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Backlink prospecting with you sending

Finds the sites AI answers actually cite in your category, prepares what each publisher needs and drafts every outreach email. You send each email and approve each placement yourself.

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What it does

  • Pulls your search data and the sources AI engines cite for your buyer questions
  • Ranks sites to pitch by how often they are cited, not domain rating
  • Builds the material to hand each publisher
  • Drafts every outreach email
  • Runs weekly checks on placements

Your approval boundaries

Approval required

These actions always wait for your yes:

  • Sending any email
  • Approving any placement or published link

You decide what happens next.

More about this workflow

This setup is for marketers and solo creators who need steady output without losing their voice. It takes a repeat chore off your plate and hands back something you can check quickly.

First, it pulls your search data and the sources AI engines cite for your buyer questions. Next, it ranks sites to pitch by how often they are cited, not domain rating. Then it builds the material to hand each publisher. After that, it drafts every outreach email. Finally, it runs weekly checks on placements. It works with your analytics, web search and email, each on its own login with limited access.

You get the prep work done and waiting for you. The agent stops and asks for your yes before sending any email and approving any placement or published link, and says plainly if a step cannot be undone.

“The agent never hits send.”
borja @borjafat · Oct 4, 2026
Before you startAnalytics · Web search accessScoped permissionsClaude Code or Claude Desktop with MCP
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Tools and access

  • Google Analytics

    Handles the analytics part of this job. Grant Viewer role.

    API required: Yes. Needs a Google Cloud project with the Analytics Data API and an OAuth app or service account.

    Sign up: Google Analytics

  • Web search

    Handles the web search part of this job. Grant public search results only.

    API required: Optional. Built into most agent harnesses. A standalone search API needs its own key.

    No sign-up needed

  • Gmail

    Handles the email part of this job. Grant read-only plus compose (drafts) scopes.

    API required: Yes. Needs a Google Cloud project with an OAuth app and the Gmail API turned on. The agent signs in through OAuth with only the scopes you pick.

    Sign up: Google Workspace

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GPT-6.1 Sol

Strong general writer at a mid price.

$2 per million input tokens, $10 per million output tokens, for prompts up to 272K tokens. Longer prompts cost $4 in and $15 out.

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GPT-6 Luna

Very low cost for first drafts and digests.

$0.10 per million input tokens, $0.50 per million output tokens, for prompts up to 272K tokens.

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Build your prompt

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1Your details

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2Your prompt

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Fill these in before you run it: [YOUR SITE AND SEARCH CONSOLE] [BUYER QUESTIONS YOUR CUSTOMERS ASK AI] [OUTREACH VOICE AND LIMITS] [WEEKLY CHECK DAY] You are the Backlink prospecting with you sending agent. Finds the sites AI answers actually cite in your category, prepares what each publisher needs and drafts every outreach email. You send each email and approve each placement yourself. Use only the details filled in above. If any [BRACKETED] item is still blank or unclear, stop and ask for it first. Do not guess. What you do on your own: - Pulls your search data and the sources AI engines cite for your buyer questions - Ranks sites to pitch by how often they are cited, not domain rating - Builds the material to hand each publisher - Drafts every outreach email - Runs weekly checks on placements What you must never do without a yes from a person: - Sending any email - Approving any placement or published link Rules: - Before any step on the list above, stop and ask. Say in plain words what you want to do, who it affects, and whether it can be undone. - If something cannot be undone, say so first, in one short line. - Write drafts, not final actions. A person sends, pays, posts, or deletes. - Keep a short log of every action you took and every source you read. - If you are unsure, ask instead of guessing.
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Run your workflow

Connect your tools with only the access this setup needs, then follow these steps.

Steps

Do these in order. Test on old data before it touches live work.

  1. 1Connect Google Analytics with its own login, not yours. Grant Viewer role.
  2. 2Set up Web search. Keep it to public search results only.
  3. 3Connect Gmail with its own login, not yours. Grant read-only plus compose (drafts) scopes.
  4. 4Paste the prompt where your harness takes instructions. See the note under the Copy button.
  5. 5Do a dry run on old or test data first. Check every draft and every stop point by hand before you let it near live work.
  6. 6Read its log after the first real run. Only widen access once a week of runs looks clean.

Safeguards and trust score

The score describes this example setup’s access, approval boundaries, ability to undo changes, and scope.

Access18 / 30

Can draft things that send or spend, so it sits close to risky actions.

Human approval30 / 30

Waits for a yes on: sending any email, approving any placement or published link.

Undo and logs14 / 20

Proposes changes to live records, so the setup needs a change log and a way back.

Scope16 / 20

Runs on its own login across 3 tools. Fewer connections means a smaller blast radius.

How to raise it

  • Access: Take away its ability to send, post or spend. Let it only write drafts, and have a person press send or pay from their own account +6
  • Undo and logs: Stop it from editing live records. Have it write the change as a proposal you apply, and keep a log of every change with a way to roll it back +3
  • Scope: Cut it down from 3 connected tools to the 2 it needs most, each with its own limited login instead of your full account +2

Do all of these to reach 89, up from 78.

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