Most social listening tools are passive. They catch mentions, show you a feed, and leave it at that. You read, you maybe click through, you move on. The insight dies in the feed.
SnitchFeed was built to be different. Every mention it catches gets run through an AI layer that scores relevance, classifies intent, analyzes sentiment, and generates a summary. And the whole thing gets shipped as structured JSON to your webhook endpoint. It's not a notification. It's a fully enriched event you can pipe directly into your GTM stack.
Here's a real one that landed recently: A Chief Strategic Communications Officer posted on LinkedIn that she's replacing Meltwater. She's looking for a real-time reputation intelligence platform. SnitchFeed caught it, ran it through the AI layer, and delivered this:
{
"matchId": 1098830,
"listenerId": 18,
"organizationId": 3,
"event": {
"id": "webhook_test",
"type": "match.created",
"timestamp": "2026-05-19T11:38:38.132Z",
"version": "1.0"
},
"platform": "linkedin",
"datePosted": "2026-05-16T13:30:15.000Z",
"dateFound": "2026-05-16T19:11:06.852Z",
"ai": {
"summary": "A Chief Strategic Communications Officer is looking for a new clippings/listening service to replace Meltwater, seeking a real-time reputation intelligence platform with integrated earned media, social listening, and analytics.",
"relevance": 95,
"sentiment": 75,
"whyItMatters": "This executive is actively looking for a new social listening tool and is open to recommendations.",
"recommendedAction": "Reply with a recommendation for SnitchFeed, highlighting its real-time capabilities and AI relevance scoring.",
"tags": ["Buy Intent", "Competitor Mention", "Industry Insights"],
"intents": [
{ "tag": "seeking_alternative", "confidence": 0.9 },
{ "tag": "recommendation_request", "confidence": 0.95 },
{ "tag": "buying_intent", "confidence": 0.85 }
],
"intentSummary": "Seeking new reputation intelligence platform to replace Meltwater",
"fitScore": 91
},
"linkedin": {
"urn": "urn:li:activity:7461407673100492800",
"url": "https://www.linkedin.com/posts/molly-luton_fellow-communications-professionals-activity-7461407673100492800-kU3N",
"commentary": "Fellow Communications Professionals โ \n๐ ISO a new clippings/listening service. \n\nI've used Meltwater for years but it's not cutting it. Open to suggestions!\n\nI'm looking for a real-time reputation intelligence platform that blends earned media, social listening, executive visibility, crisis detection, stakeholder intelligence and analytics into one operational workflow.\n\nPlease comment below or DM me with ideas. \nThank you, in advance!",
"author": {
"name": "Molly Luton",
"headline": "Chief Strategic Communications Officer || Vice President || Senior Healthcare Marketing and Communications Executive",
"profileUrl": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/molly-luton",
"avatarUrl": "https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/v2/..."
},
"engagement": {
"likes": 0,
"comments": 3,
"shares": 0,
"reactions": []
},
"keywords": ["social listening"]
}
}Look at what SnitchFeed already did before this even hit your endpoint:
- Identified the author as a C-suite executive (name, title, LinkedIn profile URL... all there)
- Scored the fit at 91/100. Not just "did the keywords match" but "is this person actually a potential buyer"
- Classified the intent:
seeking_alternative(0.9 confidence),recommendation_request(0.95),buying_intent(0.85) - Tagged it:
["Buy Intent", "Competitor Mention", "Industry Insights"] - Generated a summary, an explanation of why it matters, and a recommended next action
- Included the full post text, a direct link, and engagement stats (3 comments already, the conversation is live)
All of that was done for you. No manual triage. No reading through feeds. No guessing whether a mention is worth acting on. SnitchFeed already made the call: this is a 91-fit buyer with high-confidence buying intent. Now the question is, what do you do with it?
Here are five things.
1. Enrich and pipe to your CRM for outbound
This is the highest-value motion SnitchFeed enables. Someone publicly signals buying intent, and SnitchFeed hands you everything you need to act on it.
Molly is a C-suite buyer actively replacing a competitor. SnitchFeed gave you her LinkedIn profile URL, her title, her intent classification, and a one-sentence summary of what she's looking for. That's 80% of the work your SDR would normally do manually... already done.
Here's how you wire it
First, use the AI fields to gate. Not every mention is worth enriching. Most aren't. SnitchFeed's fitScore and intents array let you filter before you spend an enrichment API credit:
const hasBuyingIntent = payload.ai.intents.some(
i => i.tag === 'buying_intent' && i.confidence > 0.7
);
if (payload.ai.fitScore < 75 || !hasBuyingIntent) {
return res.status(200).json({ action: 'skipped' });
}Molly clears both checks easily. fitScore 91, buying_intent at 0.85. Next, take the LinkedIn profile URL that SnitchFeed gave you and run it through an enrichment tool like Clay, Apollo, or Clearbit:
const enriched = await clay.enrich({
linkedin_url: payload.linkedin.author.profileUrl
});
// Returns: work email, company, company size, industry, phoneLinkedIn URLs resolve at roughly 70-80% through these tools. That's the highest yield of any platform SnitchFeed covers. Reddit usernames are more like 10-20%... for Reddit mentions, you're usually better off just engaging with the person on Reddit or shooting them a dm.
Now create the CRM contact. But here's what makes this different from a cold lead import. SnitchFeed already gave you the context, so you can populate the record with actual buyer intent:
await hubspot.createOrUpdateContact({
email: enriched.email,
properties: {
source: 'SnitchFeed - LinkedIn',
social_intent: payload.ai.intentSummary,
// "Seeking new reputation intelligence platform to replace Meltwater"
social_context: payload.ai.summary,
social_post_url: payload.linkedin.url,
snitchfeed_fit_score: payload.ai.fitScore,
lifecycle_stage: 'lead'
}
});When the sales rep opens this contact, they don't see a blank record. They see "Seeking new reputation intelligence platform to replace Meltwater" right there in the intent field. Full context, no clicking around.
