La Growth Machine alternative
The La Growth Machine alternative that books the call
Keep what works. Add live signals, lists that refill themselves and replies drafted for you.
Why teams switch
Why people leave La Growth Machine.
LinkedIn, done properly
LGM runs many channels. Gelee goes deep on one: LinkedIn.
Replies drafted for you
The AI SDR drafts every reply and sends your booking link.
Lists that refill themselves
New people who match get added every day.
What you get
Everything, on every plan.
Side by side
Gelee vs La Growth Machine.
| Feature | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Finding buyers | |||
| Live buying signals (hiring, funding, job changes) | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Evergreen lists that add new matches every day | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Every lead enriched automatically | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ICP filters checked before every send | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Scores every lead before reaching out | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Reaching them | |||
| Routes your best accounts to your best prospects | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Per-account limits for invites, messages, reads, likes and comments | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Smart warm-up and ramp-up | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Post engager campaigns | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Keyword and follower campaigns | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Free InMails to Open Profiles | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Blacklist | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Replies and booking | |||
| AI drafts replies and sends your booking link | ✓ | ✕ | |
| One inbox for every account | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Custom Slack notifications | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Setup and plumbing | |||
| Set up for you by our team | ✓ | ✕ | |
| CRM integrations | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Public API and webhooks | ✓ | API only | |
| MCP for Claude and ChatGPT | ✓ | MCP toolkit | |
How to switch
8 steps. We do them with you.
Export your audiences
Export each audience with LinkedIn URLs, names, companies, titles and any custom attributes you use in messages.
Bring your do-not-contact list over first
Do this first. Before a single lead goes in. Collect your LGM exclusions and anyone already contacted.
Then send it over in one call, or add it in the app's Settings. People and whole companies both work, and sending the same list twice won't break anything. Gelee checks it when someone joins a campaign and again right before every message.
curl -X POST "https://www.gelee.ai/api/v1/blacklist" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer gk_your_key" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"entries":[ {"value":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/janedoe","type":"account"}, {"value":"Acme Corp","type":"company"} ]}'Connect your LinkedIn seats
Whoever sends the outreach connects their LinkedIn in the Gelee app, under Accounts. It takes a minute.
One rule matters more than the rest: don't let La Growth Machine and Gelee both run campaigns from the same seat at the same time. Neither tool knows what the other sent, and LinkedIn sees both. Pause that seat's La Growth Machine campaigns first, then switch it on in Gelee.
Brand new or rested account? Turn on warm-up and it starts slow.
Swap your message variables
Paste your La Growth Machine messages into Gelee steps and swap the variables. If a variable comes back empty, Gelee drops that sentence instead of sending a blank, so you don't need a fallback on every one.
Anything of your own, like a report link or a finding, becomes a custom field:
{{custom.field_name}}. If a step needs a field that isn't there yet, it waits for it (up to a day). Handy if you write the link onto the lead when they accept.- first name →
{{firstName}} - company →
{{company}} - a custom attribute →
{{custom.attribute_name}}
- first name →
Rebuild the LinkedIn steps
Turn the LinkedIn steps of each sequence into a Gelee campaign. Keep email and other channels in LGM if you want, and remove the LinkedIn steps there so nobody hears twice.
Add your leads
Make the campaign, then add people however's easiest: upload the CSV, push them with the API, or point Zapier or Clay at the campaign's intake URL. All Gelee needs is the LinkedIn URL.
Leave out anyone La Growth Machine already reached, unless you actually want a second touch. Gelee won't put the same person in two of your campaigns anyway.
curl -X POST "https://www.gelee.ai/api/v1/campaigns/CAMPAIGN_ID/leads" \ -H "Authorization: Bearer gk_your_key" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -H "Idempotency-Key: import-batch-1" \ -d '{"leads":[{"linkedin_url":"https://www.linkedin.com/in/janedoe", "first_name":"Jane","company":"Acme","title":"VP Sales", "custom_fields":{"report_link":"https://acme.example/r/5d70"}, "tags":["imported"]}]}'Repoint your integrations
Replace LGM webhook steps and inbox webhooks with Gelee webhook destinations.
In Gelee, add a webhook under Settings, Event Destinations (or
POST /webhooks). Every event comes with the person, the seat that sent and the campaign. Hit Test to get a full sample before anything real flows.Leave the La Growth Machine one running until you cut over, so your CRM doesn't have a gap.
Run both for a bit, then cut over
Don't move everything on day one. Start with a seat or two, run them next to La Growth Machine for a few weeks, and look at accepts, replies and booked calls. Split by seat, never by person.
Happy? Pause the rest of La Growth Machine, export one last time, move the remaining seats. Keep that last export. It's your record of who was contacted before.
Let AI do it
Let our AI move it.
The Gelee MCP already knows La Growth Machine. Connect it to Claude or ChatGPT and ask it to move you over. It checks with you before anything sends.
Set up the MCPQuestions
Good to know.
Do I need an email address for each lead in Gelee?
No. Only the LinkedIn URL is required. Anything else you send is kept on the lead.
Can I run La Growth Machine and Gelee at the same time?
Yes. Just don't run both on the same LinkedIn seat at once, and don't let them message the same people. Split by seat and you're fine.
Will I lose my La Growth Machine conversation history?
No. The conversations live on LinkedIn, so they show up in Gelee once the seat connects. What doesn't come over is the other tool's own notes, tags and stats. Export those before you cancel.
Do I need the API to switch?
No. You can do all of this in the app. The API is there if you'd rather your own systems do it.
How long does a switch take?
Setup is about a day. The part that takes time is watching both side by side for a few weeks before you move everything.
For developers: API calls, webhooks and variables
La Growth Machine's API (Pro plan and up) covers campaigns and stats, audiences, leads, enrichment, LinkedIn and email messages, the inbox and webhooks. Leads are created with POST /flow/leads and an API key; a valid email is required when a lead is created. Webhook steps inside sequences and inbox webhooks send lead data and messages to your URL.
Their words, our words
| La Growth Machine | Gelee | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Audience | The campaign's leads | No separate audience object. |
| Campaign / sequence | Campaign | Gelee campaigns are LinkedIn only. |
| Identity | Seat | |
| Webhook step | Webhook destination | Fires on events, not on a step. |
API calls
| La Growth Machine | Gelee | Notes |
|---|---|---|
POST /flow/leads | POST /campaigns/{id}/leads | No email needed: only the LinkedIn URL is required. |
GET /flow/campaigns/:id/stats | GET /campaigns/{id}/performance, GET /analytics/daily | |
Inbox webhooks | Webhooks: reply_received, message_sent | |
Messages | POST /inbox/{chat_id}/messages, POST /conversations |
Webhooks
| La Growth Machine | Gelee webhook | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Webhook step in a sequence | connection_accepted, reply_received, … | Pick events per destination. |
| Inbox webhook (every message) | reply_received, message_sent |
Message variables
| Value | Gelee variable |
|---|---|
| First name | {{firstName}} |
| Full name | {{fullName}} |
| Company | {{company}} |
| Job title | {{role}} |
| Industry | {{industry}} |
| Your own per-lead field | {{custom.your_field}} |
| A fallback when empty | {{custom.your_field|default text}} |
| Sender's name | {{senderName}} |
Discovery call
Moving from La Growth Machine? We'll plan it with you.
A quick call. We learn about your market, and if it's a fit we'll move you over.
