Onur here, founder of Needle with @jan_heimes This is our 6th launch, and thank you to everyone who has followed our journey.
The problem: outbound today means juggling 5+ tools. You use one for lists, one for enrichment, one for sequences, one for LinkedIn, and you spend your evenings copy-pasting CSVs between them.
What we built: Needle is an outbound engine your AI agent can drive. Connect it to Claude, ChatGPT or Grok, then describe who you want to reach in one prompt:
“Find 50 Head of Sales at Series A SaaS companies in Berlin, enrich them, and start a LinkedIn sequence referencing their latest post.”
Needle then: 🔍 Finds leads from LinkedIn, Instagram and Google Maps ✨ Enriches them with the context your agent needs to actually personalize 📨 Reaches out on whichever channel they’re on, from your own connected accounts, with sane sending limits built in
Why agent-native? Your agent already knows your ICP, your docs and your voice. It was just missing the hands. We didn’t want to build yet another dashboard, so we built the infrastructure instead.
No AI slop. We help you use AI the right way: real context on every lead, and messages that sound like you wrote them yourself.
And it’s not an “AI SDR”. Needle makes your reps faster. It doesn’t pretend to replace them. Your creativity is your GTM, we make it fluid.
🎁 For the PH community: use code PH2026 for 50% off for 6 months, on top of the 7-day free trial. Create opportunities and win people. Right now, takes 5 minutes to run your first campaign. Whatever you're after - sales, partnerships, hiring, fundraising.
We’d love your toughest feedback. What’s the most painful part of your outbound stack right now? My team and I will be in the comments all day.
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@jan_heimes@oeken Can needle help agencies manage outreach for multiple clients at scale while keeping each campaign personalized and safe
@shivam_kushwaha16 yes. many of our customers are agencies doing exactly what you mention.
1. multiple clients: use 1 workspace per client 2. at scale: build with AI, much faster 3. personalized and safe: prepare rich messages with AI but human in the loop -> approve and send
Tested you ~6 months ago and it was amazing! I'd be happy to test your outbound engine, I'm quite experienced in this AI SDR field :) Could you share pls what metrics do you currently have - reply rate, meetings booked etc? Do you track it?
The human approval step Jan mentioned deserves a bit more space in the demo. I would want to see the selected people and actual messages together before a campaign starts.
@oleksii_sekundant good shout! human in the the loop is one of the most frequently used features indeed. and we're rolling out message previews in upcoming days :)
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If someone replies on LinkedIn, will Needle automatically pause the email follow-ups as well?
@jack_githits we'll publish material on the topic, what's the best practice when reaching out on linkedin. if i were to pick 1 most important factor: your message must be short, relevant, and offering value to your contact directly.
Nice one on launch number six, Onur and team. Driving outbound from inside Claude makes sense to me. My worry is the agent pulling 50 "Head of Sales" who all left that job last quarter.
How fresh is the enrichment, and does it check before it sends from my own LinkedIn?
@genedai Needle uses the most recent data based on what you ask for and it checks Linkedin. so stale results like "Head of Sales who all left that job last quarter." don't happen.
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sending from your own connected accounts with built-in limits is a sensible choice for LinkedIn. are those limits set per account or per workspace?
@neerajnathany Per connected account, you can have multiple accounts per workspace / organization - Needle can also smartly distribute the actions across different accounts.
Some of you know us from our earlier launches. We built workflow automation: Connect the tools, schedule the run.
Then we watched how people actually work now: They open Claude Code or Codex and just ask for the outcome.
So we stopped building another interface and built the hands instead. Needle plugs straight into your agent, and one prompt gets you researched leads and personal outreach live on LinkedIn or Instagram.
We've run our own outbound this way for a year. Smart sending limits and a human approval step are built into the core. Agent speed, without gambling your accounts.
We are here all day. Ask me anything about the MCP setup, how we run our own pipeline on it, or what's coming next. And if you find a limit, love to hear about it.
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Hey there PH community 👋
Onur here, founder of Needle with @jan_heimes This is our 6th launch, and thank you to everyone who has followed our journey.
The problem: outbound today means juggling 5+ tools. You use one for lists, one for enrichment, one for sequences, one for LinkedIn, and you spend your evenings copy-pasting CSVs between them.
