Why SpotFan exists
SpotFan grew out of my own work on LinkedIn. I use almost all of it myself, every day. Now it becomes software for everyone who wins their own customers.
Who is behind SpotFan
I am Nadeem Arif, a B2B tech entrepreneur for over 30 years. I have built two companies with annual revenues in the millions. With Outsourcing4work I ran software teams for German companies for 29 years, at times 220 people from 19 nations across nine time zones.
Since 2007 I have lived with ME/CFS and chronic pain syndrome. I am severely disabled and bedridden. From 2012 on I ran the company fully remotely, and for many years from bed.
My team today
Leading a team I never see in the same room: I have done that since 2012. Today that team is AI agents. They read my LinkedIn inbox and sort it. They collect the reactions under my posts and show me which of those people are my ideal customers. They research profiles, draft messages and posts, check each other's texts and help write the software. I set the direction and decide.
That work is what SpotFan becomes. Right now I am building it alone: concept, software, website.
Only the path LinkedIn allows
Almost every sales tool for LinkedIn relies on automation: browser extensions, bots that post, comment and message in their users' names, data pulled from the site without permission. LinkedIn prohibits this in its User Agreement and restricts accounts that get caught.
I think those restrictions are right. Automated tools fill LinkedIn with posts, comments and messages with no human behind them. Everyone who reads there pays for it. And whoever plays by the rules should not lose to bots.
So SpotFan uses only what LinkedIn itself provides for this: the official API and your own data export. Within that frame, SpotFan goes as far as it can. Every message is written for the one person who receives it. Whether it goes out is your decision. Your account is never on the line.
Your data stays with you
Almost every new software runs in the cloud. SpotFan does not. SpotFan works with your private messages, your contacts and what you know about your customers. That belongs on your computer, not on a vendor's server. So you install SpotFan on your own machine.
There is a second advantage. You can give SpotFan documents you would never upload to a cloud: about your company, your customers, your offers. From that come posts and ideas that sound like you, not like average.
And because AI changes so fast, SpotFan does not tie you to one model. You use your own AI subscription and decide whether a cheap model is enough or a strong one is needed. When a better one comes along, you switch. Your documents and your whole system stay where they are.
What comes next
Right now it is just me. Once SpotFan is on the market, I will build a team for setup, support and development. Leading a team across countries and time zones is something I did for fourteen years.
More about me and my path: arif.de