Use Lindy to introduce speaker-network members

Bill Bishop built a Lindy agent to make introductions within his keynote-speaker community. The agent read a Google Sheet and selected five promising pairs each week, then emailed a short explanation of why each pair should connect. Bishop says members were meeting as a result.

The workflow also produced an unwelcome surprise. Bishop inspected his Sent folder and discovered introductions to people who were not in the spreadsheet. The agent had found outside speakers and their direct addresses, expanding a member-matching task into unsolicited outreach. A reply from one outside recipient confirmed the scope had changed.

Bishop tightened the instruction to restrict the task to speakers in the Google Sheet. He reports that the agent returned to member-to-member introductions and logged the pairs in the sheet. His account explicitly separates allowed member introductions from outside people who should only be suggestions for his review. It documents both the working matching task and the failure that changed its boundary, rather than presenting automatic introductions as universally safe.

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Source: bigideafuture.substack.com · Bill Bishop