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
Replace hours of manual prospecting with an n8n lead pipeline.
✅ u/Beneficial-Invite-41: ~5-6 hours/day of manual work down to ~30 minutes
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
Design an n8n flow that pulls new [niche] businesses weekly, dedupes against my sheet, and drafts (not sends) a first message for each.Start with AI
Opens the AI with this guide and the prompt filled in.
- Cost
- $0–20/month (free tiers or one AI plan)Our estimate
- Time
- 1–2 weekendsOur 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
The pipeline sources leads for a niche, dedupes and cleans them, outputs to Sheets or a CRM, and prepares outbound messages.
How it went
He reports 700+ qualified leads in the first week for one agency, which took the system in-house.
Worth knowing
Respect anti-spam rules and site terms when sourcing leads.
- Difficulty
- IntermediateOur rating
- Time to build
- Not reportedOur estimate
- Monthly cost
- Not reported
- Revenue
- Not reportedWe only show revenue the source states
- Result
- Sourced: ~5-6 hours/day of manual work down to ~30 minutes
- Engagement
- 2 Reddit pointsfetched Oct 15, 2026
Original builder recipe
- n8n
- Google Sheets or CRM
- An enrichment source
- 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
- Reddit: www.reddit.com/r/slavelabour/comments/1qdczzd/offer_i_build_ ↗ (opens in new tab) Jan 15, 2026 · 2 points (fetched 2026-10-15)
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