Playbook · 5 min read

AI multi-channel outreach: sequencing across email, LinkedIn, SMS, and voice

Multi-channel is a footgun without an agent coordinating it. Same message four times in four channels is worse than one good email.

The channel sequence

  • Email — pattern interrupt with specific research
  • LinkedIn — social proof + a lighter ask
  • SMS — only after opt-in or reply
  • Voice — reserved for warm signals or opt-in inbound

What the agent coordinates

Suppression, timing gaps, message continuity, and reply routing so the buyer never gets the same pitch twice.

What to skip

Cold SMS to purchased lists. Illegal in most geographies, brand-damaging everywhere else.

See CoLive run this workflow live

Six named AI agents. One revenue engine. Talk to the founders — literally.