How to use the post asking for recommendations signal for research interviews
Last updated 6 November 2026
You want to run research interviews from a LinkedIn post asking for recommendations, and HeyLead can find the right people for you.
What the post asking for recommendations signal is
A person writes a LinkedIn post seeking recommendations. They need a product or service. This is a strong signal for research interviews. You reach out to interview, survey or test with them.
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.
HeyLead watches 40+ signal types, scored, matched to your ICP and expiring. A strong signal starts outreach and the opener says why now.
Why this signal matters for research interviews
Someone asking for recommendations is choosing right now. They are actively evaluating options. This makes them a great participant for your research.
HeyLead asks a fit question for this audience. Is this audience who you need to hear from? You want to reach people to interview, survey or test with.
HeyLead has 6 campaign goals. These are 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.
What to write to the participant
Ask how they decide, not what they chose. Your goal is to learn about their evaluation process.
Before an invitation, HeyLead warms up. It does a profile view, a follow, a comment on a recent post. It 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 wait for your approval until you switch to autopilot. Invitations, not-now check-ins and meeting nudges are not held.
Replies are read, classified and answered from the campaign's facts. A reply that could mean 2 things gets 1 short question back. A question your facts can't answer is held for you. "Not now" gets a check-in in 30 days.
The brief to type into HeyLead
Campaigns with this goal work with a custom brief. You say what you ask of the person.
You type a 1-sentence brief in Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT or the HeyLead dashboard. 1 sentence creates a draft campaign. Nothing is sent until you press Launch.
HeyLead drafts the campaign. You review it and press Launch. Nothing is sent before.
create_campaign goal='research' brief='Ask people seeking recommendations how they decide on a product for a research interview.'How HeyLead runs your campaign
It reads your own LinkedIn posts to learn your voice and never posts unless you ask for a post. It runs from the cloud with your laptop closed.
It works in Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop and claude.ai, any MCP client and a web dashboard. It works in ChatGPT as a custom MCP app. This is tested on ChatGPT Pro. Custom apps depend on your ChatGPT plan and settings.
HubSpot is the CRM it syncs with. Google Calendar is the calendar it books into.
Free costs $0 for 1 connected account with 2 follow-ups. 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 post on my behalf?
It reads your own LinkedIn posts to learn your voice and never posts unless you ask for a post.
What happens if a reply is ambiguous?
A reply that could mean 2 things gets 1 short question back.
How much does HeyLead cost?
Free costs $0 for 1 connected account with 2 follow-ups. Pro costs $29 a month per connected account.
What CRM and calendar does HeyLead use?
HubSpot is the CRM it syncs with. Google Calendar is the calendar it books into.
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.
Set up HeyLead using https://heylead.dev/llms.txt