The Startup Ideas Podcast
The Startup Ideas Podcast
Greg Isenberg
These AI Marketing Agents Get You Customers
43 minutes Posted Aug 5, 2026 at 8:40 pm.
– Intro
– Agent Number One: Cold Outbound Agent
– Finding Creators in Your Category on LinkedIn
– Apify Explained and the API Maestro Actors
– Extracting Engagers Live in Claude Code
– Agent Versus Automation
– Waterfall Enrichment: GitLeads, Apollo, Origami
– Compliance, Data Brokers, and What Stays Legal
– Waterfall Enrichment: Million Verifier and LeadMagic
– The Cold Outbound Infrastructure
– Software Factories and Marketing as Code
– Agent Number Two: The Organic LinkedIn Engine
– Earned Media Math at $22 CPM
– Closing Thoughts
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I bring Cody Schneider back on the show to build two marketing agents end to end, live. The first one monitors LinkedIn posts from creators in your category, scrapes everyone who engages, waterfalls those profiles into emails and phone numbers, and then runs cold email and LinkedIn DMs with an agent managing the replies. The second one turns internal conversations, sales calls, and podcast transcripts into a daily organic LinkedIn content engine across an entire team. Cody names every tool in the stack, shares the real infrastructure costs, and shows the actual terminal commands he runs in Claude Code. By the end you have two systems you can go set up today for your startup.
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Key Points
LinkedIn engagement is a hand raise, so it beats firmographics as a targeting signal.
Ten to twenty source accounts give you roughly 80% surface area coverage of an industry.
Waterfall enrichment moves cheapest to most expensive: GitLeads, then Apollo, then Origami or Prospeo.
Roughly $200 a month covers sending software plus inboxes for about 10,000 cold emails.
An agent here is plain code on a cron job with an LLM attached where judgment is needed.
Organic content works best when it starts from real human source material like calls, Slack, and transcripts.
The #1 tool to find startup ideas/trends - https://www.ideabrowser.com
LCA helps Fortune 500s and fast-growing startups build their future - from Warner Music to Fortnite to Dropbox. We turn 'what if' into reality with AI, apps, and next-gen products https://latecheckout.agency/
The Vibe Marketer - Resources for people into vibe marketing/marketing with AI: https://www.thevibemarketer.com/
FIND ME ON SOCIAL
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Instagram: https://instagram.com/gregisenberg/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gisenberg/
FIND CODY ON SOCIAL:
Cody’s startup: https://www.graphed.com/
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Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@codyschneiderx