Needle AI

A closer look at Needle AI

Needle is an agent-native outbound engine: it ships as an MCP server so teams find leads and run LinkedIn, Instagram and email campaigns from Claude, ChatGPT, Codex or Grok, with suppression lists and sending guardrails. Pricing is $69 per month per connected account, with lead lists included and a 7-day no-card trial.

Editorial guidance based on published documentation. The workflow below is a suggested starting point, not a measured product result.

When to choose Needle AI

• Outbound can be run from the agent the team already uses, via MCP, instead of learning a separate console.
• Lead lists are included in the per-account price with no per-lead charge.
• Sending guardrails (daily limits, cadence, warm-up) are on by default to protect sender accounts.
• Suppression lists prevent messaging customers, open deals or people a colleague already contacted.

When to choose something else

• Use requires both an MCP client and a sending account; there is no stated standalone web-console-only path.
• WhatsApp and SMS outreach are not yet available.
• Pricing scales per connected sending account, so multi-sender setups multiply the monthly cost.
• List size is capped in practice by sending limits, not by lead availability.

A practical starting workflow

1. Connect an MCP client (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or Needle Agents in Slack) to Needle once.
2. Connect a LinkedIn, Instagram or email account to send from.
3. Ask the agent for a lead list from an ideal customer profile; Needle skips customers, open deals and already-contacted people.
4. Review the messaging angle once per segment; Needle applies it per lead.
5. Launch the campaign and reflect on what works, within per-account daily limits and warm-up schedules.

Check before committing

• Price caveat: only the $69-per-month-per-account figure and the 7-day trial are recorded; no annual price, seat bundle or first-month discount is stated on the page.
• This page is based on public website text only (text fetch); the product was not run and no outreach was sent.
• Currency is recorded as USD-unsure: the page writes '$69 a month' with no currency name.
• Note on identity: the current needle-ai.com product is an outbound engine, not a general research tool; the deep page must describe it as outbound, not as whatever the old directory entry may have described.

Common questions

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