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Connect a LinkedIn account, add leads, build a sequence and launch, in about ten minutes.

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Before you start

Create an account. Every organization starts with a 14-day free trial with one LinkedIn account; no card needed. Your dashboard shows a Get started checklist with the same steps as this guide.

You need a LinkedIn account you own. A mailbox is optional: add one if you want email steps in your sequences.

1. Connect a LinkedIn account

Go to LinkedIn accounts and press Connect LinkedIn account. You sign in to LinkedIn on a secure hosted page (two-step verification and security checks included). We never see or store your LinkedIn password.

The account starts on the Safe limits with a 14-day warm-up, and your existing LinkedIn conversations are imported into the inbox. More about connecting.

2. Add leads

Go to Leads and create a list. Upload a CSV with LinkedIn profile links, or pull people from LinkedIn: a search or Sales Navigator link, the people who liked or commented on a post, your followers, your connections or the people who invited you. Lead sources · CSV import.

3. Build the sequence

Go to Campaigns → New campaign. Start from one of the 18 ready-made templates or from scratch, then choose your steps: visit, like a post, connection request, message, InMail, email, conditions and more.

Write each step with variables like {{first_name}} and {{company|your team}} (the text after the pipe is the fallback). Turn on Personalise with AI for a step if you want a different message for every lead. Sequences · AI writing.

4. Pick senders and launch

Choose the lead list, the LinkedIn accounts (and mailboxes) to send from, and press Launch. Nothing is sent before you do. The campaign shows an estimate of how long it takes to reach everyone.

Actions run only in each account's working hours, with random gaps between them, and never above its limits. If AI review is on, drafts wait in Review until you approve them.

5. Answer replies

When someone replies, their sequence stops straight away and the conversation lands in the Inbox, tagged by intent (interested, not now, not interested, out of office) with a suggested answer. The inbox.

Take it slow with a new account: keep the Safe limits and warm-up on for the first weeks. Why limits matter.

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