I help financial leaders generate leads with AI on LinkedIn | LinkedIn Marketing Specialist

I'm Tim Sergev, the COO at Pipeline Upgrade. We help UK IT providers fill their calendars with qualified meetings without the gamble of retainers or hiring SDRs.

We've delivered 2,500+ qualified meetings and generated £10M+ in client revenue by solving one critical problem: getting IT providers in front of buyers exactly when they're ready to switch.


HERE'S HOW WE WORK:

You tell us your ICP (company size, sector, services, buying signals). We find them, qualify them, and book the meetings. You only pay when they show up qualified.

No retainers. No ramp periods. No wasted ad spend.


WE CAN HELP YOU IF:

- You're an MSP, VAR, or IT reseller doing consistent revenue but growth has plateaued. You need predictable pipeline without hiring a sales team

- You've burned cash on retainer agencies (£5K+/month) that delivered reports instead of meetings. You want results you can actually measure

- You want 10-20 qualified meetings per month with IT buyers actively evaluating new providers


REAL RESULTS:

• One client got 80 meetings in 60 days and created a £2M pipeline. 

• Another invested £10K with us and signed a £250K contract.

• Our meeting rejection rate sits below 10% (most agencies are 30%+).


SO IF YOU:

- Are a UK IT services provider doing £10M+ annually
- Sell solutions with contract values £20K+
- Want your sales team calendar filled with qualified IT buyers

Send me a DM, or book free consultation at 👉 https://www.pipelineupgrade.com/

Tim Sergeev

Most marketing agencies sell visibility.

Very few sell outcomes.

Our appointment setting delivers 4x higher ROI than traditional marketing services.

Not because we are smarter.
Not because we are louder.

Because we optimise for the only metric that matters.

→ Qualified appointments
→ Real conversations
→ Actual opportunities

SEO looks good.
Content looks good.
Social media looks good.

But none of them pay salaries.

Appointments do.

And that is why appointment setting is not sexy.

No fancy graphs.
No vanity metrics.
No dopamine hits.

Just booked meetings and close rates.

Businesses do not need more exposure.

They need more conversations with the right people.

Everything else is noise.

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Tim Sergeev
COO @ Pipeline Upgrade
I make business run smoothly

COO @ Pipeline Upgrade | Predictable Revenue for UK IT Providers 👉 pipelineupgrade.com

Lately I keep coming back to the same thought.

Most service businesses are not limited by sales.

They are limited by operations.

I did not fully realise this until we hit the wall ourselves in 2025.

We were working hard but every new client made the business harder, not better.

That was the warning sign.

So instead of pushing for more growth, we slowed down and fixed delivery.

We've made one clear way of doing things.

Nothing fancy.

However the outcome was astonishing.

With the SAME TEAM, we started handling around 4x MORE CLIENTS.

Thats insane, right?

4x revenue doing the same thing.

That changed how I look at growth.

If operations are messy, growth just amplifies the mess.
More clients do not fix the business.

I genuinely believe this will become obvious to a lot of founders in 2026.

Not because it is trendy, but because the ceiling becomes impossible to ignore.

If growth feels hard, it might not be a demand problem.

It might simply be how your business runs.

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Tim Sergeev
COO @ Pipeline Upgrade
I make business run smoothly

I do not believe in New Years resolutions.

I believe in written goals and brutal focus.

I have been writing my goals every year for the last three years.
And every year, I achieved them.

Not because the goals were easy.
And not because I knew how to achieve them.

But because written goals change how you operate.

Here is what writing goals really does:

→ It forces you to choose
→ It removes ambiguity
→ It turns ideas into commitments

When goals are written, everything else becomes noise.

You stop asking
"What should I do next?"

You start asking
"Does this move me closer to the goal?"

That shift changes everything.

The days when you feel lost?
↳ The goals tell you what to do.

The days when everything feels urgent?
↳ The goals tell you what to ignore.

The days when you doubt yourself?
↳ The goals keep you moving.

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So here is the question for you:

Did you write your goals or are you hoping the year figures it out for you?

♻️ Share your opinion in comment section bellow

Sabahudin Murtic ⚡️

I Help Solopreneurs with AI Content Workflows to Grow their LinkedIn. ⚡️ Get More Done in Less Time with My Newsletter AI Case Study

LinkedIn has 1 billion users. 80% of business happens there.

