# Funkel AI

> Funkel AI is an AI outbound agent for lean B2B teams. It turns public signals, company data, Clay, and trusted lists into qualified people, source proof, and controlled outreach workflows.

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## Product

- [Funkel AI](https://funkel.ai/product.md): Machine-readable product overview for the AI outbound agent that turns public signals, company data, and trusted lists into qualified people and controlled outreach workflows.
- [Lead sources](https://funkel.ai/sources): Supported lead sources, identity-resolution steps, source proof, and safe outreach routing rules.
- [Company-to-person search](https://funkel.ai/features/company-to-person): How Funkel AI turns selected company CSV rows and target roles into evidence-backed decision-maker leads.
- [Clay integration](https://funkel.ai/integrations/clay): How Clay sends company data into a pending Funkel AI review before a paid decision-maker search starts.
- [Hacker News lead discovery](https://funkel.ai/sources/hacker-news): How Funkel AI monitors Hacker News, resolves public identity, preserves source proof, and guards LinkedIn outreach.
- [Why Funkel AI](https://funkel.ai/why-funkel): How Funkel AI approaches signal-based outbound, qualification, workflow control, and account safety.
- [Pricing](https://funkel.ai/pricing.md): Machine-readable Funkel AI plans, billing terms, included limits, and the 30-day qualified-lead guarantee.
- [Security](https://funkel.ai/security): Security, data handling, infrastructure, and account-protection information.
- [Changelog](https://funkel.ai/changelog): Chronological record of shipped Funkel AI product improvements.

## Integrations

- [Integration directory](https://funkel.ai/integrations): Browse supported integrations, connection types, and setup guides.
- [Slack integration](https://funkel.ai/integrations/slack): Receive lead and conversation notifications in Slack. Keep useful outreach updates close to your daily work.
- [HubSpot integration](https://funkel.ai/integrations/hubspot): Create HubSpot contacts from newly discovered Funkel AI leads. Keep the essential contact details in your existing CRM.
- [Salesforce integration](https://funkel.ai/integrations/salesforce): Bring Salesforce people into Funkel AI lists, send Funkel AI people to Salesforce, and log outreach activity as Tasks.
- [Zapier integration](https://funkel.ai/integrations/zapier): Send Funkel AI events to Zapier. Connect new leads, replies, and campaign activity to your own workflows.
- [Make integration](https://funkel.ai/integrations/make): Send Funkel AI events to Make. Connect new leads, replies, and campaign activity to your own workflows.
- [n8n integration](https://funkel.ai/integrations/n8n): Send Funkel AI events to n8n. Connect new leads, replies, and campaign activity to your own workflows.
- [Telegram integration](https://funkel.ai/integrations/telegram): Receive lead and reply notifications through your Telegram bot. Follow important outreach updates from your chosen chat.
- [Claude integration](https://funkel.ai/integrations/claude): Connect Claude to Funkel AI through MCP. Explore your outreach data and review supported actions before they run.
- [Calendly integration](https://funkel.ai/integrations/calendly): Connect Calendly to Funkel AI to receive booking updates and match supported events with outreach activity.
- [Cal.com integration](https://funkel.ai/integrations/cal-com): Connect Cal.com to Funkel AI to receive booking updates and match supported events with outreach activity.
- [Custom Webhook integration](https://funkel.ai/integrations/custom-webhook): Receive signed Funkel AI events at your own HTTPS endpoint. Build event handling around your existing services.

## Developer documentation

- [Developer documentation](https://funkel.ai/doc): Customer API and MCP documentation with authentication, webhooks, and account usage.
- [API reference](https://funkel.ai/doc/api): REST endpoints, request and response schemas, and downloadable OpenAPI contracts.
- [CSV imports through the API](https://funkel.ai/doc/csv-imports): Import known people or search target companies, then review results before campaign enrollment.
- [Get started](https://funkel.ai/doc/getting-started): Connect your application to Funkel AI with REST, MCP, or outbound webhooks.
- [Authentication](https://funkel.ai/doc/authentication): Create, use, and revoke personal access tokens for your integrations.
- [MCP server](https://funkel.ai/doc/mcp): Connect an AI client to your products, leads, campaigns, inbox, and Operator tools.
- [Outbound webhooks](https://funkel.ai/doc/webhooks): Receive signed workspace events and verify their exact delivery behavior.
- [Usage and limits](https://funkel.ai/doc/usage-and-limits): Read your current entitlements, credit balance, and operation costs before you run work.

## Free tools

- [LinkedIn Headline Generator](https://funkel.ai/tools/linkedin-headline-generator.md): Add your role, offer, audience, and optional proof. Get five clear LinkedIn headline options, free with no signup.
- [Connection Note Critique](https://funkel.ai/tools/connection-note-critique.md): Paste your current connection note. Get a score, a list of what is hurting it, and a one-sentence rewrite that lands.
- [Buyer Intent Signal Prioritizer](https://funkel.ai/tools/buyer-intent-signal-prioritizer.md): Score a buyer-intent signal by strength, freshness, ICP fit, and evidence. Get a clear priority and next-step workflow, no signup.
- [Outbound Workflow Builder](https://funkel.ai/tools/outbound-workflow-builder.md): Turn a current sales reason, relationship, goal, and channel mix into a practical outbound workflow with timing and stop conditions, no signup.
- [Lead Qualification Scorecard](https://funkel.ai/tools/lead-qualification-scorecard.md): Score a B2B lead by fit, problem ownership, evidence, freshness, pressure, and message impact. Get a clear qualification route, no signup.
- [Buyer Signal-to-Sequence Planner](https://funkel.ai/tools/signal-to-sequence-planner.md): Turn one buyer signal into an evidence-first outreach sequence with message jobs, timing, expiry checks, and stop conditions, no signup.
- [Outreach Timing Calculator](https://funkel.ai/tools/outreach-timing-calculator.md): Check whether a buyer signal is still fresh and find the next buyer-local outreach window before the reason expires, no signup.
- [Funkel Scout](https://funkel.ai/tools/signal-spotter.md): Score a LinkedIn profile against your buyer and get a first line from their own words. On this page or in Chrome.
- [ICP Readiness Checker](https://funkel.ai/tools/icp-readiness-checker.md): Check whether your ideal customer profile is specific, evidence-backed, reachable, and ready for a focused campaign test, no signup.
- [LinkedIn Prospecting Checklist Generator](https://funkel.ai/tools/linkedin-prospecting-checklist-generator.md): Build a tailored checklist for LinkedIn lead research, message review, follow-up, stop rules, and campaign learning, no signup.
- [Sales Campaign Follow-Up Planner](https://funkel.ai/tools/campaign-follow-up-planner.md): Turn the latest buyer state into a dated follow-up plan with message jobs, holds, reroutes, and stop conditions, no signup.

