Post to LinkedIn

An agent writes the post, adds a photo if you want one, and puts it in front of you. It goes to your LinkedIn profile only when you select Post now, or at the time you schedule it, with any changes you make.

The quickest start is the Post on LinkedIn and Instagram goal on Home. It sets up a marketing assistant from your website and drafts the week's posts every Monday at 10:00. You can also switch the tool on for any agent.

You need the Owner or Admin role to connect LinkedIn, and Builder or above to change an agent.

Set it up

1. In Integrations, select Connect LinkedIn and sign in to LinkedIn. It asks to use your name and photo, and to post on your behalf.
2. Open the agent's Build tab. Under Tools, turn on Post to LinkedIn. It starts as Ask first: every post waits for you.
3. Select Publish agent. Publishing makes the agent live. It doesn't post anything by itself.

Draft a post

In Chat, pick the agent and ask for a post, for example "Write a LinkedIn post about the clinic we helped last month". The draft appears in the chat, and in Tasks under Needs approval, as a card with:

• Post: the whole text. Change any of it before you approve.
• Image: the photo that goes with it, or "text-only".
• Suggested: the time the agent suggests for it, if it gave one.
• Post now, Schedule… or Reject.

Once it has gone out, the card shows See the post on LinkedIn.

To post for a particular day, select Draft a post for this day on that day in Calendar. It opens Chat with the date and time typed in, for example "Draft a LinkedIn post for Dussehra, to go out on Tue 20 Oct at 9:30 am", and you send it. See Draft a post for this day.

Festivals and your own dates

With the Post on LinkedIn and Instagram goal, a greeting post for each festival, such as Dussehra or Diwali, waits for your OK ten days ahead, suggested for 9:30 am on the festival's morning. You can skip any festival, or switch festival drafts off. Your own dates on the Calendar, such as a sale or a launch, go to the weekly plan of posts, so the week's drafts can mention them. See Festival drafts and Your own dates.

Schedule a post

Plan a week or a month in one go. Ask, for example, "Plan my LinkedIn posts for October, three a week". The agent drafts each post separately with a suggested time, on weekday mornings between 9:00 and 11:00 unless you ask for other times, and lists the plan in its reply. Each draft waits for you as usual.

• Schedule… opens a date and a time in India time, filled in with the suggestion. Change them if you like, then select Schedule. Nothing is posted yet: the card says Scheduled · Tue 6 Oct, 10:00 am, and the post goes out at that time, within five minutes.
• Post now posts it straight away, whatever time was suggested.
• Until it goes out, a scheduled post has Post now, Change time and Cancel. Cancel puts it back to waiting for your OK.
• A scheduled post doesn't wait for you, so it isn't counted under Needs approval. Its task says Scheduled, and the post sits on its day in Calendar.
• If you approve several drafts at once in Tasks, each one is scheduled for its suggested time. So is a draft that is approved automatically after a wait. To schedule a whole week of drafts from Calendar, see Approve the week.
• You can schedule up to 90 days ahead.

Keep scheduled posts safe

• LinkedIn must be connected to schedule. If it isn't, Schedule says Connect LinkedIn under Integrations first. The same check runs when you change a post's time.
• Your sign-in lasts 60 days. LinkedIn ends the connection 60 days after you connect it. A post set for after that is still scheduled, and its card says so, for example: Your LinkedIn sign-in ends on 12 Oct, before this post's time. Reconnect under Integrations so it goes out. Reconnect before that day and the post goes out as planned.
• Fill in every part. A post that still has a part like {{business_name}} can't be posted or scheduled. The card says Fill in the {{…}} parts first. Change the words on the card, then approve it.
• Pause them all. On Calendar, Pause all scheduled posts stops every scheduled post in the workspace. They stay scheduled, and each card says Paused. Resume scheduled posts lets each go at its time; one whose time passed while paused goes within five minutes. Post now still works on any of them.
• Disconnecting cancels them. If you disconnect LinkedIn in Integrations, its scheduled posts go back to waiting for your OK, with the note Cancelled: LinkedIn was disconnected. Nothing goes out on an account you've taken away.
• Checked again when it goes out. At the post's time, Dhanur AI checks again, because things can change after you approve. The post doesn't go out if the agent is paused or deleted, Post to LinkedIn was switched off for it, your workspace rules switched it off, or Dhanur AI has paused agent work. It also doesn't go out if nobody approved it (it was scheduled automatically) and the tool now asks first.
• If it doesn't go through, the post says Didn't go through with the reason on its card, in Calendar and in Needs attention. The workspace's Owners and Admins also get one email within 15 minutes, with the reason and a link to fix it. Nothing was posted: fix the cause, then ask the agent for the post again.

Add a photo

On a draft that is waiting, in Chat or on its task in Tasks, under Image:

• Find a stock photo: the agent finds a free photo on Pexels or Pixabay that fits the post and gives the photographer's credit.
• Use my own photo: opens your files. Pick a photo; it uploads, and the agent adds it to the draft.
• Make a poster: shown only while making AI images is switched on.

A way the agent can't use yet isn't offered as a button. The draft says what to switch on instead, such as “Find a stock photo” is off for Marketing assistant, with a link to the agent. Select an image to see it full size, with Save and Share; see Images for your posts.

A new draft of the same post (the same suggested time, or neither with one) replaces the one waiting, so there is only ever one version of a post to approve. Drafts for different times wait side by side. While the agent is changing a draft, the card says what it is doing ("Finding a photo…") and can't be approved until the new version is ready. The replaced draft shows as one grey line.

What LinkedIn doesn't allow

• Company pages. Posting as a company page needs LinkedIn's approval first, so posts go to your own profile for now.
• Staying connected. LinkedIn ends the connection after 60 days. The goal checklist reminds you a week before; select Reconnect in Integrations.
• Messages. No app can read your LinkedIn messages. To take enquiries from LinkedIn, put your agent's chat link in your profile's Featured section and your bio.
• Instagram is a separate connection, in pilot: see Post to Instagram. Without it, ask for an Instagram post and you get a photo and a caption to copy, with Share and Save.

Good to know

• The agent never says a post is live, or waiting, when it isn't. If it writes a post into its reply and says it is waiting for your approval without making the draft, Dhanur AI sends it back to make the draft. If it still hasn't, its reply says the post isn't in Tasks yet.
• Test chats never post. A draft from the test chat can be approved, but nothing goes to LinkedIn.
• What LinkedIn gets: only the posts and photos you approve. We get your name and LinkedIn member id, to show whose profile is connected.
• Cost: writing a post is an AI reply, charged like any other. Posting and stock photos cost nothing extra, so a scheduled post goes out even if your credits run out before its time.