Managed LinkedIn outreach: researched, human-approved, run for you
Gigi AI is a LinkedIn lead generation agency built on our own software. We find the people you should be talking to, research each one from their profile and company page, write a message sequence in your voice, and a person approves every send. You get conversations in your inbox. We do the first part; closing stays with you.
Who hires a LinkedIn lead generation agency?
Most of our managed clients are founders, CEOs or heads of sales at B2B companies selling something worth $5,000 or more a year. They know who they should be talking to. They do not have the 10 to 15 hours a week it takes to do it properly, and most have already tried one of three things.
| What they tried | What happened | What they tell us |
|---|---|---|
| Did it themselves for a month | Ran out of time by week three | "I know who I should be talking to, I just never get to it." |
| Hired an SDR | The SDR left after a few months, taking the process with them | "I hired an SDR and they left after four months." |
| Bought an automation tool | Template messages, low-quality replies, sometimes a restricted account | "I tried [tool], my account got restricted." |
Fractional CMOs, CROs and heads of sales fit the same profile, for their own pipeline and their clients'. We have a page for fractional leaders and one for agencies that want to resell managed outreach.
We are not the right choice for pre-revenue companies, B2C, deals under $5,000, or anyone who wants volume over relevance.
How does Gigi run a campaign?
Six steps. The first two are where most of the work and most of the results come from.
| Step | What happens | Who does it |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Target profile | We define who to contact: role, seniority, company size, geography, signals. Built from your last ten customers, not a persona slide. | Irina with you |
| 2. Messaging brief | Your offer, your proof, your voice. We send sample drafts and iterate until you sign off. | Irina with you |
| 3. Research and scoring | For each prospect, Gigi reads the LinkedIn profile and the company page, scores fit from 0 to 10 with a one-line reason per criterion, and pulls three to five talking points. | Gigi |
| 4. Drafting | Three messages per person: a connection request under 300 characters with no pitch and no question, a first message that sends the moment they accept, and a follow-up on a delay. | Gigi |
| 5. Approval | Score, reasoning and drafts are reviewed. Edit, reject or approve. Nothing sends without approval. | Irina |
| 6. Replies and handover | Replies are tracked and classified. Warm conversations are handed to you or handled to a booked call, as agreed in the brief. | Irina, then you |
Sending runs through your own LinkedIn session from the cloud, not a browser plugin, at 25 new connection requests per working day per account, spread across working hours. Follow-ups do not count against that cap. Requests not accepted within 21 days are withdrawn automatically, because LinkedIn names invitations left pending as one of its three triggers for an invitation restriction (LinkedIn Help: types of restrictions for sending invitations).
Gigi reads the profile and the company page. It does not read posts or comments. That is enough to write something true about the person, and it keeps the research inside what your own session can see.
What makes this different from other outreach agencies?
In our experience, most outreach agencies hand you a junior SDR and a template library. We hand you 18 years of B2B sales campaigns and a tool that enforces a validated process. The volume approach has a ceiling: across 13.2 million connection requests in Expandi's 2026 benchmark, the average acceptance rate was 28.5% (Expandi benchmark, May 2025 to April 2026, published May 2026, vendor data). Gigi campaigns typically see 40 to 47% on the same denominator, and the best run well above that (Gigi case-study data, October 2026). We attribute the gap to targeting, which is where most of our time goes.
- A researched draft per person, not a template with variables. The connection request earns the accept and nothing else. One idea per message, at most one question, sentences around 20 words, no corporate vocabulary, no template openers. Those rules are built into the drafting, not left to the writer's mood on a Tuesday.
- A person approves every message. A model will occasionally write a confident, wrong sentence about a prospect. One of those in your name costs more than a hundred good messages earn. Approval catches it.
- Who we do not message matters more than what we say. A good share of every list is filtered out before anyone writes a word. Reply rate is mostly decided at that step.
- Your account stays yours. Your session, your inbox, your connections. No account running Gigi has been restricted to date. That is a track record rather than a guarantee, and the cap and the approval step are why it holds.
- The founder builds your brief. Irina Stoicescu has run lead generation for more than 60 companies. She writes the target profile and the messaging brief for every managed client and approves the messages.
If you are weighing an agency against hiring an SDR or buying an AI SDR tool, the outsourced SDR comparison lays out the costs side by side.
What results should you expect?
