AI Assist is We-Connect's built-in AI layer for LinkedIn and email outreach. It writes personalized messages, summarizes contact profiles and conversation threads, generates icebreakers, varies your phrasing with spintax, replies to prospects for you, and powers the AI agents and Post Remix.
In this article, we'll cover how to set up your AI context, where to find AI Assist, and how to use each of its features.
Step 1: Give the AI the right context
Before using AI Assist, give it the context it needs to write messages that sound like you.
Enable AI. From the settings menu, open 'AI Settings' and click 'Enable AI.' Then set your default language and tone of voice.
Create a business snapshot. A business snapshot tells AI about your company so every generated message reflects your value proposition and brand voice. When creating a snapshot, you'll provide:
Business name and your main product or service
Your website or product link
Your target audience
The main problem you solve
Your goal for outreach
AI language and tone of voice for this snapshot
An optional file upload (PDF) for extra context
You can create multiple snapshots for different products, markets, or campaigns. Because each snapshot has its own language and tone, every product or service can have its own setup. Assign a specific snapshot to each campaign.
For a full walkthrough, see How to Add Business Snapshots for AI Context and How to Configure AI Settings.
Step 2: Open AI Assist
You can use AI Assist anywhere you can send a message in We-Connect:
The Messaging tab
The Campaign Manager
A contact's profile on the Contacts page
Select a contact and click the 'AI Assist' button in the message composer toolbar. In all three locations, you'll find it at the bottom of the composer, next to the emoji, attachment, and voice note icons.
Step 3: Choose what you want AI to do
Clicking the 'AI Assist' button gives you three options:
Option | What it does |
Generate message | Opens the AI Assist panel, where you type a prompt and click 'Generate' to create a custom message. |
Digest Profile | Get a quick summary of the contact's experience, education, and key details, along with a personalized outreach message you can send. |
Digest Thread | Summarize your message thread with the contact, highlight next steps, and draft a professional reply in seconds. |
Inside the AI Assist panel, you can also:
Open the Prompts Library to browse ready-made prompts for connection requests, follow-ups, InMails, and more, or create your own. When saving a prompt, name it, select the type (LinkedIn or email), and enter the prompt text.
Open History to revisit past AI chats.
Click the settings icon at the top of the panel to access your AI settings.
Step 4: Refine your message by chatting with AI
Once your message is generated, it already reflects the tone, language, and voice from your business snapshot, so there is no need to adjust formality or tone settings manually. If you want changes, just tell the AI what to change, right in the chat. For example:
"Make it shorter and more casual"
"Translate this into Spanish"
"Remove the second paragraph and end with a question"
"Make it sound less salesy"
The AI updates the message based on your instructions, and you can keep iterating until it's right. When you're happy with the result, insert it into your message and send.
Using AI Assist in your campaigns
AI Assist works while building or editing campaigns too. Open the AI assist menu in the campaign message composer to generate or refine your message. You can also:
Add AI icebreakers. Insert the AI Icebreaker variable into your connection requests, follow-ups, or InMails. AI analyzes each prospect's LinkedIn profile and writes a unique opening line for every contact, so your outreach never sounds like a template. Learn more in AI Icebreaker: Personalized Message Openers.
Use the Spintax Writer. Generate multiple variations of a message that rotate across contacts, keeping your outreach from sounding repetitive at scale. Learn more in Using Spintax Writer for LinkedIn Messages.
Turn on AI auto-reply. When prospects reply, AI can keep the conversation going. Co-pilot mode drafts a reply for your review, so you can send with one click. Fully autonomous mode reads the incoming message, writes the response, and sends it automatically. In both modes, We-Connect sends you a notification email so you always know what AI is doing on your behalf. Learn more in AI Auto-Reply: Automated Responses for Your Campaigns.
AI agents and Post Remix
As We-Connect's AI layer, AI Assist also powers the AI agents inside the LinkedIn Lead Engine, which score, segment, and route your leads automatically:
Profile analysis & lead scoring agent: Evaluates each contact's LinkedIn profile against your ideal customer criteria, such as job title, industry, location, and company size, and assigns a score from 0 to 100. Pair it with a condition step to prioritize your best-fit prospects before outreach even starts. Learn more in How to Use the Lead Scoring Agent to Score and Filter Contacts by Fit
Sentiment analysis agent: Analyzes comments and reactions on LinkedIn posts and automatically segments contacts into positive, neutral, and negative workflow paths based on how they engaged. Learn more in How to Use the Sentiment Analysis Agent to Route Contacts by Engagement Intent
Intent Agents (Watchlist): Monitor LinkedIn activity signals and surface prospects who are already showing buying signals, capturing warm leads into your pipeline automatically. Learn more in How to Create a Watchlist
AI Assist also drives Post Remix, where you can generate LinkedIn posts with AI prompts, remix existing posts into original content in your own voice, and schedule them to keep your profile active between campaigns. Learn more in the Post Remix collection.
The agents and Post Remix use your business snapshot for context, so the setup you completed in Step 1 powers these features too.
FAQ
Is AI Assist included in my plan? Yes. AI Assist is available across all paid We-Connect plans, including AI-generated messages, icebreakers, profile and thread summaries, spintax, business snapshots, and auto-reply in both co-pilot and autonomous modes.
Do I need a business snapshot to use AI Assist? You can use Digest Profile and Digest Thread without one, but a business snapshot makes generated messages far more relevant because AI knows your company, audience, and goals. We recommend setting one up before launching campaigns.
Can I switch between co-pilot and autonomous auto-reply modes? Yes. You can switch modes at any time, even after a campaign is live. Changes take effect immediately.
What language does AI Assist write in? AI uses the default language and tone set in your AI Settings. If the business snapshot you are using has its own language and tone, those apply instead, so each product or campaign can have a different setup. You can also ask AI to translate any generated message into another language directly in the chat.
Where can I see my past AI conversations? Open the AI Assist panel and click 'History' at the bottom to view past chats with AI Assist.
Have questions about AI Assist? Contact our support team using the chat icon in the bottom right corner of the app. We're always happy to help!