LinkedIn MCP: what it is and nine outreach tools you can run from Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor
What a LinkedIn MCP server does, the three kinds you will find and what each outreach tool's server lets your assistant do, from reading leads to launching campaigns and sending.
Quick answer: A LinkedIn MCP server gives an AI assistant such as Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor tools it can call to work with your LinkedIn outreach. Most come from outreach tools and act on your account in that tool: reading leads and campaigns, drafting messages and, in some, launching campaigns or sending. They differ most in what the assistant may do without you. FOUND's connector reads, drafts and prepares LinkedIn and email work on leads FOUND finds from buying signals, finds their work emails at a price it shows first and never sends.
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Ask Claude who replied on LinkedIn this week and, out of the box, it has no idea. Connect an MCP server from the tool that runs your outreach and it can look and depending on the server, draft the follow-ups, build the next list or launch the campaign itself.
That last part is where these servers differ most. Some hand the assistant the launch button; others stop at a draft that waits for you. This guide explains what a LinkedIn MCP server is, then compares what nine outreach tools let an assistant do through theirs.
What a LinkedIn MCP server is
The Model Context Protocol, MCP for short, is in its own documentation's words "an open-source standard for connecting AI applications to external systems." Its docs compare it to a USB-C port: one standard plug, so an assistant like Claude or ChatGPT or a code editor like Cursor, can use tools in other apps without a custom integration for each.
An MCP server is the other end of that plug. It tells the assistant which tools it offers, such as "list my campaigns" or "draft a reply" and runs them when the assistant calls one. A LinkedIn MCP server is one whose tools touch LinkedIn and you will meet three kinds:
- Servers from outreach tools. They act on your account in that tool: its campaigns, leads, inbox and numbers. The tool still does the sending, under its own limits. These are what the rest of this guide compares.
- Open-source servers on your own session. linkedin-mcp-server on GitHub, for example, runs on your computer and reuses your browser's LinkedIn session, so an assistant can read profiles, companies, job posts and your inbox, send messages after you confirm and send connection requests. Its README says it is not affiliated with LinkedIn and comes with no guarantee of account safety.
- Automation platforms. Zapier's LinkedIn MCP, for one, lists two actions: posting a share update and posting an update to a company page.
If you want an assistant to help with prospecting, the first kind is usually the one you need, because it works on the leads, campaigns and replies you already have.
The nine at a glance
What each outreach tool says an assistant can do through its server and whether that includes launching or sending.
| Tool | Works from | Your assistant can | Launch or send? |
|---|---|---|---|
| HeyReach | Claude, Cursor, Clay, n8n, Make | Segment leads, write messages, launch campaigns, tag replies | Launches campaigns |
| La Growth Machine | Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Codex | Build audiences, create and launch campaigns, read stats | Launches, asking first by default |
| lemlist | Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor | Search leads, build and start campaigns, reply from the inbox | Both, after your confirmation |
| Reply | Claude, Cursor, Make, n8n | Run sequences, enroll contacts, set up its AI SDR, reply | Starts sequences and sends replies |
| Salesforge | Claude, Cursor, Codex, Gemini | Find leads, launch sequences, send LinkedIn invitations and messages | Launches and sends |
| Expandi | Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor | Build lists, draft campaigns and replies, report | Replies after your approval; never activates a campaign |
| Dripify | Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor | List campaigns, find a lead, upload a lead list | Neither |
| Valley | Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor | The actions you allow it | As you set it |
| FOUND | Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or any MCP client | Read signal-found leads and numbers, research, draft, find companies, contacts and work emails at a shown price, prepare paused LinkedIn and email campaigns | Never; you switch campaigns on in FOUND |
Each server, one by one
Ordered from the servers that let an assistant launch and send, to the ones that stop at a draft or a list.
HeyReach
HeyReach's MCP page shows an assistant doing the whole job from chat: segmenting a lead list by company size, writing icebreakers and messages, launching a multi-step LinkedIn campaign, then pulling last week's positive replies. Its pricing page adds tagging replies by sentiment and sending them to your CRM.
- Connects
- Each workspace has its own MCP connection URL and MCP key, made under Integrations. Named clients include Claude, Cursor, Clay, n8n, Make and VS Code.
- Cost
- Nothing on top of a plan, its MCP page says.
- Pick it if
- you mainly want an assistant to build and launch LinkedIn campaigns across many sender accounts.
