How to use xhuman

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Email

How to

1. Connect a mailbox first if you haven't (ask me to “connect Gmail”).
2. Tell me who to write to and what to say — I draft it and show a Send card you approve.
3. Ask me to find or summarize mail (“what did Sarah say about the contract?”) and I search your inbox.

Try asking

• Email the four people on this thread and loop in my cofounder
• Draft a reply to the latest message from Acme
• Find every email I have with jane@acme.com

Relationship inbox

How to

1. Open /mail (both Gmail and Outlook mailboxes are indexed), or ask me “what needs a reply?” / “where do things stand with Sarah?” / “anything from Acme this week?”.
2. Tell me what you're working on (“I'm raising a seed round by December”) and I record it as a goal the Opportunities tab judges new mail against — Goals & Filters on the Opportunities tab lists them, with confirm and retire.
3. Say “add a filter for podcast invitations” or “catch emails from journalists asking for quotes” — I create the filter in your words, can try it on your 50 newest threads first, and from then on it runs on new mail as it arrives (about $0.0003 per email plus about $0.005 per candidate it confirms). Ask “what did my investor filter catch this week?” for its matches, and “notify me when it catches something” to get a message on every channel you have linked.
4. Ask me “which campaign replies still need my answer?” or “did I already reply to Nathan?” — the Campaigns tab lists every reply to your outreach with its state, and I can open the conversation and draft the answer.
5. Ask me to mark a conversation done, snooze it, pin it, or say a reply is expected by Friday — that changes your inbox only; nothing is written back to Gmail or Outlook, and every change can be undone.
6. Ask me to draft a reply (“say yes and propose Thursday”); I show you the draft, and sending waits for your approval — one message per approval, never a batch, and it cannot be unsent.
7. Ask “what did I promise Jane?” for the promise ledger in both directions.

Try asking

• What needs a reply in my inbox today?
• Catch emails from journalists asking for quotes
• Add a filter for podcast invitations and notify me
• What did my investor filter catch this week?
• Tell my inbox I'm raising a seed round
• Which campaign replies still need my answer?
• Show me the Warm Reconnect replies I haven't answered
• Did I already reply to Nathan Bell?
• Open the thread with the person who wants to schedule
• Where do things stand with Sarah Chen?
• Snooze the Acme thread until Monday
• Draft a reply to Marco saying yes, and propose Thursday
• What did I promise the people I met last week?

Chat history

How to

1. Ask “what chats do I have?” and I list them newest first.
2. Ask me to delete specific chats, or all of them — I show one card naming exactly what goes, and delete only after you approve.
3. Deleting is permanent: the chat and its messages are gone, with no restore.

Try asking

• Delete all my chats
• What past conversations do I have?
• Clear out every chat from before last month

Inbox triage

How to

1. Ask “what do I need to respond to?” and I pull the mail awaiting your reply.
2. Say “help me clear my inbox” to start a guided step-by-step session with a suggested reply per message.

Try asking

• What emails do I still need to answer?
• Help me get to inbox zero

LinkedIn messages

How to

1. Connect LinkedIn first — ask me and I'll show the connect card; live sync needs a paid plan (any paid tier qualifies).
2. Ask “did anyone message me on LinkedIn?” and I list your unread chats.
3. Ask me to draft a reply — I show a Send card you approve; I never send on my own.

Try asking

• Any LinkedIn messages I need to answer?
• Draft a reply to the recruiter who messaged me on LinkedIn

LinkedIn steps in campaigns

How to

1. Connect LinkedIn first — ask me and I'll show the connect card; sending needs a paid plan (any paid tier qualifies).
2. Ask for connection requests to a search — “send connection requests to founders of recruiting firms on my LinkedIn” — and the campaign opens with an invite (nothing else unless you say so), paced under the daily limits, launched when you approve.
3. Ask for a campaign to people in your network (“message everyone I know who went to CMU”) — audiences reachable mostly on LinkedIn draft a connect → message sequence automatically.
4. Add or edit the connect / message steps in any sequence; launching the campaign is the approval that starts sends, gradually, within the daily limits.
5. The limits belong to the account, shared by every campaign: a new account starts at 5 invites a day and warms up to 15 (80 a rolling week). Set your own numbers — ask me (“increase to 25 invites a day”) or on Settings → Sending capacity — invites a day, invites a week, messages a day, under the platform's ceilings, and the warm-up is skipped. A campaign's own cap (“cap this campaign at 10 a day”) only takes a share of that allowance.

