Research creators overnight and send approved outreach with Claude Code
The workflow gives Claude Code or Codex access to Apify for finding creators, an email inbox, approved drafts and SQLite to remember contacts and replies. A Python script connects everything and runs it overnight.
Source
@LS_Thinking on X · 2026-10-18
Written in our own words. Credit to the original author. Link checked 2026-10-18.
What they did
The workflow gives Claude Code or Codex access to Apify for finding creators, an email inbox, approved drafts and SQLite to remember contacts and replies. A Python script connects everything and runs it overnight.
Result (as claimed)
Profile discovery costs under a cent per result, per the author.
Tools they used
Cost: Claude Code: from $17/mo; OpenAI Codex: free plan, paid from $8/mo.
Set it up
Pick one goal and metric
For example replies to outreach, ad ideas per week or landing page conversion.
Set up the tools
Open Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Apify, SQLite, Python. Load your offer, audience and examples of what already works.
Generate, then review
Have the agent research and draft. You approve every message, post or ad before it goes out.
Measure and iterate
Track the metric for a week, keep what works and feed the results back into the prompt.
Copy the full setup prompt
Paste into your agent and it will walk you through the setup, asking before anything that sends, posts or spends.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Claude Code. Goal: Research creators overnight and send approved outreach with Claude Code What the original author did: The workflow gives Claude Code or Codex access to Apify for finding creators, an email inbox, approved drafts and SQLite to remember contacts and replies. A Python script connects everything and runs it overnight. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Profile discovery costs under a cent per result, per the author. Source: https://x.com/LS_Thinking/status/2111880836698312941 Tools they used: Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Apify, SQLite, Python Category: Marketing & growth Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Codex. Goal: Research creators overnight and send approved outreach with Claude Code What the original author did: The workflow gives Claude Code or Codex access to Apify for finding creators, an email inbox, approved drafts and SQLite to remember contacts and replies. A Python script connects everything and runs it overnight. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Profile discovery costs under a cent per result, per the author. Source: https://x.com/LS_Thinking/status/2111880836698312941 Tools they used: Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Apify, SQLite, Python Category: Marketing & growth Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
You are helping me set up this AI use case end to end in Grok Bot. Goal: Research creators overnight and send approved outreach with Claude Code What the original author did: The workflow gives Claude Code or Codex access to Apify for finding creators, an email inbox, approved drafts and SQLite to remember contacts and replies. A Python script connects everything and runs it overnight. Reported result (as claimed by the author): Profile discovery costs under a cent per result, per the author. Source: https://x.com/LS_Thinking/status/2111880836698312941 Tools they used: Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, Apify, SQLite, Python Category: Marketing & growth Please: 1. Ask me 3 short questions about my situation (accounts I have, budget, what I want the output to look like). 2. Propose a step-by-step plan using these tools or cheaper alternatives, with the time and cost of each step. Use official pricing pages; say "check pricing" if unsure. 3. Then do the setup with me one step at a time, waiting for my OK before anything that sends messages, posts publicly, spends money or deletes data. 4. Finish with a checklist to run it again next time.
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