Daily limits and the warm-up: why only five requests went out

Everything here is on purpose. The numbers are what an active person's LinkedIn looks like, and they are the main thing standing between the feature and a restricted account.

The ceilings

• 20 connection requests a day.
• 30 messages a day, first messages and follow-ups together. Replies to people who wrote back are not counted against this.
• 100 connection requests in any rolling seven days.

You can lower the daily numbers under "How Allen sends" (Invites a day, Messages a day). You cannot raise them past the ceiling, and the server enforces it whatever the setting says.

The warm-up

A new outreach connection starts slow so LinkedIn does not see a sudden jump:

The clock starts with your first real connection request, not the day you connected. The Communications page shows the schedule with the dates it steps up. Messages to people who accepted are not limited by the warm-up.

When and how fast

• Sends start at and Sends stop at: your send window, 8 AM to 6 PM by default, in your time zone.
• Days Allen sends: weekdays by default.
• Actions go out minutes apart, with an occasional longer quiet break, never on a fixed timer.
• One random weekday off every week, chosen for you and different each week.

The other person's clock

When Allen knows where someone is, from their LinkedIn location, it waits for your send hours in their time zone before messaging them, and only offers meeting times inside their 9 to 5. An Eastern user's prospect in California is not messaged at 5 AM their time.

Housekeeping Allen does on its own

• Requests nobody answered are withdrawn after 21 days, which keeps your pending count healthy.
• Requests pause when too many are still waiting for an answer, and resume as people accept or old ones are withdrawn.
• Requests pause for a day when too few of your recent requests were accepted. The page says "Paused: too few people accepted recently".
• When LinkedIn's own weekly invitation limit kicks in, requests stop for a day and messages carry on.

If today's number looks low

Look at the warm-up card, the Paused line at the top of the page, and the day of the week. The lowest of your setting, the warm-up and the week's remaining allowance is what goes out, and a random day off sends nothing at all.