Building a LinkedIn lead qualification workflow with Claude and MCP
Automated LinkedIn outreach with Claude and MCP
A developer built a fully automated lead qualification and outreach workflow using Claude and an MCP server integration. The system processes raw LinkedIn URLs through a single prompt that chains four sequential tasks without requiring manual intervention.
How the workflow functions
The developer used an MCP server integration to give Claude LinkedIn profile read/write access since Claude doesn't natively access LinkedIn. The free tier of this MCP server was sufficient for this setup.
The single prompt executes these four tasks in sequence:
- Extract name, role, company, and industry from each LinkedIn profile
- Score each lead 1-10 based on predefined fit criteria
- Filter leads: scores above 5 trigger connection requests, scores below 5 are skipped
- Draft a follow-up message for when connection requests are accepted
Prompt engineering challenges
The main prompt engineering difficulty was getting Claude to execute tasks sequentially without hallucinating actions it hadn't yet taken. This required several iterations to resolve.
What this workflow replaced
This automated system replaced the manual process of opening LinkedIn profiles one by one, which was described as slow and inconsistent.
📖 Read the full source: r/ClaudeAI
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