LinkedIn prospect post signal for hiring
Last updated 19 October 2026
When you hire people, a LinkedIn prospect post signal helps you reach candidates for a role you are filling, and HeyLead automates the outreach. 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 the prospect post signal is
A prospect post shows how someone thinks about their work. You look at what they write to understand their perspective.
HeyLead watches 40+ signal types, scored, matched to your ICP and expiring; a strong signal starts outreach and the opener says why now.
The message is for the candidate. The fit question HeyLead asks is: Would this audience take the role?
Why it matters for hiring
The campaign goal is to hire people. You reach candidates for a role you are filling.
Six 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.
Before an invitation, HeyLead warms up: a profile view, a follow, a comment on a recent post.
- Identify the candidate from their post.
- Evaluate if the audience would take the role.
- Start the outreach process.
What to write to the candidate
You quote one point from their post. You then say why it matters for the role.
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.
The brief to type into HeyLead
Campaigns with this goal work with a custom brief: say what you ask of the person.
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. One sentence creates a draft campaign; nothing is sent until you press Launch.
It works in Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop and claude.ai, any MCP client and a web dashboard; in ChatGPT as a custom MCP app (tested on ChatGPT Pro; custom apps depend on your ChatGPT plan and settings).
- Type a one-sentence brief.
- Review the draft campaign.
- Press Launch to start.
Limits and operations
The client's source is on GitHub under MIT; the hosted backend is not.
HubSpot is the CRM it syncs with. Google Calendar is the calendar it books into.
- Connect your accounts.
- Sync with HubSpot.
- Book into Google Calendar.
Questions people ask
How much does HeyLead cost?
Free costs $0 for one connected account with 2 follow-ups. Pro costs $29 a month per connected account.
Does HeyLead post on my profile?
It reads your own LinkedIn posts to learn your voice and never posts unless you ask for a post.
What happens if a candidate says not now?
Replies are read, classified and answered from the campaign's facts; anything ambiguous is held for you; "not now" gets a check-in in 30 days.
Where does the software run?
It runs from the cloud with your laptop closed.
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), 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