What do LinkedIn's rules say?
LinkedIn's User Agreement, effective 3 November 2025, says members agree not to use "bots or other unauthorized automated methods to access the Services, add or download contacts, send or redirect messages". Its help page on automated activity says it doesn't allow third-party software or browser extensions that scrape, change the look of, or automate activity on its website.
Those rules apply to you whichever tool you pick. Using Siela doesn't put you outside them. Lead Finder sends messages by itself, and that is the activity the rules are aimed at, so we won't describe it as safe.
What could happen to your account?
LinkedIn can restrict you, and its page on prohibited software says members who use such tools risk having their accounts restricted or shut down. On invitations, its restrictions page names three triggers: sending many in a short time, having many ignored, left pending or marked as spam, and sending an excessive number when it suspects an automation tool.
LinkedIn doesn't publish how many invitations is too many. Our guide to a restricted LinkedIn account covers each type of restriction and how to recover.
What does Siela do on LinkedIn?
Here is how the parts that matter for your account work:
| Question | How it works |
|---|---|
| Whose account sends? | Your own. You sign in yourself. |
| How many people a day? | Lead Finder contacts up to 50 people a day on LinkedIn, within the daily goal you set, with at most 100 invitations a week and 12 an hour. New accounts start at a third of the daily limit and build up over 21 days. |
| Does my laptop need to be on? | No. Once your campaign is set, it keeps working in the cloud. |
| Who checks each message? | A second AI checks each LinkedIn message first. You don't review each one: it sends on its own once you press Save and start. |
| What about security checks? | It stops at sign-in pages and security checks and asks you to finish them. |
| Can I see what it did? | Every tool call and decision is written to an audit log. |
| What about risky actions? | Siela checks how risky an action is first, and the riskiest work comes to you. |
| Can I run it without sending? | Yes. "Find leads only" sends nothing. |
The security page has more on logins and data.
What can't Siela tell you?
- That 50 a day is a safe number. It is Siela's ceiling, and LinkedIn hasn't approved it. Nobody outside LinkedIn knows where its line sits for your account.
- How often accounts get restricted. We don't publish a restriction rate, so this page has no figure to give you.
- That finding leads carries no risk. LinkedIn's rules cover scraping as well as sending, so we wouldn't call "Find leads only" risk-free either.
We also don't have a SOC 2 report yet, if that matters to your company.
How should you decide?
Ask what losing access to your LinkedIn account for a week, or for good, would cost you. If that account is hard to replace, don't automate it with any tool, and do your outreach by hand. If you accept the risk, these are our suggestions. They are sensible precautions, and we have no data showing how much each one lowers the risk.
- Start with "Find leads only" and read who it picks before you send anything.
- Set your daily goal below the maximum.
- Keep your targeting narrow, since LinkedIn names ignored and spam-marked invitations as a reason for restrictions.
- If LinkedIn shows you a warning, stop and read it before doing anything else.
For the wider question beyond Siela, read is LinkedIn automation safe.
Frequently asked questions
Can Siela get my LinkedIn account restricted?
Yes, it's possible. LinkedIn's User Agreement restricts automated activity, and LinkedIn can restrict accounts it suspects of using automation. Siela works within daily goals and stops at security checks, but no tool can rule out a restriction, and we don't publish a restriction rate.
Do I approve each LinkedIn message Siela sends?
No. Lead Finder sends on its own once you press Save and start, within your daily goals. A second AI checks each LinkedIn message first, and every decision goes in an audit log. If you don't want anything sent, choose "Find leads only", which sends nothing.
How does Siela sign in to LinkedIn?
You sign in yourself. If LinkedIn shows a sign-in page or a security check, Siela stops and asks you to finish it. Apps such as Gmail connect differently, through OAuth, and Siela doesn't store passwords or raw tokens for those connected apps.
How many LinkedIn messages does Siela send a day?
Lead Finder contacts up to 50 people a day on LinkedIn, within the daily goal you set, with at most 100 invitations a week. New accounts build up over 21 days. Those figures are Siela's own ceilings. LinkedIn doesn't publish a number for how much outreach it accepts, and it hasn't approved them as safe.
Sources
- LinkedIn User Agreement (effective 3 Nov 2025; checked 1 Nov 2026)
- LinkedIn Help: Automated activity on LinkedIn (shown as updated 4 weeks ago; checked 1 Nov 2026)
- LinkedIn Help: Prohibited software and extensions (shown as updated 2 years ago; checked 1 Nov 2026)
- LinkedIn Help: Types of restrictions for sending invitations (shown as updated 11 months ago; checked 1 Nov 2026)