# Reaching logistics COOs and heads of operations on LinkedIn

Last updated 23 October 2026

Reaching COOs and heads of operations at logistics and freight companies requires a clear angle, and HeyLead helps you start these conversations. 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.

## What matters to logistics operations leaders

COOs and heads of operations at logistics and freight companies run the network. They judge every change by on-time delivery and cost per shipment. Late deliveries that cost the next contract weigh on them. Sites that run differently from each other also cause problems. They will not change anything that risks on-time delivery during busy periods. You must respect this reality when you reach out.

## How to start the conversation

Your opening message needs a specific angle. Ask which lane or site gives them the most trouble this season. This shows you understand their daily pressures. Before an invitation, HeyLead warms up: a profile view, a follow, a comment on a recent post. Then it sends an invitation with a note. It can follow up with an opening message. If they do not reply, it sends up to 2 follow-ups on Free and 5 on Pro. It also uses InMail and email fallback.

## The brief for logistics COOs

You type a 1-sentence brief in Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT or the HeyLead dashboard. HeyLead drafts the campaign. You review it and press Launch. Nothing is sent before. 1 sentence creates a draft campaign.

1. Define your target industries as logistics, retail, and manufacturing.
2. Set the seniority to cxo, vp, director, and manager.
3. Target company sizes of 51-200, 201-500, 501-1000, and 1001-5000 employees.
4. Ask which lane or site gives them the most trouble this season.

## Managing replies, limits, and features

HeyLead reads, classifies and answers replies from the campaign's facts. It holds anything ambiguous for you. A "not now" reply gets a check-in in 30 days. Opening messages, follow-ups and answers to replies wait for your approval until you switch to autopilot. Invitations, not-now check-ins and meeting nudges are not held. 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 runs from the cloud with your laptop closed. It syncs with HubSpot and books meetings into Google Calendar. HeyLead reads your own LinkedIn posts to learn your voice and never posts unless you ask for a post. The client's source is on GitHub under MIT; the hosted backend is not. Free costs $0 for 1 connected account with 2 follow-ups. Pro costs $29 a month per connected account. HeyLead supports 6 campaign goals: sell a product or service, find a job, hire people, find partners or investors, find a vendor, research interviews. Hire people, find partners or investors and research interviews work with a custom brief.

It works in Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop and claude.ai, any MCP client and a web dashboard. It also works in ChatGPT as a custom MCP app. Custom apps depend on your ChatGPT plan and settings, and it is tested on ChatGPT Pro.

## Questions people ask

### How much does HeyLead cost?

Free costs $0 for 1 connected account with 2 follow-ups. Pro costs $29 a month per connected account.

### Does HeyLead reply to messages automatically?

Replies are read, classified and answered from the campaign's facts. Anything ambiguous is held for you, and opening messages, follow-ups and answers to replies wait for your approval until you switch to autopilot.

### What CRM and calendar does HeyLead use?

HubSpot is the CRM it syncs with. Google Calendar is the calendar it books into.

### How do I create a campaign?

You type a 1-sentence brief in Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT or the HeyLead dashboard. HeyLead drafts the campaign, and nothing is sent until you press Launch.

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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