Does LinkedIn allow Communication? A straight answer

This is the first question most people ask, and you deserve the plain answer.

The rule

LinkedIn's User Agreement does not allow third-party software that automates sending connection requests or messages. Communication is that kind of software. LinkedIn may warn, restrict, suspend or close an account it believes is automated, and we cannot prevent or reverse that. When you turn Communication on, you accept that risk for your own account. Section 7.11 of our Terms says the same in full.

Why the Comments plan is different

Comments go through LinkedIn's official API with a permission you grant on LinkedIn's own sign-in screen. That is a door LinkedIn built for apps. Sending connection requests and messages is not something the API allows, so Communication has to sign in to LinkedIn as you. You can run Comments on its own for as long as you like and never turn Communication on.

What Allen does to keep the activity human-sized

• Fixed ceilings: never more than 20 connection requests and 30 messages a day, and 100 requests in any seven days. You can lower these, never raise them.
• A slow start: new accounts send 5 requests a day in the first week, 10 in the second, 15 in the third, then the ceiling.
• Real pacing: actions go out minutes apart, with occasional longer breaks, only in the hours and on the days you set, and one random weekday off each week.
• Housekeeping: requests nobody answered are withdrawn after 21 days, and new requests pause when too few people are accepting or too many are still waiting.
• A hosted sign-in from your own country: you sign in on a secure page run by our provider, from an internet address in the country you pick. Allen never sees your password and never reads your browser's LinkedIn cookies.
• An automatic stop: the moment LinkedIn asks the account for a verification, shows a warning, or signs Allen out, all sending stops and you get an email.

What we will not say

We will not call this "safe" or "undetectable", and we do not trust anyone who does. LinkedIn writes and enforces its own rules and can change them whenever it likes. What we can tell you, exactly, is what Allen does and how much of it, and you can see every action on the Activity tab.

If your account is restricted

Allen stops sending the moment it notices. Follow LinkedIn's own steps to clear the restriction, which usually means verifying your identity. Do not reconnect Allen for outreach until the account is fully back. Comments through the official API are a separate connection and keep working unless LinkedIn says otherwise.

If you would rather not take the risk

Stay on Comments. Allen still warms people up in public, tells you who replied, and drafts the DM and the connection note for you to send yourself.