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Run your LinkedIn outreach from Claude or ChatGPT

Connect ZenMode to the AI assistant you already use, then build, check and start a LinkedIn campaign by asking for it. Six prompts to paste, in the order that keeps you in control: nothing starts until you have read a summary and said yes.

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Jonathan Lis, founder of ZenMode

I'm Jonathan. I build ZenMode: I write the code, answer the support emails, and my own outreach runs through it. If you already work in Claude or ChatGPT, you can build and start a ZenMode campaign from the same window. This guide is the order that keeps you in control: nothing starts until you've read a summary and said yes. Questions: hello@zen-mode.io. I read everything.

Jonathan Lis · founder, ZenMode

Who it's for

Founders who already work in Claude or ChatGPT and would rather describe a campaign than click through one. Paid ZenMode plans except Novice.

You leave with

ZenMode connected to your assistant, a campaign built and checked from a chat, and the prompts to do it again.

What's inside

  1. Connect ZenMode to your assistant
  2. Describe your buyer
  3. Draft the messages and check them
  4. Create the campaign, paused
  5. Read the summary, then say yes
  6. Pause from the chat at any time

How it was put together

What the assistant can do is what ZenMode's MCP tools do today, checked on 23 October 2026. Prompts are ours; edit them freely. Screenshots are ZenMode's demo with sample data, showing the campaign page where a campaign built from a chat appears.

Part 1

Connect ZenMode to your assistant

MCP is a standard way to give an AI assistant tools. Once ZenMode is connected, the assistant can work on your campaigns when you ask, and only when you ask.

You needWhere
A paid ZenMode plan except NovicePractitioner, Master or Dojo
An assistant that supports MCPClaude, ChatGPT and others: step-by-step guides at zen-mode.io/mcp
The ZenMode desktop appIt sends while the app is open, on Mac or Windows

Now do it in ZenMode

Open MCP / API in the ZenMode dashboard and create an API key. In your assistant, add a custom connector with the server address https://www.zen-mode.io/api/mcp. A ZenMode page opens: sign in if asked, choose what the assistant may do and the API key to use, and click Allow.

The Connect your AI assistant card with the server address highlighted
Copy the server address into your assistant. ZenMode demo, sample data.
The MCP / API page, where the server address lives. ZenMode demo, sample data.

Part 2

Describe your buyer

The assistant is only as good as what you tell it. Give it your buyer and your problem in plain words before you ask for anything.

Prompt: paste into any AI chat
I sell [what you sell] to [job title] at [kind of company, size, country]. The problem I solve is [one line]. What changes for them is [one line].
Keep this in mind for everything we do next. Ask me anything you need to know before we build a campaign.

Now do it in ZenMode

Write the same problem line into a campaign's value proposition, so the dashboard and the chat start from the same words.

The value proposition fields, the problem field highlighted
Use the same problem line in the campaign. ZenMode demo, sample data.

Part 3

Draft the messages and check them

Ask for drafts, then ask ZenMode to check each one before it goes anywhere near a campaign. The check uses your account's real note limit.

Prompt: paste into any AI chat
Draft a LinkedIn connection note under 200 characters and three follow-ups for the buyer above. Each follow-up gives one new reason to reply. Use {{first_name}} and {{company}}.
Then check every message with ZenMode and show me any issue it finds, with your fix.

Now do it in ZenMode

The assistant runs ZenMode's message check on each draft and tells you what fails, so you fix it before the messages go into a campaign.

The connection note box and its counter highlighted
The note your assistant checked, in its campaign box. ZenMode demo, sample data.

Part 4

Create the campaign, paused

A campaign made from a chat is always created paused. You can look at it in the dashboard before anything else happens.

Prompt: paste into any AI chat
Create a Connect campaign called [name] targeting [job titles] in [locations], with a daily limit of [number]. Set the messages we just checked. Do not start it.

Now do it in ZenMode

Open Campaigns in the dashboard: the new campaign is there, paused, with your messages in its boxes.

The campaigns list with a paused campaign highlighted
A campaign made from a chat starts paused. ZenMode demo, sample data.

Part 5

Read the summary, then say yes

Starting a campaign is two steps on purpose. First the assistant shows you a plain summary: who it will reach, the messages, the limits. Only after you say yes does it start.

Prompt: paste into any AI chat
Show me the launch summary for [campaign name]: who it targets, the exact messages, the daily limit and anything that would stop it. Do not start it until I say yes.

Now do it in ZenMode

Check the same thing in the dashboard: Next queued messages shows what the next people will receive, with their details filled in.

Next queued messages with a connection request highlighted
Before you say yes: what the next people will get. ZenMode demo, sample data.

Part 6

Pause from the chat at any time

The same assistant that started it can stop it. If a reply, a doubt or a change of plan comes up, pause first and decide after.

Prompt: paste into any AI chat
Pause [campaign name].

Now do it in ZenMode

The campaign shows as paused in the dashboard, and you resume it when you are ready.

A campaign header with the Pause button highlighted
Pause from the chat, or here. ZenMode demo, sample data.

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Before you say yes in the chat

  • Paid plan (not Novice), desktop app installed
  • ZenMode connected in your assistant
  • Buyer and problem described
  • Every message checked by ZenMode
  • Campaign created paused
  • Campaign opened in the dashboard
  • Launch summary read in full
  • Next queued messages read
  • You know how to pause it
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ZenMode books you more meetings from LinkedIn: it finds the right people, writes the messages, and keeps every reply in one inbox. It is a desktop app for Mac and Windows that sends while the app is open. Practitioner, Master and Dojo include a 14-day free trial, first time only.

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