Replay the search you already built
Most Sales Navigator users have a saved search that took real effort to tune. Paste its URL and it runs as-is, filters intact — no reconstructing twenty criteria in a sentence and hoping the agent gets the industry taxonomy right. That is usually the fastest way in.
“Run this Sales Navigator search and rank the results by how well they match our ICP: <paste the URL>”
Rank on what filters cannot express
Sales Navigator filters on attributes. It cannot filter on “sounds like they are rebuilding their supply chain” or “posted about hiring warehouse staff”. An assistant reads the shortlist and ranks on that kind of signal, which is where the hours actually go in prospecting.
“Of these leads, who has posted about logistics or hiring in the last two months?”
Check who you already know
The expensive mistake is cold-contacting someone a colleague spoke to last month, or someone already in your network. Before any outreach the agent can cross the list with your connections and your existing conversations, which is a read and costs you nothing but a few actions.
“Which of these leads are already connections or already in a conversation with me?”
Credits before sequence
InMail credits are the real ceiling. Reading the balance first turns “the sequence stopped on the thirteenth send” into a decision you make upfront. Forty prospects and twelve credits is a conversation to have before starting, not a failure to discover halfway.
“How many InMail credits do I have left?”
Sales Navigator is not Classic
Its search, its inbox and its InMail are separate from ordinary LinkedIn, and they stay separate here: an agent never silently falls back to a Classic search or a Classic message. A shortlist always comes from a search you can name, and an InMail is sent from the Sales Navigator inbox.
Common questions
Can ChatGPT or Claude use Sales Navigator?
Yes, when your connected LinkedIn account holds a Sales Navigator seat. Its search, its inbox and its credits are exposed as their own tools, distinct from ordinary LinkedIn.
Can it run one of my saved searches?
Yes. Paste the Sales Navigator search URL and it is replayed with its filters intact, which is more reliable than describing the criteria again.
Does it need a seat?
Yes for the Sales Navigator tools, since the agent acts on your own account. Without a seat, standard LinkedIn search and messaging still work.
Will it send InMails on its own?
No. Sending is an explicit action, from the Sales Navigator inbox explicitly, and the agent can read your credit balance first so it can tell you the sequence will not fit.
How LinkedIn works with Nilyo
Connection. Secure hosted sign-in (your LinkedIn credentials go to LinkedIn, never to the agent). Sales Navigator and Recruiter are detected automatically when your account has them.
What your agent can do. People and company search, profile lookup from a name or URL, your network and invitations, private conversations (classic, Sales Navigator, Recruiter inboxes), posts, comments and reactions, job postings and applicants, Recruiter projects.
Pacing and safety. About 100 actions per day per account, profile views and searches included; calls are serialized so an agent can never run LinkedIn requests in parallel.
- Profile URLs are resolved to stable profile IDs before any action.
- Invitations carry an optional note of up to 300 characters.
- Private or restricted profiles return an explicit “not accessible” result instead of a retry loop.
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