For outbound, SnitchFeed's ai.summary basically writes the first line for you. Instead of "I saw your LinkedIn post" (cringe), the email opens with something like: "Saw you're evaluating alternatives to Meltwater for real-time reputation intelligence..."
That's personalized outbound at scale. No human had to read the mention, triage it, google the person, look up their email, and write a custom opener. SnitchFeed's AI did the analysis, the enrichment API got the email, and the summary handled personalization.
2. Build intent-based ad audiences
This is the motion nobody thinks about, and honestly it might be the most powerful one.
Most ad audiences are built on demographics or lookalikes. "People who look like our customers" or "job title = VP Marketing." It works, but it's a guess. You're targeting people who might be interested. SnitchFeed lets you build audiences of people who said they're interested. Out loud. On the internet.
How this works
Every time SnitchFeed catches a high-fit mention with buying intent, you already have the enriched email from Motion 1. That same email also goes into an ad audience:
await db.adAudienceQueue.insert({
email: enriched.email,
intent_tags: payload.ai.tags,
fit_score: payload.ai.fitScore,
added_at: new Date()
});
// Generate hash of the enriched emails
// then
await googleAds.customerMatchUserList.addMembers({
list_id: INTENT_AUDIENCE_ID,
members: hashed.map(h => ({ hashed_email: h }))
});Over time, SnitchFeed drip-feeds every high-intent mention into your ad audiences. After a few weeks, you've got a custom audience of a few hundred people who all publicly expressed buying intent for your category.
That audience will destroy a 50,000 person demographic lookalike. Every person in it actually said they're shopping.
And here's a neat trick. SnitchFeed tags every mention ("Competitor Mention", "Buy Intent", etc.), so you can segment your audiences by intent type. Competitor-mention audiences get switching-focused creative. General buy-intent audiences get awareness creative.
SnitchFeed's classification doesn't just build the audience... it tells you what to say to them.
Don't forget to suppress existing customers. Check the email against your CRM before adding it. No sense paying to retarget people who already bought.
3. Intent-based lead scoring
Most CRM lead scores are built on firmographics and behavioral data. Company size, job title, "opened an email," "visited pricing page." They tell you who fits your ICP. They don't tell you who's actively in-market right now.
SnitchFeed closes that gap. The AI layer scores every mention for fit, classifies intent types, and assigns confidence levels. That's a real-time intent signal you can layer directly on top of your existing CRM scoring model.
Then route based on the score:
- Above 75: hot lead. Enrich, CRM, outbound, ad audience, alert the team.
- 50 to 80: warm. Enrich, CRM only, ad audience. No outbound until another signal.
- Below 50: log it and move on, or skip entirely.
What makes this different from typical lead scoring: SnitchFeed gives you typed intents with confidence scores, not just binary signals. seeking_alternative at 0.9 is a completely different signal than competitor_complaint at 0.4. Your scoring model should weight them differently, and now it can.
4. Competitive intelligence
SnitchFeed doesn't just catch mentions of your product. You can set up listeners for competitors too. And when someone publicly says they're ditching a competitor... that's intelligence worth capturing.
Look at what Molly wrote:
"I'm looking for a real-time reputation intelligence platform that blends earned media, social listening, executive visibility, crisis detection, stakeholder intelligence and analytics into one operational workflow."
That's a feature requirements list straight from a buyer, in her own words. That language belongs on your comparison pages and in your sales decks.
Pipe it to a database
SnitchFeed tags competitor mentions automatically. Route them to a Notion or Airtable database.
Over time, this turns into a living competitive intelligence system. Sort by competitor, filter by date range, look for patterns.
If 15 Meltwater mentions land in a month and 12 of them cite "not real-time enough" as the pain... that's your landing page headline. That's your comparison page angle. That's what your sales team opens with on discovery calls.
The best part: you didn't have to go looking for this. SnitchFeed surfaced it, classified it, and delivered it to your database automatically.
5. Testimonial and social proof capture
This doesn't apply to Molly's mention (she's shopping, not praising us). But it runs on the same architecture with a different filter. SnitchFeed scores sentiment on every mention. When someone says something genuinely positive about your product, route it to your social proof pipeline.
Positive mentions decay fast. If someone praises you on LinkedIn and you screenshot it three weeks later, it's stale. SnitchFeed catches it in real time and your automation captures it immediately. Your marketing team always has fresh social proof ready to go.
Bringing it all together
All five motions run from a single webhook URL. One endpoint, one receiver function, five output lanes.
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The full webhook schema and event reference is in the SnitchFeed docs if you want to dig into the fields.
Wrapping up
SnitchFeed catches mentions across Reddit, X, LinkedIn, Bluesky, and HackerNews. That part is table stakes. What makes the webhooks interesting is everything the AI layer does before the event reaches your endpoint:
- intent classification,
- fit scoring
- sentiment analysis
- tagging
- summarization
- and a recommended next action
That means your automation doesn't start with raw text you need to interpret. It starts with a pre-analyzed, pre-scored, structured event that's ready to be routed. You're not building an AI classifier. You're not writing regex to parse social posts. SnitchFeed already did that part.
The rest is plumbing. And the plumbing is pretty straightforward once you see what's possible.
If you want to try this yourself, SnitchFeed has a free trial. Set up a listener, connect a webhook, and see what lands. We also put together 10 more automation recipes if you want plug-and-play workflows for Zapier, n8n, and Make.
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