NudgeLink acts on LinkedIn as you — viewing profiles, sending connection requests, and messaging accepted connections. To do that it needs a live connection to your LinkedIn account, managed by Unipile, our LinkedIn integration provider (France). Unipile is listed as a sub-processor in our DPA.
Connecting your account
- Go to Dashboard → Accounts and click Connect LinkedIn.
- A secure page run by Unipile opens. It is not linkedin.com and not nudgelink.co. Sign in to LinkedIn there. Unipile handles the login and keeps the session; NudgeLink never sees or stores your password. We only receive Unipile's account ID for the connection, which can't be used without our Unipile API key.
- If LinkedIn asks for a verification code (2FA), complete it in the same window.
- Done — the seat appears on your Accounts page with its warmup status.
Your seat is labeled with the name on your LinkedIn profile. You can rename it, but keeping the real name makes campaign assignment and the admin views clearer.
Why a login and not "Sign in with LinkedIn"?
LinkedIn's public sign-in (OAuth) only shares your name, email and photo, and lets apps publish posts. Sending invitations and messages and searching for people are reserved for closed partner programs. That's why every LinkedIn outreach tool connects through the account's own session, and so does NudgeLink.
What happens right after connecting
New accounts do not start sending at full speed. Every seat begins a warmup ramp: low daily action limits that increase week by week. This is deliberate — see Warmup and account safety for exactly what runs and why it keeps your account safe.
What NudgeLink will and won't do
- It will: view profiles, like and comment on posts, send connection requests (on a free LinkedIn seat, without a note), message accepted connections, and read replies — all inside your approved sequences and daily caps.
- It won't: send anything you haven't approved (in the default review mode), exceed the per-day action caps, or act outside your account's sending hours (08:00–20:00 on weekdays by default, in its local timezone).
If LinkedIn restricts the account
NudgeLink checks every connected account's status every hour. If LinkedIn shows a checkpoint, a captcha or a restriction, sending from that account stops and you get an email. Clear the check in LinkedIn, then reconnect the account with one click on the Accounts page. NudgeLink can't lift a LinkedIn restriction, and no tool can promise zero risk; new accounts start on the Safe invite pace (at most about 100 a week) to keep it unlikely.
Adding a second account
Teams often run more than one seat. Each seat connects the same way and gets its own warmup ramp, its own daily caps, and its own timezone. Campaigns can be pinned to specific seats, so one campaign's leads always come from the same sender.
Disconnecting
Deleting a seat on the Accounts page also severs the hosted session with the provider — nothing keeps running in the background after you remove it.