--- title: "How founders find warm leads on LinkedIn, from $49 a month" description: "Ziplined shows founders who engages with their posts, their competitors' posts and industry experts, plus who views their profile. Solo plan: $49 a month." canonical: "https://ziplined.io/for/founders" --- # How to find warm leads on LinkedIn as a founder - **Written by**: [Jorrit van Ginkel](https://www.linkedin.com/in/jorritvanginkel/), founder of Ziplined - **Published**: 6 November 2026 - **Last updated**: 6 November 2026 *Image: A founder's to-do list for this week. Done: two sales calls, ship the new onboarding, interview a first hire. Not done, moved to next week: go through who engaged with Tuesday's post.* **The warmest leads on LinkedIn already engaged with you, your competitors or industry experts.** Finding them by hand takes time a founder rarely has. **Short answer for founders:** check who engaged with your posts, who viewed your profile and who engages with your competitors. Ziplined Solo lists the ones who fit your ideal client, for $49 a month. At a glance - **The problem**: Warm leads engage, and you have no time to check who - **What helps**: Your posts, your profile viewers, your competitors' audience - **With Ziplined**: The ones who fit your ideal client, in Slack or email - **What it costs**: Solo, $49 a month ## Why is finding leads on LinkedIn so hard for a founder? ### 1 . You post, and you have no time to read who engaged Checking every like and comment, then each job title and company, is the first task to drop. A week later the moment is gone. *Image: LinkedIn notifications after a post: Grace Mensah, Tom Verbeek and 38 others reacted to your post. Ruben Smit commented on your post. Mila Jansen and 4 others reacted to your comment. Names only, no job titles or companies. Which of these 40 is worth a message? Invented people.* ### 2 . The people who look at your profile often never like or comment LinkedIn lists those visits one by one on your own profile page, not in your notifications. *Image: LinkedIn's Who viewed your profile page: 12 viewers. One name, Ruben Smit, Founder of Brightwave Studio. Two private viewers: LinkedIn Member and Someone at Kestrel Labs. 9 more viewers: the full list needs Premium. None of it is in your notifications. Invented people.* ### 3 . Your competitors' audience is invisible to you People who comment on a competitor's or an industry expert's post are in your market right now. LinkedIn sends you no alert about them. *Image: A competitor's LinkedIn post: Lotte Vermeer and 211 others reacted, 38 comments. Lotte Vermeer, Head of Sales at Kestrel Labs, and Grace Mensah, Head of Sales at Northwind, commented. LinkedIn sends you no alert about them: you only see them by opening the post. Invented people.* ## What can a founder do about it? Three habits help, with or without a tool. 1. Check your notifications and your profile viewers once a day. 2. Open two or three competitors' posts each week, and note who commented. 3. Check each person's job title and company before you write. Ziplined does the checking for you. The free extension adds your profile views, new followers and new connections as rows you can filter. By hand on LinkedIn 1. Open each post 2. Read every like and comment 3. Check each job title and company Ziplined 1. Collects every night 2. Keeps who fits your ideal client 3. Leads in Slack or your inbox ## What changes when a founder uses Ziplined? Ziplined is a LinkedIn Lead Radar. It finds people who engage with your team, your competitors and your market, keeps the ones who fit your ideal client, and sends them to your tools while you sleep. 1. ### Add your sources. Your own profile as teammate, two or three competitors, and the industry experts your ideal clients follow. *Image: A founder's sources: your own profile as teammate, two or three competitors, and the industry experts your ideal clients follow.* 2. ### Confirm your ideal client sentence. Ziplined suggests it from your website. Views add more than 20 filters, such as seniority and warmth. *Image: Ziplined suggests the ideal client sentence from your website: job titles, company size, industries and countries.* 3. ### Install the extension (optional). It adds profile views, new followers and new connections. It never likes, comments, connects or sends. Every night - Post - Reaction or comment Chrome extension - Profile view - New follower - New connection 4. ### Pick where the Leads go. An email, a Slack channel, a CSV, or your AI agent through MCP. *Image: A new Lead, Grace Mensah, goes to Slack or email on every plan, or to HeyReach on Team, from $99 a month. Invented person.* 5. ### Follow up yourself. Each person comes with the reason, for example "Commented on Anna's post". You decide who to write to. *Image: A LinkedIn message thread. You: Hi Grace, saw your comment on Anna's post. How does Northwind handle this today? Grace Mensah, Head of Sales at Northwind, replied: Good timing, we are looking into this right now. Happy to compare notes next week. Invented person.