No API keys are needed on the hosted plan. Outreach runs from the cloud, so it keeps going with your laptop closed.

Then just ask

• "Find me heads of engineering at Series A fintech startups in London."
• "Show me the prospects before anything goes out."
• "Launch it."
• "Who replied this week, and what did they say?"
• "Pause everything."

A campaign is a draft until you say launch. After that, HeyLead stays within daily and weekly limits for each account and sends on weekdays, 08:00 to 22:00 in your time zone.

Claude Cowork and claude.ai

Not yet as a custom connector. Custom connectors on claude.ai sign in with OAuth, and HeyLead's remote endpoint (https://heylead.dev/mcp) currently signs in with a token you paste. Until that changes, use Claude Code, or add HeyLead as a local server in Claude Desktop.

Also works in

Cursor and any other MCP client that can run a stdio server. See the MCP server page.

Related: LinkedIn MCP server · Open-source AI SDR · What is HeyLead?