How connecting LinkedIn works

Flow sends from real LinkedIn accounts — yours and your team’s — so outreach always comes from a genuine person. Every account you connect gets its own private, dedicated connection and is paced like a human, so it stays safe. Here’s how connecting works, what to do if LinkedIn asks for a code, and how accounts stay healthy.

Connecting an account

Each person connects their own LinkedIn, so outreach always sends as them. Open Settings → Team, find your row, and start the connection — new teammates do this when they accept their invite.

You’ll sign in to LinkedIn once in a secure connection window, using your LinkedIn email and password. From then on Flow holds a secure session for your account, so you don’t sign in again each day. When it’s done, your status shows Connected. Your password is only ever used to establish that session — Flow signs in as you and nothing more.

Flow’s Team settings: each account’s LinkedIn status shows as Connected or Reconnect Required, with Add Member, Disconnect and Reconnect controls — Each account shows as **Connected** or **Reconnect Required** in **Settings → Team**.

A private, dedicated connection

Every account you connect gets its own private, dedicated IP address, matched to your location. Flow always reaches LinkedIn from that same address, so LinkedIn sees a consistent person signing in from a consistent place — just like you logging in from your own computer. Accounts are never bundled onto a shared connection, and yours isn’t mixed in with anyone else’s.

That consistency is a big part of why accounts stay in good standing: there are no sudden jumps between countries or devices that would make LinkedIn suspicious. It’s all handled for you — there’s nothing to set up.

If LinkedIn asks for a code

During the connection, LinkedIn may ask you to confirm it’s really you — with a one-time code by text, email or your authenticator app, an in-app approval, or a quick security check (like a puzzle). Complete it in the connection window just as you would when signing in normally.

Do it promptly: these codes are only valid for a few minutes. If one isn’t entered in time the connection won’t finish, and you can simply start again.

Tip: turn on two-step verification in authenticator app mode on LinkedIn. It’s the safest option, and it lets Flow restore your connection smoothly on its own if a session ever drops — usually with nothing for you to do.

Staying safe and within limits

Flow paces every action like a person. It works only during your working hours (9:00 AM–6:00 PM in each account’s local timezone), spaces actions out at random, and stays within sensible daily limits per account:

Up to 15 connection requests a day
Up to 80 profile visits a day
Up to 80 post likes a day

New accounts are eased in gently — connection requests ramp up from 1 to 15 over the first couple of weeks rather than starting at full speed. Brand-new accounts, or ones with only a handful of connections, should start slow: LinkedIn sometimes holds early invitations for manual review before they show, which is normal.

Flow never posts, comments or messages on its own. It only sends the outreach you set up and the replies you choose to send. You can see exactly how a campaign is paced in How outreach works.

Reconnecting an account

Flow keeps your session alive in the background, so most of the time there’s nothing to do. Every so often LinkedIn ends a session — after a password change, a login from a new device, or a routine security refresh. When that happens, that account’s status changes to Reconnect Required.

If you’ve got authenticator-app two-step verification switched on, Flow can often reconnect on its own. Otherwise, go to Settings → Team, click Reconnect for that person and sign in again (entering a code if asked). Outreach picks up from where it left off.

Multiple people, multiple accounts

Because every teammate connects their own profile, you can run outreach from several accounts at once — each seat is one connected LinkedIn, each with its own dedicated connection. Add people, see who’s connected, and manage seats in Settings → Team. To set up your profile and team, see Account setup; for how sending from several accounts works day to day, see Multi-senders.

Connected? Head back to the Quickstart to find leads and run your first outreach.