# LinkedIn Operating Agreement

One page. Read it before the first post; it decides what this work can and cannot be.

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## What this plugin will do

- Audit and rewrite your profile, headline, and About section.
- Build a positioning brief, content pillars, a cadence you can hold, and a newsletter plan.
- Draft, lint, and repurpose posts in any native format.
- Build a commenting roster and write outreach messages one person at a time.
- Analyse your own exported post data and refuse to over-conclude from it.

## What it will never do

- **Log into LinkedIn.** It holds no credentials and makes no API calls.
- **Send anything.** No posts, invitations, messages, comments, or likes. Every output is
  text you paste yourself.
- **Scrape.** No profile data, no post data, no email finding, no list building.
- **Automate activity.** No scheduling tools that act as you, no browser extensions, no
  named third-party automation platforms.
- **Join or simulate an engagement pod.**
- **Invent a number, a client, a result, a credential, or a quote.**

Those are not preferences. Automated activity, scraping, and inauthentic engagement are
prohibited by LinkedIn's User Agreement §8.2, and a restricted account ends a compounding
asset that took months to build.

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## What you are agreeing to

**1. You are the author of record.**
Your name is on it. You read every line before it publishes, and you cut anything you would
not say out loud in a room of peers. Drafting help is normal; unread output is how people
end up publishing something untrue about their own work.

**2. Every claim is one you can substantiate.**
A real number, a bounded range, or a qualitative statement. If the proof does not exist yet,
the post is about the process — which is a legitimate post and it ages better than the
alternative.

**3. You check what you are allowed to say.**
Employment agreement, client NDA, and any sector rules (financial promotion, medical claims,
securities disclosure) sit outside LinkedIn's policies and bind you anyway. Named third
parties should consent.

**4. You will hold a cadence you can actually pay for.**
Priced from a bad week, not a good one. A cadence abandoned in week five is worse than one
never started, because the abandonment is visible on your profile.

**5. You measure the outcome, not the applause.**
The 90-day criteria are things another person could verify: conversations you did not start,
specific references, invitations. Follower count is not on the list.

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## What you should expect

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| **First visible change** | Profile fixes, same day |
| **First reliable signal** | 6-8 weeks of consistent posting and commenting |
| **Enough data to analyse** | 10+ posts, and even then descriptively |
| **Enough data to test a hypothesis** | 20-60 posts, often more than a quarter allows |
| **A pattern you can act on** | Usually later than you want, and the honest answer in the meantime is "not yet" |

This is slower than the shortcuts promise. The shortcuts put the account at risk to save a
few months, and that is bad arithmetic.

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## Signature

- Objective (one of six): ______________________
- Audience (specific enough to exclude someone): ______________________
- Minutes per week I will protect: ______
- Two things I will not post about: ______________________
- Date: ______________________
