LinkedIn channel
Profile visit · invite · DM · InMail with weekly safety caps and warmup.
- ·Unipile (recommended) and PhantomBuster supported
- ·Profile visit · invite · DM · InMail step types
- ·Hard 100-invites-per-week safety cap enforced
- ·Per-account warmup ramp on connect day 1
- ·Cookie health monitoring + auto-pause on disconnect
- ·Replies land in the shared Unibox queue
Why LinkedIn outreach gets accounts banned
LinkedIn does not publish their cap, but every account dialled past ~100 invites in 7 days starts seeing reduced visibility. Hit it twice and the account quietly stops being shown to second-degree connections — or gets restricted entirely.
- Connection acceptance rate dropped below 15% suddenly
- InMails sent but recipient never sees them
- Account flagged as 'restricted' with no warning
- Profile views dried up overnight
The detail.
The quiet 100/week wall — handled
LinkedIn does not publish their invite cap, but every account dialled past ~100 invites in a 7-day window starts seeing reduced visibility. Autocloz refuses to dispatch beyond that threshold by default, so your account stays inside the safe zone without you having to count.
Visit · invite · DM · InMail — one builder
Drop a LinkedIn step into any sequence, alongside email, call, SMS, or WhatsApp. Branch on connection acceptance, message read, or reply. The compliance gate fires before every action so a junior SDR cannot accidentally torch the team’s LinkedIn presence.
Replies stay where you can see them
InMail and connection-request replies federate into the shared Unibox, AI-tagged for intent, threaded against the same lead as their email and call activity. One queue for every channel.
Bring your own — or pick from the supported set.
The rules that keep your account alive.
Every rule below is enforced before any outbound action. The compliance gate either passes or it doesn’t dispatch.
- Hard cap at 100 invites per rolling 7-day windowWhy: Above this, LinkedIn quietly de-prioritises your profile in search and second-degree results.
- Day 1 limit of 5 invites; ramp to 20 over 14 daysWhy: Fresh accounts that immediately blast 50 invites get auto-flagged within 48 hours.
- Min-gap of 30 minutes between invitesWhy: Burst patterns are the most-cited signal in LinkedIn enforcement reverse-engineering posts.
- Auto-pause on cookie disconnectWhy: A logged-out cookie still being used is a banned-IP signal; we stop dispatching the moment we detect it.
- Always personalise the invite noteWhy: Identical-text invites at scale are the single biggest ban predictor — the AI personalisation engine fixes this for free.
A real sequence using this channel — day by day.
- Day 0Profile visitTriggers the 'who viewed me' notification — soft warm-up
- Day 1Connection invitePersonalised note · within weekly cap · same TZ as prospect
- Day 4Direct messageOnly after acceptance · feels like a conversation, not a pitch
- Day 8Follow-up DMDifferent angle · share an asset (case study, video)
- Day 14InMail (if not connected)Last touch — only if invite still pending after 14 days
Human-paced LinkedIn limits and per-account warmup are designed to keep accounts healthy while improving acceptance rates.
Specific to this channel.
Will my LinkedIn account get banned?+
Not with default Autocloz settings — we cap below LinkedIn's enforcement threshold. The accounts that get banned are doing 100+ invites per day; we never let you go past 20.
Do I need LinkedIn Sales Navigator?+
Not required. Autocloz works with your existing LinkedIn account; a Sales Navigator seat simply widens who you can reach.
Can I use multiple LinkedIn accounts?+
Yes — one channel-account row per LinkedIn profile, owned by the operator who logs in to that profile. Each gets its own pacing budget.
What about LinkedIn Premium / Recruiter?+
Both supported — they raise the InMail ceiling but don't change the invite cap. We honour whichever ceiling your seat carries.