LinkedIn prospecting

Prospecting on LinkedIn without risking your account

Trouve Tes Clients automates no sending on LinkedIn: the AI prepares the targeting and the message, and you send it yourself, from your own LinkedIn account, at your own pace.

Your LinkedIn account is often your company's main prospecting tool. This page sums up what LinkedIn prohibits, what exposes an account to a restriction, and the way of working that protects it.

Updated on 13 October 2026

What LinkedIn's User Agreement prohibits

LinkedIn's User Agreement (section "Dos and Don'ts") prohibits using software, bots, scripts, browser extensions or add-ons to automate activity on the platform or to extract data from it.

In practice, this covers three families of tools. The reference text is on LinkedIn's website, on the User Agreement page: read it before connecting any tool to your account.

Tools that send invitations or messages on your behalf, automatically or on a schedule.
Tools that visit profiles, follow accounts or react to posts without any action from you.
Tools that copy profiles or contact lists in bulk (extraction, or "scraping").

What triggers a restriction

LinkedIn does not publish its criteria. The most commonly observed causes are well known, and they share one thing: behaviour that looks like mass sending rather than a conversation.

An account can be restricted without reaching any numerical limit. Volume matters less than how your invitations are received and how mechanical your activity looks.

Many declined or ignored invitations, a sign of overly broad targeting.
Reports of "I don't know this person", which weigh more than a simple decline.
Bursts of sending, at fixed times, with actions too fast for a person.
Using a third-party tool that acts on the account, which the User Agreement prohibits.
A large backlog of invitations left pending for weeks.

Invitation limits: an order of magnitude, not a rule

LinkedIn applies a weekly invitation limit and shows it when you reach it. The platform does not publish a guaranteed figure.

On a personal account, a ceiling of around 100 invitations per week is commonly observed. It is an observation, which can vary with the age of the account, its history and its subscription. It is not a target: aim well below it.

The details, and how to work within these limits, are in LinkedIn invitation limits: what we actually know. To work out how many people to contact for your goal, see the backwards calculation.

What Trouve Tes Clients does, and what it does not do

Trouve Tes Clients and your LinkedIn account
	Trouve Tes Clients
Who it is for	Managers, founders and sales leads of B2B SMEs in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Luxembourg who prospect themselves or with a small team.
What it does	Helps you define your ideal customer, analyses the profile and posts you provide, suggests a message written for each prospect and organises your follow-ups in a pipeline.
How the message is sent	You review the suggested message, copy it and send it yourself from LinkedIn.
What it does not do	It sends no LinkedIn invitation or message on your behalf, never acts on your LinkedIn account and does not automatically collect LinkedIn profiles.
Where prospects come from	From a file you import (CSV or LinkedIn export) or add by hand; for French companies, from a search in the trade register data.

The habits that protect an account

When volume is capped, the quality of each invitation is what makes the difference. These habits apply with or without a tool.

Write your ideal customer in one sentence, and only contact the profiles that match it: the method.
Spread your invitations over the week rather than sending them in one block.
Add a note only when you have a specific observation about the person.
Withdraw by hand the invitations still unanswered after four to six weeks.
Connect no tool that sends, visits or extracts on your behalf.

Frequently asked questions

Can Trouve Tes Clients get my LinkedIn account restricted?

Trouve Tes Clients does not act on your LinkedIn account: it sends nothing, visits no profile and collects no data on LinkedIn. Every message is sent by you, from LinkedIn. The remaining risk is the same as for any user: your invitation volume and how relevant your targeting is.

How many LinkedIn invitations can you send per week?

LinkedIn applies a weekly limit without publishing a guaranteed figure. A ceiling of around 100 invitations per week is commonly observed for a personal account. It can be lower for a recent account or one that has already been reported: aim well below it.

Is a browser extension that sends messages on my behalf allowed?

No. LinkedIn's User Agreement prohibits software, extensions and scripts that automate activity on the platform or extract data from it. The risk falls on your account, not on the tool's publisher.

Is it a problem to send a message prepared with the help of AI?

LinkedIn's User Agreement targets tools that act on the platform on your behalf. A message that you review, adjust if needed and send yourself remains your own action. Above all it must be relevant to the person: an off-topic message, even handwritten, attracts declines and reports.

What should I do if my LinkedIn account is restricted?

Follow the procedure LinkedIn gives you, which often asks for identity verification. Disconnect any third-party tool linked to the account, then resume at a lower pace with tighter targeting. Do not create a second account: that also breaches the User Agreement.

Why does Trouve Tes Clients not offer automatic sending?

Because your LinkedIn account is too valuable to expose, and LinkedIn's User Agreement prohibits automation. It is also a choice of method: a message written for one specific person and sent by you is the opposite of mass sending.