# The AI-first multichannel outbound playbook (free, with prompts) Canonical URL: https://pumpgtm.com/playbooks/ai-first-multichannel-playbook [← All guides](/blog) # The AI-first multichannel playbook How I got 25 YC-backed customers in four weeks. One list, one sequence across LinkedIn, email and X, your website visitors added in, and your AI running it. Screenshots, a video and the prompts to copy. [Watch the 1-minute setup](#watch-the-whole-setup-in-one-minute) The full guide, prompts, and checklist are free. Read them here. Namanyay Goel Founder, PumpGTM · 7 min read October 9, 2026 ## One person. Three channels. What happens when someone joins my sequence. LinkedIn Connection request. After they accept, three short messages. Email One thread from three inboxes, with follow-ups in the same thread. X Follow. If they follow back, a DM and follow-ups. They reply anywhere, everything stops. You take it from there. [01 Watch the setup](#watch-the-whole-setup-in-one-minute)[02 Pick your list](#step-1-start-from-a-list-of-people-who-can-buy)[03 Copy the prompts](#step-5-run-it-from-your-ai)[04 Check your launch](#your-launch-checklist) My name is Namanyay. I'm the founder of PumpGTM (YC P26). In four weeks, 25 YC-backed companies became our customers. We found them 23,000 leads. And I didn't hire a single SDR. This is the exact system I used. I'm giving you all of it: the list I started from, the sequence, the messages, and the prompts I give my AI. Copy it. ## The problem you already know You know who you want to talk to. So you pick one channel, usually LinkedIn, and send a lot. Some people reply. Most never see it. They're on X all day, or they only read email. So you add a second tool for email. Now you have two lists, two inboxes, and the same person gets pitched twice. When someone replies on one channel, the other one keeps going. ## Mistakes that cost founders replies ### One channel only Founders live on X. Some never open LinkedIn. Some never open email. One channel misses most of them. ### Three tools, three lists LinkedIn in one tool, email in another. The same person gets a pitch twice and nobody knows who replied. ### Talking over a reply They answer your email and your LinkedIn bot sends step three anyway. That's how a warm lead goes cold. ### Ignoring warm people People who visit your pricing page get nothing, while you message strangers. ### Never reading the data If you don't know which channel got the reply, you can't do more of what works. ### Clicking it all by hand You spend your selling hours in dashboards. Your AI could do the clicking for you. Who this is for: founders who sell themselves, especially to other founders, engineers and people in SF. What you'll get: the six steps I run every week, with screenshots, a one-minute video, four prompts to copy and a launch checklist. ## Watch the whole setup in one minute This is my real account, running the real sequence. 20,000 people watched it on X. My YC founder sequence: one list, LinkedIn, email and X running at the same time. The recipe is four parts: - A list of people who can buy. - Every channel they use, in one sequence. - Your AI does the work. Finding, writing, sending, follow-ups. - The data tells you what to change. Every week. ## Step 1: Start from a list of people who can buy I started with every Y Combinator founder. 11,517 of them, with the LinkedIn and X profiles they listed themselves. You can filter by role, batch, industry, location and hiring. It's free. [Open the YC founder list](/yc/founders?utm_source=playbook&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=ai-first-multichannel-playbook). The free YC founder list. Filter it, then send the whole thing into a sequence. Not selling to founders? Enter your website and PumpGTM builds the list from your buyer profile instead. ### Raising? Use the free VC list The same play works for fundraising. We made a list of 520 partners at the funds that back YC companies, with their LinkedIn. The trick: don't pitch them. Connect, then post. More investors seeing your posts means more of them reach out to you. 520 investors at the funds that back YC companies. Free. [Open the free VC list](/yc/investors?utm_source=playbook&utm_medium=content&utm_campaign=ai-first-multichannel-playbook). ## Step 2: Connect every channel once I connected my LinkedIn, my X account and three email inboxes. Three inboxes means 150 emails a day without burning any one of them. One sequence, three senders: LinkedIn, three inboxes, and X. Everything goes out from your own accounts, in your name. ## Step 3: Build one sequence that runs all three at once When someone joins, the channels run in parallel. Each one works the way people expect on that channel. 13 steps. LinkedIn, email and X run side by side. - LinkedIn: a connection request with no note. Once they accept, three short messages. - Email: a longer thread. Follow-ups are normal on email, so it gets more of them. - X: this is the part nobody else does well. We follow them. If they follow back within 7 days, we send a DM, then follow-ups. If not, we skip it. On X, a DM only goes to people who followed you back. The rule that matters most: a reply on any channel stops the whole sequence for that person. Nobody gets step three after they answered step one. ### The messages I actually send Short. One real number. One question. No link in the first LinkedIn message. LinkedIn: "sup , I'm YC P26 and I've built an AI tool that has added $200,000 ARR for YC cos. We find and engage with leads across X, LinkedIn, email, and more. If this is relevant, can I share more info?" Email subject: "My GTM AI made $200,000 ARR for YC cos" X DM: "sup nice to meet you here. I'm YC P26 and I've built an AI that has added $200,000 ARR for similar YC companies. Does that sound useful for your company's growth right now?" Change the number and the proof to yours. Keep the shape. ## Step 4: Add your website visitors Cold lists are good. Warm people are better. Someone who just read your pricing page has a reason to talk this week. Add the PumpGTM pixel to your site. When a business visitor from the US can be matched to a real person, they show up in your leads with the page they landed on. Signups show up too. Add the ones who