Good value for the money
I reviewed a few Linkedin interaction and scraping tools in the market and Closely seems fairly advanced compared to others.
Pros:
1. Scraping emails credits only counts for those that are found;
2. You can do linkedin + email interactions allowing tactics like triple tap (phone + linkedin + email);
3. It's possible to extract only the valid contacts to add to your CRM;
Cons:
1. It doesn't support UTF-8 so any latin characters are broken (sucks to me, but Bodgan said they'll solve it soon);
2. There's no API so I can't trigger flows, ask for email extractions though it or directly integrate with any CRM;
3. All future features are only those of personal plan which is risky in my opinion.
Improvements I'd like to see:
1. Ability to do more actions like "scrape about info", "scrape experience", "scrape posts" (given a # of posts) and "scrape website" (if found);
2. Ability to add your own OpenAI key or other models;
3. The possibility to mix the above two in all text related messages to compose variable parts using data extracted transformed by AI, then joined with spintax written by us.
A nice-to-have:
Ability to add overages to our accounts with "early-supporters pricing", such as more linkedin profiles, more emails and more credits.