LinkedIn outreach for coaches

Book sales calls from LinkedIn without living in your inbox.

Plainsail runs your LinkedIn outreach at a safe, human pace. We build your prospect list, it sends the invitations and the follow-ups written from each person's own profile, and it stops the moment someone replies so you can take over.

$50 a month, or $500 a year. No Sales Navigator needed. Cancel any time.

Jamie's account · LinkedIn connected · healthy
Priya NairpositiveYeah I watched it, that's basically what I've been trying to do myself
Tom WhitfieldCheers Jamie, will have a look at the weekend
Leah DonnellySend me the walkthrough
Anna KowalskiNot for me at the minute but appreciate it
You, by hand · Monday15-second video
Plainsail · WednesdayHey Priya, did you get a chance to watch that video? That post on training through the menopause, the bit about strength being the thing that holds up, that landed. How's the online side going for you at the minute?
Priya · just nowYeah I watched it, that's basically what I've been trying to do myself. How does it work with the DMs?
Your list, built for you. Tell us who you want. It's in your account within 24 hours.
Messages written from their profile. One true line about them, in your voice, never a template blast.
Your profile is looked after. A proper warm-up, a human pace, and a hard stop the moment LinkedIn asks a question.
How it works

Four steps. Two of them are yours, and they're the good ones.

Plainsail does the slow, careful, every-day part. You do the parts that need a person: the video, and the conversation.

01

Connect your LinkedIn once

You log in yourself, in a browser we host, with your own two-factor code. We never see or store your password. From then on it runs in your working hours, laptop closed.

02

Tell us who you want

Job title, seniority, location, industry, years in role, active on LinkedIn in the last 30 days. The same filters as Sales Navigator, without paying for it. We build the list and it lands in your account within 24 hours.

03

Turn on the sequence

The recommended flow is ready to go: visit, blank invitation, your video, a first message written from their profile, two follow-ups. Change any step, delay or message in your own words.

Your part: a 15-second video, sent from your phone
04

Replies land in your inbox

The moment anyone replies, their sequence stops and you get the message, sorted positive, neutral or not now. You answer in LinkedIn as yourself.

Your part: the conversation, and the booking
Visit their profileDay 0. Reads the page the way you would.
Blank invitationDay 1. Blank requests accept better.
Your videoWithin 2 days of them accepting. Each morning you get the list of who accepted.
Message 1, personalisedDay 2 after they accept. One true line about them, in your voice.
Follow-up 1Three days later, if no reply.
Follow-up 2Four days after that. Then it stops.
What you get

Everything the outreach needs, and nothing you'll have to babysit.

Lists built for you

Lists of up to 500 people, to your filters, cleaned of anyone already in your account. When your list is running low we tell you, and the next request is one click.

Follow-ups from their profile

Where they work, how long they've been there, a post they shared last week. One specific line woven into your template, with every fact stored so you can see why it said what it said. Nothing is ever invented.

A sequence you own

The recommended flow is prebuilt. Add or remove steps, change the delays, rewrite every message in your own words. Turn review-before-send on and approve each first message yourself.

The two-day video window

Every morning: who accepted since yesterday, with profile links. Send your clip from the phone app, tick them off, and the first message goes out on its own two days after they accepted.

An inbox that hands over

Every reply in one place, sorted positive, neutral, not now or out of office, with the thread link. A reply stops the sequence for that person every time. There is no setting to override it.

A dashboard that leads with replies

Replies and positives first, then invitations, acceptance, the funnel from invitation to positive reply, and how your account is doing.

We take care of your profile

Your profile, looked after so you never have to think about it.

Plainsail behaves like one busy person on LinkedIn: your own session, one fixed address in your country, working hours only, and a warm-up that eases your account in over the first weeks before it settles into its normal rhythm. Every visit, invitation and message is paced with human gaps and breaks, never on a timer.

If LinkedIn ever shows a security check, everything on your account stops that second and you hear from us before anything resumes. Old invitations are withdrawn for you so your pending count stays tidy.

New accounts
Warm-up
Eased in over the first weeks
Every action
Human pace
Irregular gaps and breaks, never a timer
When it runs
08:00 to 20:00
Your timezone, working days
Where it runs
Your session
One fixed address, in your country
Security checks
Hard stop
The second LinkedIn asks a question
Old invitations
Withdrawn
Automatically, so pending stays tidy
Compared with the usual tools

The others assume you're also paying for Sales Navigator.

Sales Navigator is $119.99 a month on its own. Plainsail includes the list, so that's the bill that goes away.

PlainsailTypical LinkedIn automation tools
Needs your own Sales NavigatorNo. We build your list.Yes, $119.99 a month extra
Prospect listBuilt to your filters, in your account within 24 hoursYou scrape and import it yourself
MessagesWritten from each person's own profile, in your voiceTemplates with a first-name variable
Your videoA step in the flow, with a daily list of who to send it toNot part of the sequence
Looking after your profileWarm-up, human pacing and working hours, handled for youYou set the numbers yourself
When someone repliesStops, always, and hands you the threadStops, usually
Price$50 a month, list included$50 to $100 a month, plus Sales Navigator
One plan
$50a month
Or $500 a year, two months free.
  • One LinkedIn account, running every working day
  • Lists built for you, up to 500 people at a time
  • The prebuilt sequence, fully editable, with personalised follow-ups
  • The daily video list, the inbox, the dashboard, email alerts
  • Your profile looked after: warm-up, pacing and the hard stop
Get early access
Early access is by hand for now. You'll hear back from Jamie personally, and you're running within a couple of days.

Who it's for

Online health, fitness and nutrition coaches who sell a programme worth a proper conversation, and who'd rather spend their LinkedIn time talking to warm people than hunting for cold ones.

Who it's not for

Anyone who wants to run five accounts or blast the same message to everyone. There are tools for that. This isn't one.

What you'll still do yourself

Record one 15-second video and send it from your phone to the people who accept, and reply to the conversations that come back. That's the whole job.

Questions

The things people ask before they start.

Is this safe for my LinkedIn account?

No automation tool can promise LinkedIn will never object, and anyone who does is selling you something. What we can say is that Plainsail is built to behave like one busy person: your own session, one fixed address, working hours only, a warm-up over the first weeks, human pacing, and a full stop the moment LinkedIn asks a question. We look after all of that so you never have to think about it.

Do I need Sales Navigator?

No. You tell us who you want using the same filters, and we build the list on our side. It's in your account within 24 hours.

Does it send my video?

No, and that's deliberate. A video sent from your own phone lands as a native video and gets watched. Each morning you get the list of who accepted since yesterday. You send the clip, tick them off, and the written follow-ups take it from there.

Can I write my own messages?

Yes. The recommended sequence is a starting point. Every message is yours to rewrite, every delay yours to change, and you can turn on review-before-send so nothing personalised goes out without you seeing it.

What happens when someone replies?

Their sequence stops immediately, every time, and the reply lands in your inbox with the thread link. You answer in LinkedIn as yourself. We never reply on your behalf.

How is the personalised line written?

When Plainsail visits a profile it reads the headline, the About section, the current role and the latest posts, the way you would. The first message gets one specific, true observation from that, written in your voice from examples you give us. If there's nothing worth saying, it sends your plain template instead of stretching.

Can I cancel?

Any time. Your data stays for 30 days in case you come back, then it's deleted.

What if my list runs out?

We watch how many people are left. When you're getting low, you'll see it in the app and by email, and requesting the next list is one click with your last filters already filled in.

Ready to let LinkedIn do the slow part?

Early access is limited to a small first group of coaches so every account gets looked after properly.

Get early access