Connect LinkedIn and Expertise can work your network with you: look up profiles, search for people and companies, catch up on chats, and review activity on your posts. Reads run instantly; sending an invitation, a message, or a comment reply always pauses for your approval first, and outreach is throttled to protect your account standing.

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What you can ask

“Look up Jane Doe’s LinkedIn profile and summarize her background.”
“Search LinkedIn for VPs of Sales at Series B fintech companies.”
“Any unread replies in my LinkedIn chats today?”
“Send Jane Doe a connection request, mention we met at SaaStr.” (asks for approval before sending)
“Reply to the top comment on my last post thanking them.” (asks for approval before posting)

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Connecting

  1. Open Connections in the dashboard and click LinkedIn → Connect.
  2. A secure LinkedIn sign-in window opens, you authenticate directly with LinkedIn, not through Expertise. Expertise receives a managed session and never sees or stores your password.
  3. Ask Expertise to look up a profile to confirm it’s live.
You can disconnect from the Connections page any time.

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Tools

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Good to know

  • Connection requests need a real name and profile link. Every invitation or message approval card shows the actual person’s name and LinkedIn profile so you can see exactly who you’re approving contact with.
  • Invitation notes are capped at 300 characters, LinkedIn’s hard limit. Expertise trims notes to fit before they ever reach an approval card.
  • Outreach is paced automatically. LinkedIn restricts accounts that send too fast, so bulk invitations or messages beyond what’s safe right now are automatically scheduled for later rather than sent all at once, you’ll still see what went out immediately versus what’s queued.
  • Every outbound action pauses for your approval , invitations, messages, and comment replies all show the exact recipient and content first.

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Troubleshooting

Reconnect from the Connections tile, the session may have expired or the original sign-in was abandoned midway.
Check chat for a pending approval card, or for a note that it was scheduled for later to stay within LinkedIn’s safe sending limits, scheduled actions send automatically once their time comes.