fit to the same multichannel sequence. Your message talks about their problem. It never says "I saw you on our website." ### Turn website visitors into conversations Here are people who visited my website this week: [paste name, role, company and the page they landed on, from PumpGTM] My buyer is: [role, company type] For each person, tell me in one line if they fit. Skip students, job seekers, competitors and existing customers. For the ones who fit, write a first LinkedIn message about the problem that page solves. One question, under 300 characters, no link. Never say "I saw you on our website". ## Step 5: Run it from your AI I don't click around a dashboard. I tell Claude what I want and it does it through the PumpGTM MCP: finds people, writes the messages, builds the sequence and waits for my yes. ### The free MCP that finds you leads (167K views) Connect it once in Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Codex. Then every prompt below works. [Watch on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/reel/DdKTsEsSTXI/) Video blocked or asking you to log in? Open the original above. The takeaway is here either way. [Connect PumpGTM to your AI](/mcp) (takes 2 minutes). Then copy these. ### Set up the multichannel sequence Use PumpGTM to set up a multichannel sequence for me. My company: [website] My buyer: [role, company type, size] My list: [YC founders / investors / my website visitors / a CSV I'll upload] Build one sequence that runs LinkedIn, email and X at the same time: - LinkedIn: connection request with no note, then 3 short messages after they accept - Email: one thread with 2 follow-ups in the same thread - X: follow them, and only DM people who follow back Write every message in my voice: short, lowercase is fine, one question at the end, no links in the first message, no em dashes. Show me the people and every message before anything sends. Wait for my yes. ### Get in front of investors I'm raising a [pre-seed / seed] round for [company, one line]. Use the PumpGTM investor list (the partners at funds that back YC companies). 1. Pick the 50 investors most likely to care about what I build. For each, tell me in one line why (their fund, what they back, what they post about). 2. Connect with them on LinkedIn with no note. 3. Don't pitch. When they accept, send one line: what we build and one real number. 4. Show me the list and the message before you send anything. ## Step 6: Let the data tell you what to change Every click, message, reply and DM is tracked. So once a week I ask what worked and change one thing. Here's one of our own founder sequences: 707 invitations 399 connections 314 messages sent 71 replies 26 meetings booked That's 26 meetings from 707 invitations, with no ads and no SDRs. ### Your weekly review Look at my PumpGTM sequences from the last 7 days. Tell me, per channel (LinkedIn, email, X): people reached, replies, and meetings. Which message got the most replies? Which step got none? Suggest one change to test next week, and why. Keep it to 5 bullet points. ## Founders running this play ### Found the message that works, then added the team Chaitanya (YC F26) tests messages on CTOs and sees which one gets each reply. Now his whole team works from one list. Try this with your team Run two versions of your first message. Keep the one that gets replies. [Read the Workers.io story ↗](/customers/workers-io) “ PumpGTM quickly finds relevant leads from different sources and allows me to test messaging. I'm onboarding my entire team now to speed up my outbound sales. ” Chaitanya Choudhary Founder, Workers.io ### A founder who only approves Supermemory serves 100,000+ organizations, so Dhravya has no time to prospect. PumpGTM finds the people. He approves them. Nothing goes out that he hasn't seen. Try this with your team Let AI find the people and write the drafts. Spend your time approving and replying. [Read the Supermemory story ↗](/customers/supermemory) “ PumpGTM found exactly the right leads for my business and reaches out to them, automatically ” Dhravya Shah Founder and CEO, Supermemory ### From 2 accounts to 5 in one place Eric left Dripify and now runs five team accounts from one PumpGTM workspace. Try this with your team Put every sender in one workspace so nobody gets pitched twice. [Read the Hank story ↗](/customers/hank) “ I love how easy it is to hook up different accounts. It's been working really good, and I'm gonna keep bringing on new accounts in here, just because of how useful it is. ” Eric Sabshon Co-founder and COO, Hank. Moved all his profiles to PumpGTM Plan the first test with your team. Send this guide to the person who will handle the replies. ## Start your first play - Enter your website. PumpGTM writes down who buys from you. Fix anything it got wrong. - Connect LinkedIn, X and an inbox. - Pick a list. YC founders, investors, your website visitors, or your own CSV. - Read the people and the messages. Remove anyone you don't want. - Turn it on. Replies land in one inbox. ### Put your first play to work. Enter your website to build your buyer profile in PumpGTM. Review the people and messages before you launch. ## Your launch checklist Tick these off before your first sequence goes live. Your ticks save in this browser. 0 of 10 done ## Questions founders ask Why X? If you sell to founders, engineers or anyone in SF, X is where they are. Most outbound tools don't touch it. We follow first and only DM people who follow back. Will people get pitched three times? They hear from you on up to three channels, spaced over days. The moment they reply anywhere, everything stops. Are the YC founder and VC lists really free? Yes. Browse and filter them at [pumpgtm.com/yc/founders](/yc/founders) and [pumpgtm.com/yc/investors](/yc/investors). How does the visitor pixel find people? It matches US business visitors to a real profile when it can, and it records your signups. Visitors who can't be matched stay anonymous. Do I need Claude? No. Everything works in the PumpGTM app. The MCP just lets your AI do the clicking. Does anything send without me? Not until you approve the people and the messages. Replies come back to you. Plan the first test with your team. Send this guide to the person who will handle the replies.