La Growth Machine
La Growth Machine's server has 50 tools: 24 that read and 26 that act. An assistant can build an audience from a LinkedIn or Sales Navigator search, a post or an event, start a campaign from your best one or a template, launch, pause or resume it, read each campaign's acceptance, reply and conversion rates and see who is waiting for your reply.
- Connects
- Its server address and a sign-in to your account, with no key, from Claude, ChatGPT's developer mode, Claude Code, Cursor or Codex.
- Control
- It asks before writing to your account, by default. The server is open source under Apache 2.0 and comes with every plan.
- Pick it if
- you mainly want to run LinkedIn and email campaigns from chat, with a confirmation before each change.
lemlist
lemlist's MCP lets an assistant search its B2B database, add leads, create a campaign, add, edit or remove steps, set senders and start, pause or archive campaigns, across email, LinkedIn and call sequences. It can also send a message or a reply from the inbox.
- Connects
- Claude and ChatGPT, with Claude Desktop, Cursor and Windsurf named on its product page.
- Control
- Tools that send, delete, spend credits or change campaigns ask for your confirmation before running; read-only tools don't.
- Pick it if
- you mainly want email-first sequences with LinkedIn steps, built and run from chat.
Reply
Reply's MCP server exposes 70 tools over its sequences, contacts, inbox and tasks, 31 of them for Jason AI SDR, its AI SDR: approvals and autopilot, knowledge bases, reply handlers, offers and playbooks. An assistant can start or pause sequences, enroll contacts and send inbox replies.
- Connects
- Your Reply API key as a bearer header, from Claude, Cursor, Make, n8n or your own agents.
- Control
- 31 tools are marked read-only and 39 as destructive and its docs ask agents to check those marks before high-stakes actions.
- Pick it if
- you mainly want an agent to run Reply's sequences and AI SDR settings end to end.
Salesforge
Salesforge runs one MCP endpoint for all of its products. Through it, an assistant can search and enrich leads, build and launch email sequences and send LinkedIn connection requests and follow-up messages.
- Connects
- An API key per product, each sent as its own header, from Claude, Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini or Windsurf. Its help center says your keys stay on your machine.
- Plan
- Its pricing page lists the MCP and CLI among the Growth plan's features.
- Pick it if
- you mainly want cold email and LinkedIn run from an assistant or a terminal.
Expandi
Expandi's MCP, labeled beta in its help center, lets an assistant read and enrich leads, build lead lists, add, pause or resume leads in campaigns, draft campaigns, read conversations and draft replies, explain why outreach stopped and report acceptance and reply rates.
- Connects
- Claude and ChatGPT by signing in; Cursor, n8n, Make and scripts with the server address and a token.
- Control
- Replies go out only after your approval. It never activates a campaign or edits a running one and it works within your daily limits and warm-up.
- Pick it if
- you mainly want an assistant that manages leads inside your Expandi campaigns and sends replies once you approve them, while a person switches campaigns on.
Dripify
Dripify's server keeps to four tools: list your campaigns, list the lead lists inside one, find a lead by email or LinkedIn profile URL and upload up to 1,000 LinkedIn profiles as a new lead list. Campaigns are switched on in Dripify itself.
- Connects
- Your API key in a header, on a Pro or Advanced plan, from Claude Desktop, Codex CLI or clients such as Cursor, VS Code and Windsurf. Its help center lists Claude on the web and ChatGPT as coming soon.
- Pick it if
- you mainly want an assistant to look up leads and drop new lists into your Dripify campaigns.
Valley
Valley offers an MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT and Cursor beside its REST API and you choose which actions connected tools can take. Its outreach runs on LinkedIn from signals and teams approve each message before it sends or let approved campaigns run.
- Pick it if
- you mainly want to set for yourself which actions an assistant may take, with a REST API beside the server.
How FOUND's connector works
FOUND is an AI SDR for LinkedIn: it finds people from seven kinds of buying signal, checks each one against your buyer twice, finds their work emails, writes to them on LinkedIn and email from your own account and mailbox and answers replies, with two agents that each run their own campaign. Its connector puts that pipeline in your assistant. There is one address, https://app.foundtofind.com/mcp: in Claude it is a custom connector, in ChatGPT it is added in developer mode and in Cursor or Claude Code it is one line of setup. You sign in on FOUND's page and click Allow; an app that can't sign in uses a key you can revoke.
