Needle: The agent-native outbound engine

Pricing is $69 a month per connected account, and lead lists are included. Lists are built from LinkedIn, Instagram and Places on the accounts you connect, with no credit meter, per-lead charge or top-ups. A team connects one account and works through an MCP client you already use (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, or Needle Agents in Slack). Per-account daily limits, human-like cadence and a warm-up schedule for new senders are enforced, and suppression lists keep you from messaging customers, open deals or people a colleague already contacted. The outbound engine was first announced on September 13, 2026, and it went live on Product Hunt on October 21. Earlier this year the company relaunched as a proactive GTM agent that lives in Slack and Teams, watching the pipeline and flagging stalled deals. Competitors such as NudgeLink run LinkedIn and email outbound from Claude, ChatGPT, or any AI agent. Standalone assistants still leave the final send to the user, since Claude won't run a sequence for you, with no triggers to fire outbound on its own. For founders building AI companies, the notable shift is distribution. Outbound is becoming a tool call inside the assistant a team already uses, which moves competition toward lead data, sending infrastructure and compliance controls rather than standalone dashboards.