Categorize Conversations on LinkedIn with Tags
Cold is the best relationship tracker for LinkedIn — scoring every connection, tagging every contact, and telling you exactly who to reach out to before the relationship goes cold.
LinkedIn gives you one inbox. Every conversation — investor, prospect, candidate, partner, cold outreach, old colleague — lands in the same undifferentiated list, sorted by recency and nothing else. There's no way to separate the conversations that matter from the ones that don't. No way to group contacts by deal stage, relationship type, or campaign. No way to open your inbox and see only the people you actually need to talk to today.
Cold fixes that with tags. Every LinkedIn conversation gets categorised. Every inbox view gets filtered. You stop managing a list and start managing a pipeline.
Why categorising LinkedIn conversations matters:
At low volume, a flat inbox is manageable. At the volume most founders, SDRs, and GTM teams operate at, it becomes a liability. The warm lead you meant to follow up on gets buried under connection requests. The investor thread you needed to keep warm gets lost under recruiter spam. The customer you're trying to expand gets the same visual weight as someone who messaged you once in 2023.
Tags give every conversation the right priority. And filters make sure you're always looking at the right conversations — not all of them at once.
How tagging works in Cold:
Cold lets you tag every LinkedIn contact and conversation with any label that maps to how you work. A few examples of how people use tags:
By relationship type — Investor, Customer, Partner, Advisor, Candidate, Press By deal stage — Warm Lead, Active Deal, Proposal Sent, Closed Won, Nurture By campaign — Q2 Outreach, Series A Fundraise, Hiring — Head of Sales By priority — Follow Up Today, Waiting on Reply, Re-engage, Not Now
Tags are applied manually or by Cold's AI — which categorises new conversations based on context, contact history, and signals from across Gmail, WhatsApp, and Slack. Once tagged, every conversation is filterable. You open Cold, select a tag, and see only what belongs there.
Agentic research informs every tag.
Cold's AI agent runs background web research on every contact in your inbox — surfacing their role, company news, recent activity, and funding signals. That research informs how contacts are tagged and when tags should change. A contact tagged Warm Lead whose company just raised a round gets flagged for immediate outreach. A contact tagged Nurture who just moved to a new role gets surfaced as a re-engagement opportunity. The tags stay accurate because Cold is always watching — even when you're not.
Why people use Cold for LinkedIn DMs:
Reading and replying to LinkedIn DMs alongside Gmail, WhatsApp, and Slack in one inbox
Seeing the full relationship history with a contact — across every channel — before replying
Getting AI-drafted LinkedIn replies informed by email threads, Slack context, and DM history combined
Tracking which LinkedIn conversations have gone quiet and need a follow-up
Syncing LinkedIn DM history to Attio, HubSpot, or Salesforce automatically
Knowing when a colleague has already messaged a contact before you reach out
How it Works
Cold connects to your LinkedIn inbox alongside Gmail, WhatsApp, and Slack. Every interaction with every contact is logged automatically — no manual entry. Relationship strength is scored continuously across all channels combined. Tags let you segment your network by relationship type. Filters surface the right contacts at the right time. The AI agent researches every contact in the background. And the AI copilot tells you what to do with what it finds.
Your LinkedIn network stops being a list and starts being an asset.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I create custom tags in Cold? Yes. Cold supports fully custom tags — any label, any category, any structure that maps to how you work.
Can Cold apply tags automatically? Yes. Cold's AI categorises new conversations based on context, contact history, and cross-channel signals — and suggests or applies tags automatically.
Can I filter my LinkedIn inbox by tag? Yes. Cold lets you filter your entire inbox by any tag — so you can see only investor conversations, only warm leads, or only contacts in a specific campaign at any time.
Do tags apply across channels or just LinkedIn? Tags apply to the contact — so a tag applied to a LinkedIn conversation also surfaces when you're viewing that contact's Gmail thread or WhatsApp history in Cold.
Can Cold's AI research inform how contacts are tagged? Yes. Cold's AI agent runs background research on every contact and uses those signals — role changes, company news, funding activity — to keep tags accurate and surface re-engagement opportunities.
Does Cold prepare me for meetings with tagged contacts? Yes. Cold generates automatic pre-meeting briefings tailored to the contact's tag context — so an investor briefing and a customer briefing are structured differently.
Is Cold a CRM? No. Cold is a relationship layer across your inboxes. Tags and filters in Cold sync to your CRM — Attio, HubSpot, or Salesforce — automatically.
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