* The LinkedIn Lead Radar - Watch your market for buying signals - Analyze your own audience - No LinkedIn login or cookie Works with - Claude - ChatGPT - Grok Bot - Cursor - Slack - HeyReach - Google Sheets - Clay [Start 7 days free, 3,000 credits included](https://app.ziplined.io/sign-up) ## What do founders get on the Solo plan? | | Ziplined Solo | | --------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | Price | $49 a month, monthly, in USD. Tax added at checkout | | Credits | 3,000 a month | | Users | 1 | | Sources | Unlimited: your profile, competitors, industry experts, company pages | | Dark signals | Profile views, new followers and new connections, through the free extension | | Where Leads go | Slack, email, CSV, AI agent (MCP) | | HeyReach, Clay, Google Sheets, webhooks | Team plan, from $99 a month | | Trial | 7 days, 3,000 credits | Is 3,000 credits enough? This example is from Ziplined's pricing page, and Solo covers it. Your team and three competitors, one month 40 posts + 1,500 reactions and comments + 300 profile visits and new followers = 1,840 credits ## How does Ziplined compare with other signal tools for founders? | | Ziplined Solo | Valley | Teamfluence | | --------------------------- | ---------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | | What the price buys | The scan, in credits, for 1 user | A seat for one LinkedIn account. Valley also writes and sends | 1,000 qualified leads and 20,000 credits, unlimited seats | | Lowest public price | $49 a month, 3,000 credits | $395 per seat a month | €449 a month | | Profile viewers | Yes, free extension | Yes | Yes, visits on your teammates' profiles | | Limit on profiles you watch | None. Credits are the limit | 5 at a time | Up to 60 profiles and 40 posts per user | | Sends for you | No. You or your outreach tool | Yes. It writes in your voice, and you review before sending | Yes, connection requests across your team's accounts | | Trial | 7 days, 3,000 credits, card needed | 7 days, payment method required | No self-service sign-up | Read on 4 and 5 November 2026: joinvalley.co, /pricing, /signals/competitor-post-engagers and /signals/linkedin-profile-viewers, teamfluence.com/pricing and /help/faq, and Ziplined's pricing. | Choose Ziplined if | Choose another tool if | | ------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | You want to know who is warm every day, and write your own messages | You want a tool that finds people, writes in your voice and follows up on LinkedIn (Valley) | | Your budget is $49 a month | You want keywords, company page visitors and connection campaigns, with a guided onboarding call (Teamfluence) | ## Who is Ziplined not for? - **Founders who want one tool that finds people and sends the messages.** - **Founders who want a contact database.** - **Founders with no LinkedIn activity in their market.** ## What Ziplined is not Ziplined does not send messages, write posts or scrape random profiles. Nothing connects to your LinkedIn account, and you or your outreach tool do the sending. ## FAQ ### How much does Ziplined cost for a founder? Ziplined Solo costs $49 a month for 3,000 credits and one user (checked 5 November 2026). It includes the Chrome extension, Slack, email, CSV and the AI agent connection. ### Can Ziplined find leads without automating outreach? Yes. Ziplined finds the people who engage with your posts, your competitors' posts and industry experts' posts, and the people who view your profile. It never sends a message, so you decide who to contact and how. ### Can Ziplined see who viewed my LinkedIn profile? Yes, with the free Ziplined Chrome extension. Each profile view or new follower costs 1 credit. ### Is the extension safe for my LinkedIn account? The Ziplined extension reads through your own browser, only on linkedin.com, at most once or twice a day. It waits a random 2 to 30 seconds, pauses 72 hours when LinkedIn reports too many requests, and never likes, comments, connects or sends. ### Do I need LinkedIn Premium or Sales Navigator? No, except to see everyone who viewed your profile: LinkedIn shows the full list only to Premium accounts. Nothing connects to your LinkedIn account, and the nightly scan of your sources runs on Ziplined's side. ### Can I use Ziplined with Claude, ChatGPT or Grok Bot? Yes. The Ziplined AI agent connection (MCP) is on every plan, Solo at $49 a month included. Your AI agent can read your Leads and set up sources and views for you. ### What happens after the 7-day trial? The Ziplined Solo plan starts at $49 a month, and its 3,000 credits replace the trial credits. You can cancel before the trial ends through the billing portal. ## Keep reading ### [Ziplined for small sales teams](https://ziplined.io/for/small-sales-teams) [The Team plan from $99 a month, with unlimited users.](https://ziplined.io/for/small-sales-teams) ### [Social selling tools](https://ziplined.io/use-cases/social-selling-tools) [The four kinds, and where Ziplined fits.](https://ziplined.io/use-cases/social-selling-tools) ### [LinkedIn MCP](https://ziplined.io/linkedin-mcp) [Connect the Ziplined LinkedIn MCP to Claude, ChatGPT, Grok Bot, Cursor, Codex or VS Code.](https://ziplined.io/linkedin-mcp) ### [Trigify alternatives](https://ziplined.io/alternatives/trigify) [Four tools compared after the 22 October 2026 shutdown.](https://ziplined.io/alternatives/trigify) ### [Best LinkedIn signal tools](https://ziplined.io/best/linkedin-signal-tools) [Six tools compared on profile viewers, profile limits, sending and price.](https://ziplined.io/best/linkedin-signal-tools) ### [Pricing](https://ziplined.io/pricing) [Plans from $49 a month, with 7 days free.](https://ziplined.io/pricing) ## See who's engaging your team, your competitors and your market Seven days free. Your first list isn't empty: it includes the past week on every profile you watch. Free for 7 days · First names in 5 minutes · Nothing sends without you