How to Choose the Right Phantom for your Goals

This guide helps you identify the best automation to use based on your lead generation or outreach goal, and shows how to explore available options in PhantomBuster’s Solutions page.

Use the Solutions page to explore automations based on your goal: like extracting leads, enriching data, or engaging contacts. You can filter by platform and strategy, preview any automation, and launch it directly in your workspace. 

Start with your goal

The fastest way to choose an automation is to start with what you're trying to achieve.

PhantomBuster automations are designed to help with three core goals:

• Extract: Find and collect leads from platforms like LinkedIn, Sales Navigator, or Google Maps
  → Example: “I want to collect LinkedIn profiles from a search result”
  → Example: “I want to get a list of companies from Google Maps”
  
  
• Enrich: Add missing information like emails, job titles, or company details
  → Example: “I have a list of LinkedIn profiles and want to find their email addresses”
  → Example: “I want to use AI to generate a summary of each lead’s profile”
  
  
• Engage: Send connection requests or follow-up messages to your leads
  → Example: “I want to automatically send personalized LinkedIn messages to new followers”
  → Example: “I want to connect with people who liked a post from my competitor”

These goals map directly to strategies you can filter on in the Solutions page.

Use the Solutions page to explore automations

Solutions page helps you browse all available automations, and filter by the strategy or platform that fits best.

1. Go to the Solutions page in your PhantomBuster workspace.
2. Use the filters on the left-hand side to narrow your results. You’ll see three filter groups:

• Popular: Quickly access the most popular use cases by platform, like LinkedIn, Sales Navigator, Google, Instagram, or HubSpot.
• Strategy: Filter by the type of action you want to automate: Extract leads, Enrich data, or Engage with leads.
• Others: Includes additional platforms and categories like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, GitHub, Slack, Email, AI, Yellow Pages, and HubSpot. 

3. Click Learn more on any automation card to open its overview page. You’ll see:

• Use now: Direct access to the Phantom set up steps. 
• What you give: the type of data the automation uses. 
• What you get: a preview of the results it will generate.
• A Tutorial tab to guide you through setup. 
• Links to related guides for next steps. 

Example: From goal to automation

You want to extract LinkedIn profiles from a search:

1. Go to the Solutions page.
2. Filter by Platform: LinkedIn and Strategy: Extract leads.
3. Select the automation called LinkedIn Search Export.

4. Click Learn more to see:

   • What data you need to provide (e.g. a LinkedIn search URL)

   • What kind of results you’ll get (e.g. profile links, names, job titles)

5. If it’s a fit, click Use now to add it to your workspace and start setting it up.

This process works for any goal, whether you’re just starting or building a more advanced sequence.