Try asking

• Send connection requests to founders of recruiting firms on my LinkedIn
• Connect with every VP Sales at Series B startups
• Message everyone in my LinkedIn network who went to Carnegie Mellon
• Add a connection request before the first email in this campaign
• How many invites can I send a day?
• Change the number of invites per day

Calendar

How to

1. Connect Google Calendar or Outlook if you haven't.
2. Ask what's on your calendar, or tell me to set up a meeting and I'll draft an event card you approve.

Try asking

• What's on my calendar tomorrow?
• Set up a 30-min call with Alex next Tuesday afternoon

Calls & meeting prep

How to

1. Open Calls in the left rail: Upcoming lists the next seven days with the notetaker's plan for each meeting; Past lists every recording with its notes.
2. Click Prepare on an upcoming meeting (or ask me to prep you) — I read the invite, your history with each attendee and the last call in the series, research anyone you barely know, and write the brief here.
3. Ask me to join a meeting (paste the link), turn on auto-join for your calendar, or record one specific meeting from its row.
4. After the call, ask for the notes, action items, decisions, or exactly what was said.

Try asking

• Help me prepare for my meeting with Oxon Capital tomorrow
• Prep me for my 2pm
• What's on my calendar this week and which calls will xhuman join?
• Join my 2pm Zoom and take notes
• Summarize what we decided in this morning's meeting

Daily briefing

How to

1. It's on by default at 7am your time; ask me to change the time or turn it off.
2. Ask “what's in my briefing today?” anytime.

Try asking

• What's my day look like?
• Turn off my daily briefing

Sourcing & outreach

How to

1. Tell me who you're looking for (“seed-stage fintech founders in NYC”); I preview real matches.
2. Approve the plan to launch a campaign; I draft personalized emails and handle sending on a schedule.
3. Ask about replies and status anytime; I can act across all your campaigns.
4. Every campaign has a Status page in its module panel: whether it is live or paused and why (with the steps that restart it), a change log of what was done to it and when — by you, by me, or automatically — and the chats about it. Ask “is this running?”, “why did it stop?” or “what changed on this campaign?” and I read the same page.
5. Ask who opened or clicked — just say “turn on open tracking” and I'll switch it on for you (or flip it in Settings → Sequences → Tracking), then I report opens per campaign and per person. Mail gateways and link scanners are filtered out, so the number is people rather than machinery. It only applies to sends made after it goes on, and image-blocking clients hide some real readers, so replies stay the hard signal.
6. When a search is set up with “My network” on (the “Where should xhuman look?” step — the web is always searched), the people you already know who match are added to the list HELD: nothing goes to them until you say — email them as someone you know, or skip. The list tells you how many came from your network.
7. Contacts a teammate knows show as “known by <name>” and are held the same way. Per person or in bulk: ask <name> for an intro (ONE email from your inbox to that teammate bundling everyone they know on the list, drafted in your voice and approved like any send), email directly, or skip. Someone in both your network and a teammate's is your call, noted “also known by <name>”. Nothing is skipped for you.
8. Every email address on a list is checked for deliverability the moment it is added or revealed, and the verdict stays on the person (valid, catch-all/unknown, invalid). Ask “were these emails verified?”, “check these addresses” or “verify the emails on this list” and I read the verdict on file or run a fresh check (1 credit per address) — dead addresses are dropped before they can bounce, and I say whose. A bounced address cannot be rescued by re-checking it; when an email bounces I look for a DIFFERENT address for that person in the background — your own contacts first, then a directory lookup — verify it, and ask you in the campaign chat before sending anything. Say yes to send there on the normal schedule, or skip.
9. One campaign can send SEVERAL sequences to different parts of its list, while it keeps running: “use this new copy for everyone we haven't emailed yet”, “give the investors a 4-email sequence and everyone else 3”, “put the rest on LinkedIn outreach starting Monday”, or split the whole list in one go (“these people get this, those get that, the rest get this later”). Each sequence has a name, its own steps and its own people; the Outreach panel's “Who gets which emails” shows every one with how it is doing. People already contacted always finish what they are on unless you say to move them — nothing already sent is ever re-sent.

