ProspectBuddy is a tool for LinkedIn prospecting, designed to help users safely and compliantly collect and manage leads manually. Its core positioning is "your prospecting buddy on LinkedIn."
Main uses:
- Capture structured contact data from LinkedIn profiles.
- Find verified work emails and phone numbers (phone numbers are limited to B2B users who have a work email).
- Send lead data to Airtable or Trello with one click for CRM synchronization.
- Use LinkedIn profile data to generate personalized outreach messages with AI.
Main capabilities:
- Capture selected LinkedIn fields and instantly send them to Trello, Airtable, or a database.
- Connect Airtable or Trello and complete setup in minutes.
- Use AI to generate targeted outreach messages in seconds.
- Find verified work emails and direct phone numbers.
- Support selecting specific LinkedIn fields to capture.
- Manual prospecting, keeping LinkedIn compliant, with no automation performed.
How to use:
- Connect Airtable: On the "Connections" screen or in your profile, click "Airtable," select the bases/workspaces you want to authorize access to, and click "Grant access." After connecting, the status will be displayed on the profile page, and you can disconnect at any time.
- Send LinkedIn data to Airtable: First create a new setup in "Settings," select the Airtable base and table, map LinkedIn fields to Airtable fields, and save the setup. Then open a LinkedIn profile, parse the profile, select the fields and setup, and click "Send to Airtable"; the contact will be added to the selected table.
- Credit usage: Credits are ProspectBuddy's internal balance and can be purchased securely via Stripe. Credits are used for specific actions: email searches cost 10 credits (no charge if no email is found, and no repeated charge for profiles already searched); phone number searches cost 50 credits (no charge if not found); sending data to Airtable or Trello costs 1 credit; generating AI messages costs 5 credits.
Use cases:
- Sales teams and individual professionals doing LinkedIn prospecting.
- Teams that need to sync LinkedIn leads to Airtable or Trello.
- Users who want to avoid automation risks and stick to manual, safe prospecting.
- B2B scenarios that require finding verified emails and phone numbers and conducting personalized outreach.
Limitations and notes:
- The tool is designed for manual prospecting, does not perform automation, and has no bots.
- Phone lookup is limited to B2B users and requires a work email.
- Only compatible Airtable field types are supported: Photo→Attachment; URL→URL or text; Name, Headline, Skills, Summary, Work Experience→text; Email→Email or text; Phone→Phone or text. Unsupported field types will not appear in the dropdown menu.
- Pricing information: The official text mentions "simple and transparent pricing," but does not give specific prices.
- Regarding specific platform support (such as browser extension type), system requirements, etc., the official text does not provide them.
