LinkedIn Connection Search
This automation searches your 1st-degree LinkedIn connections to find professionals who match a specific description. It then scrapes their profiles and uses AI to evaluate their suitability, returning a curated list of the best matches with an explanation for each.
This automation streamlines the process of finding key contacts within your existing LinkedIn network. Here's how it works:
- Starts on LinkedIn: The automation begins by navigating to LinkedIn and ensuring you are logged in.
- Understands Your Goal: It takes your natural-language description of an ideal contact (e.g., "product managers in the fintech space") and intelligently creates an optimal search query.
- Searches & Filters: It performs a search on LinkedIn, then automatically filters the results to show only "People" and your "1st-degree" connections.
- Gathers Candidates: It scans the search results and gathers a list of potential candidates to examine more closely.
- Analyzes Profiles: For each candidate, the automation visits their profile page, scrolls to load all the information, and scrapes key details like their job history, education, and professional summary.
- AI-Powered Evaluation: The automation uses an AI model to compare the scraped profile data against your original description. It determines if the person is a good match and provides a concise reason why.
- Delivers a Curated List: Finally, it compiles a structured list of all the contacts who were identified as strong matches, including their name, current role, profile URL, and the AI's justification for why they are a good fit.
Usage Ideas
- Find potential candidates for a job opening from within your trusted network.
- Identify sales leads who are decision-makers at companies you're targeting.
- Discover potential mentors or experts in a field you're interested in.
- Build a list of potential collaborators for a new project or business venture.
- Reconnect with contacts who have moved into roles or industries relevant to your current work.
Customization Ideas
This template is a powerful starting point that you can easily adapt to your specific needs. You can collaborate with the Agent Builder Assistant to:
- Refine the AI's Judgment: Adjust the core AI prompt to change what it considers important when evaluating a profile. You can teach it to prioritize certain skills, industries, or levels of experience.
- Change the Scraped Data: Modify the automation to extract more or different information from a LinkedIn profile, such as their list of skills, certifications, or recommendations.
- Control the Scope: Easily change the maximum number of profiles the automation will analyze in a single run.
- Expand Your Reach: Modify the search filters to look beyond your immediate network, for example, by searching through 2nd-degree connections.
- Customize the Final Report: Change the format and contents of the final JSON output to perfectly match what you need for your records or for use in other tools.
Notes
You must sign in to LinkedIn when you’re reusing this template
Agent Inputs
Required Parameters
Name | Type | Default |
|---|---|---|
description | string | None |
Natural-language description of the type of person to find in your LinkedIn connections (e.g., 'software engineers who work in AI or machine learning') | ||
Optional Parameters
Name | Type | Default |
|---|---|---|
profileLimit | number | 5 |
Maximum number of profiles to examine in detail | ||
