Talent Link is two halves. A panel beside LinkedIn that reads what you are looking at, and this web app, where you work the list, run your outreach and read the replies. This guide walks through both, in the order you will actually meet them, and every section ends with the things that commonly go wrong and how to put them right.
Six short videos that walk through the whole tool, in the order you will meet it. Start with the first one, then dip into the rest as you need them.
Talent Link starts as a small panel that lives beside LinkedIn in Chrome. Open the install link we sent you, add it to Chrome, and pin it so it is one click away from the toolbar.
Open the panel from the Chrome toolbar and press Create account. If you were given an invite code, put it in — that is what makes your trial longer than the standard seven days. A mistyped code never blocks the signup; you simply get the standard trial, and the panel says so.
No card is needed to start. You get the full tool for your trial and only decide about paying when it ends.
The web app at link.talentleap.ai uses the same email and password. You sign in once in each — a web page cannot read the extension’s storage, which is a browser rule rather than a choice of ours.
You are not blocked — you just get the standard seven-day trial. Finish signing up, then send the code to us on chat and we will extend you by hand.
Everything Talent Link sends goes from your own LinkedIn account — never a shared one. Every consultant connects their own. One shared account would mean a whole agency messaging from the same profile, and a single ban taking out everybody.
In the app, open Connections and start the LinkedIn connect. A short wizard opens. You can connect two ways:
Pick your country on the same screen so LinkedIn sees you connecting from where you normally are. When it finishes, the button turns green. Nothing sends until this is done.
Also under Connections. Scan the QR code with the phone you want to message from. Messages go from your own number, so replies come back to your own phone.
That is LinkedIn noticing a sign-in from a new place, not a fault. Open LinkedIn normally in the same browser first, approve any “was this you?” prompt or email, then connect again — or use the cookie method, which sidesteps it completely. Turning on two-step verification in LinkedIn makes this happen less, not more: a verified account is challenged less often.
Almost always the connect started but did not finish landing back in the app. Press Reconnect once and let it complete fully — do not close the tab early. If it still will not turn green, tell us on chat with your email and we will check it from our side within the hour.
This is the half that sits beside LinkedIn. Open any profile or job advert and press Capture, and it reads the name, role, employer and location straight off the page.
If somebody has published an email or mobile under Contact info on their profile, open that panel first and then press Capture. It reads what is on your screen and puts it into the card at no cost — it is the person’s own number, given to their own connections, and it is usually better than anything a database will sell you.
If nothing is published, the Enrich button can go and find an email or mobile for you. It always shows you what it found before any credit is spent — see Enrich & credits.
The same Capture button works on a job advert. It reads the role, the company, the location and any people named on the page.
Add to list puts the person or vacancy onto your capture list in the web app, where the real work happens.
LinkedIn loads profiles in pieces as you scroll. Let the page finish loading, scroll down once so the experience section fills in, then press Capture again. If you want the published email or mobile, open Contact info first — the panel can only read what is actually on the screen.
Everyone you have captured, in one table, all of it editable. Click any cell — role, company, email, number, notes — and type. It saves as you leave the field. This is the first tab because it is where most days start.
Tick who you want, choose a campaign from the dropdown, and send them across. They are copied, not moved — they stay on your capture list with their contact details.
Rather than adding people one by one, you can capture the top of a LinkedIn search straight into a campaign in one go (the Capture Top 400 action). It works quietly in the background and keeps going through LinkedIn’s rate limits, so you can close the tab and come back to a full list.
Exports the whole list as a spreadsheet, opened cleanly by Excel.
That is intended — once a person is filed into a folder they leave the main capture list so it does not fill up with people you have already dealt with. Open the folder to find them.
Your existing 1st-degree network — the people you are already connected to — and a tool for spotting who has changed job. This tab is about the relationships you already have, rather than new outreach.
Ask LinkedIn for a copy of your connections (Settings → Data privacy → Get a copy of your data → Connections), then drop the file here. It is read in your browser and your connections are listed out, ready to message or to sort. You can re-drop an updated file any time; people already imported are matched up rather than duplicated.
Somebody who has just moved is the warmest call you can make. Ask LinkedIn for the connections file twice, a month or so apart, then upload the older file and the newer one and press Compare. Both files are read in your browser; only the people who actually moved are saved, never your whole list, and email addresses in the export are ignored entirely.
For people you are not yet connected to. A campaign sends a connection request, then a short run of follow-ups once they accept — at a safe, human pace, to people you choose.
Name it and pick your LinkedIn account type — Basic or Sales Navigator. That sets the daily and weekly ceilings to what your tier can safely do.
