Free LinkedIn Profile Audit
Grade your LinkedIn profile against the seven criteria that drive cold-outbound reply rates. We quote the lines that are hurting you, rewrite your headline three ways, and hand you a featured-section strategy. Same signal-aware engine Scout uses on every prospect, applied to you first.
What the audit actually checks
Most LinkedIn profile reviews score the wrong things. They reward branded backgrounds, custom URLs, and recommendations from old colleagues, none of which move reply rates on cold outbound. The Scout audit ignores all of that and focuses on the seven sections prospects actually scan before they decide whether to reply.
- Headline — does it state who you help and the outcome, or is it just a job title?
- About opening — does the first line earn the click into the rest, or read like an autobiography?
- Featured section — empty, social-proof-only, or does it ladder to a clear next step?
- Experience — is your current role described in outcome language, or in tasks?
- Recent posts — are you visible, and on a topic that matches your offer?
- Skills & recommendations — does the social proof match what you sell today, or what you sold five years ago?
- Activity recency — does your profile look alive when prospects open it?
How it works
The audit runs through Claude Code, an open-source coding agent that runs on your machine. You install it once (free, two minutes), enable a single Chrome bridge, and paste your LinkedIn URL. The agent scrolls the profile, evaluates each section against the seven criteria, and prints back a 0-100 reply-rate score with quoted excerpts of the lines dragging it down. Nothing leaves your laptop and there is no signup.
Why a desktop tool, not a web form
Web-based "audit" forms see whatever you paste in, which means they can only score the text you remember to copy. The desktop agent reads your live profile the way a recruiter would — including how it looks on first scroll, what shows up under "Featured", and how recently you've posted. That changes the audit from a checklist to a real critique.
What you get back
A summary card with the overall reply-rate score, a row for each of the seven sections, and three concrete deliverables you can paste into LinkedIn the same afternoon: a rewritten headline (three options), a revised About opening, and a featured-section strategy that ladders to one clear call to action. There is also one suggested post idea sourced from what's working in your category right now.
Who the audit is for
Founders doing their own outbound, solo operators, agency owners, and anyone whose pipeline starts with a cold LinkedIn message. If you've been sending DMs and watching reply rates hover at one or two percent, the audit will surface the parts of your profile that are quietly suppressing them before the conversation even starts.
Ready to fix it?
Run the audit, paste in the rewrites, then point Scout at the prospects worth talking to. Same engine, scaled across your entire outbound list — picking up real buying signals instead of job titles, warming up before you message, and drafting the first DM from the actual signal it spotted.