Needle

• Asking Claude or Codex to find founders at seed to Series A SaaS companies in one region, skip existing customers, and enroll them in a LinkedIn connection-and-message sequence
• Turning the people who reacted to or commented on a competitor's LinkedIn post into a lead list and a campaign that references the post
• Sourcing local businesses by category and city through Places, then reaching their owners on Instagram or LinkedIn
• Recruiting: searching LinkedIn for candidates that match a role brief and sending InMails with the brief attached
• Running outreach for several clients from one agency workspace, with clients connecting their own accounts through connect links
• Reviewing AI-drafted messages in the unified inbox and approving them before they send

Needle is best understood as infrastructure for an agent rather than an agent itself. That is its strength: anyone already working in Claude, ChatGPT, Codex or Cursor gets a large, well-documented tool surface for LinkedIn and Instagram prospecting and sequencing, sold at a flat price per sender with no lead credits to manage, and guardrails that are written into the docs rather than promised in marketing. It is also the limit. The quality of targeting and copy is only as good as the agent and prompts driving it. Lead data is whatever your connected social accounts can see, with no email or phone enrichment. And email, which the site's own pages describe inconsistently, is not yet a documented channel. Teams that prospect on LinkedIn, especially agencies running many client profiles, get the most from it. Teams built around cold email, or buyers who want a hands-off AI SDR, should look elsewhere.

About Needle

Needle's pitch is that the agent you already use knows your ideal customer, your documents and your voice, and only lacks the hands to do outbound. Needle supplies them as a remote MCP server at needle.app/mcp/v1 and a matching REST API. Claude adds it in one click as a custom connector; ChatGPT (developer mode), Codex, Cursor, Grok, OpenCode and other clients sign in with OAuth in the browser, and an API key works too. You connect the LinkedIn or Instagram accounts you will send from in Needle's web dashboard (this step cannot be done over the API), then ask your agent for something like "find Heads of Sales at Series A SaaS companies in Berlin and start a LinkedIn sequence." The agent calls Needle's tools to search LinkedIn people (Classic search, or Sales Navigator if the connected account has a seat), companies, jobs and posts, pull the people who reacted to or commented on a post, search Maps-style business listings by category and city, check everyone against a do-not-contact list, and save the results as leads. It then creates a campaign: a sequence of LinkedIn steps (connection request, message, InMail, profile view, withdraw request) and Instagram steps (message, profile view, follow, unfollow) with waits, branches and reply conditions, sending on a schedule local to each lead and spread across several sender accounts. Message steps can be fixed templates or AI prompts grounded in the lead's profile, posts and past conversation, and an AI step can be held as a draft until a teammate approves it in Needle's unified inbox. Guardrails are the product's main safety claim: every action has hourly, daily and weekly caps that can be tightened or loosened but never removed, the docs warn that raising them above the defaults increases the risk of restrictions from LinkedIn or Instagram, and the site adds warm-up for new senders and human-like cadence. Pricing is per connected sender account ($69 a month on Pro, half price for each account beyond ten on the Agency plan) with lead lists included and no per-lead credits, after a 7-day trial that needs no card. The tradeoffs follow from that design. Lead data comes from the social accounts you connect rather than a contact database, so no email finding or phone data is documented. Email is not yet a documented channel: FAQ text on the site says email works today, but the homepage channel section lists Gmail, Outlook and custom email (with WhatsApp, SMS and phone calls) as coming soon, and the developer docs cover only LinkedIn and Instagram senders. And the engine is new: version 1.0 shipped on August 30, 2026, from a Berlin team whose About page describes two earlier pivots (the former needle-ai.com domain, home to its earlier retrieval product, now redirects here).