AI prospecting tool · after the list
Prospecting is a choosing problem, and AI has become good at it. Icebreakly does not do it. It finds no leads, scrapes no lists and looks up no emails. You hand it the people you chose, and it comments on their LinkedIn posts in your voice until the list stops being a list of strangers.
An AI prospecting tool uses a model to work out who you should be selling to. You describe the customer you want. It searches a data source, returns people and companies that fit, ranks them, and often adds contact details or a reason to reach out now.
The output is a list. A good list is valuable, and it is also the start of the work and not the end of it. Every name on it is somebody who has never heard of you. Icebreakly is not a prospecting tool. It takes the names you settled on and does the slow part that comes next.
Four jobs, each worth paying for if you need it. For every one there is a thing to check before you buy.
Give it a description of your buyer and it returns people and companies that match, drawn from a contact database, the open web or LinkedIn search. Check where the data comes from and how recently it was refreshed. A stale title is the most common fault.
Free ICP report generator →A model ranks the results by fit, so you start at the top and not at row one. Useful when the list is long. Ask how the score is built, and whether you can see why a prospect ranked where it did.
Free Sales Navigator filters tool →Many tools add an email address or a phone number to each row. Coverage and accuracy vary a lot by region and seniority, so test on a sample of people you already know before you pay for volume.
How email enrichment works →Job changes, funding rounds, hiring spikes. Signals tell you when an account might be open to a conversation. They do not tell the buyer who you are. That gap is where a prospecting tool’s work ends.
The signal hiding in plain sight →Picture the export: 400 rows, each a VP or director at a company that fits. The usual next step is to load them into a sequencer and send. With LinkedIn invites capped at roughly 100 a week, that takes a month, and each invite lands as a first impression from an unknown name.
There is another way to spend that month. Take the 100 rows you care about most. Show up under their posts, a comment at a time, with something worth reading. By week five, the ones who post regularly have seen your name under several of their posts. Now send the invite. Same list, same cap, a very different reception.
Read down the right-hand column and you will see a lot of “No”. That is deliberate. Icebreakly picks up after selection is finished. The prospecting column is a general picture of the category and no specific product.
| The job | AI prospecting tool | You | Icebreakly |
|---|---|---|---|
| Describe the ideal customer | Suggests segments from data | Make the final call | No. A separate free ICP tool can help |
| Search for people who match | Yes | Review the results | No |
| Find emails and phone numbers | Often | Spot-check accuracy | No |
| Rank the list by fit | Yes | Cut it to names that matter | No |
| Export or sync to a CRM | Usually | Keep it tidy | No native CRM sync |
| Watch each chosen person for new posts | Rarely | Not sustainable by hand | Yes, every day |
| Comment on those posts in your voice | No | When time allows | Yes, drafted from your Voice |
| Track how familiar each lead is | No | Guess | Touch count and four stages |
| Say when to reach out | Flags events such as a job change | Judgment | Warm-and-ready list at 12+ touches |
| Send the outreach | Some do | Yes | No |
Six steps. The first three happen outside Icebreakly, and we would rather point you to the right tools than pretend otherwise.
Industry, company size, the job titles that own the problem, and what rules an account out. One page is enough. The free ICP Report Generator on this site will draft one if you would rather edit than start blank.
Use the prospecting tool, database or LinkedIn search you already trust. Icebreakly does not do this step. If you search in Sales Navigator, the free filters generator here turns an ICP into a starting set of filters.
Keep the names with real buying power at accounts you would be glad to win. Then check one more thing a prospecting tool rarely scores: that the person has posted on LinkedIn in the last month or two.
Paste each LinkedIn profile URL into a campaign. There is no Sales Navigator import and no CRM sync, so this part is manual. The trial holds 10 leads, Standard 100 and Pro 300. Through Claude, the add_monitor_targets tool takes a batch in one request.
Icebreakly watches every profile and drafts a comment in your Voice when someone posts. Approve each one, or use Autopilot on a paid plan. The tracker moves a lead from Stranger to Familiar, Trusted and Warm as touches accumulate.
Leads at 12 touches or more show up on the warm-and-ready list. Reach out to them yourself. Remove whoever has become a conversation and go back to your prospecting tool for the next names.
If you are still building the list, read how Sales Navigator finds the people and Icebreakly warms them, or why 100 warmed leads beat 5,000 scraped rows.
It is software that uses AI to decide who you should sell to. You describe your ideal customer and it searches a data source for matching people and companies, ranks them by likely fit, and often attaches contact details or flags a timing signal such as a job change. Some go on to draft or send outreach. The core job is selection: turning a market into a list.
No. Icebreakly does not search for prospects, scrape or export lists, import from Sales Navigator, or look up emails and phone numbers. You bring the list, as LinkedIn profile URLs, from whatever prospecting tool you use. Icebreakly starts where that tool finishes: it monitors the people you picked and comments on their posts in your voice until they recognize your name.
Four things. How fresh the data is, because job titles go out of date quickly. How precise the filters are for your market. Whether the fit score is explained or just asserted. And how easily the list leaves the tool, as a CSV or into your CRM. It is also worth asking how the vendor collects its data and whether that is compatible with the privacy rules where your buyers live.
By LinkedIn profile URL. Copy the URLs for the people you want to warm and add them to a campaign. If you use Claude with the Icebreakly MCP server, the add_monitor_targets tool can add several profiles in one request. There is no direct import from prospecting tools, Sales Navigator or CRMs.
Fewer than your prospecting tool can produce. The free trial monitors 10 leads, Standard 100 and Pro 300. Those ceilings are the point. A list of 5,000 is a list nobody knows. A list of 100 people who have each seen your name a dozen times is a far better place to start a conversation.
You can, and for some businesses it is the right move. The cost is that every one of those messages arrives from a stranger, and LinkedIn caps invites at roughly 100 a week, so a large list takes months to work through anyway. Warming first uses the same weeks differently: by the time you send the invite, the person has already seen you comment on their posts.
People who do not post on LinkedIn, because there is nothing to comment on. Very large lists, because the published plans cover up to 300 monitored leads. And low-value, high-volume sales where weeks of attention per buyer cannot be justified. For those, a prospecting tool feeding a sequencer is the better setup.
You can test it for 7 days at no charge on a list of 10 people. Beyond that, the $49 Standard plan warms up to 100 leads from a single LinkedIn account, and the $99 Pro plan raises that to 300 leads spread over three accounts, with a team workspace and no cap on campaigns. Both prices are per month. The ICP Report Generator and Sales Navigator Filters Generator are free public tools and not part of the paid product.
Keep your prospecting tool. Bring its best hundred names here and let them see you before they hear from you.
