She Raised 7 Figures in Sponsorships by Automating LinkedIn With AI | Sherry Jiang, Peek Money

Cold outreach at volume is a numbers game, and volume needs people. Sherry needed close to seven figures in sponsorships for her AI conference, with no sales team.So she automated it. Manus built a list of 500 companies that had already sponsored comparable AI conferences. She filtered for the roles that field sponsorship inbound, then pointed a browser agent at her LinkedIn to send requests one by one, mimicking a human instead of hitting an API that would get her blocked. It ran overnight. Replies came around 10 to 15 percent, with no personalisation at all.In this episode:* Why she raised seven figures in sponsorships without a single salesperson* How a research agent produced a 500 company sponsor list from past conference exhibitors* Why she removed personalisation from her messages, including the recipient’s name* How browser automation gets around LinkedIn’s limits when APIs get blockedWhy mutual connections beat personalised copy on reply rate* How she filtered for growth, business development, developer relations, and founder titles* Why the agent has to be painfully slow, and why that means running it overnight* What the whole thing actually cost compared to a virtual assistant at 7 to 10 dollars an hour* Why AI outreach is only as good as how clearly you’ve defined who you wantITimestamps:(00:00) Introduction(00:49) Seven figures in sponsorships, no sales team(02:02) How she did it before automating(03:19) Why she cut the personalisation(04:41) Building a 500 company list with Manus(06:05) Demo: researching sponsors live(09:59) Why the agent needs its own computer(11:10) Getting around LinkedIn’s automation limits(13:22) Real messages, sent by AI(14:36) What the credits cost(16:03) The 15% reply rate(17:15) The wrong name mistake(18:40) Get clear before you automate(20:08) Agency and a half million dollar depositResources & Links:* Manus* Codex * AI Engineer SingaporeConnect with Sherry Jiang:* LinkedIn* Peek* X This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit shippingwithai.substack.com