Every campaign is the same reliable shape: one connection request, then up to four follow-ups, sent on fixed working-day gaps (roughly the next day, then a few days apart). You cannot add or remove steps, and that is deliberate — it is the pattern that stays the safe side of LinkedIn’s limits. You write the wording; the timing is handled for you.
Use {{first_name}} and the other merge fields to write once and send personally. Make each
message clearly different from the last — repeating yourself is what gets accounts restricted.
Everyone you have added, and where each has got to: waiting to be invited, invite sent, accepted, replied. Follow-ups only ever go to people who have accepted — nobody is chased who never let you in — and anyone who replies is taken out of the sequence at once.
Press Start sending. It sends inside working hours in your own timezone, spread out, never in a burst. Pause stops it immediately.
For people you are already connected to — your 1st-degree network. No connection request is needed, so this is a straight run of messages.
A direct-message campaign runs as a 1st Message, then a 2nd and 3rd if there is no reply, each a few working days apart. As with connection campaigns, the moment someone replies they drop out of the sequence — a real answer is never followed by another automated nudge.
You can sort your connections into groups — by client, by trade, by patch — and aim a direct-message campaign at a whole group at once. Sorting is done by you, so a group only ever contains the people you put in it.
Talent Link deliberately sends at well under what LinkedIn allows, and ramps up over your first fortnight rather than starting at full tilt. This is the single most important thing protecting your account.
Sending happens on weekdays only, in your own timezone. Invitations go out across the morning and follow-up messages across the afternoon and early evening, each at a randomised time with human-length gaps between them — never a burst, never on the dot. You do not need to leave anything open; it runs on our side.
A live look at what companies are advertising, so you can see who is hiring without visiting a dozen careers pages.
Run a search on demand: type in keywords and a location, add any filters, and it returns the current vacancies (up to about 25 a search — narrow the keywords or location to get closer to what you want). Each result links to the advert, and there is a quick Google lookup on the role and company.
Jobs searches use a separate allowance and never touch your outreach limits — searching for work does not eat into how many people you can message. Talent-community and “register your interest” pages are filtered out; they are sign-up forms, not vacancies.
The replies from people in your campaigns — and only those. This is not your whole LinkedIn inbox; it is the conversations that matter, where someone you reached out to has written back.
When somebody replies, they appear here and are taken out of their campaign automatically, so nothing generic ever follows a real answer. Read and reply from the right-hand side.
Replies are matched back to your campaigns and can take a little while to appear; there is also an overnight catch-up that sweeps up anything missed. If a specific reply still is not showing by the next day, send us the person’s name on chat and we will pull it through by hand.
Enrich finds contact details — a work email, a personal email, a mobile — for people whose details are not on their profile. It runs whenever you press the Enrich button, on the panel or on a capture row.
Your credit balance shows at the top of the app. When you need more, buy a pack from the billing screen — £25 for 500, £50 for 1,100, or £100 for 2,200 credits. Payment is by card and credits are added the moment it goes through.
The balance updates the instant the payment clears — refresh the page once. If it still looks wrong a minute later, send us the time of the payment on chat and we will reconcile it; nothing you paid for is ever lost.
You start on a free trial with no card required. The length depends on the code you signed up with; the app shows how long you have left at the top.
When the trial ends, the tool keeps your data and your setup — sending is simply paused until you subscribe. Talent Link is £49 per user per month, or £468 a year. You subscribe, and manage or cancel, from the billing screen, and a reminder email goes out a few days before your trial ends so nothing stops without warning.
They are paused, not lost. Subscribe from the billing screen and they pick up exactly where they left off. If you need a little longer to decide, ask us on chat.
The most common snags, gathered in one place.
Check three things: is your LinkedIn connected and green; is the campaign started (not paused); and is it a weekday within sending hours in your timezone? A campaign also pauses itself if you added people to it — press Start again. If all three are fine and it is still quiet, chat to us.
Press Reconnect and let it finish fully without closing the tab. If it will not go green, send us your email on chat and we will check the connection from our side.
That should never happen — replies remove people from the sequence. If you see it, tell us the person and the campaign; it points to a reply we did not match, and we will fix both the record and the cause.
Make sure you are on an actual LinkedIn profile or job advert, that the page has finished loading, and that you are signed in to the panel. Refreshing the LinkedIn tab clears most of these.
Type the right one straight into the cell — what you enter by hand always wins and is never overwritten. Mobiles are the hardest field to get right, so your own information beats the database every time.
You can also email simon@talentleap.ai directly.