Try asking

• Find heads of data at Series B SaaS companies and email them about our tool
• Run a campaign to 200 climate-tech investors
• Who replied to my outreach this week?
• Did anyone open the emails on this campaign?
• Turn on open tracking
• Why did my campaign stop sending?
• What changed on this campaign this week?
• Who on this list do I already know?
• Ask Priya for an intro to the 5 she knows
• Email the ones I know directly
• Skip everyone from my network on this campaign
• Use this new copy for everyone we haven't emailed yet
• Add a second sequence with new copy for the investors
• Send the investors a 4-email sequence and everyone else 3
• Put the rest of the list on LinkedIn outreach
• How is each sequence doing?
• Move these 5 people to the investor sequence
• Were these emails verified?
• Check these emails for deliverability
• Run a bounce check on this list
• What happened with the bounces?
• Find another address for the people who bounced

Opportunities & campaign management

How to

1. Describe the goal; I draft an inline plan card you can refine and approve.
2. Approving spawns the campaigns/primitives; then ask me to check status, add or remove people, or launch.

Try asking

• Draft a plan to source and hire a founding engineer
• What's the status across all my campaigns?
• Add these five people to the campaign

Find me opportunities

How to

1. Tell me what you're looking for; I ask a couple of gap questions, then scan.
2. I surface matches you can act on or track.

Try asking

• Find me opportunities in AI infrastructure
• What openings fit my background?

Job match

How to

1. Ask me to find roles that fit, or start a job-match feed.
2. Review matches; I can score and shortlist them.

Try asking

• Find remote staff engineer roles that fit me
• Start a job feed for product design jobs

Hiring

How to

1. Tell me the role. I'll ask whether you want outreach, a public posting, or both, then walk the setup one card at a time — role, posting copy, screening — and you lock each in as we go.
2. Change anything by just telling me: the title, the pay, the language it's written in, a section of the copy, or how candidates are screened.
3. Nothing goes public until you say so. As applicants come in, ask me to review, compare, or move them forward.

Try asking

• Post a role for a senior backend engineer
• I need to hire two product managers
• Show me the candidates for the marketing role

Research studies

How to

1. Tell me what you want to learn; I walk you through goals, audience, screener, and questions with intake cards.
2. Launch it to distribute and gather responses.

Try asking

• Set up a study on how PMs use AI tools
• Run a quick survey with 50 designers

Expert calls

How to

1. Tell me what expertise you're after; I set up the request with criteria and screening.
2. Approve to source experts; I schedule the call and handle payment terms.

Try asking

• I need to talk to someone who scaled payments infra at a fintech
• Book an expert call on FDA approval timelines

Interviews

How to

1. Ask to start an interview; answer by chat or voice and it adapts as you go.
2. Ask about what the interviews have surfaced.

Try asking

• Interview me about my background
• Run a mock interview for a PM role

Your network

How to

1. Ask a plain-English question about your network (“who do I know at Stripe?”).
2. Ask me to research a specific person, find their email, or email a set of contacts.
3. For the full picture on one person, ask me to “tell you everything” about them or to “dig into” them — I pull their career, their public web presence and recent news, and if they’re a contact, your whole history with them. That one is slow and paid, so I always ask first and quote the cost.
4. To import your LinkedIn connections: Network → Add people → “Add LinkedIn connections”, then upload LinkedIn's own Connections.csv export — the dialog shows exactly where to download it. Free on every plan, no LinkedIn login; re-uploading later refreshes companies and job titles.

