How to set up LinkedIn and connect it with AI agents

Connecting LinkedIn lets AIM's AI agents keep your profile active with posts written for a professional audience. Industry Desk reads public headlines in your space, and LinkedIn Publisher turns the strongest angle into one post with a branded image, ready for you to approve. This is organic posting. It does not buy ads and it does not spend money.

At a glance

• Time: about 3 minutes.
• Access you need: the LinkedIn login for the profile you post from.
• What AIM can do: read your name and create posts as you.
• What AIM cannot do: read your messages or connections, comment or react for you, change your settings, or see your LinkedIn password.

Before you start

• A LinkedIn profile you are allowed to post from on behalf of the business.
• A website saved on your AIM workspace, so posts can link to it when that fits.
• In AIM, the Owner, Admin, or Marketer role on the workspace.

AIM posts to your personal profile. Posting to a LinkedIn company page is not available yet.

Set up LinkedIn

1. Open linkedin.com in the browser you use for AIM and sign in to the profile you post from.
2. Check your headline, photo, and the link in your profile. New readers will judge the posts against them.
3. Decide how often you want to post. Two or three posts a week is a good start on LinkedIn.

Connect LinkedIn with AIM's AI agents

1. Sign in to AIM and open Integrations, then LinkedIn.
2. Click Connect LinkedIn. LinkedIn asks to let AIM use your name and create posts on your behalf.
3. Click Allow.
4. When the badge says Active, the connection is ready. There is nothing to pick, because one LinkedIn sign-in is one profile.

What happens after you connect

Here is what AIM does with the connection, in plain terms.

1. Your access is stored privately. LinkedIn gives AIM an access grant, not your password. AIM keeps it encrypted, uses it only for this workspace, and deletes it from AIM when you disconnect.
2. Posts are written from real reading. Industry Desk reads public headlines and competitor pages. LinkedIn Publisher picks one angle, writes a post in a professional voice with the main point in the first two lines, and adds a branded image. It does not invent news, quotes, or numbers.
3. Nothing is published without you, by default. Each post waits under Content for you to approve, change, or block. To let AIM schedule posts for you, open Settings, then Agents, and turn on Autopilot for LinkedIn posts. Scheduled posts are emailed to you first.
4. You choose how often. In the same place, set LinkedIn Publisher to run daily, every 2 or 3 days, or weekly, or turn it off. It starts at every 2 days.
5. You can ask for a post. Open the assistant under Content and ask for a LinkedIn post on a topic and a day. It prepares and schedules it.
6. Each post learns from the last. AIM records what every post was trying, and the agents compare results across your channels before writing the next one. LinkedIn does not share post results with AIM, so LinkedIn posts learn from your other channels and from which topics you have already covered.
7. Everything is logged. The Agent work on LinkedIn list on the integration page records every post AIM published or tried to publish.

Which AI agents use this connection

• LinkedIn Publisher writes the post and its image, and publishes it when you approve.
• Content Assistant prepares LinkedIn posts you ask for in chat.
• Industry Desk does not touch LinkedIn. It supplies the brief the post is written from.

If something looks wrong

• Sign in again or Expired. LinkedIn ends every access grant after 60 days. Click Connect LinkedIn again. Until you do, each post is saved for you to copy.
• The wrong profile is connected. Disconnect in AIM, sign in to the right profile on linkedin.com, then connect again.
• A post was not published. LinkedIn can refuse a post, for example an exact repeat of an earlier one. The text stays in AIM, ready to copy.
• Needs attention. AIM could not reach LinkedIn. Open the LinkedIn page in AIM to see the reason.

What stays in your control

Disconnecting in AIM stops posting immediately and removes AIM's access grant. Posts already published stay on your profile, and you can delete any of them from AIM or on LinkedIn. To revoke access on LinkedIn's side too, open Settings & Privacy, then Data privacy, then Permitted services, and remove AIM.

Still need help setting this up?

If LinkedIn will not show the approval screen, or AIM does not show the profile as active after you allow access, contact the AIM team. Say you are connecting LinkedIn and include your profile link. We will help you finish the setup.