# Sends while your laptop is closed, at the seat's own pace.

> How HeyLead schedules LinkedIn outreach from the cloud: Monday to Friday 08:00 to 22:00 in your time zone, no LinkedIn call 22:00 to 08:00, 20 to 40 minutes between invitations, the invitation ceiling per plan, 150 profile reads a day, and a backoff from 5 minutes to 6 hours. Numbers from the code.

This is the Markdown twin of https://heylead.dev/product/scheduling (the page, in text). Index for agents: https://heylead.dev/llms.txt

Last updated 28 September 2026

HeyLead's scheduler runs in the cloud. It plans each person's next step, sends Monday to Friday 08:00 to 22:00 in your time zone, makes no LinkedIn call between 22:00 and 08:00, keeps invitations under the seat's ceiling, spaces every send by minutes, and backs off when LinkedIn pushes back. Every number below is what the code enforces.

## What runs, and when

| Rule | What the scheduler does |
| --- | --- |
| Sending window | Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 22:00 in your time zone by default. You can choose another window in Settings, or let a campaign ignore it. |
| Quiet hours | No LinkedIn call at all between 22:00 and 08:00 in your time zone, for every campaign and every job. On unless you switch it off. |
| Spacing | 20 to 40 minutes between invitations and 20 to 35 minutes between follow-up messages on a seat, at a random point in the range. |
| Invitation ceiling | 20 a day and 100 a week on a free LinkedIn account; 168 and 320 on Premium or Sales Navigator. The day resets at 00:00 UTC; the week is a rolling seven days. |
| Profile reads | At most 150 a day per seat in a rolling 24 hours, across every campaign on it. When they are spent, discovery waits. |
| Backoff | A rate-limit refusal pauses that action on that seat for 5 minutes; each further refusal doubles it up to 6 hours; a success steps it back down. |
| Your time zone | The one you set with the quiet hours or the window, else the location on your LinkedIn profile, else London. |

## Each person, replanned

The scheduler does not run a fixed sequence. As accepts, replies and signals land, the agents plan each person's next step: warm-up, invitation, opener, follow-up, InMail, email, or nothing. When a seat reaches its ceiling it plans no more invitations and carries on with openers, follow-ups and replies. Every decision is readable with `inspect` or on the campaign page.

## Pause, stop, resume

- Pause one campaign at any time; `emergency_stop` pauses everything.
- When a seat's LinkedIn session ends, every send is parked, not failed. You get a reconnect link; once the seat is back, the parked work is queued again.
- Nothing is sent until you say launch. A campaign is a draft until then.

## A worked example

**Monday 08:00, London, a free seat, 40 people in a new campaign.** The scheduler warms up the first few people (a profile view, a follow) and sends the first invitation at 08:24, the next at 08:57, and so on: 20 invitations by late afternoon, then none until Tuesday. On Wednesday three people have accepted; their openers go out 20 to 35 minutes apart once you approve them. On Thursday LinkedIn answers one invitation with a rate limit: invitations on that seat pause for 5 minutes, then resume. By Friday 22:00 the week's count reads 100 and invitations stop until Monday's rolling window frees the first ones. The people, the times and the counts are an example.

## Limits, in numbers

- HeyLead sends from your own LinkedIn account at a human pace: at most 20 invitations a day and 100 a week on a free LinkedIn account (more on Premium or Sales Navigator), Monday to Friday 08:00 to 22:00 in your time zone, minutes apart. It backs off when LinkedIn pushes back and resumes on its own. You can pause any campaign at any time.
- Quiet hours 22:00 to 08:00; profile reads 150 a day per seat; at most 8 InMails a day per seat.
- Backoff from 5 minutes to 6 hours, per seat and per action.

HeyLead is not affiliated with LinkedIn. It reaches LinkedIn through Unipile, which is also not affiliated. The full rules per plan are on [LinkedIn limits explained](https://heylead.dev/linkedin-limits); what the messages say is on [messaging](https://heylead.dev/product/messaging).

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