WarmList User Manual

WarmList warms LinkedIn relationships so your messages get replies. Comment in your voice, turn strangers into connections, DM the connections that are warm enough. ~5 minutes a day. Browser-based — every post, connect, and DM is your own click in your own LinkedIn tab. Never auto-posts. Never auto-DMs.

"Candidate" in the app = "prospect" for sales. Same workflow either way.

1. What WarmList does

The rule LinkedIn forces on you: you cannot DM a stranger — only a 1st-degree connection. So WarmList runs two pipelines. Warm a stranger with public comments, then send a connection request. Once they accept they're a connection — then you can DM.

Reply rate on a cold DM / InMail: 3-8%. On a DM after warming: 40-45%. They've seen your name before it lands.

2. Getting started

5-day free trial, no card. After that: $25/mo or $250/yr.

3. The two pipelines

Warming Pipeline — people you're NOT connected to

Find people from Discovery (feed), Profile Visits, or Post & People search → add to the pipeline. Each comment moves a card one column. At Warm the next step is a connection request — not a DM. When it's accepted, the card jumps to the Connections Pipeline as Fresh.

Connections Pipeline — your 1st-degree connections

The column is how cold the relationship started — it doesn't move when you warm. "Draft DM" unlocks once a connection has its comments logged (Fresh needs none).

Both boards: one search box (name / company / role / location), and drag cards up or down to set your own order — it sticks. Need to force a stage by hand? Open the candidate → "Set stage manually."

4. The daily routine

Clicking LinkedIn's blue Post button is what advances the pipeline — WarmList watches the tab and logs it. No gold toast? See §9.

5. The pages

6. The Chrome extension

Required for most of WarmList's value. On LinkedIn it gives you:

• "+ WarmList" on profiles & search results — one-click add to a pipeline (reads the 1st/2nd/3rd-degree badge).
• "✍️ WarmList" on feed posts — opens the drawer with 3 voice-tuned drafts.
• Auto-fills the comment box and auto-logs the touchpoint when you click Post.
• Refuses stale posts (older than 60 days).
• Self-recovers when LinkedIn changes its layout.

Why an extension, not cloud scraping: cloud automation draws ~31% account-restriction rates vs ~8% browser-based. It runs in your own session — same IP and cookies LinkedIn already trusts.

Desktop only. Chrome extensions don't run on mobile, so /app is gated below 1024px. Marketing pages stay mobile-readable.

7. Connecting and DMing

The connection request (Warming Pipeline)

At Warm, open the person and Send connect request. It opens their LinkedIn profile — you click Connect there. WarmList can't see your LinkedIn tab, so it then asks you to confirm it was sent.

A personalized note is optional. Free LinkedIn caps invitations with a note at about 5 per month — a warmed person has already seen you comment 3+ times, so a noteless request is usually fine. Save notes for the few who need extra context. WarmList drafts one (≤200 characters) when you want it.

When the request is accepted, mark it — the person moves to your Connections Pipeline as Fresh, ready to DM.

The DM (Connections Pipeline)

You can only DM a 1st-degree connection, and only once they've met their bucket's warming requirement (Fresh = now).

LinkedIn safety limits

• ~80-100 connection requests / week, and only ~5 with a note / month on free LinkedIn.
• ≤50 DMs / day to connections.
• No auto-posting, no auto-DMs — every public action is your click.
• Browser-based only — ~8% restriction risk vs ~31% for cloud tools.

8. Concepts

The touch graph

Each person moves through stages driven by counted comment_posted events. Non-connections: Cold → Touched 1× → Touched 2× → Warm → Invite Sent. A connection's warming need is set by its recency bucket. Advances are automatic; a manual override lives on each candidate page.

Recency buckets

Your connections are split by how alive the relationship intrinsically is — connection age and whether they post. Fresh: connected <90 days or posted <60 days → DM now. Dormant: 1 warming comment first. Long-cold: connected >2 years ago, quiet → 3 warming comments first. Your own comments never re-bucket someone — they only count toward the requirement.

Voice samples

1-3 of your real LinkedIn comments, fed to the AI as style examples (not fine-tuning). Each ≥20 characters, all distinct. Set them in Settings. Drafts that don't sound like you = update these, then Regenerate.

The freshness gate

Posts older than 60 days give zero warming signal, so every entry point that could surface one refuses it — the kanban dims the card, the extension dims the button, the Drafts page files it under "expired."

9. Troubleshooting

"+ WarmList" pill missing on LinkedIn. Hard-refresh the LinkedIn tab (Cmd/Ctrl+Shift+R). Still missing → chrome://extensions → check WarmList is enabled.

Touchpoint didn't log — card stuck. Did the gold toast show in the LinkedIn tab? If yes, hard-reload the WarmList tab. If no: you may have closed the LinkedIn tab too fast, or used keyboard Enter instead of the blue Post button — log it via Drafts → "Mark as posted."

A connection shows in the Warming Pipeline (or a stranger in Connections). Old import from before the connection-degree fix. Re-import your Connections.csv — the importer self-heals.

Drafts don't sound like me. Settings → update voice samples with 2-3 real recent comments → Regenerate pending drafts.

Drag-to-reorder or "Set stage manually" did nothing. Both save and reload the board now. If a stage button shows a red error, the message says why.

Dashboard unusable on phone. By design — desktop only. Open getwarmlist.com on a laptop.

10. FAQ

Is my LinkedIn account safe? Yes — browser-based, in your own session, rate-limited to LinkedIn's safe thresholds, never auto-posts.

Why can't I just DM everyone? LinkedIn only lets you message 1st-degree connections. That's the whole reason for the two pipelines: warm a stranger → connect → then DM.

Why is the connection note limited? Free LinkedIn allows ~5 invitations with a note per month. Noteless requests aren't capped that way — and a warmed person usually doesn't need a note.

Edge / Brave / Arc? Yes — all Chromium browsers. Firefox / Safari: not yet.

Does WarmList read my whole LinkedIn? No. The extension only acts on the page you're viewing. No background scraping.

Import from Hiretual / SeekOut / Apollo? Yes — Pool → Import CSV. Deduped by handle, safe to re-import.

Pricing? One plan: $25/mo or $250/yr. Everything unlimited. 5-day free trial, no card. Cancel anytime; 14-day refund on the first paid month.

11. Glossary

• Warming Pipeline — board for people you're not connected to; ends at a connection request.
• Connections Pipeline — board for 1st-degree connections; ends at a DM.
• Touch graph — the staged progression driven by counted comment touchpoints.
• Touchpoint — a logged interaction: comment posted, connection request, DM sent/replied.
• Recency bucket — Fresh / Dormant / Long-cold classification of a connection.
• Invite Sent — a connection request is out, awaiting accept.
• Voice samples — your real LinkedIn comments used as the AI's style reference.
• Freshness gate — the 60-day cutoff that blocks drafts on stale posts.
• Discovery — ambient pipeline capturing people you comment on while browsing.
• Queue — today's ranked 3-5 to work.

Need help?

Email hello@indiaschool.ai — beta users get a reply within 24h on weekdays.