It depends on timing, industry and offer, and those are outside our control. One client had 114 people ask for a call over three months. Others book five to eight in the first month. A few book none and we change the targeting or stop. Here is what specific campaigns produced, with the denominators.
| Campaign | Requests sent | Accepted | Replied | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Career Shift, HR and L&D leaders and coaches, Romania and UK, Aug to Oct 2026 | 1,357 | 766 (56%) | 330 (43%) | 114 people asked for a call; first certification sold during the pilot |
| Payroll outsourcing company, HR decision makers at companies already outsourcing payroll, Romania, Oct 2026 (anonymised) | 199 | 154 (77%) | 71 (46%) | 15 companies into the pipeline in the first five days |
| R&D funding consultancy, Finnish SMEs, Jul to Oct 2026 (anonymised) | 480 | 183 (38%) | 64 (35%) | Calls booked with companies worth EUR 1M+ in funding each |
| Coaching company, C-suite in DACH and CEE, 90 days, one account | Not shown | Not shown | Not shown | 47 meetings |
| Gigi's own outbound, second and third degree contacts, Feb to Oct 2026 | 1,657 | 735 (44%) | 284 (39%) | 83 calls booked |
| Gigi's own outbound, AI search specialists, EU and US, Sep to Oct 2026 | 77 | 37 (48%) | 27 (73%) | 16 calls booked |
Reply rates on this page are replies as a share of accepted connections. Acceptance is accepted as a share of requests sent. Sources: Gigi campaign data and Career Shift's call tracker, pulled October 2026. Read the Career Shift case study and the DACH and CEE coaching campaign for the full funnels.
When a campaign does not work, we say so and change it. One payroll outsourcing client started with a broad approach that produced little. We analysed the replies and rebuilt the targeting around companies already outsourcing payroll. The new list of 199 prospects produced 154 acceptances and 71 replies, and put 15 companies into their pipeline in the first five days. That pivot is part of the service.
What does managed LinkedIn outreach cost?
| Option | Price | What is included |
|---|---|---|
| Managed outreach, US | From $2,500 a month per LinkedIn account | Target profile, messaging brief, research, drafting, approval, sending, reply handling or handover, reporting |
| Managed outreach, Europe | From EUR 1,500 a month per LinkedIn account | Same |
| Additional accounts on the same campaign | Less than a new campaign; quoted per engagement | Same brief, more senders |
| Self-serve | Free tier, then $79 a month for 200 credits or $249 for 500 | You run the approvals; one credit is one prospect researched and messaged with the full sequence |
One managed account contacts about 500 new prospects a month. We do not take commission-only arrangements, because closing is not in our control and we would rather be judged on the part that is. Full detail on the pricing page.
How do the first two weeks go?
- Days 1 to 3. A 30-minute call. We draft the target profile and the messaging brief from your last ten customers and your offer.
- Days 4 to 7. You receive sample prospects with scores, reasoning and all three drafts. We revise the brief until the samples read like you.
- Day 8. Campaign goes live at 25 requests a working day. Approval happens daily.
- Days 9 to 14. First acceptances and first replies. First report: sent, accepted, replied, reply sentiment, calls booked. From then on, a weekly report, plus a call to tune what works and stop what does not.
When the first conversations arrive depends on the market. When they are slow, the brief gets revised.
Which LinkedIn products does this work with?
Sales Navigator for sales campaigns. LinkedIn Recruiter and Recruiter Lite for recruiting outreach, where the same research-and-approve process goes to candidates instead of buyers. A plain CSV of named people if you already know exactly who you want. If you want to steer the campaign from Claude, the Gigi connector lets you review drafts, triage replies and pull reports from there; every send still needs approval.
FAQ
Questions, answered.
It depends on volume and tenure. An in-house SDR gives you full control and a person who learns your market, at a median $80,000 on-target earnings and about three months of ramp, with average tenure of 1.9 years (Bridge Group SDR report, 2025). A managed service costs less than a hire, starts in about a week, and keeps the process when people move on. If you need more than three or four senders, in-house starts to make sense again.
That is the point of the brief. We write the messaging brief from your own words, send you sample drafts for real prospects, and revise until they read like you. The drafting rules (one idea per message, no pitch in the connection request, no corporate vocabulary) keep them human. You can edit any draft before it sends.
No account running Gigi has been restricted to date. Sending runs through your own session at 25 new requests a working day, inside working hours, with follow-ups outside that cap and stale requests withdrawn after 21 days. A person approves every message. We treat that as a track record to protect. It is not a guarantee, and we do not sell it as one.
We do not promise a number, because the honest range is wide. In the campaigns above, 114 people asked for a call from 1,357 requests over three months, another client booked 47 meetings in 90 days, and some campaigns produce little until the targeting changes. What we do commit to is the process, the reporting and changing course quickly when the numbers say so.
Your last ten customers, your offer in your own words, access to a LinkedIn account with Sales Navigator (or Recruiter for hiring campaigns), and about two hours in the first week to review the brief and the sample drafts. After that, a weekly report to read and prompt replies to the conversations we hand over.
Yes. Agencies, consultants and fractional leaders run client campaigns under the client's own account and name, with a separate brief for each client. Gigi is never named in a message, and replies land in the client's own inbox. Referral partners earn 20% of each invoice for 12 months; resellers set their own retail price and we invoice per account. Full partner terms are on the agencies page.
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