# LinkedIn headline intent signal outreach Last updated 16 October 2026 You want to use the LinkedIn headline intent signal for outreach, and HeyLead can help. HeyLead is an AI agent for LinkedIn outreach: it finds the right people, writes to them in the voice of your own LinkedIn posts, follows up, and handles replies. It runs from Claude Code, Cursor, any MCP client or a web dashboard. ## What the headline intent signal is The headline intent signal comes from a person's own activity on LinkedIn. A person's new headline says they are looking for something. This includes hiring or a new role. The signal is attached to one person. ## Why the headline intent signal matters HeyLead watches 40+ signal types, scored, matched to your ICP and expiring. A strong signal starts outreach and the opener says why now. The headline intent signal has a weight of 0.4 in the score. Scores run from -0.30 to 0.90. Negative lowers priority. When several signals name one person, this signal has a priority rank of 13. Lower wins. The signal expires after 7 days. ## How HeyLead detects the headline intent signal HeyLead re-reads the profiles and posts of people in your campaigns. It searches LinkedIn for your keywords. It writes the invite note when the classifier finds a hook in it. Before an invitation, HeyLead warms up: a profile view, a follow, a comment on a recent post. It runs from the cloud with your laptop closed. ## What to write or do Open with what they did in a sentence about it. Ask one question they can answer in writing. No pitch in the first message. An invitation with a note, an opening message, up to 2 follow-ups on Free and 5 on Pro, InMail and email fallback. Opening messages, follow-ups and answers to replies wait for your approval until you switch to autopilot. Invitations, not-now check-ins and meeting nudges are not held. Replies are read, classified and answered from the campaign's facts. Anything ambiguous is held for you. "Not now" gets a check-in in 30 days. ## The brief to type into HeyLead You type a one-sentence brief in Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT or the HeyLead dashboard. HeyLead drafts the campaign. You review it and press Launch. Nothing is sent before. One sentence creates a draft campaign. Six campaign goals: sell a product or service, find a job, hire people, find partners or investors, find a vendor, research interviews. Hire people, find partners or investors and research interviews work with a custom brief. ## Limits and other details Free costs $0 for one connected account with 2 follow-ups. Pro costs $29 a month per connected account. The client's source is on GitHub under MIT. The hosted backend is not. HubSpot is the CRM it syncs with. Google Calendar is the calendar it books into. It works in Claude Code, Cursor, Claude Desktop and claude.ai, any MCP client and a web dashboard. It works in ChatGPT as a custom MCP app. This is tested on ChatGPT Pro. Custom apps depend on your ChatGPT plan and settings. It reads your own LinkedIn posts to learn your voice and never posts unless you ask for a post. ## Questions people ask ### How long does the headline intent signal last? It expires after 7 days. ### Does HeyLead write the invite note for this signal? Yes, when the classifier finds a hook in it. ### What is the weight of the headline intent signal? It has a weight of 0.4 in the score, where scores run from -0.30 to 0.90. ### How does HeyLead find the headline intent signal? HeyLead re-reads the profiles and posts of people in your campaigns and searches LinkedIn for your keywords. 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. HeyLead is not affiliated with LinkedIn. It reaches LinkedIn through Unipile, which is also not affiliated. LinkedIn's own rules are in the Terms: https://heylead.dev/terms Related: [LinkedIn reaction insightful competitor signal outreach](https://heylead.dev/signals/reaction-insightful-competitor), [linkedin headline change signal outreach](https://heylead.dev/signals/headline-change), [linkedin promotion signal outreach](https://heylead.dev/signals/promotion), [LinkedIn company change signal outreach](https://heylead.dev/signals/company-change), [LinkedIn signals](https://heylead.dev/signals), [linkedin profile view signal outreach](https://heylead.dev/signals/profile-view), [LinkedIn reshares competitor signal outreach](https://heylead.dev/signals/reshares-competitor)