AI is about to add $15 trillion to the global economy by 2030.

Yet most founders & consultants are doing neither right.

Maybe you are in a similar position:

You have an offer.
You're good at what you do. 
You post on LinkedIn (or not at all)
You gain some attention, but you do not monetize it.

Overall, you're not getting leads or calls.

Here's what's actually happening:

You're creating content, but nobody knows what you're selling
You don't know who your best buyers are or how to find them
Your DMs feel awkward because you don't have a value-based system.

People with great expertise making $10K+/month
While others with the same skills make $50K/month using LinkedIn social selling & value-based outreach campaigns.

Businesses spending 40 hours on tasks AI could do in 4 hours
Money and time just... disappearing

I've been on both sides.

I quit my job 8 months after starting on LinkedIn. 
By year two, I was making consistent, predictable revenue.

I made every mistake. 
Wasted tons of time. 
Eventually, after a lot of testing, I figured out what works.

Now I help other founders skip the trial and error.

➤ Two ways we can work together:

1) Done-For-You LinkedIn Lead Generation (Nomad V Group)
My agency builds your entire LinkedIn system so leads come to you.

Here's what we do:

- Figure out your best offer and who actually wants to buy it
- Find your dream clients on LinkedIn and build a list
- Warm them up with strategic comments before you reach out
- Create value-based resource files
- Create content that builds trust before they book a call with you.
- Send DMs that start conversations and book calls by sharing free value up front.
- Track everything so you know what's working

Result: Qualified calls every month. 

2) AI Strategy & Implementation

- I help you use AI in your actual business operations.
- We look at your current workflows, find where AI fits, and build systems around it.

Result: 
Your team works faster. 
You save 10-20 hours per week. 
Your business runs smoother.

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LinkedIn and AI aren't going away. 
But every month you wait, the gap gets bigger.

You already know your stuff. 
You just need the right system to turn it into revenue.
If you want help building that system, let's talk.

👉 DM me "INTERESTED" 

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Want to work together on promoting your tool? 
Email: sabahudin@nomadvgroup.com

Freelance

Sabahudin Murtic

I used to spend 5+ hours weekly stalking competitors' content.

Manually scrolling.
Screenshot saving.
Spreadsheet updating.

All to figure out what's working for them.

Now? An AI agent does it while I sleep.

I call it Master Roshi 🥋
(because it learns from the masters)

aaaaand...

It's NOT about copying.

It's about spotting patterns that work.
Then applying them with YOUR voice.
YOUR perspective.
YOUR unique angle.

How does this make me better?

Before: I was reactive.
Create → Post → React to results → Repeat.

Now: I'm proactive.
I know what works BEFORE I create it.

How Master Roshi works:

1️⃣ I add competitors in Notion
2️⃣ It pulls their recent posts automatically
3️⃣ Analyzes engagement patterns
4️⃣ Compares their top content to mine
5️⃣ Sends me insights via email + Notion

Topics. Timing. Format. Tone.
All broken down.

Built it using Kortix platform with MCP connections to Gmail and Notion.

The best part is that...

This isn't about working harder.
It's about making decisions based on data, not guesses.

Same creativity.
Same voice.
Just smarter direction.

I went from "I hope this post works" to "I know why this will work."

Comment "Master Roshi" and I'll send you the full guide to build it yourself.

P.S.

What's eating most of your content creation time right now?

Co-Founder of Nomad V Group -​> I fix LinkedIn systems that get attention but no leads with value-based outreach & AI social selling for founders and consultants. -​> 30+ happy clients

Track your competitors content in 2026

I've been wondering something lately...
If I disappeared from LinkedIn tomorrow...
Would you even notice?

Not fishing for compliments here.
Genuinely asking.

Because I've been posting for almost 2 years now.
Sharing my wins. My losses. My messy middle.
Building in public. Trying to help where I can.

But sometimes I wonder:

Did any of it actually land?
Did something I wrote change how you think?
Did a workflow I shared save you time?
Did a story I told make you feel less alone?

Or am I just another voice in the feed?

My reality is...

I don't know if I've built a real community.
Or just a follower count.