## Blog

- [What is an AI sales agent? A practical guide to autonomy and guardrails](https://funkel.ai/blog/what-is-an-ai-sales-agent.md): See what AI sales agents do, where they help with buyer objections, and how to test their limits before a real conversation or send.
- [Sales trigger events: 8 examples, sources, and an alert audit](https://funkel.ai/blog/sales-trigger-events.md): Find sales trigger events in public sources, check eight examples, and audit 20 alerts for proof, buyer fit, and a safe next action.
- [LinkedIn prospecting strategy for small B2B teams](https://funkel.ai/blog/linkedin-prospecting.md): Build a LinkedIn prospecting strategy for a small B2B team. Use source-to-route decisions, three examples, a 30-day plan, and a review worksheet.
- [What is B2B intent data? Types, examples, and a quality test](https://funkel.ai/blog/what-is-b2b-intent-data.md): Learn what B2B intent data is, compare its sources, and test whether each signal supports a real sales action.
- [Outbound sales automation tools in 2026: 6 compared by intent signals](https://funkel.ai/blog/outbound-sales-automation.md): Compare six outbound sales automation tools by intent evidence, route control, CRM handoff, cross-channel stops, and complete cost.
- [How to use LinkedIn for sales prospecting: 7 steps](https://funkel.ai/blog/how-to-use-linkedin-for-sales-prospecting.md): Use standard LinkedIn people search to test a buyer pool, then follow a 7-step prospecting workflow and audit 20 profiles before outreach.
- [How to use LinkedIn Sales Navigator for prospecting: 7 steps](https://funkel.ai/blog/linkedin-sales-navigator-prospecting.md): Use a seven-step Sales Navigator workflow, audit 20 leads, fix poor search results, and separate saved searches from lead alerts and outreach routes.
- [Best B2B intent data providers: 9 options compared for 2026](https://funkel.ai/blog/best-b2b-intent-data-providers.md): Compare nine B2B intent data providers by signal grain and evidence. Use a 25-account scorecard to test a shortlist.
- [Top SDR APIs for lead generation: 5 options by job (2026)](https://funkel.ai/blog/best-sdr-apis-lead-generation.md): Compare five SDR APIs for prospect discovery, verification, outreach, and CRM handoff. Use a six-record test before connecting tools.
- [LinkedIn prospecting tools: 7 options compared for 2026](https://funkel.ai/blog/linkedin-prospecting-tools.md): Compare seven LinkedIn prospecting tools by job, operator work, and a 20-lead test that checks CRM handoff quality.
- [LinkedIn connection request message: 18 examples under 180 characters](https://funkel.ai/blog/connection-notes-that-get-accepted.md): Use 18 connection request examples under 180 characters, a note-or-wait table, and a quality test. Check your final note against LinkedIn’s 200-character limit.
- [Cold email personalization: 5 examples and a 7-point checklist](https://funkel.ai/blog/cold-email-personalization.md): Use five cold email personalization examples, a copyable AI prompt, and a seven-point checklist. Turn verified facts into relevant questions.
- [Buyer intent signals: 11 examples and a signal contract](https://funkel.ai/blog/buyer-intent-signals.md): Learn 11 buyer intent signal examples, build a signal contract, and measure signal quality before automating outreach.
- [B2B sales intelligence tools: 7 options for small teams in 2026](https://funkel.ai/blog/sales-intelligence-tools.md): Compare seven B2B sales intelligence tools by job, pricing visibility, operator load, and accepted-lead quality.
- [LinkedIn sales headline examples: 32 honest formulas (2026)](https://funkel.ai/blog/linkedin-headline-for-sales.md): Use 32 LinkedIn sales headline examples for SDRs, AEs, founders, leaders, and RevOps. Choose honest proof with a four-level evidence ladder.
- [Best AI SDR tools for lead generation: 8 options for 2026](https://funkel.ai/blog/best-ai-sdr-for-lead-generation.md): Compare eight AI SDR tools by operating model, current public pricing, human control, and the work each product leaves with your team.
- [Why we built Funkel](https://funkel.ai/blog/why-we-built-funkel.md): Outbound is broken because the prevailing tools force a tradeoff between volume and price. We thought there was a third path, signal-based outreach you run yourself, so we built it.
- [A field guide to LinkedIn intent signals](https://funkel.ai/blog/linkedin-intent-signals-field-guide.md): The LinkedIn signal sources Funkel watches for, what each one actually predicts, and which combinations are worth testing first.
- [When to write the message yourself, and when to let the AI draft it](https://funkel.ai/blog/ai-personalized-vs-manual-messages.md): A practical decision framework for when AI-personalized outreach beats a hand-written template, and the times it absolutely does not.
- [How we keep your LinkedIn account safe](https://funkel.ai/blog/keeping-your-linkedin-account-safe.md): A look at the pacing rules, retry logic, and pause conditions Funkel uses to stay under configured limits and reduce account risk.

