# How to reach COOs and heads of operations at energy companies

Last updated 13 November 2026

Reaching COOs and heads of operations at energy companies and utilities takes a clear message, and HeyLead handles this work for you. These buyers run sites, crews and the work that keeps supply running.

## What is HeyLead?

HeyLead is an AI agent for LinkedIn outreach: it finds the right people, writes to them in the voice of your own LinkedIn posts, follows up, and handles replies. It runs from Claude Code, Cursor, any MCP client or a web dashboard.

You type a one-sentence brief in Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT or the HeyLead dashboard. HeyLead drafts the campaign. You review it and press Launch. Nothing is sent before.

It runs from the cloud with your laptop closed. It reads your own LinkedIn posts to learn your voice. It never posts unless you ask for a post.

## What weighs on energy operations leaders

COOs and heads of operations at energy companies and utilities run sites, crews and the work that keeps supply running. Field work that is hard to plan weighs on them. Safety and reporting take time.

They push back on changes. Nothing changes that could risk safety or supply. You must respect these facts. Your outreach must address their daily reality. They focus on keeping the lights on. They avoid risks to their crews.

## How to start the conversation

An opening angle that fits is to ask which part of field operations is hardest to plan. HeyLead warms up before an invitation. It does a profile view, a follow, and a comment on a recent post.

HeyLead watches 40+ signal types. These signals are scored, matched to your ICP and expiring. A strong signal starts outreach and the opener says why now.

HeyLead sends an invitation with a note, an opening message, up to 2 follow-ups on Free and 5 on Pro, InMail and email fallback. Opening messages, follow-ups and answers to replies go out without review unless you switch review on. Then they wait for your approval. Invitations are not held. In review mode, invitations go out without a note.

## The brief to type into HeyLead

You can run HeyLead in Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop and claude.ai. You can use any MCP client and a web dashboard. It works in ChatGPT as a custom MCP app.

You type a one-sentence brief. HeyLead drafts the campaign. You review it and press Launch. Nothing is sent before.

The brief targets specific ICP fields. You target industries like energy and oil & gas. You target seniority levels like cxo, vp, director and manager. You target company sizes from 51 to 5000 employees.

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Find cxo, vp, director and manager titles in operations at energy and oil & gas companies with 51 to 5000 employees, and ask which part of field operations is hardest to plan.
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## Limits and features

Replies are read, classified and answered from the campaign's facts. A reply that could mean two things gets one short question back. A question your facts cannot answer is held for you. A person who says not now gets a check-in in 30 days.

HeyLead syncs with HubSpot. It books into Google Calendar. Free costs $0 for one connected account. This can be a LinkedIn seat or an email mailbox. Cloud sending is included.

Free runs until your 2nd hot lead. A hot lead is a person whose reply HeyLead reads as interested. From then HeyLead keeps working the conversations already open and reaches new people on Pro. Pro costs $29 a month per connected account. The client's source is on GitHub under MIT. The hosted backend is not.

## Questions people ask

### Does HeyLead sync with my CRM?

HubSpot is the CRM it syncs with.

### How does HeyLead handle replies?

Replies are read, classified and answered from the campaign's facts. A question your facts cannot answer is held for you.

### What happens if someone says not now?

"Not now" gets a check-in in 30 days.

### How much does HeyLead cost?

Free is $0 for one connected account until your 2nd hot lead. Pro costs $29 a month per connected account.

HeyLead sends from your own LinkedIn account at a human pace: at most 20 invitations a day and 100 a week on a free LinkedIn account (more on Premium or Sales Navigator: a newly connected paid account starts at 20 a day and doubles each week up to its limit), Monday to Friday 08:00 to 22:00 in your time zone, minutes apart. It backs off when LinkedIn pushes back and resumes on its own. You can pause any campaign at any time.

HeyLead is not affiliated with LinkedIn. It reaches LinkedIn through Unipile, which is also not affiliated. LinkedIn's own rules are in the Terms: https://heylead.dev/terms

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