Their LinkedIn profile, right from the Desk
Click a name on the Desk and their LinkedIn profile slides in, with their headline, about, experience and education, read without telling them you looked.
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You're about to approve a message to someone. The last thing you want to do is open LinkedIn in another tab, find them, scroll, and come back.
Now you don't have to.
How it works
On the Desk, click the person's name on any message in Going out. On a reply, click LinkedIn profile under their name. A panel slides in from the right.
It shows their photo, their headline and how you're connected. Their company and where they're based. Their About section. Then their career as a timeline, newest first, with each company's logo, every role and the years, and roles at one company grouped under it. Their schools, with logos, below that. A button opens the full profile on LinkedIn.
It works for the people you'd ask for an intro too. Click a connector's name on an intro ask and their profile opens the same way.
They won't see it
Stage 1 reads the profile through your connected LinkedIn without registering a profile view. They don't get a "someone viewed your profile" notice before your message lands.
Stage 1 keeps the profile for a week, so opening it again is instant and doesn't spend LinkedIn lookups.
Why it matters
Two things decide whether a first message works. Is this the right person, and does the hypothesis fit their world. A ten-second look at their last three roles answers both.
When the person is wrong, for example an accounting specialist where you wanted a VP, skip the message. Stage 1 learns from what you approve and what you pass.
For what to look for in a profile before you write, see the quiet signal in a LinkedIn job change and research before reach, the 3x3.