## Buyer intent signal guides

- [Direct pain posts as a buyer intent signal](https://funkel.ai/buyer-intent-signals/direct-pain-posts): Learn how to identify a real direct pain post, verify who owns the problem, choose a respectful response, and avoid treating public frustration as permission to pitch.
- [Vendor recommendation posts as a buyer intent signal](https://funkel.ai/buyer-intent-signals/vendor-recommendation-posts): Learn how to verify a recommendation request, judge its buying state, disclose your affiliation, and answer without turning a public thread into an unsolicited pitch.
- [Competitor engagement as a buyer intent signal](https://funkel.ai/buyer-intent-signals/competitor-engagement): Separate passive competitor attention from evaluation evidence, verify fit and ownership, and route it without treating engagement as permission to pitch.
- [Pricing page visits as a buyer intent signal](https://funkel.ai/buyer-intent-signals/pricing-page-visits): Learn what a pricing page visit actually proves, verify attribution and consent, remove false positives, and choose a useful response without making a visitor feel watched.
- [Repeat website visits as a buyer intent signal](https://funkel.ai/buyer-intent-signals/repeat-website-visits): Learn what return activity actually supports, separate one visitor from account-level patterns and noise, and choose a useful route without exposing tracking.
- [LinkedIn content engagement as an intent signal](https://funkel.ai/buyer-intent-signals/linkedin-content-engagement): Separate reactions, reposts, comments, questions, and account patterns; verify who supplied the evidence; and choose a useful route without treating attention as purchase intent.
- [LinkedIn profile activity as a sales signal](https://funkel.ai/buyer-intent-signals/linkedin-profile-activity): Learn how to interpret profile views, follows, connection requests, and inbound messages without confusing visible attention with buyer intent.
- [LinkedIn keyword mentions as a buyer intent signal](https://funkel.ai/buyer-intent-signals/linkedin-keyword-mentions): Turn a LinkedIn keyword match into evidence, separate the author from quoted text, and route buyer context without treating every mention as intent.
- [X posts as B2B buyer intent signals](https://funkel.ai/buyer-intent-signals/x-buyer-intent-posts): Verify buyer context in X posts, preserve the speaker and thread, check fit and ownership, and choose a useful route without treating every post as intent.
- [Funding announcements as a sales trigger](https://funkel.ai/buyer-intent-signals/funding-announcements): Verify a funding event, separate capital news from an operating plan, find the likely owner, and choose an outreach route without assuming new money means buyer intent.
- [Job changes as a sales trigger event](https://funkel.ai/buyer-intent-signals/job-changes): Verify a job change, separate the move from its possible business impact, find the relevant owner, and choose a route without treating a new title as buyer intent.
- [Leadership changes as a sales trigger](https://funkel.ai/buyer-intent-signals/leadership-changes): Verify a leadership change, map the authority and mandate that actually moved, and choose a route without assuming every new executive will replace vendors.
- [Company hiring growth as a sales signal](https://funkel.ai/buyer-intent-signals/company-hiring-growth): Separate open roles from actual team growth, verify the department and operating pressure, and choose a route without assuming every job post means budget or buyer intent.
- [Role-specific hiring as an intent signal](https://funkel.ai/buyer-intent-signals/role-specific-hiring): Translate a current role into tasks, workflow pressure, and a likely operating owner without treating a job title as proof of budget or buyer intent.
- [Product launches as a sales trigger event](https://funkel.ai/buyer-intent-signals/product-launches): Verify what launched, separate announcement from availability and adoption, map the operating consequence, and choose a route without inventing urgent buyer intent.
- [Technology adoption as a sales trigger](https://funkel.ai/buyer-intent-signals/technology-adoption): Separate detected technology from implementation and live use, verify the workflow and owner, and choose a route without turning a stack clue into buyer intent.
- [Competitor dissatisfaction as a buyer intent signal](https://funkel.ai/buyer-intent-signals/competitor-dissatisfaction): Verify who experienced the competitor problem, whether it is current and unresolved, and how to respond without turning a complaint into switch intent.
- [Market expansion as a sales trigger](https://funkel.ai/buyer-intent-signals/market-expansion): Verify the market, entry state, operating evidence, and current owner before turning an expansion announcement into an outreach reason.
- [Partnership announcements as a sales trigger](https://funkel.ai/buyer-intent-signals/partnership-announcements): Verify the partners, relationship type, commitment, live execution, and current owner before turning an alliance announcement into an outreach reason.
- [Event attendance as a buyer intent signal](https://funkel.ai/buyer-intent-signals/event-attendance): Verify the event, attendance state, participant role, attributable interaction, and current owner before turning attendance into an outreach reason.
- [Webinar engagement as an intent signal](https://funkel.ai/buyer-intent-signals/webinar-engagement): Separate registration, attendance, watch activity, polls, questions, and requested follow-up before turning webinar engagement into an outreach reason.
- [Review-site research as a buyer intent signal](https://funkel.ai/buyer-intent-signals/review-site-research): Separate category, profile, pricing, alternatives, comparison, and competitor-page activity before turning review-site research into an outreach reason.
- [Email replies as buyer intent signals](https://funkel.ai/buyer-intent-signals/email-reply-intent): Separate human replies, questions, objections, timing requests, referrals, opt-outs, automated responses, and delivery notices before routing the next action.
- [Multiple-stakeholder engagement as a buyer intent signal](https://funkel.ai/buyer-intent-signals/multiple-stakeholder-engagement): Verify separate people, sources, roles, timing, and a shared decision job before treating multi-person account activity as buyer intent.
- [Buyer intent signal stacking](https://funkel.ai/buyer-intent-signals/signal-stacking): Combine buyer signals without double-counting one event, hiding contradictions, or turning a high score into automatic permission to send.

