A monitor checks LinkedIn on a schedule and flags posts that show a buying signal for your ICP: a trigger, a pain or intent. Each flagged post lands in your Signals inbox with the reason, and you can comment, message the author or save them to a list.
What you need
- The Pro plan or higher. Pro includes 20 monitors, Business 40, Enterprise unlimited. See Monitor limits by plan.
- A connected LinkedIn account. See Connect your LinkedIn account.
- An ICP with buying triggers and pains, set up in Targeting. You can also judge posts for your whole company, or write custom instructions instead.
What you can watch
| Monitor | Watches | How to start it |
|---|---|---|
| Keyword posts | New posts that contain your keywords | Type keywords |
| Person | New posts from one LinkedIn profile | Paste a profile URL |
| Company | New posts from one company page | Paste a company page URL |
| Events | New LinkedIn events matching your keywords | Type keywords, choose Events |
| Jobs | New job posts matching your keywords or a LinkedIn jobs search | Type keywords, choose Jobs |
Pasting a post, event or group URL starts a watcher instead. See Watch a post.
Create a keyword monitor
- Open Signals. In New monitor: keywords or LinkedIn URL, type a keyword and press Enter. Add a few. Click a keyword to switch between exact phrase (
"cold email") and words anywhere in the post. - Keep Posts selected, and open Filters to set the look back, words to exclude and author titles. See Look back, exclude words and author titles.
- Press Search once to preview the posts the monitor would find. Searching is free. Adjust the keywords and filters until the preview looks right.
- Press Watch. In Watch for new results:
- Give it a Monitor name.
- Choose how often to Check every: from 1 to 24 hours.
- Under Flag posts that matter for, pick the ICP to judge posts against, or your company as a whole.
- Optional: Save people to a list. See Save post authors to a list.
- Press Create monitor. Its first check starts right away and usually takes 1–2 minutes.
Watch a person or a company
Paste their LinkedIn profile or company page URL into the same box and press Watch. Add an optional Label and choose how often to Check every, from 30 minutes to 2 days. For a person you can also watch for job changes.
To choose the ICP their posts are judged for, select the monitor and open Signal & capture settings (the settings icon). Under Signal Matching, pick an ICP, your whole company, or Custom instructions.
Start narrow. A few specific keywords and two or three author titles give you fewer, better signals than a broad search you have to sort through.
Reading your signals
Open the Signals tab. Each flagged post shows ✦ Why it's a signal: its type (trigger, pain or intent), what it matched in the ICP, and whether the author matches the ICP. Posts that don't show a signal stay in the monitor's feed on the Monitors tab but aren't flagged.
The inbox has four tabs: All, New, Commented and Not relevant. See Comment, message or mark not relevant.
Checks and costs
Monitors check on their own. You can also run a check by hand with Check now in a monitor's menu, once every 10 minutes per monitor. Watching and flagging posts is free, and so is commenting from filtrat.
Saving commenters and likers of popular posts is charged per person found, within a monthly limit you set. See Save commenters and likers.
Manage a monitor
On the Monitors tab, monitors are grouped by the ICP they judge for. Use a monitor's menu to Check now, Edit monitor or Delete, and the pause button to Pause or Resume it. Edit monitor changes everything you set when you created it: the name, keywords, how far back it looks, filters, how often it checks, the ICP it flags posts for, and who it saves to a list (authors, commenters, likers, signals only, and their limits).