Your assistant gets 18 tools and none of them sends:
| What it does | Tools |
|---|---|
| Reads your account 10 tools | Your warm leads and why each one is there, your numbers by campaign, signal or job title, accounts ranked by new signals, research on one company, a campaign's setup and what is connected |
| Drafts 1 tool | draft_message: writes the opener FOUND would use for a lead, based on why they were found, without queuing it |
| Spends credits, price first 3 tools | Companies matching a one-sentence description, each with a contact; the right person at one named company; a lead's work email |
| Prepares work that waits for you 4 tools | Lists and campaigns created paused, with their sources and messages, that you switch on in FOUND |
The limits are hard ones. It cannot send, switch a campaign on, edit a live campaign's messages or sources, approve anything on your behalf, touch limits, pacing or review mode, connect or disconnect accounts or delete and it shows the price before any credit is spent. Work it prepares is paced like everything else FOUND does. Each account can make up to 30 requests a minute and your leads' email addresses never come back to the assistant, only whether one was found.
For most readers that makes it the stronger pick: the assistant works on a pipeline FOUND already fills, with the people found from what they did, their emails, messages written on LinkedIn and email and replies answered and nothing can send from chat. Pick another server if you want the assistant itself to launch campaigns or send or to run campaigns across many sender accounts.
The connector is included in FOUND's $69 a month for two agents, one LinkedIn account, one mailbox and 100 credits. Every tool and its cost is on the MCP server page, the four-step setup for Claude is on Claude for LinkedIn outreach and a week of prompts that use it is in how to use Claude for sales outreach.
What to check before you connect one
- What it can do without asking. Look for the line between reading, drafting and acting. If a server can launch a campaign or send, find out whether your assistant asks you first and whether you can turn that on for every action.
- How it signs in. A sign-in you approve can be disconnected later from the tool. A key in a header works like a password: keep it out of shared chats and revoke it when you stop using it.
- Whose limits apply. The server should hand work to the outreach tool, so the tool's daily caps and warm-up still govern what LinkedIn sees. A busy chat should never mean a busy account; how many invitations are safe is in LinkedIn connection limits.
- Where it runs. A hosted server lives with the tool; an open-source one runs on your machine, with your own session.
Choosing the outreach tool first? The best LinkedIn automation tools compares the sequencers behind several of these servers.
How we checked
On 25 Oct 2026 we read each vendor's own MCP page, help center article or developer docs and took only what they state about clients, sign-in and actions. For FOUND we used our own connector and its pages. We did not connect each server ourselves, so this compares what the vendors say. If one has changed, tell us at hello@foundtofind.com.
- MCP: modelcontextprotocol.io
- HeyReach: its MCP page, its pricing page and its help center
- La Growth Machine: its MCP page
- lemlist: its MCP page and its help center
- Reply: its MCP docs
- Salesforge: its help center and its pricing page
- Expandi: its MCP page and its help center
- Dripify: its help center and its pricing page
- Valley: joinvalley.co and its about page
- Others: linkedin-mcp-server on GitHub, Zapier's LinkedIn MCP and LinkedIn's developer portal
Questions
Is there an official LinkedIn MCP server?
LinkedIn's developer portal links to a page called Develop with MCP, in the area where developers register apps for its APIs. For outreach, MCP servers come from the outreach tools themselves, which act on your account in that tool and from open-source projects that use your own LinkedIn session.
Can Claude send LinkedIn messages through an MCP server?
It depends on the server. HeyReach, La Growth Machine, lemlist, Reply and Salesforge list launching campaigns or sending among their actions. Expandi sends replies only after your approval and Dripify's tools neither send nor launch. FOUND's connector never sends: a campaign it creates starts paused and only you switch it on.
Does ChatGPT work with LinkedIn MCP servers?
Several name it. La Growth Machine connects in ChatGPT's developer mode, Expandi signs in from ChatGPT, lemlist's help center covers ChatGPT and Dripify lists ChatGPT as coming soon. In ChatGPT, FOUND is added in developer mode and offers the same 18 tools as in Claude.
Is a LinkedIn MCP server safe for my LinkedIn account?
A server from an outreach tool sends nothing to LinkedIn by itself: the tool behind it does, under that tool's own limits. Check what the assistant can do without asking and whose pacing applies. With FOUND, whatever an assistant prepares goes out through the same pacing as everything else, from 35 invitations a week at the start and never more than 25 in a day.
What does FOUND's MCP connector cost?
Nothing on top of the $69 a month plan, which covers two agents, one LinkedIn account, one mailbox and 100 credits. Reading your leads and numbers, researching accounts, drafting and preparing paused campaigns are included. Only three tools cost credits, for new companies with contacts, a contact at one company or a lead's work email and each shows its price before it runs.