safety · the number nobody else will show you
We publish our ban rate.
Every tool in this category says "safe." None of them shows you a number. Here is ours, measured, with the methodology underneath it.
live counter ships with cohort 1
We could put a marketing number here today. We won't. The counter goes live with our founding cohort and updates from production data: every managed seat is the denominator, every LinkedIn restriction on a managed seat: however temporary: counts in the numerator. No exclusions, no asterisks.
Why accounts actually get restricted
LinkedIn stopped simply counting actions years ago. In 2026 its detection is behavioral: session origin and IP reputation, activity clustered at identical times, falling acceptance rates, and browser-extension script injection. That is why "stay under 100 invites" tools still get people restricted: and why LinkedIn escalated to vendors themselves in March 2026, deleting a major tool's company page and its founders' profiles.
What LinkedBoost enforces
| Rule | Enforcement |
|---|---|
| Daily invite caps | Hard stop at the seat level: you cannot type over it |
| New-seat warm-up | 10/day week one → 15 → 20+. Automatic, not optional |
| Acceptance kill switch | Acceptance under 25% in a week → seat volume halves |
| Behavioral pacing | Randomized spacing, working-hours in the target's timezone |
| Suppression memory | Full contacted universe, deduped across every seat |
| Company-collision rule | Two seats never approach the same company in the same week |
| Reply halts sequence | Any inbound reply stops all planned follow-ups instantly |
The 2026 enforcement timeline
- 2021
The ~100/week invite cap arrives. Volume tools begin the cat-and-mouse era.
- 2024–2025
Detection goes behavioral. Accounts get flagged inside the numeric caps. Extension-based tools become the riskiest architecture.
- Dec 2025
A major AI-SDR vendor is banned from LinkedIn for ~2 weeks. Its CEO later admits the product "barely worked."
- Mar 2026
LinkedIn removes a leading automation vendor's company page and founder profiles: enforcement reaches vendors, not just users.
- 2026
LinkedIn ships an AI-slop report button. Volume without quality now burns the sender both ways.
Power without control is how accounts die. LinkedBoost exists to give you the output of a seven-person outbound desk while protecting the one asset you can't buy back: your account and its history. That's why the caps are hard, the ramps are automatic, every send passes a human, and the result is measured in public.