Add Your Own Telegram Groups as Lead Sources
You can add your own Telegram groups to Leadgram as lead sources: you pick the communities your buyers already talk in, Leadgram reads them on a schedule through a Telegram account you connect, and everyone who shows buying intent comes back scored 0-100 with the message that earned the score.
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What it means to add your own Telegram groups
Adding your own Telegram groups means telling Leadgram to read specific communities and treat them as lead sources. The groups you pick are scanned on a schedule, every message is read for buying intent, and the people who show it come back scored, with the message attached.
The best room for your business is rarely the famous one — it is the regional chat where people ask for a contractor, or the founders' group where someone types "we're moving off our CRM".
Adding is always deliberate: you connect a Telegram account, open the Add groups dialog, and tick the groups Leadgram may read. Nothing is scanned until you choose it.
One connected Telegram account is the prerequisite — sourcing reads through it, and Leadgram never posts as you.
Each sourced group takes one slot from your plan's quota, metered before you add anything.
A new source starts pending with a seeding scan queued; first results usually land within the hour.
See also: How lead scoring works
Three ways to add a group
The Add groups dialog has three panes, because there are three situations you can be in.
My groups lists every group and channel your connected account already belongs to, searchable and paged. Tick what you want, watch the slot meter fill, and add the batch in one action — the picker never lets you select more than your remaining slots. Rooms you already source are marked; one you never want offered again can be hidden from here.
Prospects ranks rooms for your workspace based on the groups you already source, each with a relevance score, a short reason in the pipeline's own words, and topic tags. Not relevant drops one from the feed.
By link takes a t.me URL or an @handle for a group you are not in yet.
See also: Channel discovery and lookalikesFind relevant Telegram groups
Joining a group you are not in yet
Paste a link, press Preview, and Leadgram checks the group first: title, member count, whether it requires admin approval, and whether your account is already a member. If it cannot be joined from here, it says so.
A switch on that preview — source this group after joining — decides whether it becomes a source the moment you are in. When a group needs an admin to let you in, the join is recorded as a request and the group starts producing once you are admitted.
Joining is deliberately paced: bursts of joins are what Telegram's anti-spam heuristics watch for, so Leadgram caps them at five per account per rolling hour and counts down the seconds to the next. Re-entering a group the account already belongs to does not spend that budget.
See also: How to find Telegram groups
A group you already sit in is not a list of usernames. It is a running record of what your market is asking for — and that is the part worth reading.
The ledger, and the report behind each row
Sourced groups live in a ledger, not a settings list. A tape across the top shows the leads all your sources produced in the last 7 days, slots used against your limit, how many sit idle earning nothing, and roughly how long until the next scan lands. Beside it, a feed of the newest detected leads; click one to open it.
Every source below is one row: its tier — the scheduler's verdict, hot, warm, cool, cold or new — leads in the last 7 days with a four-week sparkline, lifetime leads, when it was last read, and its visibility. Click the name for its report.
The scheduler's reasoning quoted as written, and the cadence the group earned.
Leads per week across the last 12 weeks, drawn as bars.
Lifetime leads, last-7-day leads, and member count side by side.
A per-topic breakdown for forum-style groups, this week and overall.
A log of completed scans: when each finished and how many messages it read.
What a source slot actually costs
Slots are the unit of the plan. Every group you source occupies one, the ledger shows used against limit, and the picker caps your selection at what is left, so the limit surfaces before you hit it. The free tier has no slots at all — sourcing your own groups is a paid capability.
Two things are worth knowing. Pausing a source does not release its slot; only removing it does. And on a team plan slots are pooled across the workspace rather than issued per seat — a teammate's sources come out of your allowance.
If a plan change leaves you over the limit, nothing is deleted: the oldest sources that fit keep running, the rest are paused with over plan limit on the row, and you resume them yourself once there is room.
