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I was my most expensive intern—2 hours a day, 0 predictable meetings.

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Sebastian Andes, Philipp Krapp & CompLeadly TeamSebastian Andes, Philipp Krapp & CompLeadly Team

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Ich war mein teuerster Praktikant – 2 Stunden täglich, 0 planbare Termine.

Do you know the feeling? You sit in front of LinkedIn, click through profiles, copy names, and paste messages. 20 times. Every day.

Diligent. But ineffective.

At some point, I did the maths: 2 hours × 5 days × 4 weeks = 40 hours a month spent on copy-and-paste work.

That is an entire working week—for tasks a machine can do better.

The turning point came with a single thought:
I do not need people for repetitive work. I need a system.

Since then, CompLeadly has handled exactly that for me:

① Find suitable profiles and connect with them
② Follow up consistently
③ Build a presence—even when I am not online

Today, I drink my coffee.
Meanwhile, the machine has already contacted 40 people.

I now only see replies from people with genuine interest.
No cold outreach. No empty pipeline. No stress.

2 hours a day regained—for real conversations and real strategy.

Automation does not replace people. It gives them back the time to be human again.

If you don't want to run the system yourself either, hand it over completely: our team then takes care of setup, daily activity, copy, audiences and the weekly report. How it works: Outsource LinkedIn outreach

👉 How many hours do you still spend on copy and paste—instead of with customers?

shows you how it works and where to find your code in the app.

Two hours a day, in recruiting too

If you spend two hours a day finding candidates in Recruiter search, messaging them and following up, that adds up to the same working week per month described above for sales. CompLeadly can handle those three steps here too: send connection requests to profiles from Recruiter search, a pipeline or a Sales Navigator list, send an opening message when someone accepts, and follow up if they don’t reply. For job seekers, the list is shorter, but the approach is the same: find team leads at the companies you want to work for through the standard people search and contact them directly. The free version covers the basic features with a daily limit, such as 2 connection requests and 1 follow-up per day. Getting started for recruiters: the recruiting page; for job seekers: How to use Open to Work effectively.


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Sebastian Andes
Sebastian Andes

Managing Director · CEO

Marketing coach & business consultant. An experienced entrepreneur and marketing strategist, he has been co-building CompLeadly since 2019.

Philipp Krapp
Philipp Krapp

Managing Director · CTO

Software engineer & app developer. An innovative software developer, he has been co-building CompLeadly since 2019.

CompLeadly Team
CompLeadly Team

We build CompLeadly so LinkedIn outreach stops being a matter of luck. Our content team writes up what actually works in real campaigns.

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