Replaces the previous article: GetSales Intelligence — Smart Limits & Account Health.

AI Warmup is GetSales' automatic pacing system for your sender profiles. It gradually raises each LinkedIn task's daily limit toward the Target daily limit you set, guided by your account's age, health, and recent behavior. Instead of guessing safe caps by hand, you set a goal and AI Warmup walks you there without triggering LinkedIn's anti-spam systems.

If you used Smart Limits before, AI Warmup is the new name for the same safety idea — plus a clearer control model: an on/off toggle, a per-task Target daily limit (your goal), and a per-task Daily limit (the current effective cap, which climbs over time).

Where it lives

Open any Sender Profile → LinkedIn tab → scroll to Auto Tasks & Daily Limits.

You'll see:

AI Warmup toggle at the top of the section, with the description: Protect your account from LinkedIn's anti-spam algorithms. The system gradually increases daily limits based on your profile's Warmup Level until your target limits are reached.
A per-task limits table with one row per LinkedIn task type.

How AI Warmup decides your daily limits

AI Warmup combines three signals to set each task's Daily limit:

Warmup Level — a five-tier progression based on account age and recent monthly activity. See the ladder below.
Account Health — if any axis is weak (e.g., low acceptance, high block rate, proxy issues), AI Warmup slows down.
Target daily limit — the cap you set per task. AI Warmup will never raise Daily limit above this number; it's your ceiling.

Over time, as your Warmup Level rises and Account Health stays strong, the Daily limit column climbs toward the Target daily limit you chose.

Why you should avoid turning AI Warmup off

Unusually high activity is the #1 trigger for LinkedIn's security systems — shadow bans, restrictions, and permanent flags typically follow a spike in sending. AI Warmup exists to prevent that. Turn it off only if you have a specific, short-term reason (for example, a tightly scoped manual test) and plan to turn it back on.

When AI Warmup is off, the Daily limit column becomes editable and you're responsible for every number.

Warmup Level — the 5-tier ladder

#	Tier	Criteria / target
1	Newbie	Account age under 4 months
2	Just Starter	Account age 4+ months · target 1–10 actions / month
3	Getting Warm	Target 11–50 actions / month
4	Outreach Ninja	Target 51–100 actions / month
5	Warmy Monster	Target 100+ actions / month

Your current tier is shown on the Warmup Level card at the top of the LinkedIn tab. The card also shows:

Current actions / month — how much you've done in the last 30 days.
Next level actions / month — the threshold that promotes you to the next tier.

Click View details on the card to see the full ladder with checkmarks on tiers you've completed.

What moves you up the ladder

Time. Accounts younger than 4 months are capped at Newbie regardless of activity.
Completed actions per month. Accumulate enough real LinkedIn actions in a rolling 30-day window to cross the next tier's threshold.
Healthy metrics. Account Health must stay green. A big drop in acceptance rate or a spike in blocks will pause progression.

What brings you back down

Inactivity — if monthly actions fall below the current tier's range, AI Warmup treats you as cooler and raises limits more cautiously.
Health issues — errors, logouts, or sharp drops in acceptance/reply rates reduce effective daily limits until recovery.

The per-task limits table

Nine task types are controlled individually:

LinkedIn task	What it does
Send Connection Request	Sends connection invites.
Send Message	Sends 1:1 messages to existing connections.
Send InMail	Sends paid/premium messages to non-connections.
Visit Profile	Opens a lead's profile (counts as an action, useful for warm-up).
Like Latest Post	Likes the lead's most recent post.
Endorse Skills	Endorses skills on the lead's profile.
Comment Latest Post	Comments on the lead's most recent post.
Withdraw Connection Request	Retracts a pending connection invite.
Import Search Page	Scrapes a LinkedIn search results page for leads.

Each row shows:

Total Scheduled — tasks of this type currently queued.
Done today — tasks completed today vs the current effective limit (e.g., 0 of 35).
Daily limit — the effective cap for today. Read-only when AI Warmup is on; editable when AI Warmup is off.
Target daily limit — your goal. AI Warmup ramps Daily limit toward this as the account warms up. Set this conservatively and let the system do the work.
Delay between tasks — minimum interval between two executions of this task (dropdown: e.g., 3 min, 4 min, 5 min). Longer delays look more human and reduce burst risk.

Recommended Target daily limits by tier

Use these as starting points, not hard rules. Adjust based on Account Health and Acceptance Rate.

Tier	Send Connection Request	Send Message	Send InMail	Visit Profile	Engagement tasks*
Newbie	5–10	10–20	—	15–25	5–10 each
Just Starter	10–20	20–40	5–10	25–40	10–20 each
Getting Warm	20–35	40–60	10–20	40–60	20–30 each
Outreach Ninja	35–60	60–100	20–40	60–100	30–50 each
Warmy Monster	60–100	100+	40+	100+	50+ each

Engagement tasks = Like Latest Post, Endorse Skills, Comment Latest Post.

A good warm-up playbook for a new sender

Plan for 2–4 weeks of gradual activity. The goal is to teach LinkedIn that this is a real person behaving consistently.

Week 1 — low-intensity engagement. Turn on Visit Profile and Like Latest Post only (5–10/day each). No connection requests yet. No messages yet.
Week 2 — start connecting. Add Send Connection Request at a low Target daily limit (5–10/day). Keep engagement tasks running.
Week 3 — observe and hold. Don't raise limits. Let acceptance rate stabilize, watch Account Health climb, and confirm Safety Buffer sits high. If acceptance rate is under 20%, revisit your targeting or templates before going further.
Week 4 — add messaging. Turn on Send Message to converted connections. Stagger message sends 3–7 days after acceptance — sending immediately looks automated.

See Warm-Up Best Practices for New Sender Profiles for a deeper walkthrough, and Automation Nodes for structuring the automation itself.

What not to do

Don't send 100+ connection requests on day 1. The fastest way to a restriction.
Don't send messages before connections are accepted — auto-messaging fresh accepts is a strong spam signal.
Don't upload 10,000 leads at once. Batch imports into a warm sender. See Uploading and Importing Leads into GetSales.
Don't override AI Warmup "just to test something" unless you'll turn it back on within the hour. Spikes are what LinkedIn notices.
Don't set extreme Target daily limits hoping to force a ramp. AI Warmup still respects Warmup Level and Account Health; overly ambitious targets just sit unused and distort your market-median comparison.

Monitoring progress

AI Warmup is easy to trust precisely because the dashboard makes the effect visible. Keep an eye on:

Warmup Level card — is Current actions / month trending toward the Next level threshold?
Account Health — is the score stable or rising? Any orange warnings in the Recommendations panel?
Safety Buffer (KPI under the chart) — should stay high while ramping. That's normal during warm-up.
Acceptance Rate — is it stable above 20–30%? If it falls, pause and iterate on messaging before raising limits.
LinkedIn Limit Hit — should be 0 or very occasional. Frequent hits mean Target daily limits are too high.

For how to read those metrics in depth, see Sender Profile Metrics — Graph & KPIs.

Troubleshooting

"My Daily limit isn't rising" — check Account Health for orange warnings, verify your monthly actions count is climbing, and make sure AI Warmup is on.
"My sender isn't sending connection requests" — see No Connections Sent: 7 Common Causes and Fixes.
"I want to push harder than AI Warmup allows" — raise your Target daily limits (AI Warmup will still respect safety) and let your Warmup Level climb via real completed actions. Avoid turning AI Warmup off.