Try asking

• Who in my network works in climate?
• Tell me everything about Jane Park at Acme
• Brief me before my call with Marc tomorrow
• Find the email for the CFO at Acme
• Email everyone I know who's a founder
• How do I import my LinkedIn connections?

Share your network

How to

1. Go to Settings → Network sharing. Choose WHAT is searchable (LinkedIn connections, email relationships from all or selected mailboxes, and optionally Browse so they can scroll your whole people table — emails stay hidden there).
2. Add WHO may search it: a person by email, or your whole company domain. Someone already on xhuman gets access immediately; anyone else gets an invite letter from your own mailbox with a code that unlocks your network and a free week to try it.
3. Once a teammate has shared with you, every network question I answer sweeps your network first and then theirs automatically. Say “search Alice's network” to search only hers, or open /network?owner=… to browse it.
4. Revoke anyone from the same pane at any time — their view answers “no longer shared” immediately. I never read a teammate's email content, only who they know.
5. You can also bring teammates in while creating a campaign: tick “My team's network” on the “Where should xhuman look?” step and invite them on the teammates page. Each Invite click sends that one email right then — from xhuman, in your name (“<you> via xhuman”, replies come to you), never from your own inbox — and the letter names the campaign and asks the teammate to share their network for it. Nothing about invites leaves at Launch. That step never asks you to open YOUR network. Invitees get a free week to try it. Sharing your own network with them stays a Settings → Network sharing decision (or say “share my network back with <name>”).
6. When a teammate opens their network to you, say “share my network back with <name>” (or with everyone at your company) and I write the grant after you approve a card that names exactly what they get — nothing sends. Their contacts who match a campaign you set up with “My team's network” land on that list held, marked “known by <name>”, and you are told how many.

Try asking

• How do I let a colleague search my network?
• Share my network with dana@northwind.com
• Search Alice's network for anyone at Stripe
• Who has shared their network with me?
• Stop sharing my network with Marc
• Share my network back with Priya
• Let everyone at my company see who I know
• Priya invited me into a team campaign — what does she see?

Standing rules

How to

1. State the rule the way you'd tell a person: “from now on, always capitalize first names in outreach”.
2. I save it, tell you whether it's system-enforced at send time or followed as an instruction, and it applies from then on.
3. Ask “what rules do I have?” to review them; “pause”, “change”, or “drop” any rule the same way.

Try asking

• From now on, first names must always be capitalized in our emails
• Always keep outreach emails under 120 words
• What standing rules do I have?
• Drop the rule about Fridays

Outreach defaults

How to

1. Say the default: “default all my new campaigns to 40 emails a day”.
2. When you change one campaign's setting, I'll offer once to make it the default for future campaigns, existing ones, or both.
3. Defaults apply at creation — existing campaigns change via the matching apply-to-all action or per-campaign edits.

Try asking

• Default my campaigns to 40 emails a day
• Always cc my cofounder on outreach going forward
• What are my outreach defaults?

Inbox placement (spam test)

How to

1. Ask me to test your deliverability (or a campaign's first email); I show a card naming the mailbox, the price and that one real test email leaves — you approve it.
2. Results land in the card in a few minutes; ask me for the report any time (“how did the spam test go?”).
3. If a campaign's reply rate looks like a placement problem I'll say so on the campaign read and offer the test — I never run one unasked.
4. You can also run and browse tests under Settings › Email › Inbox placement.

Try asking

• Are my emails landing in spam?
• Test my deliverability
• Run a spam test on my Gmail
• Why is my open rate so low?
• Nobody replies to this campaign — is it the inbox?
• Check my SPF, DKIM and DMARC
• Is my domain blacklisted?
• How did the spam test go?

