Linked Helper alternative
The Linked Helper 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 Linked Helper.
In the cloud, not on your laptop
Gelee runs all day without your computer on.
Replies drafted for you
The AI SDR drafts every reply and sends your booking link.
Live signals
Gelee reaches out when something actually happened.
What you get
Everything, on every plan.
Side by side
Gelee vs Linked Helper.
| Feature | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Finding buyers | |||
| Live buying signals (hiring, funding, job changes) | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Evergreen lists that add new matches every day | ✓ | Saved searches | |
| Every lead enriched automatically | ✓ | ✓ | |
| ICP filters checked before every send | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Scores every lead before reaching out | ✓ | ICP score | |
| 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 | ✓ | Profile visits | |
| Post engager campaigns | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Keyword and follower campaigns | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Free InMails to Open Profiles | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Blacklist | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Replies and booking | |||
| AI drafts replies and sends your booking link | ✓ | Drafts | |
| One inbox for every account | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Custom Slack notifications | ✓ | ✕ | |
| Setup and plumbing | |||
| Set up for you by our team | ✓ | ✕ | |
| CRM integrations | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Public API and webhooks | ✓ | Webhooks only | |
| MCP for Claude and ChatGPT | ✓ | ✕ | |
How to switch
8 steps. We do them with you.
Export your Linked Helper profiles
Export each campaign's profiles to CSV with LinkedIn URLs, names, companies, positions and status. Export message history too if your plan includes it.
Bring your do-not-contact list over first
Do this first. Before a single lead goes in. Collect your excluded profiles 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 Linked Helper 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 Linked Helper 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 Linked Helper 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}} - position →
{{role}}
- first name →
Rebuild the campaign
Rebuild each campaign's invite and message steps. Visit, endorse and follow actions are not Gelee steps.
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 Linked Helper already reached, unless you actually want a second touch. Gelee won't put the same person in two of your campaigns anyway.
Tools that post into a Linked Helper incoming webhook can post into the Gelee campaign's intake URL instead.
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 outgoing 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 Linked Helper 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 Linked Helper for a few weeks, and look at accepts, replies and booked calls. Split by seat, never by person.
Happy? Pause the rest of Linked Helper, 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 Linked Helper. 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.
Can I run Linked Helper 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 Linked Helper 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
Linked Helper exports person and company profiles to CSV. Incoming webhooks push new leads into campaigns, and outgoing webhooks send chosen LinkedIn data to another tool, optionally only for leads who reply. Its pricing page lists message-history export and message-history webhooks on its higher tier.
Their words, our words
| Linked Helper | Gelee | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Campaign | Campaign | |
| Profile | Lead | |
| Incoming webhook | Intake URL, POST /campaigns/{id}/leads | |
| Outgoing webhook | Webhook destination | |
| Desktop instance | Seat (in the cloud) |
API calls
| Linked Helper | Gelee | Notes |
|---|---|---|
Incoming webhook (new lead into a campaign) | The campaign's intake URL, or POST /campaigns/{id}/leads | |
Outgoing webhook (profile data) | Webhooks: connection_accepted, reply_received, … | |
Message history export | GET /inbox/{chat_id}/messages | Any thread, any time. |
Webhooks
| Linked Helper | Gelee webhook | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Outgoing webhook on reply | reply_received | |
| Outgoing webhook on other steps | connection_accepted, invite_sent, 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 Linked Helper? 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.
