How to run LinkedIn outreach from inside Claude

Short answer: Claude already writes better outreach than most people send. What it lacks is a LinkedIn session, so it cannot find anyone or send anything. Add an MCP connector that holds the session and those become tools Claude can call while you talk to it. Setup is about five minutes.

What Claude is missing

Ask Claude to write a connection note and it writes a good one. Ask it who to send that note to and it has nothing to work with. LinkedIn shows a login wall to anyone who is not signed in, so web search returns the wall rather than the profile.

Three capabilities are missing and all three come from the same place. Claude cannot search LinkedIn for people. It cannot read what someone posted this week. It cannot send a message, a connection request, or a comment. An MCP server that holds an authenticated session supplies all three as tools.

Connecting it

1. Connect your LinkedIn account

Create an Iridium account and connect LinkedIn from Settings. The sign-in happens on the connection provider's own hosted page, so your password is never received or stored by Iridium. Confirm the login on your phone if LinkedIn asks.

2. Add the connector in Claude

In Claude, open Settings, then Connectors, then Add custom connector. Enter https://api.iridiumhqmcp.com/mcp. Claude opens a sign-in page. Approve once and the tools appear.

3. Tell it who you are

Fill in your profile, the kinds of people you want to reach, the topics you want to be seen discussing, and a few examples of your own writing. The drafts are only as good as this step. It takes ten minutes once.

What to ask for

Everything below is a plain sentence in the conversation. No syntax to learn.

  • Find people. "Find seed-stage founders in New York building developer tools, read their recent posts, and draft a connection note for each."
  • Work the inbox. "Sort what came in this week. Draft replies to anything worth answering and send them at nine tomorrow morning."
  • Comment where it counts. "Find posts from this week about MCP servers and draft a comment on the three where I have something real to add."
  • Publish. "Write a post about what we shipped this week in my voice, and schedule it for Tuesday."
  • Check the record. "What did you actually send yesterday, and did anything fail?"

Each of those produces a queue of drafts. You read them, edit the ones that are close, skip the ones that are wrong, and approve the rest.

The part that matters most

An agent with send permission and no review step will eventually send something you would not have sent. The fix is to make sending a separate, explicit action.

In Iridium every tool that would put text in front of another person returns a draft. Approving is its own tool call, and the daily and weekly limits are enforced on the server. A model cannot reason its way past a limit that lives outside the conversation.

Questions people ask next

Does this work in Claude Code and Claude mobile?

Yes. The same server URL works anywhere Claude accepts a custom connector, including the desktop app, the web app, mobile, and Claude Code. Authentication is OAuth with dynamic client registration, so there is no API key to paste and nothing to configure per client.

What if I use Cursor or another MCP client?

It works the same way. MCP is an open protocol and Iridium implements the standard OAuth discovery flow, so any compliant client can connect with only the endpoint URL.

Can Claude see my LinkedIn password?

No. You sign in on the connection provider's hosted page. Iridium receives an opaque account handle and nothing else, and Claude only ever sees the tools Iridium exposes.

How current is the data Claude reads?

It is read at the moment you ask. There is no exported dataset and no stored profile database, so a draft that references someone's post is referencing what they actually posted. Profile and post data is kept for at most seven days and then deleted.

How fast is it?

A tool call returns in about six seconds. That matters more than it sounds like it should. A server that drives a headless browser has to load and render a LinkedIn page before it can answer, which takes long enough that a conversation stops feeling like one.

Do I have to use Claude at all?

No. Iridium is a complete web app with the same pipelines, queues, and activity log. The MCP server is a second surface for people who would rather talk to an agent than click through a dashboard.

What it costs

Twenty dollars a month for one LinkedIn account, with everything included: live profile and post data, commenting, connections, messaging, post drafting and scheduling, the inbox, the full activity log, and MCP access. There is a seven-day free trial and it does not ask for a card.

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