allen. vs Doing it manually
Doing it yourself produces the best comments. It is also the option with the worst completion rate, and a strategy you abandon returns nothing.
The short answer.
You genuinely enjoy LinkedIn, you have the hour, and you have already proven you will do it every day for months.
You have tried and stopped before. You want the finding, writing, and posting handled so the only thing left is the DM that actually needs you.
Built for
allen.
Intelligent commenting + pipeline
Doing it manually
Your own time
Price
allen.
from $39/mo, three plans
Doing it manually
1-2 hours a day
LinkedIn access
allen.
Official LinkedIn API
Doing it manually
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Background
What Doing it manually actually does.
Nobody knows your market like you do. Your unaided comment will beat anything a tool produces, on the days you write it.
The cost is the feed. Finding ten posts worth commenting on means wading through a lot that are not, and the algorithm is designed to keep you there.
Most people run this for two or three weeks, get busy, stop, and lose the compounding. Consistency, not brilliance, is what makes commenting work.
Feature by feature.
The nine things that decide whether daily LinkedIn engagement actually happens.
| Capability | allen. | Doing it manually |
|---|---|---|
| Finds relevant posts for you daily | ||
| Drafts comments in your trained voice | ||
| Voice improves from your edits and ratings | ||
| Connects through the official LinkedIn API | ||
| Built-in prospect and pipeline tracking | ||
| Runs without your browser open | ||
| You see the day's plan before it posts and can pull any comment | ||
| Sends new leads to your CRM | ||
| Works from your phone | ||
| Monthly cost | from $39 | 1-2 hours a day |
A dot means partial or add-on support. Pricing, categories, and features reflect each product's public positioning at the time of writing and may change. We do our best to describe competitors fairly, and we encourage you to evaluate every tool yourself before you buy.
Head to head
Where the two really differ.
Time per day
Doing it manually
One to two hours, most of it scrolling to find something worth responding to.
allen.
Only the DMs to people who replied. Everything else runs on Autopilot.
Consistency
Doing it manually
Strong for two weeks. Then a busy week arrives and the habit is gone.
allen.
The comments go out every day whether or not you felt motivated.
Reach of the search
Doing it manually
Whatever the algorithm shows you, which is not the same as what matters to your pipeline.
allen.
Allen searches beyond your feed and filters authors by title, industry, and location.
What you remember
Doing it manually
Rough recall of who you have engaged with recently.
allen.
A prospect record for every comment, ready before your next call.
Never missing the people who matter
Doing it manually
You catch your best prospects' posts if the feed happens to show them to you that day.
allen.
Name the people you care about on a watchlist, or upload your connections, and Allen checks for their posts whether or not the feed surfaces them.
Where Doing it manually genuinely wins
We would rather you buy the right tool than the wrong one.
- The highest possible comment quality, on the days you do it
- Free, if your time is free
- You see the whole feed and catch things a filter would miss
Why people move to Allen
The reasons we hear most from people switching.
- Kept starting and stopping, and never got the compounding
- Lost an hour a day to the feed
- Missed posts from ideal prospects the algorithm never showed them
- Had no record of who they had engaged
Allen vs Doing it manually: common questions.
Set it once.
Let Allen work..
Tell Allen who you want as customers and turn on Autopilot. Every day it finds them, comments in your voice, and hands you a DM for everyone who replies.