So I'm asking you directly.

If I vanished tomorrow, what would you remember about me?

One word. One post. One thing.

Whatever comes to mind.

I want to know if I'm actually making an impact.
Or if I need to change something.

Drop it in the comments.

Be honest. I can take it.

This infographic took me 60 seconds to make.

I didn't open Canva once.

What's the issue with most infographic generators?

They're too generic or too AI-ish.

Plus, creating on-brand infographics and picking the right layout is time-consuming.

It's like cooking a great meal and then spending 3 hours plating it.

So I built an Infographic Prompt Generator.

It has 15+ layout logics that are picked by context — the AI reads your input and chooses the right design composition automatically.

Before vs after? → Side-by-side layout.
Explaining a process? → Step-by-step flow.
Listing problems? → Left vs right comparison.

And so on...

Here's how it works:

1️⃣ Grab your post text or transcript
2️⃣ Run it through the Infographic Prompt Generator
3️⃣ Run the prompt you get with nano-banana
4️⃣ Get an on-brand infographic instantly

It follows my colors.
It follows my fonts.
It matches my brand perfectly.

You set this up once and use it forever.

Your content deserves visuals that match.
Without the design headache.

If you want:

→ The exact prompt I created
→ Instructions to customize it for your brand
→ Template references for different infographic styles

Let me know in the comments and I'll share the full implementation guide.

P.S.

How much time do you spend on visuals for your posts?

ChatGPT told me my post was "7/10, great work!"

Reality? It was a 3/10.

Most LLMs are programmed to please you.
Not to push you.

They validate. They don't challenge.

And that's exactly why your content sounds like everyone else's.

So I tried something different.

I started using Stanley (Your Content Coach) as my content coach.

Not because it's another AI.
But because it actually knows ME.

Here's what makes it different:

→ It analyzes my actual posts (not generic templates)
→ It sees my engagement data (what's working, what's not)
→ It learns my voice (so I don't sound like a robot)
→ It challenges my ideas (instead of just agreeing)

I asked Stanley 5 questions about building trust through content.

The answers weren't generic tips.

They were specific breakdowns of MY content:

→ Which themes drive my highest engagement
→ Which posts build trust vs. just visibility
→ What storytelling patterns make me relatable
→ Where my content gaps are
→ What my unique "trust positioning" actually is

All based on my 206 posts from 2025.
Real data. Real patterns. Real insights.

The difference?

Regular AI: "Your content looks great! Maybe post more consistently."

Stanley: "Your personal journey posts outperform tips 2-3x. Your highest-trust posts have 1.96 comments per like. You're missing client transformation stories."

That's the gap.

One tells you what you want to hear.
The other tells you what you need to hear.

You can analyse your content in 2025 by trying Stanley here (3-day free trial): https://lnkd.in/dJ4VipMx

(trust me, it is worth it, and you can see in the carousel the relevant data points I get)

I'm not saying AI is bad for content.
I'm saying most people use it wrong.

They ask AI to write FOR them.
Instead of asking AI to coach them.

Stanley became my content soulmate.
Not because it writes my posts.
But because it makes me a better writer.

Swipe through the carousel to see the full breakdown of how this works.

P.S.

What's the one thing you wish AI would be more honest about?

How I use AI to be my content coach in 2026

4 months since we launched the agency, and we got 100+ calls booked, 14 clients closed, and 10x revenue – all from one Claude skill I built for ICP lead qualification.

But let me tell you where we was before this...

We burnt through 3,000 leads when starting the agency.
Reply rate? 2%.
Booked calls? Maybe 5.

The problem wasn't our outreach. It was our list.

Half were B2C companies.
A quarter were non-English profiles.
The rest? People who hadn't touched LinkedIn in months.

We were paying Clay credits to enrich garbage.
Spending hours crafting personalized messages to people who would never buy.

We were building lists backwards.

Sales Nav search: "CEO" + "Company size 1-10,000" + "Worldwide"
Result? 5 million profiles.

Then we'd try to narrow it down manually.
Scroll. Click. Read. Disqualify.
5-10 minutes per lead. 70% rejection rate.

The more leads we burnt, the harder it became.

We started doubting our offer.
"Maybe our service isn't valuable?"