See also: Plans and limits
Goal groups, pausing, and cleaning house
The ledger splits sources into goal groups, active, and dead weight — the cold ones where the scheduler sees no recent leads. Search by name, filter by tier or visibility, sort by yield, lifetime, last scan or name, and a group that produces nothing stops hiding.
Star a source as a goal group and it is pinned to a fixed 15-minute scan cadence, overriding the scheduler's own tiering. Three stars per workspace, on purpose — if everything is a priority, nothing is.
Pausing stops new leads and leaves the ones already produced untouched. Removing frees the slot and leaves the group listed — the confirmation shows its lifetime lead count first, and offers pausing instead. For a room that is never relevant, never list this group on Leadgram strikes it from every picker, listing and suggestion, reversible from Hidden groups by the person who hid it.
Who sees the group, and who sees its leads
Every source carries a visibility setting. Team means each teammate sees the source and its leads. Only me hides it and keeps its leads for you alone — filtered on the server, so a private source never lands on someone else's screen. Only the owner can change it.
That earns its keep in agencies: shared industry chats stay on team visibility, a client's private community stays with whoever runs that account. Removing a team-visible source stops leads for everyone, and the confirmation says so.
See also: Teams and roles
Guardrails on the account doing the reading
Sourcing reads through a real Telegram account, so the controls exist to protect it. Each account has a switch for whether its sourced groups create leads, a daily lead cap that stops creation for the rest of the day once reached, and a warm-up state — new, warming or ready. A fresh account starts conservative: lead creation off, a cap already set.
Duplication is handled for you. A chat is ingested once by a single producing account, the others kept as ordered standbys — so a group sourced by two teammates is not read twice, and if the producer goes unhealthy a standby is promoted. Each row says which case you are in.
Your own groups vs a member-list export
The usual alternative is exporting a group's member list and messaging everyone on it: names with no reason to contact any of them, ageing from the moment they are generated.
Member export: every username in the room. Group sources: only the people who signalled intent.
Member export: no context. Group sources: a 0-100 score, a plain-language reason, and the message behind it.
Member export: a one-off dump that decays. Group sources: a standing scan with a weekly yield.
Member export: the same list for anyone. Group sources: your rooms, scored against what you sell.
Frequently asked questions
Can I add my own Telegram groups to Leadgram?
Yes. Connect a Telegram account, open the Add groups dialog, and add groups in one of three ways: tick the ones your account already belongs to, take a ranked suggestion from the Prospects feed, or paste a t.me link and join. Nothing is scanned until you choose it — Leadgram never adds a group itself.
Do I have to be a member of a group to monitor it?
Sourcing reads through your connected Telegram account, so the My groups pane lists the rooms it is already in. For a group you are not in, the By link pane previews it first — title, member count, whether admin approval is needed — then joins and sources it in one step. Approval-gated groups start producing once you are admitted.
How many groups can I add as sources?
Your plan sets the number of source slots, and the ledger shows used against limit at all times. The free tier has no slots, so sourcing your own groups needs a paid plan; on a team plan slots are pooled across the workspace rather than issued per seat. The picker caps your selection at what is left.
What happens right after I add a group?
The source starts pending and a seeding scan is queued; first results usually appear within the hour. After that the scheduler gives the group a tier — hot, warm, cool, cold or new — and a scan cadence based on how many leads it produces.
Does pausing a group free up its slot?
No. Pausing stops new leads while every lead already produced stays where it is, but the source keeps its slot until you remove it. Removing frees the slot and leaves the group listed so you can re-add it later. To stop it being offered at all, "never list this group on Leadgram" hides it everywhere, reversibly.
Can I keep a group private from my teammates?
Yes. Every source is set to either Team or Only me. Only me hides the source from teammates and keeps its leads visible to you alone, and that filtering happens server-side rather than in the interface. Only the source's owner can change it.
Find your next leads in Telegram
Run a search, review scored matches with the reason they fit and the source group, and export a clean list — all from public signal, no Telegram login.