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Triage a List of LinkedIn URLs
EdgeIt's Monday, and Priya has a sourcing list of 40 LinkedIn profiles and an hour before her client call. Candidates who already read her posts reply far more often than cold ones, but she can't open 40 profiles to find them. With Flux connected to Claude, the first pass is free, and she only spends credits on the handful of people she is going to contact.
What you'll end up with
- A ranked list: everyone on it, ordered by how often they react to or comment on your posts, split into warm, cold and unknown.
- A short brief on your top five: what they engaged with and how recently.
- Warm paths for a few promising cold names, paid for only for those people.
- A saved shortlist you can come back to next week.
Before you start
You need an Edge plan, Flux connected to Claude (see Connecting to Claude), and some posting history, so Flux knows who engages with you.
| Step | Credits |
|---|---|
| Rank the whole list | Free |
| Warmth brief for each warm candidate | Free |
| Look for warm paths | Free |
| Fill in missing job history, if asked | 3 per person |
| Save the shortlist | Free |
A typical 40-person list costs 0–15 credits, and all of it goes on the shortlist.
How do I triage a list of profiles?
Paste the whole list
Here are 40 LinkedIn profiles from a sourcing list. Rank them by how much they engage with my posts, and tell me which ones you don't recognize. [paste the URLs]
Claude ranks the list with get_outreach_queue. It counts each person's reactions and comments on your posts, and on posts from profiles you track, across all time. Any URL form works, with or without www, tracking parameters or a trailing slash. Up to 200 fit in one prompt.
Claude replies with something like this:
Of your 40 profiles, 31 are in Flux. 6 already engage with you. Dana Whitlock leads with 11 engagements, then Luis Ferreira with 7 and Mei Tanaka with 5. 25 are known but have never engaged. 9 URLs aren't in Flux yet, so I can't rank them.
Read the three groups
- Warm (engagement count above zero): these people already read your posts. Message them first.
- Known, never engaged: Flux has a record of them, but they haven't reacted or commented. They are cold for now.
- Unresolved: Flux has no record of these URLs. That is not the same as cold. Flux simply can't rank them yet.
Get a warmth brief on the top five
For the top five, tell me what each one engaged with, whether they commented, and how recently.
Claude runs get_target_warmth_brief for each person. It lists the posts they reacted to or commented on, any comment text, and a warmth score from 0 to 1. The score rises with more engagement, any comment and recent activity. The brief covers the last 90 days by default, so its count can be lower than the all-time count from step 1. You can ask for up to a year.
Dana Whitlock engaged 9 times in the last 90 days, including two comments on your post about RevOps career paths. Her most recent was 6 days ago. Warmth 0.94. Luis Ferreira reacted 7 times but hasn't commented, and his last reaction was 40 days ago. Warmth 0.46.
Dana gets a message today that opens with her comment. Luis gets one this week.
Look for warm paths to the promising cold names
Of the cold ones, the four at Northwind, Halden and Cobalt are the best fit for this role. Find a warm path to each. If you need job history, fill it in, but don't spend more than 12 credits.
Claude checks each person with get_outreach_path, which looks for someone in your audience who shares an employer or school with them. When the answer is "not enough data", Claude fills in the missing job history with enrich_people and checks again. Flux enforces your 12-credit limit and skips anyone enriched in the last 90 days at no charge.
I filled in job history for 4 people (12 credits). Two have paths. Ana Ruiz worked with Sam Patel at Halden until 2024, and Sam has engaged with your posts 9 times. Jon Berg overlaps with one of your engagers at Cobalt. The other two have no connection to your audience, so reach out directly.
See Is there a warm path to this person? for how to read each answer.
Save the shortlist
Save Dana, Luis, Mei, Ana and Jon as a list called "Northwind RevOps search, Nov".
Claude creates a manual list with create_segment and adds the five people with add_to_segment. Next Monday, check the list again for free to see who engaged after you reached out.
Why rank by engagement first?
Ranking, warmth briefs and warm-path checks read data Flux already has, so they cost nothing however long the list is. The only paid step is filling in job history, and that only matters for people you've decided to contact. Run the free steps first and you pay for five people instead of forty.
The ranking counts all time, and the warmth brief counts the last 90 days. A candidate with a high count and a low warmth score engaged a lot in the past and has gone quiet. Treat them as a reconnection rather than a warm lead.
Variations
Check my "Northwind RevOps search, Nov" list and tell me who engaged with my posts in the last 7 days.
Of these 40, which ones have left comments on my posts?
For readers who want control over each step:
Run get_outreach_queue with these linkedin_urls. For the top five, run get_target_warmth_brief with days_back 365. For the three best cold fits, run get_outreach_path and, if next_step asks for it, enrich_people with max_credits 15.
What it cost Priya
The ranking, five warmth briefs and four path checks were free. Filling in job history for the four cold candidates cost 12 credits. Total: 12 credits, for a ranked list, two warm intros and a saved shortlist before her client call.
Related stories
- Is there a warm path to this person?: the same check for one profile, explained in depth.
- Brief me before a call: prepare for the conversation once someone replies.
- Score prospects by engagement: rank people who already engage with your posts.
- Keep an agent on budget: set spending limits before big runs.
- All MCP stories
Is There a Warm Path to This Person?
Paste one LinkedIn URL and find out whether someone in your audience can introduce you, whether you need more data first, or whether you should just reach out directly.
Brief Me Before a Call
Before a call with someone new, ask Claude for a one-page brief: how warm they are toward you, what they post about, where your topics overlap, and their career so far.