Your LinkedIn account is the asset. Every engine decision in NudgeLink is built around one rule: behave like a careful human, never like a bot. This article is the concrete list of what that means in practice.
Warmup before outreach — per lead
A sequence doesn't open cold. For each lead the engine first views the profile, then may engage before the connection request:
- Like a recent post (when there is one).
- Comment on a post — written about that specific post, and shown to you for approval like any other message.
Not every lead gets both, and some get neither — the mix is varied on purpose, because identical behaviour on every profile is exactly what looks like a script. When engagement does happen, the lead has seen your name before your invite arrives, which lifts accept rates.
Warmup ramp — per account
A freshly connected seat starts at low daily limits that increase week by week. New accounts doing too much too fast is the classic restriction trigger; the ramp makes your first weeks deliberately conservative.
Each seat has an invite pace, set in Accounts:
| Pace | Invites a day (weeks 1 → 4+) | About a week |
|---|---|---|
| Safe (default for new seats) | 8 → 12 → 14 → 14 | up to ~100 |
| Faster | 19 → 21 → 22 → 23 | up to ~160 |
Invites go out only on the seat's sending days and hours (see below), so a seat that sends on weekdays only stays under these weekly numbers. Faster is for an established account with a good acceptance rate. If LinkedIn shows a warning, switch back to Safe.
Daily caps — always
Every action type — profile views, likes, comments, invites, messages — has a per-day, per-account cap that the engine enforces before acting, not after. Caps are tracked per calendar day (UTC); your account's timezone governs when during the day actions run — the send window below. LinkedIn Premium seats get slightly higher discovery allowances; invite and message caps never depend on it.
Sending hours
Every automatic action — profile views, likes, comments, invites and messages, including drafts you approved — goes out only inside the seat's sending hours, in the account's local timezone. New seats send 08:00–20:00, Monday to Friday; change the hours and days per seat on the Accounts page (the window must be at least 4 hours). Actions run at jittered moments — not on the hour, not in bursts, and not at 3am. A draft you approve in the evening waits for the next window. Messages you type yourself in the Inbox are sent right away.
The approval gate
In the default review mode, no outreach text leaves the building without your explicit approval — and drafts wait for you indefinitely rather than expiring. A message that can't be reviewed can't be sent; a draft that fails our own deliverability checks is blocked before it ever reaches your queue.
Continuous account health monitoring
The engine watches each seat's health: connection status, LinkedIn warnings, and error patterns. If a seat looks unhealthy, its sequences pause automatically and resume only when the account recovers — the engine never pushes through a warning. If you disconnect a seat, the hosted session is severed at the provider; nothing keeps acting on your behalf.
What we ask of you
Two things: don't run other automation tools on the same LinkedIn account in parallel (stacked tools defeat every cap above), and keep your account's timezone accurate so the send window matches your actual working hours.