## Playbooks

- [Agency multi-client signal workflow](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/agency-multi-client-signal-workflow): A seven-step system for running signal-based outbound across agency clients without mixing evidence, audiences, senders, approvals, replies, or suppressions.
- [Build a signal mix that fits your business](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/build-a-signal-mix-that-fits-your-business): How to pick the right LinkedIn intent signal mix for your stage, category, and team. Decision framework plus four worked recipes.
- [Competitor dissatisfaction multichannel outreach playbook](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/competitor-dissatisfaction-multichannel-outreach): A seven-step workflow for routing verified competitor dissatisfaction across public replies, LinkedIn, X, and email without turning one complaint into a parallel-channel pitch.
- [Email reply intent routing workflow](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/email-reply-intent-routing): A seven-step workflow for pausing the old sequence, preserving multi-state replies, applying stop precedence, and routing one owned next action.
- [Engineering hiring outreach for devtool teams](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/engineering-hiring-devtool-outreach): A seven-step workflow for turning verified engineering hiring into relevant devtool outreach without mistaking candidate requirements for stack, pain, budget, or vendor intent.
- [Event attendee sales follow-up workflow](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/event-attendance-follow-up): A seven-step workflow for following up after an event without treating registration, attendance, a badge scan, or a booth visit as automatic buyer intent.
- [Follow-up sequences that don't sound desperate](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/follow-up-sequence-that-doesnt-sound-desperate): The 3-step shape that converts after a connection accept: opener cites the signal, value drop, soft exit. Two worked examples and four anti-patterns.
- [Former champion job-change outreach playbook](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/former-champion-job-change-outreach): A seven-step workflow for reconnecting after a former champion changes jobs without assuming prior trust, product fit, permission, or success transfers.
- [Founder X outreach after a direct pain post](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/direct-pain-post-founder-x-outreach): A seven-step workflow for responding to a founder’s direct pain post on X without turning public problem evidence into an unsolicited pitch.
- [Founder-led multichannel outreach workflow](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/founder-led-multichannel-outreach): A seven-step workflow for coordinating founder outreach across public conversations, LinkedIn, X, and email without duplicating pitches or losing the buyer context.
- [Funding announcement LinkedIn outreach playbook](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/funding-announcement-founder-linkedin-outreach): A seven-step workflow for turning verified funding news into relevant founder outreach on LinkedIn without assuming new capital means budget or buyer intent.
- [Funding announcement sales email playbook](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/funding-announcement-sales-leader-email): A seven-step workflow for emailing a sales leader after a funding announcement without assuming the round created budget, urgency, or buyer intent.
- [How to recover a flagged LinkedIn account](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/recover-flagged-linkedin-account): A practical 7-step playbook for what to do when LinkedIn restricts or warns your account. Pause, rest, ramp back without re-tripping the filter.
- [Launch a competitor-pain campaign](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/launch-competitor-pain-campaign): Find buyers actively complaining about your competitor on LinkedIn and open the conversation while the moment is still warm. The exact 30-minute setup.
- [Leadership change outreach for RevOps teams](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/leadership-change-revops-outreach): A seven-step workflow for routing a verified leadership change into RevOps without assuming a new executive will replace tools, approve budget, or start a project.
- [LinkedIn content engagement outreach playbook](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/linkedin-content-engagement-outreach): A seven-step workflow for deciding when a reaction, comment, or repost supports public help, research, an existing-conversation reply, one reviewed message, or no outreach.
- [LinkedIn outreach after a direct pain post](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/direct-pain-post-linkedin-workflow): A seven-step workflow for responding to a direct pain post on LinkedIn without turning public problem evidence into a promotional connection request or unsolicited pitch.
- [Market expansion outreach playbook](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/market-expansion-outreach): A seven-step workflow for turning verified market entry into one owned operating question without treating an expansion announcement as buyer intent.
- [Multiple-stakeholder account outreach workflow](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/multiple-stakeholder-account-workflow): A seven-step account workflow for coordinating several verified stakeholders without copying one person’s intent, opening parallel sequences, or losing the real owner.
- [New VP Sales outreach workflow](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/new-vp-sales-outreach-workflow): A seven-step workflow for contacting a newly appointed VP Sales without treating the title, first 90 days, or inherited stack as automatic buyer intent.
- [Outreach workflow stop conditions](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/outreach-workflow-stop-conditions): A seven-step workflow for defining, classifying, propagating, testing, and auditing stop conditions across outbound sequences, channels, owners, and systems.
- [Partnership announcement outreach playbook](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/partnership-announcement-outreach): A seven-step workflow for turning a verified partnership into one owned operating question without treating the announcement as buyer intent.
- [Pricing page visit sales workflow for SDR teams](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/pricing-page-visit-sdr-workflow): A seven-step SDR workflow for routing a verified pricing-page visit without guessing the visitor, exposing tracking, bypassing the account owner, or forcing an immediate sequence.
- [Product launch outreach playbook for agencies](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/product-launch-agency-outreach): A seven-step workflow for agencies using a prospect’s product launch to qualify one service gap, owner, outreach route, and stop state—without inventing need.
- [Repeat website visitor outreach workflow for founders](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/repeat-website-visit-founder-outreach): A seven-step founder workflow for routing verified repeat website activity without guessing the visitor, exposing tracking, or turning account interest into an automatic pitch.
- [Review-site research outreach workflow](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/review-site-research-outreach): A seven-step workflow for routing verified review-site research without exposing account tracking, guessing the visitor, or opening parallel sequences.
- [RevOps signal-to-rep handoff workflow](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/revops-signal-to-rep-handoff): A seven-step RevOps workflow for packaging a buyer signal, resolving ownership, routing by capacity, confirming acceptance, and reclaiming stale rep handoffs.
- [Run outbound with one founder LinkedIn account](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/outbound-with-one-founder-linkedin-account): A solo-operator playbook for running quiet, signal-based outbound from a single founder account. The caps, the cadence, and when adding a second sender finally pays.
- [Sales hiring trigger outreach playbook](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/sales-hiring-trigger-outreach): A seven-step workflow for turning verified sales hiring into relevant outreach without assuming a job post proves growth, budget, pain, or vendor intent.
- [Sales manager lead prioritization workflow](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/sales-manager-lead-prioritization): A seven-step workflow for sales managers to rank competing lead work by direct commitments, fit, evidence, timing, ownership, capacity, and stop state.
- [Signal-led outbound for small sales teams](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/small-sales-team-signal-led-outbound): A seven-step operating system for running signal-led outbound with a small sales team, one reason queue, bounded capacity, and reply-led stop rules.
- [Switch from agency outbound to in-house in 14 days](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/switch-from-agency-to-in-house-outbound): A day-by-day plan for moving off a lead-gen agency without dropping pipeline. What to inventory, what to launch first, and how to have the cancellation conversation.
- [Technology adoption outreach playbook](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/technology-adoption-outreach): A seven-step workflow for turning a verified technology change into one owned operating question without treating a stack clue as buyer intent.
- [Vendor recommendation post response playbook](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/vendor-recommendation-post-response): A seven-step workflow for answering a public vendor recommendation request with clear disclosure, useful criteria, and response-led follow-up—not a pitch.
- [Webinar attendee sales follow-up workflow](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/webinar-engagement-follow-up): A seven-step workflow for following up after a webinar without turning registration, watch time, a poll click, or a replay into automatic sales intent.
- [When to wait for a second buyer signal](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/wait-for-a-second-signal): A seven-step workflow for deciding whether one buyer signal supports action, research, a time-bounded wait for specific evidence, or no outreach.
- [Why aren't leads reaching me? a triage playbook](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/why-arent-leads-reaching-me): Four symptoms, four causes, four fixes. How to read the rejection breakdown panel and unstick the discovery pipeline when the funnel runs dry.
- [Your first 30 days of LinkedIn outbound](https://funkel.ai/playbooks/first-30-days-of-linkedin-outbound): A week-by-week plan for someone new to outbound: setup, calibration, first sends, review, scale. What to measure, what to ignore.