What we built: Needle is an outbound engine your AI agent can drive. Connect it to Claude, ChatGPT or Grok, then describe who you want to reach in one prompt:
Needle then:
🔍 Finds leads from LinkedIn, Instagram and Google Maps
✨ Enriches them with the context your agent needs to actually personalize
📨 Reaches out on whichever channel they’re on, from your own connected accounts, with sane sending limits built in
Why agent-native? Your agent already knows your ICP, your docs and your voice. It was just missing the hands. We didn’t want to build yet another dashboard, so we built the infrastructure instead.
No AI slop. We help you use AI the right way: real context on every lead, and messages that sound like you wrote them yourself.
And it’s not an “AI SDR”. Needle makes your reps faster. It doesn’t pretend to replace them. Your creativity is your GTM, we make it fluid.
🎁 For the PH community: use code PH2026 for 50% off for 6 months, on top of the 7-day free trial. Create opportunities and win people. Right now, takes 5 minutes to run your first campaign. Whatever you're after - sales, partnerships, hiring, fundraising.
We’d love your toughest feedback. What’s the most painful part of your outbound stack right now? My team and I will be in the comments all day.
@jan_heimes @oeken Can needle help agencies manage outreach for multiple clients at scale while keeping each campaign personalized and safe
@shivam_kushwaha16 yes. many of our customers are agencies doing exactly what you mention.
1. multiple clients: use 1 workspace per client
2. at scale: build with AI, much faster
3. personalized and safe: prepare rich messages with AI but human in the loop -> approve and send
Tested you ~6 months ago and it was amazing!
I'd be happy to test your outbound engine, I'm quite experienced in this AI SDR field :)
Could you share pls what metrics do you currently have - reply rate, meetings booked etc? Do you track it?
@dmitry_zakharov_ai
Would love, if you give Neelde a spin.
Here are some average stats I quickly pulled from last campaign from DB → ~38% accept, ~23% reply
@dmitry_zakharov_ai thank you! we track performance with funnels
we booked 321 calls in the last 1 1/2 months using Needle 🚀
@mauricevv These numbers speak for themselves!
The human approval step Jan mentioned deserves a bit more space in the demo. I would want to see the selected people and actual messages together before a campaign starts.
@oleksii_sekundant good shout! human in the the loop is one of the most frequently used features indeed. and we're rolling out message previews in upcoming days :)
If someone replies on LinkedIn, will Needle automatically pause the email follow-ups as well?
@michelle_bankas Pause, but we are working on the auto-reply right now and have it in beta. What would you prefer?
Sounds interesting. I'd love to know more about how you help with LinkedIn.
@jack_githits we'll publish material on the topic, what's the best practice when reaching out on linkedin. if i were to pick 1 most important factor: your message must be short, relevant, and offering value to your contact directly.
Looks really cool, just checked it out - best of luck with the PH launch day Needle Team !
@johnbromley thank you! our goal is making high quality outbound motion easy to setup, in minutes.
Nice one on launch number six, Onur and team. Driving outbound from inside Claude makes sense to me. My worry is the agent pulling 50 "Head of Sales" who all left that job last quarter.
How fresh is the enrichment, and does it check before it sends from my own LinkedIn?
@genedai Needle uses the most recent data based on what you ask for and it checks Linkedin. so stale results like "Head of Sales who all left that job last quarter." don't happen.
sending from your own connected accounts with built-in limits is a sensible choice for LinkedIn. are those limits set per account or per workspace?
@neerajnathany Per connected account, you can have multiple accounts per workspace / organization - Needle can also smartly distribute the actions across different accounts.
Jan here, co-founder alongside@oeken 👋
Some of you know us from our earlier launches. We built workflow automation: Connect the tools, schedule the run.
Then we watched how people actually work now: They open Claude Code or Codex and just ask for the outcome.
So we stopped building another interface and built the hands instead. Needle plugs straight into your agent, and one prompt gets you researched leads and personal outreach live on LinkedIn or Instagram.
We've run our own outbound this way for a year. Smart sending limits and a human approval step are built into the core. Agent speed, without gambling your accounts.
We are here all day. Ask me anything about the MCP setup, how we run our own pipeline on it, or what's coming next. And if you find a limit, love to hear about it.