Turn the people commenting on a popular post into a ranked list of warm leads

🧰 Before you start

• Claude desktop app with a paid plan (download button on this page)
• Free Apify and Apollo accounts (Apify collects public post comments; Apollo looks up job titles and companies)
• A one-paragraph description of your ideal customer

🪜 Steps (tick as you go)

1. ☐
   1. Install Claude desktop and open Cowork

   Use the download button on this page, sign in, and look for the Cowork tab (where Claude does longer jobs on your computer).

2. ☐
   2. Describe your ideal customer

   Write who you want: job titles, company size, location and what problem they have. For property, e.g. 'Malaysian professionals interested in overseas property investment'.

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   3. Find a busy post in your field

   Pick a LinkedIn post on your topic with lots of comments, ideally from the last week. Copy its link.

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   4. Collect the commenters

   Ask Claude to use Apify (connect it when asked, using your Apify API key) to pull the names and comments. If you'd rather not connect it, export the comments from Apify yourself and upload the file.

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   5. Look up and score them

   Ask Claude to add each person's role and company (from Apollo or their public profile) and score them 1-5 against your ideal customer, with a one-line reason.

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   6. Get drafts for the top scorers

   For people scoring 4-5, ask for a short opening message that mentions their actual comment. Read and edit each one; you send them yourself.

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   7. Save it as a skill

   Ask Claude to save the whole process as a skill (a reusable recipe) called 'Comment lead pipeline' so next time you just paste a new link.

💬 Prompts to copy

Here is a LinkedIn post: [post link].
My ideal customer: [job titles, company size, location, problem they have].
1. Collect everyone who commented, with their comment text.
2. For each person, add their role and company from public information. If you can't find it, write 'unknown'. Don't guess.
3. Score each 1-5 for fit with my ideal customer and give a one-line reason.
4. Save a spreadsheet sorted by score.
5. For everyone scoring 4 or 5, draft a 3-sentence opening message (British English) that refers to what they actually said and offers [my offer]. Don't send anything.

Save the process we just did as a skill called 'Comment lead pipeline'. It should ask me for a post link and my ideal-customer description, then run the same steps and produce the same spreadsheet and drafts.

🔗 Links

• YouTube interview (source): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ-R7_kqqew
• Agents In Use: Claude Cowork scores leads from social engagement: https://agentsinuse.com/use-cases/claude-cowork-to-score-social-post-leads/
• Pietro Montaldo's LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/pietromontaldo_i-use-claude-to-extract-leads-from-viral-activity-7483112749179510785-EA9y

From https://usecasy.com/use-case/claude-linkedin-commenter-leads/ · Guide checked 16 October 2026 · Prices are rough and shown in USD unless stated (MYR where relevant).