## Who Funkel AI is for

- [LinkedIn outbound for founders, without the busywork](https://funkel.ai/for/founders): Founder-led outbound from your own accounts. Funkel AI finds and qualifies people showing intent across LinkedIn and X, then routes them into a controlled workflow.
- [Signal-based prospecting for SDRs and outbound teams](https://funkel.ai/for/sdrs): Funkel AI prioritizes prospects by real buying intent across LinkedIn and X, qualifies them against your buyer profile, and keeps daily sending controlled.
- [Outbound automation for solo B2B founders with one reason queue](https://funkel.ai/for/solo-b2b-founders): Build a founder-led outbound system around real buying evidence, one owned queue, and the research, reply, and follow-up capacity you actually have.
- [LinkedIn prospecting for technical founders, from evidence to buyer reason](https://funkel.ai/for/technical-founders): Turn public technical evidence into a buyer-readable reason, identify the likely owner, and choose one LinkedIn action the evidence can support.
- [Outbound automation for small B2B SaaS teams with one accountable queue](https://funkel.ai/for/small-b2b-saas-teams): Run lean B2B SaaS outbound from one reason queue, with clear ownership, release gates, reply capacity, and stop conditions across LinkedIn, X, and email.
- [Outbound sales for AI SaaS companies that can prove the promise](https://funkel.ai/for/ai-saas-companies): Build AI SaaS outbound around one verified buyer job, a scoped proof packet, and separate operator, security, data, and procurement routes.
- [Outbound automation for lead generation agencies with client-visible control](https://funkel.ai/for/lead-generation-agencies): Run agency outbound with one approved client brief, separate evidence and sender context, owned replies, and measurable handoff decisions.
- [LinkedIn prospecting for recruitment agencies with separate client and candidate lanes](https://funkel.ai/for/recruitment-agencies): Review hiring evidence, separate client acquisition from candidate sourcing, find the current service owner, and route one accountable next action.
- [Outbound prospecting for B2B consultants with proof before pressure](https://funkel.ai/for/b2b-consultants): Turn a narrow consulting offer, current buyer evidence, and reusable proof into one helpful prospecting route your delivery capacity can support.
- [Outbound sales for devtool companies without turning developer activity into intent](https://funkel.ai/for/devtool-companies): Separate developer interest, verified technical work, and buying ownership before one evidence-sized devtool outreach route leaves the queue.
- [Outbound sales for cybersecurity companies without manufacturing fear](https://funkel.ai/for/cybersecurity-companies): Use verified buyer context, bounded security proof, and one accountable route before cybersecurity outreach reaches a security team.
- [Outbound sales for HR tech companies without turning workforce change into intent](https://funkel.ai/for/hr-tech-companies): Verify the workforce job, affected people, data boundary, proof, and decision rights before one HR tech outreach route leaves review.
- [Owned, auditable outbound for RevOps](https://funkel.ai/for/revops): Funkel keeps outbound in your accounts with a clear signal-to-workflow trail and agent action logs, so RevOps gets control and ownership instead of an agency black box.
- [Outbound sales for MarTech companies with a measurable buyer reason](https://funkel.ai/for/martech-companies): Separate marketing pressure, data readiness, measurement limits, and buying ownership before one MarTech outreach route leaves review.
- [Outbound sales for FinTech companies with a reviewable buyer reason](https://funkel.ai/for/fintech-companies): Verify the financial job, product boundary, decision impact, proof, and current owner before one FinTech outreach route leaves review.
- [Outbound sales for European B2B SaaS, market by market](https://funkel.ai/for/european-b2b-saas): Define one market, buyer job, contact boundary, proof set, and current owner before European B2B SaaS outreach leaves review.
- [Outbound automation without an SDR team, with every sales job owned](https://funkel.ai/for/startups-without-sdrs): Run startup outbound without an SDR team by assigning research, review, replies, fulfilment, capacity, and stop states before automation starts.
- [AI outbound automation for small sales teams, with every handoff visible](https://funkel.ai/for/small-sales-teams): Use AI outbound automation with a small sales team by separating prepared work, human decisions, sender ownership, replies, and stop states.
- [Outbound sales for product-led growth teams without turning usage into permission](https://funkel.ai/for/product-led-growth-teams): Turn product activity into a reviewed sales handoff while preserving identity grain, user context, relationship ownership, and stop states.
- [Buyer intent workflows for GTM engineers that preserve the evidence](https://funkel.ai/for/gtm-engineers): Design buyer intent workflows with source lineage, identity checks, spend gates, action ownership, and direct-state feedback before outreach.
- [Lead prioritization for account executives that protects active conversations](https://funkel.ai/for/account-executives): Prioritize account executive work by direct buyer state, evidence, ownership, effort, and expiry before another score or alert takes control.
- [Signal-based outbound for sales leaders with a controlled release system](https://funkel.ai/for/sales-leaders): Build a signal-based outbound system that preserves evidence, protects active work, controls costs, and releases only serviceable actions.
- [Buyer intent signals for growth marketers with a measurable action loop](https://funkel.ai/for/growth-marketers): Turn buyer intent signals into evidence-backed growth tests, controlled actions, and traceable learning without treating every event as a lead.
- [Buyer intent workflows for demand generation with a controlled handoff](https://funkel.ai/for/demand-generation-teams): Turn buyer intent evidence into eligible demand programs, accepted sales work, and returned learning without turning every signal into a lead.
- [Buyer signals for customer expansion after the service work is clear](https://funkel.ai/for/customer-success-expansion): Turn customer evidence into a reviewed service, adoption, renewal, or expansion decision without treating every healthy score as an upsell.

