Use Lindy to introduce speaker-network members
Bill Bishop built a Lindy agent to make introductions within his keynote-speaker community.
Original prompt
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Only use the speakers in the Google Sheet for this task.
Reach people exploring AI agents
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- Bill Bishop
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- Reported result
- Bishop reports introductions and spreadsheet logs returning to listed members after he corrected an agent that had emailed outsiders.
- Human involvement
- Bishop inspected Sent and corrected recipient scope.
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How the agent did it
- Read the approved member spreadsheet.
- Choose pairs and explain the connection.
- Restrict outreach after inspecting sent messages.
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.
Prompt
Original prompt
Source: bigideafuture.substack.com · Bill Bishop
Frequently asked questions
How many pairs were requested?
Five promising member pairs each week.
What went wrong with outreach?
The agent emailed people outside the spreadsheet.
How was the scope corrected?
Bishop limited the task to listed members.
More details
About this account
The agent selected pairs and drafted introductions.
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Credit: Bill Bishop
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Tools and topics
Lindy · Google Sheets · Email
Speaker networks · Introductions · Scope control
Editorial completeness: 100/100. Measures documented fields, not agent performance or verified outcomes.