Wrong. The restaurant owner I pitched doesn't need LinkedIn strategy. 😂 

No amount of "better messaging" would fix that.

So I created a Claude ICP segmentation skill that does the following:

➤ Step 1: ICP discovery

Feed it your business context, past clients (good and bad fits), pricing.

Claude builds detailed personas with:
→ Demographics + emotional drivers
→ Intent signals + where to find them
→ Qualifying questions for each

➤ Step 2: Three-stage qualification

Stage 1: Algorithmic rules (instant)
- Company size, geography, industry exclusions

Stage 2: Quick screening (2 sec/lead)
- Role match, B2B check, decision authority

Stage 3: Deep qualification (5 sec/lead)
- Full context analysis + multi-profile potential scoring

➤ Step 3: csv processing

I upload my lead list directly into Claude.
76 leads in → 45 seconds → Output:
- 20 qualified (26% pass rate)
- 6 HIGH PRIORITY multi-profile opportunities
- 56 disqualified with reasons

➤ Step 4: outreach angles

For high-priority leads, Claude researches recent activity, funding, LinkedIn gaps.
Then writes personalized outreach angles.
No generic "I saw your post" templates.

The result?

10-20% reply rates (up from 2%).
Only talking to problem-aware prospects.

With that said, I'm giving this skill away for free.

Grab it here: https://tally.so/r/aQ2P4q

And you will get: 

- The Claude skill file
- Full explanation how it works in practice
- The three-stage qualification prompts
- The Sales Nav/Apollo filter setup guide

p.s.

Who else is tired of burning leads on the wrong people?

The 2nd working week of 2026 is done.

This is my weekly accountability post.

I started documenting this journey last week – check the post here: https://lnkd.in/d7yud6wV
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3 targets for this week:

→ Finish my workshop ✅
→ Record and post YT video ✅
→ Fix client issues from last week ✅

All 3 done. First time I hit 100% on weekly targets this year.

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3 things going well:

→ Community outline and recording moving forward
→ Current work for new client I closed last week
→ AI workflows running smoothly in Relay

Momentum is building. I can feel it.

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3 things to improve:

→ Content repurposing system (still not where I want it)
→ Gym and food (my health keeps sliding)
→ Our DFY offer is overwhelming us and we closed 0 clients this week

That last one stings. 
Revenue week = zero. 
But clarity week = high. 

Sometimes you need a bad week to see what's broken.

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3 plans for next week:

→ Go to gym 4 times (no more excuses)
→ Optimize my video scripts
→ Launch new outreach campaigns

Simple. Focused. No distractions.

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Building in public means showing the messy middle.

Not just the wins. The real stuff.

This week I started documenting my weekly journey inspired by J.D. Meier framework - I will include his link here: https://lnkd.in/dQ4WwKFG

What's one thing you're working to improve right now?

3d accountability post in 2026: time to be honest about what happened this week:

3 wins:

- new client (2nd this year + we booked 5 more calls with potential prospects for next week)
- hit thw gym 4 times/week (finally)
- realized a new offer angle that can help me to scale my business faster

pretty good results since last week when we had only 3 meetings and 0 new clients)

3 improvements:

- Claude code/skills/project/2nd brain updated (definitely will be the 1st option for 2026)
- One more community module recorded (Feb will definitely be a launch day).
- Value-based outreach will be my angle around every action I take in 2026 (all of us need more clients for stable and enjoyable business).

claude is crazy good
now I use chatgpt only if my ego is down so I go and ask him why I am the best in the world, and he always lies to me in the best possible way 🤣

3 challenges:

- FOMO of AI is killing me (too exciting, and it is a huge distraction).
- more lead magnet posts or just keep it as usual (trying to overcome low reach so I can get more subs, which matters to me the most)
- still struggling with the client; we close in Dec (didn't find a way of improvement, but I am close)

when I see how much we can achieve, I realize I need more focus on what matters the most (more client wins + new clients for our business)

3 goals for the next week:

- Finish the community outline (so I can focus more on how to market - everything is ready to invite people in the proper way).
- finish claude skills for all LinkedIn tasks
- write 3-5 story in my physical diary so I can use it as input in my repurposing system)


how was your week?

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