Turn Instagram and WhatsApp DMs into booked calls with an AI setter
An anonymous founder sells an AI appointment setter that answers DMs in the client’s voice around the clock.
Sales · Do this yourself
Find conversations you forgot to follow up on.
✅ It found 19 dead conversations; he says it costs about 2 cents a run.
Who it’s for
Founders, sales reps, coaches and agencies who need more conversations with buyers.
Adapt it to your industry
- Coach: reply to Instagram DMs fast and book calls
- Agency: find companies hiring for a role you can do for them
- Real estate: follow up with every open-house visitor within an hour
Step by step
- Describe your ideal customer in 3 lines: industry, size, and the problem you solve.
- Open ChatGPT, Claude or Grok and paste the prompt below with that description.
- Ask for a list of places to find these people and a short, honest first message.
- Put 30 prospects in a Google Sheet with name, link and one personal detail.
- Ask the AI to draft a personal first line for each, then edit and send them yourself.
- Log replies in the sheet and ask the AI to draft follow-ups for anyone who hasn’t answered after 3 days.
Ready-to-copy prompt
List threads where I was asked something and have not replied in 7+ days. Draft a short follow-up for each.Start with AI
Opens the AI with this guide and the prompt filled in.
- Cost
- ~$0.02 per runFrom the source
- Time
- 1–3 hoursOur estimate
How to make money from it
Pricing idea: Offer lead generation or appointment setting for a monthly fee, or per booked meeting.
Finding your first 10 customers
- Run the process for your own business first and share the numbers you actually got.
- Offer a 2-week trial to 5 businesses.
- Turn the best result into a case study for outreach.
Ideas, not promises. Results vary.
Details: source, numbers and tags
What they did
@BassamDahabra built an automation that analyzes his calendar, inbox and tasks overnight.
How it went
It found 19 dead conversations; he says it costs about 2 cents a run.
Worth knowing
Draft follow-ups for review rather than auto-sending.
- Difficulty
- BeginnerOur rating
- Time to build
- Not reportedOur estimate
- Monthly cost
- Sourced: ~$0.02 per runFrom the source
- Revenue
- Not reportedWe only show revenue the source states
- Engagement
- 5 X likes7 replies · 2 reposts · fetched Oct 15, 2026
Original builder recipe
- n8n
- Gmail
- Calendar
- An LLM
- Connect your lead sources and CRM.
- Have the agent enrich, dedupe and draft, not send.
- Review drafts and push approved items to the CRM or sequencer.
- Track replies and tune the prompts.
Tags
Read the original
- X: x.com/BassamDahabra/status/2102701286307119565 ↗ (opens in new tab) Sep 23, 2026 · 5 likes, 7 replies, 2 reposts (fetched 2026-10-15)
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