Somebody accepted. Now what? Here is the whole of it, in the order it happens.
Most tools in this category describe themselves as a list of features, which tells you nothing about what happens on Tuesday. This page is what a paid Hellofew workspace does, minute by minute and then week by week, with the numbers from the source. If anything here stops matching the product, the page is wrong and we fix it.
In order
Minute one
You paste your product page. It is read and turned into your ideal-customer profile: five to eight exact LinkedIn job titles, industries, locations, three angles and one sample note. Free, no card. Edit anything.
Minute five
You subscribe and connect LinkedIn on LinkedIn's own sign-in page. We never see your password. You need 150 or more connections; under that we refuse to send and we ask before you pay.
Minute six
Your first queue: up to 25 people, each with the reason they were picked, a connection note, the first message and the follow-up already written from their own profile and recent posts. Approving one person approves all three drafts for them. Nothing has been sent.
Day one
You approve three and sending starts: 5 invitations a day for the first three days, inside your working hours, at irregular gaps, never in the first or last twenty minutes of the day, never on your weekend or a public holiday where you are.
The day after someone accepts
The first message goes out. Never the same day: accepting and being pitched minutes later is the most recognisable automation signature on LinkedIn. On a free LinkedIn account the invitation carries no note, so this message is the first thing they read from you. At most 12 messages a day.
4 working days after that
One follow-up, which adds something to the first message rather than bumping it. There is no second follow-up and no setting to add one. The moment the person replies, everything still queued for them is cancelled, before the reply is even written to your inbox.
The moment anyone replies
You get an email within seconds with what they wrote and a one-word read of it: interested, later, not now, a referral, or a complaint. The reply lands in your inbox with a composer; you answer from there, from your own account, with a drafted reply on request. A complaint puts the person on a permanent do-not-contact list across every workspace.
Weeks one to three
The ramp: 5, then 10, 15, 18 and 20 a day, under 80 a week on Premium and 50 on a free account. Every morning a short email says how many people are waiting for a yes. Invitations nobody answered are withdrawn after three weeks.
Every Monday
The digest: sent, accepted, replied, what is working by source and by angle once there is enough to say, what is holding things if anything is, and a quiet week reported as a quiet week with the reason.
Week four and on
About 270 invitations a month on Premium, 180 on a free account, and the targeting starts leaning towards the job titles and sources that actually reply. The ledger of everyone contacted means nobody is written to twice, ever.
Everything included
Finding people
- Up to 25 matching people a day from a LinkedIn people search built from your job titles and keywords, on a free or a Premium account; Sales Navigator is not required.
- Warmer people from signals: whoever commented under a competitor's or creator's post this week, or wrote a post containing a phrase you watch. 8 reads a day, and their comment is quoted in the message.
- Paste a list of profile URLs and they go through the same reading and writing into today's queue.
- Nobody already in your network, nobody you have contacted before from that account, and nobody on your exclusion list or the global do-not-contact list.
Writing
- One connection note, one first message and one follow-up per person, written from their profile, About text and recent posts, not from a template.
- Anything in quotation marks is checked against what the person actually wrote; a draft with an invented quote is thrown away.
- Drafts that read like a recent one are caught and rewritten. Rewrite any draft from the card, three times a person a day.
- A language and a tone for all drafts, set once on the targeting page.
Sending, from your own account
- 20 invitations a day at most and 80 a week, ramped from 5 over three weeks. These are constants in the source, not settings.
- 12 messages a day at most, the first message never on the day of acceptance, one follow-up 4 working days later, never anything after a reply.
- Your working hours, your timezone, your weekend, your country's public holidays, twenty minutes clear of both ends of the day, irregular gaps.
- The schedule is readable before it runs: who, when, under which cap.
Replies
- An email within seconds of every reply, with the text and its intent.
- One inbox for every thread, with a composer that sends from your account and a drafted reply on request.
- A signed webhook for every reply, so a CRM or a Slack channel hears about it the same second.
Keeping the account yours
- Refuses to send from an account under 150 connections.
- Halves the daily cap when the accept rate falls under 15% and stops invitations under 8%, with a blunter check from day four so a bad start is caught before it is a hundred invitations deep.
- If LinkedIn so much as checkpoints the account in its first day of sending, sending turns off and stays off until you say otherwise.
- A kill switch, a reconnect that restarts the ramp from day one, and a public page of how often each of these fired across every customer.
Learning and reporting
- Reply rate by source, by angle and by job title on the Today page and in the Monday digest once there are ten invitations in a group.
- The targeting leans towards the titles that reply, by at most fifteen percent either way, so one quiet fortnight cannot erase a title.
- Every send, every skip and every reply in an append-only ledger, which is also your defence when somebody asks what went out under your name.
Your data and your control
- Approve or skip every person; nothing goes out that you have not read.
- An exclusion list for clients and partners; a permanent do-not-contact list that every workspace honours.
- CSV export of leads and replies, a JSON export of everything, and account deletion from the account page.
- An API and an MCP server with your own keys, so the queue works from Claude, Cursor or a script under the same caps.
Money
- $49 a month for one workspace with one LinkedIn account; $490 a year with 2 months free; $149 a month for an agency running up to 5 client workspaces, each under exactly these limits.
- The first 14 days refunded in full on request. Cancel whenever; the queue stops the same day.
- A referral code on every account that pays 30% of every month a customer you send pays, for their first 12 months.
Questions
- Someone accepted my invitation. What happens now?
- Nothing on the day they accept, on purpose. The first message you approved goes out the next working day inside your hours, as long as the workspace is paid, the account is healthy and not held in warm-up. One follow-up goes 4 working days after that unless they reply first. You will see both planned on the LinkedIn page before they happen.
- On a free LinkedIn account, do people get a note with the invitation?
- No. A free account gets only a handful of noted invitations a month, so the invitation goes bare and the personalised message is sent the day after they accept. On Premium the note rides on the invitation and the message follows acceptance the same way.
- Do I have to approve the follow-up separately?
- No. Approving a person approves their note, their first message and their follow-up together, all of which are on the card. Edit any of the three before approving, or regenerate them.
- What stops a message from going out?
- A reply from the person, a complaint, the daily or weekly cap being reached, the account being outside its working hours, the accept-rate breaker having stopped invitations, the account not being healthy, or the subscription having lapsed. Every one of these shows as a reason on the LinkedIn page and in the Monday digest.