Communication: connect, message and book
The Communication plan: auto connect, auto DM, follow-ups, Allen answering replies, and meetings booked on your calendar.
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What the Communication plan does, in plain words
On Communication, Allen takes the people who engage with your comments all the way to a call: it connects, messages them in your voice, follows up, answers replies, and books the meeting on your calendar.
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Does LinkedIn allow Communication? A straight answer
No. LinkedIn's User Agreement does not permit software that sends connection requests or messages, and an account can be restricted. Here is exactly what Allen does about that, and what it will not promise.
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How to get the Communication plan
Communication has a waitlist. Sign up for the waitlist with the short form on tryallen.ai/communication, and when your spot opens we set you up one at a time and send you a link to start with 7 days free. Everything you trained on Comments carries over.
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Setting up Communication: the checklist
Connect LinkedIn for outreach, connect your calendar, set your goal under Train Allen, check your switches, and decide whether Allen sends on its own or waits for your OK.
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Connecting LinkedIn for outreach, and what that connection does
Outreach needs a second LinkedIn connection that signs in as you through a hosted page in your own country. Here is what it can do, what it cannot, and how to disconnect.
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Connecting your calendar so Allen can book meetings
Google Calendar, Outlook and iCloud all work. Allen offers only times that are really free, books the one the prospect picks, and sends the invite with a video link.
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The Train Allen tab: teaching Allen to sell for you
Three things, in order: your goal, when you take calls, and your rules. Then a practice chat where you play the prospect. Everything else is under More options.
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Your outreach playbook: what Allen says and how direct it is
Your goal on Communications, Train Allen: who you want meetings with, what you do in one sentence, the meeting, a proof point, and Gentle, Balanced or Direct. An audience can have its own playbook on top. Allen writes every message per person from it.
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Who Allen reaches out to, and who it skips
By default, people who replied to your comments and people in your audience whose posts Allen commented on. Allen reads every profile first and shows you who it skipped and why.
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The five switches: Auto comment, connect, DM, follow-up and reply
Pick the steps Allen handles. Anything you switch off, you do yourself. What each switch does when it is on, what happens to anything already lined up when you turn it off.
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Review first: approving every request and message before it goes
In Review first mode nothing goes out until you press Approve. Edit, approve, skip, or approve all. Dry run shows what Allen would send without sending anything.
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Daily limits and the warm-up: why only five requests went out
Hard ceilings of 20 requests and 30 messages a day, 100 requests a week. New accounts start at 5 a day and ramp over three weeks. Send windows, days, time zones and the random day off.
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How Allen answers replies and books meetings
When someone writes back, Allen answers in your voice, asks your questions one at a time, offers two real open times in their working hours, books the one they pick, and emails you. When unsure, it stops and hands the thread to you.
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Allen answers the DMs people send you first
New buyers who message you get moved toward a call. People pitching you get one short, polite no. Friends, clients and anything personal are left for you. Allen never touches a thread you are already in.
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A tour of the Communications page
The funnel at the top, the status line, the switches, How Allen sends, and the seven tabs: Train Allen, Needs your OK, Scheduled, Not a fit, Activity, Replies and Meetings.
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Why Communications paused, and what to do
Every pause has a reason on the status line. Most clear themselves. The ones that need you: reconnect LinkedIn, complete a verification on LinkedIn, or check a failed send.
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Stopping Allen: everything, one step, or one person
Pause stops everything and keeps the queue. A switch stops one step. Disconnecting LinkedIn for outreach ends the session. To stop one conversation, reply yourself or ask us.
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What Communication uses credits for
Connection requests are free. Each sequence message Allen writes uses 5 credits, each reply the setter writes uses credits at the rate shown in the app, and comments cost what they always did.
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Quick answers
Still stuck?
A person will answer.
Allen is built by a small team and we read every message. Business-day replies usually come within a few hours.