Expandi alternative for signal-based LinkedIn outreach
Expandi runs LinkedIn and email campaigns from its cloud, with signals for profile visitors, company page visitors and post engagers. Syft Data adds the people visiting your website, checks each person against your ICP and personas, and sends the connection request from your own LinkedIn after you approve it.
Runs in your browser through the Syft extension. Approvals in Slack.
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How they differ
How Expandi and Syft Data work
Expandi is a cloud LinkedIn automation tool, priced per seat with one LinkedIn account per seat. You connect with your LinkedIn login, password and a temporary code, and Expandi runs campaigns from a data center IP in your country. Its Signals step adds your profile visitors, company page visitors and the engagers on up to 3 posts you pick. Leads are filtered by rules on location, industry, company size and job title, and campaigns send once activated.
Syft Data runs through a Chrome extension in your own browser, so nothing logs in to your LinkedIn account from a server. It adds the people visiting your website, checks each person against your ICP and personas, and holds every connection request and DM for your approval in Slack.
Sources: Expandi pricing, Expandi privacy notice, IP address and proxy (Expandi help center)
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Who Syft Data fits
- Teams who do not want to give a cloud tool their LinkedIn password
- Teams who want website visitors and LinkedIn engagers in one list
- Teams who want every request approved in Slack before it sends
Switching
How to switch from Expandi to Syft Data
Syft Data runs next to what you have, so you can compare the two before you move anything.
- 1
List your Expandi campaigns
The searches, signals and sequences you run today. That list is your setup.
- 2
Install the extension and add the tag
The extension reads your LinkedIn in your browser. The tag shows who visits your site. Data appears about 10 minutes after the tag is live.
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Set your ICP, personas and approvals
Describe the companies and roles you sell to. Matches reach the Slack channel you choose, and each connection request or DM waits for your approval.
- 4
Pause Expandi on an account before Syft sends from it
Use one tool per LinkedIn account, so its daily limits are counted in one place.
Side by side
Syft Data vs Expandi
| Syft Data | Expandi | |
|---|---|---|
| Where leads come from | Syft Data: Your website visitors and the people engaging with your team's posts and the profiles you track, found by Syft. | Expandi: LinkedIn and Sales Navigator searches, post engagers, company followers, and signals for profile visitors, company page visitors and engagers on up to 3 posts. |
| Lead qualification | Syft Data: Every person is checked against your ICP and personas before an alert or a send. | Expandi: Rule filters on location, industry, company size and job title. |
| LinkedIn access | Syft Data: Chrome extension in your own browser. No password to share. | Expandi: Cloud, from a data center IP in your country. Connect with your LinkedIn login, password and a temporary code. |
| Approval | Syft Data: Each connection request and DM waits for your approval in Slack or in the app by default. | Expandi: Campaigns send once activated. |
| CRM | Syft Data: HubSpot, Salesforce, Attio and Pipedrive. | Expandi: HubSpot, Salesforce and Pipedrive, one way from Expandi to the CRM. |
| Price | Syft Data: Founder Mode $99 a month, Pro $500 a month for unlimited profiles. 30 days free, no credit card. | Expandi: $99 a seat a month ($79 billed yearly), one LinkedIn account per seat. 7-day trial. |
On top of LinkedIn outreach
What Syft Data adds
See who engages with your team's LinkedIn posts
Reactions and comments on your company posts, exec posts and promoted posts, matched to one person and joined to their website visits.
See which target accounts saw your LinkedIn ads
Connect LinkedIn Ads and Syft shows which companies saw your ads, next to who from those companies engaged with your posts. Pro plan.
Focus on your target accounts
Add your target accounts, or connect a HubSpot list that Syft re-reads every hour. Alerts can then fire only for people at those companies, and a do-not-track list keeps customers and partners out.
Skip people you already know
Syft syncs your LinkedIn connections, leaves out people you are already connected to, and can flag when a lead is connected to someone on your team.