## Comparisons

- [A Warmly alternative for source-backed buyer intent](https://funkel.ai/alternatives/warmly-alternative): Funkel AI turns public LinkedIn and X signals into reviewed outreach. Warmly combines visitor identification, intent data, agents, chat, ads, and enrichment.
- [An Outreach alternative for lean, reason-led sales teams](https://funkel.ai/alternatives/outreach-alternative): Funkel AI turns visible buyer signals into reviewed outreach. Outreach spans engagement, deals, coaching, forecasting, accounts, and AI agents.
- [A Salesloft alternative for a smaller reason-led workflow](https://funkel.ai/alternatives/salesloft-alternative): Funkel AI turns visible buyer signals into reviewed outreach. Salesloft connects cadences, seller priorities, conversations, deals, forecasts, and AI agents.
- [A Reply.io alternative for reason-led multichannel outreach](https://funkel.ai/alternatives/reply-io-alternative): Funkel AI turns visible buyer signals into reviewed outreach. Reply.io combines data, deliverability, multichannel sequences, an inbox, and AI SDR workflows.
- [A Seamless.AI alternative for reason-led lead generation](https://funkel.ai/alternatives/seamless-ai-alternative): Funkel AI turns visible buyer signals into reviewed outreach. Seamless.AI supplies verified contacts, intent data, enrichment, and sales engagement.
- [A Lusha alternative for reason-led B2B prospecting](https://funkel.ai/alternatives/lusha-alternative): Funkel AI turns visible buyer signals into reviewed outreach. Lusha supplies verified B2B contacts, enrichment, signals, and data activation.
- [A PhantomBuster alternative for reviewed LinkedIn prospecting](https://funkel.ai/alternatives/phantombuster-alternative): Funkel AI turns visible buyer signals into reviewed outreach. PhantomBuster assembles cloud automations for sourcing, enrichment, and LinkedIn actions.
- [A HeyReach alternative for small-team outreach review](https://funkel.ai/alternatives/heyreach-alternative): Funkel AI turns visible buyer signals into reviewed outreach. HeyReach runs multi-sender LinkedIn campaigns from configured lead sources.
- [An Expandi alternative for review-first LinkedIn outreach](https://funkel.ai/alternatives/expandi-alternative): Funkel AI turns visible buyer signals into reviewed outreach. Expandi builds cloud-based LinkedIn and email campaigns with branching sequences.
- [A Dripify alternative for reason-led LinkedIn outreach](https://funkel.ai/alternatives/dripify-alternative): Funkel AI turns visible buyer signals into reviewed outreach. Dripify runs automated LinkedIn and email sequences from configured lead sources.
- [A Waalaxy alternative for signal-based outreach with review before sending](https://funkel.ai/alternatives/waalaxy-alternative): Funkel AI turns visible buyer signals into reviewed outreach. Waalaxy is a LinkedIn-led campaign automation tool with pre-built sequences and follow-ups.
- [A LinkedIn Sales Navigator alternative for signal-led prospecting](https://funkel.ai/alternatives/linkedin-sales-navigator-alternative): Funkel AI turns visible LinkedIn, X, and trusted-list signals into reviewed outreach. It does not replace Sales Navigator's member search or InMail.
- [A Common Room alternative for lean teams that need reviewed buyer-signal outreach](https://funkel.ai/alternatives/common-room-alternative): Funkel AI turns visible LinkedIn, X, and trusted-list signals into reviewed outreach. It is not a one-for-one replacement for Common Room.
- [A 6sense alternative for small teams that need an outreach workflow, not an ABM platform](https://funkel.ai/alternatives/sixsense-alternative): Funkel AI helps lean B2B teams turn LinkedIn, X, and trusted-list signals into reviewed outreach. It is not a one-for-one replacement for 6sense.
- [A ZoomInfo alternative for small teams that need action, not another database](https://funkel.ai/alternatives/zoominfo-alternative): Funkel AI is not a one-for-one ZoomInfo database replacement. It helps lean B2B teams turn LinkedIn, X, and trusted-list signals into reviewed outreach.
- [Apollo alternatives: 6 options by the job you need](https://funkel.ai/alternatives/apollo-alternative): Compare Apollo and Funkel AI across data, signals, enrichment, outreach, controls, and pricing. Learn when to replace Apollo or keep it.
- [Clay alternatives: replace it, connect it, or keep it?](https://funkel.ai/alternatives/clay-alternative): Compare Clay and Funkel AI by data, signals, outreach, review controls, credits, and setup. Learn when to replace Clay or connect both products.
- [The Instantly alternative that adds buying-intent discovery](https://funkel.ai/alternatives/instantly-alternative): Instantly is built for high-volume cold email. Funkel AI finds buying intent across LinkedIn and X, then drafts outreach you approve before it sends.
- [The lemlist alternative that sends on signals, not schedules](https://funkel.ai/alternatives/lemlist-alternative): lemlist runs cadence-based multichannel sequences. Funkel AI triggers outreach from real LinkedIn and X buying signals and drafts each message for your approval.
- [The Smartlead alternative that finds intent before sending](https://funkel.ai/alternatives/smartlead-alternative): Smartlead is cold-email infrastructure for volume. Funkel AI finds who to reach from LinkedIn and X buying signals, then drafts outreach you approve.