Sending capacity

How to

1. Ask what you're sending and I'll show the split per account: what's owed to follow-ups, what's left, and what each campaign is getting.
2. Set the ceiling for an account (“cap me at 50 a day”) — that's the pool everything is divided out of.
3. Rank the campaigns. The top one is filled first; a campaign below the line starts nobody new that day, though its follow-ups still go out.
4. Set one campaign's target with “start 10 new people a day on <campaign>”.

Try asking

• How many emails am I sending a day?
• How many people can I send per day?
• What's my global max emails?
• Why isn't this campaign starting anyone new?
• Cap my sending at 50 a day
• Make the investor campaign top priority

Automations

How to

1. Describe the rule (“every weekday at 8am, summarize new investor replies”).
2. I turn it into a scheduled automation you can edit or turn off.
3. Say where the result should land — Telegram, text message (SMS), or email. Texts need the SMS channel switched on first.
4. For something already scheduled, just say so — “cancel that email”, “move it to 6”, “send it now”. You can also see everything queued at /automations/scheduled.

Try asking

• Every morning, tell me which emails need a reply
• Automatically draft replies to inbound demo requests
• Text me when Thomas replies
• What have I got scheduled to go out?
• Cancel the email to Sam

Your digital twin

How to

1. Ask me to train your twin from your notes, or set its voice and signature.
2. Ask what visitors have been asking your twin.

Try asking

• Train my twin on this doc
• What have people asked my twin this week?

Knowledge base

How to

1. Ask a question about your knowledge base, or ask me to update an article.
2. Tell me to remember (or forget) a durable fact about you.

Try asking

• What do my notes say about our pricing strategy?
• Remember that I prefer morning meetings

Profile & services

How to

1. Ask me to edit a section of your profile, or set up a service you offer.
2. I draft the changes and you approve.

Try asking

• Update my profile's about section
• Set up a paid 1:1 advisory service

Connections & settings

How to

1. Ask me to connect a service; I show an inline connect card.
2. Ask what's connected, or update a setting like your timezone.
3. LinkedIn has a connect card like everything else — it opens a dialog with two doors: live sync on any paid plan, or the free Connections.csv file that any plan can use.

Try asking

• Connect my calendar
• What accounts do I have connected?
• Set my timezone to Pacific

Chat by Telegram or SMS

How to

1. Turn a channel on in Settings → Channels: connect Telegram (scan the QR), or enable SMS to text from your verified phone.
2. Once on, message the bot / number like you message me here.
3. On SMS these exact texts are commands: NEW (fresh chat), RESET (fresh + clear focus), CLEAR (drop focus), STATUS (chat state), HELP (this list), STOP (opt out), START (opt back in). Anything else is a normal question for me.
4. On Telegram, type / for the full command menu.
5. Ask me to change what you're pinged about, or to set quiet hours — no command needed, just say it.

Try asking

• How do I text you?
• What commands can I text you?
• How do I start a fresh conversation over text?
• Set up SMS
• Can I chat with you on Telegram?
• Stop pinging me about study alerts

Invites & referrals

How to

1. Ask me for your invite link or to invite someone.

Try asking

• Give me my referral link
• Invite my cofounder to xhuman

Getting started guide

How to

1. Open the Feature guide chat pinned at the top of the sidebar.
2. Ask me "what should I set up next?" or "show my progress" anywhere.

Try asking

• What should I set up next?
• Show my setup progress
• What am I not using yet?

Web search

How to

1. Just ask a factual question and I look it up.

Try asking

• What's the latest funding round for Anthropic?
• What's the exchange rate for EUR to USD?

Proactive proposals

How to

1. Ask “what's waiting for me?” and I list the proposals the engine staged.
2. Answer in plain words — “do the first one”, “skip the reconnect” — and I execute or dismiss it; nothing runs until you say so.
3. Ask “what do you think I'm chasing?” and I show the goals the engine works from — correct or retire any of them in plain words and it sticks.

Try asking

• What did you find for me?
• Show my pending proposals
• Approve the outreach one, skip the rest
• That M&A campaign isn't my goal — drop it

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