ProspectBuddy

ProspectBuddy (http://pbuddy.io">pbuddy.io) is a Chrome extension designed for LinkedIn prospecting that helps sales teams, recruiters, and solo professionals turn LinkedIn profiles into structured contact records without the usual copy-paste grind. Its core promise is one-click lead capture: while browsing a LinkedIn profile, you can extract the data you need and send it directly to Airtable or Trello, where it appears as a clean, structured row or card ready for follow-up.

What sets the tool apart from many competitors is its positioning around safety and compliance. Rather than relying on bots, scrapers, or automated connection requests — tactics that often get LinkedIn accounts restricted or banned — ProspectBuddy is built for safe, manual LinkedIn prospecting and does not perform automated actions on your behalf. You stay in control of every action, working directly from real profile pages, which the company frames as a safer alternative to bulk scraping workflows. https://www.pbuddy.io/">pbuddy

Beyond simple data capture, the extension offers a few enrichment and outreach features. It can find verified business emails and reveal direct phone numbers for B2B contacts, and it includes an AI message generator that drafts personalized outreach based on the profile's content. Users select which LinkedIn fields they want (name, job experience, skills, about section, photo, URL, email, phone) and map them to the matching Airtable or Trello fields through a saved setting, so each subsequent send follows the same template.

Setup is straightforward: you connect Airtable or Trello via OAuth-style permissions, pick the bases or boards you want to expose, and configure field mappings once. After that, capturing a lead becomes a couple of clicks from any profile page.

Pricing runs on a simple credit system handled through Stripe. The Starter plan is $10 for 500 credits and the Growth plan is $20 for 1,000 credits, with a Custom tier for high-volume teams that need white-labeling, custom integrations, or dedicated support. Each action costs a defined number of credits: 10 for an email search, 50 for a phone number search, 5 to generate an AI message, and 1 to send data to Airtable or Trello. Importantly, if an email or phone search returns nothing, you are not charged, and repeat searches on the same profile do not double-bill.

The site highlights a 5-star Chrome Web Store rating and testimonials from a head of sales and a product manager using it for sales pipelines and recruiting workflows respectively, suggesting the tool is aimed at small-to-mid-sized teams who already live in Airtable or Trello rather than full-blown enterprise CRMs. It's a focused, lightweight, single-purpose Chrome utility.