Know who signed up
Syft enriches product signups, including personal emails, and scores each one against your ICP and personas before it alerts sales.
Ask @Syft in Slack
Ask in plain English for a list, an explanation of a motion or a summary of the week, and get the answer in the channel.
Alerts only for people who fit
The usual complaint about signal tools is volume. Many of the people on your site or reacting to your posts are recruiters, students, job seekers or other vendors.
In Syft you describe the companies you sell to (your ICP) and the roles you sell to (your personas). Every visitor and engager is checked against both before anything reaches Slack or your CRM. Everyone else is still recorded, so you can look them up later.
Act on a match from your own account
Syft can send the connection request or the first DM from your LinkedIn, through the extension, using the note you wrote. By default each one waits for your approval in Slack or in the app. You set the daily limit.
If your team already sends from Smartlead or Instantly, send the matches there instead and keep your sequences.
Pricing
Syft Data pricing: two plans, both free for 30 days
Founder Mode
$99 / month
For one person tracking their own LinkedIn.
- One LinkedIn profile
- A scored list of everyone who engages with you
- Job change alerts in Slack
Pro
$500 / month
For a team tracking the website, LinkedIn and target accounts.
- Website visitors joined to LinkedIn activity
- Unlimited LinkedIn profiles
- HubSpot, Salesforce and Attio sync
- Connection requests and DMs from the extension
- Query Syft from Claude or ChatGPT
Customer outcomes
What our customers say about us..
Discover how savviest growth teams accelerate their pipeline with Syft Data
“The biggest win has been how Syft changed the mindset of the team. Outbound is now driven by real buyer behavior, not just a list and a hunch.”
“Being able to make decisions faster has been my biggest win. Syft helped us reduce wasted ad spend by 27% and achieve a 400% return on investment.”
“Syft didn't just improve visibility, it fundamentally changed how effectively we can market and sell. It gives our SDRs clarity, improves sales meetings, and ensures we never miss high-value opportunities.”
Questions Expandi users ask
- Does Expandi have signals?
- Yes. Expandi's Signals step adds people who visited your profile or company page, or engaged with up to 3 posts you pick, about every 24 hours. Syft Data adds your website visitors, tracks engagement on your team's posts and the profiles you watch, and checks every person against your ICP and personas before it alerts or sends.
- Does Syft Data need my LinkedIn password?
- No. Syft reads LinkedIn through a Chrome extension in your own browser, so there is no password or login code to hand over, and nothing logs in to your LinkedIn account from a server. It only sends requests or messages you approve, up to the daily limit you set.
- Does Syft Data identify website visitors?
- Yes, where it can. The Syft tag identifies the companies visiting your site, and person-level identification of US visitors is an add-on. Syft joins each visitor to their LinkedIn activity, so a post engager who reads your pricing page shows up as one person.
- Can Syft Data send connection requests and DMs?
- Yes. Syft sends connection requests, DMs and post likes from your own LinkedIn through the extension. By default each one waits for your approval in Slack or in the app, and you set the daily limit.
- Which CRMs does it sync with?
- HubSpot, Salesforce, Attio and Pipedrive. Syft creates or updates the contact and company when someone matches.
- Can I keep using Smartlead or Instantly for email?
- Yes. Smartlead, Instantly and Apollo are native. Send matches to Clay, Zapier or n8n by webhook, so your sequences stay where they are.
- Does it work for a whole team?
- Yes, on Pro. Each person installs the extension, and Syft tracks everyone's posts, profiles and the accounts you watch in one workspace.
- How is Syft Data priced?
- Founder Mode is $99 a month for one LinkedIn profile. Pro is $500 a month for unlimited profiles, website visitors and CRM sync. Both are free for 30 days, no credit card.
- We're an agency. Can we run this for clients?
- Yes. The Agency plan gives each client its own workspace, managed from one account.
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Know who to contact before you send, and approve every request in Slack.
Free for 30 days. Nothing sends without your approval.