## Help center

- [Getting started: Set up your workspace and first product](https://funkel.ai/help/getting-started/create-your-workspace): Add a product, choose your people source, and connect your sender.
- [Getting started: Launch your first campaign](https://funkel.ai/help/getting-started/launch-your-first-campaign): Choose your people, review the workflow, and launch outreach.
- [Getting started: Understand the Funkel loop: signals → qualify → route → send](https://funkel.ai/help/getting-started/understand-the-funkel-loop): How agents discover leads, how scoring works, and where you stay in the loop.
- [Video tutorials: Your product, part by part](https://funkel.ai/help/video-tutorials/create-first-product): Who to find, what to say, and who does the work: Overview, who you sell to, Product Brain, guardrails and learnings, the specialist team, and outreach language.
- [Video tutorials: Configure a Lead Finder Agent](https://funkel.ai/help/video-tutorials/configure-lead-finder-agent): Set who to find and who to skip, turn on sources, add keywords, choose where leads go, and check next runs and results.
- [Video tutorials: Manage lead lists](https://funkel.ai/help/video-tutorials/manage-lead-lists): Open a list, check each person's score, fit and email, move people between lists, and start a campaign from it.
- [Video tutorials: Turn a company list into decision-maker leads](https://funkel.ai/help/video-tutorials/company-decision-makers): Upload company rows, choose job titles and a channel, check the credit estimate and maximum, name the list, then review and approve the people found.
- [Video tutorials: Create a multichannel campaign](https://funkel.ai/help/video-tutorials/create-multichannel-campaign): Choose where leads come from, pick the sending route and LinkedIn sender, let AI write each message, and save a draft.
- [Video tutorials: Launch and monitor a campaign](https://funkel.ai/help/video-tutorials/launch-and-monitor-campaign): Turn a campaign on, read each step's results, review AI messages, and pause before you change it.
- [Video tutorials: Review scheduled actions](https://funkel.ai/help/video-tutorials/review-scheduled-actions): See every planned send, filter and search the queue, open an action, and skip or remove before it goes out.
- [Video tutorials: Manage contacts](https://funkel.ai/help/video-tutorials/manage-contacts): Search and filter every lead, choose columns, open a contact's fit and notes, pin, switch to the board, and export.
- [Video tutorials: Review follow-ups](https://funkel.ai/help/video-tutorials/review-follow-ups): Work the Needs action queue: read replies, open the thread in Inbox, add a note with a follow-up date, ask Operator, or dismiss.
- [Video tutorials: Read analytics](https://funkel.ai/help/video-tutorials/read-analytics): Pick a date range, read the totals and the sends-per-day chart, and compare results by campaign, step, signal and sender.
- [Video tutorials: Connect integrations and alerts](https://funkel.ai/help/video-tutorials/connect-integrations-and-alerts): Browse integrations by category, connect Slack lead alerts, and add a Custom Webhook with the events you want and a test payload.
- [Video tutorials: Set up Salesforce](https://funkel.ai/help/video-tutorials/salesforce-setup): Bring Salesforce Leads into a list, send Funkel AI people to Salesforce, log activity as Tasks, and check the results.
- [Video tutorials: Connect calendar booking sync](https://funkel.ai/help/video-tutorials/connect-calendar-booking-sync): Connect Calendly or Cal.com, see how bookings match leads, attach an unmatched booking, and check the lead's meeting status.
- [Video tutorials: Review billing and usage](https://funkel.ai/help/video-tutorials/review-billing-and-usage): Read your next charge and credit wallet, see what you have and use, pay less with a longer cadence, add capacity or credit packs, and update your card and receipts.
- [Video tutorials: Promote a team member to admin](https://funkel.ai/help/video-tutorials/promote-team-member-to-admin): Open Team settings, edit a member, switch them to Admin, turn on Manage team, Manage billing and Promote admins, save, and check Activity.
- [Video tutorials: Configure LinkedIn safety settings](https://funkel.ai/help/video-tutorials/configure-linkedin-safety-settings): Review sender usage, lower weekly invite and message limits, keep warmup on, and withdraw stale invites.
- [Video tutorials: Review discovered leads](https://funkel.ai/help/video-tutorials/review-discovered-leads): See why Lead Finder picked each person, check the signal, fit and risk, then approve or reject.
- [Connecting LinkedIn: Connect a LinkedIn account](https://funkel.ai/help/connecting-linkedin/connect-a-linkedin-account): Step-by-step: how to authorize a sender and finish account setup.
- [Connecting LinkedIn: Daily limits and account safety](https://funkel.ai/help/connecting-linkedin/daily-limits-and-account-safety): How Funkel paces invites and messages to keep your account in good standing.
- [Connecting LinkedIn: Assign LinkedIn accounts to specific campaigns](https://funkel.ai/help/connecting-linkedin/assign-accounts-to-campaigns): Run different campaigns from different senders without crossing wires.
- [Connecting LinkedIn: Reconnect a disconnected account](https://funkel.ai/help/connecting-linkedin/reconnect-a-disconnected-account): What to do when a sender goes offline and how to bring it back online.
