From a banned LinkedIn account to a 50% accept-rate
Last year I'd been using tools to do LinkedIn Outbound.
But I got banned!
So, out of fear of losing my account, I decided the agent had to live on my machine. That led me to creating a scheduled job in Cowork.
The agent works from ICPs I define, sources profiles, and connects with them. The way it sources and the connect messages are both built as bandits - so I can try new approaches and it biases towards what works. This means it self-improves!
And that got me to a 50% rate of connect requests being accepted!
Well - I've subsequently found out there are tools that don't get you banned!
The interesting part isn't the 50% accept rate—it's that the system keeps learning instead of relying on one fixed outreach strategy. Most automation stops at execution. Letting it continuously test and bias toward what actually works is a much stronger long-term advantage.