Anyone using AI to find customers on social media? Worth it for a small startup?

So I've been struggling with lead gen for my small SaaS startup and I'm burning out from manually searching for potential customers.

I recently came across these AI tools that supposedly scan social platforms to find people actively looking for solutions. Has anyone here actually tried these?

I'm skeptical about how well they work vs. just doing the searches myself, but honestly, I'm spending like 2 hours a day just combing through social media and it's killing my productivity elsewhere.

For those who've tried them - what was your experience? Did they actually find qualified leads or just a bunch of random mentions? And how much manual filtering did you still have to do?

Trying to figure out if this is worth the investment for a bootstrapped company or if I should just keep grinding through manual searches...