- [Connecting X: Connect X and enable X lead discovery](https://funkel.ai/help/connecting-x/connect-x-and-enable-posts): Connect an X account, turn on X post discovery, and review leads before outreach starts.
- [AI Agents & Buyer Profile: What is an agent?](https://funkel.ai/help/agents-and-icp/what-is-an-agent): Each agent finds leads with its own buyer profile, signals, and target list.
- [AI Agents & Buyer Profile: Edit your buyer profile after the AI draft](https://funkel.ai/help/agents-and-icp/edit-your-icp): Refine titles, industries, geographies, and exclusions to sharpen what your agent finds.
- [AI Agents & Buyer Profile: Turning signals on and off](https://funkel.ai/help/agents-and-icp/turning-signals-on-and-off): LinkedIn signals, X posts, competitor-pain language, profile views, pick what counts.
- [Campaigns & Outreach: Workflow steps explained](https://funkel.ai/help/campaigns-and-outreach/workflow-steps-explained): LinkedIn invites, X outreach, email steps, follow-ups, branches, what each step does and when to use it.
- [Campaigns & Outreach: Manual vs AI-personalized messages](https://funkel.ai/help/campaigns-and-outreach/manual-vs-ai-personalized-messages): When to write one message for everyone, and when to let Funkel personalize each draft.
- [Campaigns & Outreach: Launch an email or mixed-channel campaign](https://funkel.ai/help/campaigns-and-outreach/launch-email-and-mixed-channel-campaigns): Connect a mailbox, choose the right outreach path, and send email steps with the right lead details.
- [Campaigns & Outreach: Pause, resume, and end a campaign](https://funkel.ai/help/campaigns-and-outreach/pause-resume-and-end-a-campaign): How to safely stop outreach without breaking ongoing conversations.
- [Lead Lists: Import known people from CSV](https://funkel.ai/help/lead-lists/import-people-csv): Map columns, check rows, and select people for a campaign.
- [Lead Lists: Find people from a company CSV](https://funkel.ai/help/lead-lists/import-company-csv): Choose companies and roles, review credits, and approve results.
- [Lead Lists: How leads get into lists](https://funkel.ai/help/lead-lists/how-leads-get-into-lists): Auto-approval, the review queue, and what triggers a lead to enter your campaign.
- [Lead Lists: Reject a lead from the review queue](https://funkel.ai/help/lead-lists/reject-leads): Remove a discovered lead before it enters a campaign, and keep your queue clean.
- [Lead Lists: Export leads to CSV](https://funkel.ai/help/lead-lists/export-leads-to-csv): Download a list with full enrichment for use in your CRM or sheet.
- [Inbox & Replies: How replies are detected](https://funkel.ai/help/inbox-and-replies/how-replies-are-detected): What counts as a reply, how Funkel pauses follow-ups, and what stays in your court.
- [Inbox & Replies: Send a manual follow-up from the inbox](https://funkel.ai/help/inbox-and-replies/send-a-manual-follow-up): Type a reply, attach a Cal link, or hand the conversation back to a workflow.
- [Billing & Plans: Standard plan and qualified-lead guarantee](https://funkel.ai/help/billing-and-plans/growth-plan-and-money-back-guarantee): What Standard includes, how the 30-day guarantee works, and what counts as a qualified lead.
- [Billing & Plans: Add members to a Standard workspace](https://funkel.ai/help/billing-and-plans/add-members-to-growth-workspace): Buy a member slot, invite someone later, and share workspace access and credits.
- [Billing & Plans: Add extra LinkedIn senders](https://funkel.ai/help/billing-and-plans/add-extra-linkedin-senders): How to buy additional sender slots and assign them to apps.
- [Billing & Plans: Cancel or pause your subscription](https://funkel.ai/help/billing-and-plans/cancel-or-pause-your-subscription): Cancel from settings and see what happens to your data when you do.
- [Billing & Plans: Failed payment and grace period](https://funkel.ai/help/billing-and-plans/failed-payment-and-grace-period): What happens when a charge fails, and how long you have to fix it.
- [API & Webhooks: Webhook events reference](https://funkel.ai/help/api-and-webhooks/webhook-events-reference): Every event Funkel can send, payload shape, and when each one fires.
- [API & Webhooks: Connect Funkel to Claude with MCP](https://funkel.ai/help/api-and-webhooks/connect-funkel-to-claude-with-mcp): Use the MCP server URL and a personal access token to let Claude inspect, draft, and prepare outreach from your Funkel workspace.
- [API & Webhooks: Verifying webhook signatures](https://funkel.ai/help/api-and-webhooks/verifying-webhook-signatures): How to validate the X-Funkel-Signature header over the exact raw request body.
- [API & Webhooks: Connect Slack or HubSpot](https://funkel.ai/help/api-and-webhooks/connect-slack-or-hubspot): One-click integrations for alerts and CRM sync.

## Optional

- [About Funkel AI](https://funkel.ai/about): Company background and contact information.
- [Blog feed](https://funkel.ai/blog/feed.xml): RSS feed containing published Funkel AI articles.
- [Markdown article index](https://funkel.ai/blog/index.md): Complete machine-readable index of published Funkel AI articles.
- [Markdown tool index](https://funkel.ai/tools/index.md): Complete machine-readable index of published Funkel AI free tools.
- [XML sitemap](https://funkel.ai/sitemap.xml): Complete machine-readable index of public, indexable Funkel AI pages.
- [Privacy policy](https://funkel.ai/privacy): Privacy and personal-data processing information.
- [Terms](https://funkel.ai/terms): Terms governing use of Funkel AI.
- [Data processing agreement](https://funkel.ai/dpa): Funkel AI data processing agreement.