HeyReach alternative for signal-based LinkedIn outreach
HeyReach sends LinkedIn campaigns to lists you bring from Sales Navigator, a CSV or another tool. Syft Data finds the people to contact from your website visitors and LinkedIn engagers, checks each one 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 HeyReach and Syft Data work
HeyReach is a cloud LinkedIn automation tool, priced per LinkedIn sender. You bring the leads, from a Sales Navigator search, a CSV, HubSpot or a pasted post URL, and HeyReach runs the sequence from its servers through a proxy. You connect each account with exported LinkedIn cookies, or your password and a PIN. Website visitor and post engager signals come from separate tools that push leads into it.
Syft Data starts from the signal. It finds the people visiting your website and engaging with your team's posts, checks each one against your ICP and personas, and holds every connection request and DM for your approval in Slack. It sends from your own browser through the extension.
Sources: HeyReach pricing, Setting up your LinkedIn account (HeyReach help center), HeyReach integrations
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Who Syft Data fits
- Teams who need to know who to contact, not only a way to send
- Teams who want each request approved in Slack before it sends
- Teams who do not want to give a cloud tool their LinkedIn cookies or password
Switching
How to switch from HeyReach to Syft Data
Syft Data runs next to what you have. Keep HeyReach for volume sends, or move the sends into Syft.
- 1
List your HeyReach campaigns
The lead lists, sequences and senders 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.
- 3
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
Decide where each send happens
Send matches by webhook through Zapier or n8n into a HeyReach campaign, or let Syft send from each person's own LinkedIn. Use one tool per LinkedIn account, so its daily limits are counted in one place.
Side by side
Syft Data vs HeyReach
| Syft Data | HeyReach | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | HeyReach: Lists you import: Sales Navigator, a CSV, HubSpot, a post's reactors, or a separate signal tool. |
| Lead qualification | Syft Data: Every person is checked against your ICP and personas before an alert or a send. | HeyReach: Filter in Sales Navigator, Clay or a signal tool before you import. |
| LinkedIn access | Syft Data: Chrome extension in your own browser. No password, PIN or cookie to share. | HeyReach: Cloud, through a dedicated proxy. Connect with exported LinkedIn cookies, or your password and a PIN. |
| Approval | Syft Data: Each connection request and DM waits for your approval in Slack or in the app by default. | HeyReach: Messages preview in the sequence builder. The Slack integration sends notifications. |
| Price | Syft Data: Founder Mode $99 a month, Pro $500 a month for unlimited profiles. 30 days free, no credit card. | HeyReach: $79 per sender a month ($59 at 10 or more). Agency from $999 a month for 25 senders. 14-day trial, no card. |
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 HeyReach users ask
- Does HeyReach find leads for me?
- HeyReach runs campaigns on leads you import: a Sales Navigator or LinkedIn search, a CSV, HubSpot, the reactors on a post you paste, or event attendees. Website visitor and engager signals come from separate tools, such as RB2B, that push leads into it.
- Can I use Syft Data with HeyReach?
- Yes. Send Syft matches by webhook to Zapier or n8n, which both connect to HeyReach, and keep your HeyReach sequences. Or send from your own LinkedIn through the Syft extension, with each request approved in Slack.
- Does Syft Data need my LinkedIn password or cookies?
- No. Syft reads LinkedIn through a Chrome extension in your own browser, so there is no password, PIN or cookie 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 capture comments as well as reactions?
- Yes. Syft records reactions and comments on your company posts, exec posts and promoted posts, matches each to one person, and joins them to their website visits.
- 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.
- Can I keep using Smartlead or Instantly?
- Yes. Smartlead, Instantly and Apollo are native. Send matches to Clay, Zapier or n8n by webhook, so your sequences stay where they are.
- Which CRMs does it sync with?
- HubSpot, Salesforce, Attio and Pipedrive. Syft creates or updates the contact and company when someone matches.
- 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.