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PERSO or a chat assistant?
Most sellers already write with ChatGPT or Claude: paste in the profile, copy the draft out, send it. The writing can be good. What stays with you is everything around it, for every prospect, every day.
Checked on 4 November 2026, against the pages listed under Sources.
Choose ChatGPT and Claude if
- You write to a handful of people a month and are happy to do it by hand.
- You want one assistant for everything, not only prospecting.
Choose PERSO if
- You write to dozens of people a month and lose track of who needs a follow-up.
- LinkedIn is part of how you reach people, not only email.
- Your team should share one history and never write to the same person twice.
Side by side
PERSOChat assistant, copy and paste
- Before writing
- PERSOReads their LinkedIn, your CRM and your past emails with them, before every message, without being asked.
- Chat assistant, copy and pasteYou paste in what it should know. With connectors, ChatGPT and Claude can also read a mailbox or a CRM such as HubSpot when you ask them to.
- The follow-ups
- PERSOA fifteen-day sequence runs for every prospect. Each message waits for your approval.
- Chat assistant, copy and pasteYou remember who is due on which day, and start a new chat for each message.
- PERSOProfile view, like, connection request, messages, InMail and voice notes, done by PERSO.
- Chat assistant, copy and pasteYou copy the text and send it on LinkedIn yourself.
- Email addresses
- PERSOFound and checked before every send, included.
- Chat assistant, copy and pasteYou find them yourself, or with another tool.
- When they reply
- PERSOEverything else for that person stops, and PERSO drafts your answer.
- Chat assistant, copy and pasteYou notice, and remember to cancel what you had planned.
- Your team
- PERSOOne shared history. Two colleagues never write to the same person, and customers never get a cold message.
- Chat assistant, copy and pasteYou check yourself whether a colleague has already written to them.
- Your style
- PERSOLearns from every edit you make, so the next message needs fewer.
- Chat assistant, copy and pasteMemory and custom instructions, which you keep up to date.
- Cost
- PERSOThe AI is included in the seat. No AI licence of your own, no MCP to set up.
- Chat assistant, copy and pasteA ChatGPT or Claude plan per person, plus whatever finds addresses.
Sources
- Claude: connectors
- HubSpot: the HubSpot connector for Claude
- HubSpot: connect your HubSpot account to ChatGPT
Checked on 4 November 2026. Prices and features change; the linked pages are current. Spot something out of date? Write to us and we will correct it. lemlist, HubSpot, Waalaxy, HeyReach, Apollo, ChatGPT and Claude are trademarks of their owners. PERSO is not affiliated with or endorsed by them.
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