LinkedIn connection message generator

A connection note has one job: give the other person a reason to accept, inside a limit of 200 characters on free accounts and 300 on Premium. Say who they are, why you actually want to connect, and who you are, and you get three notes that name the reason and stop. No pitch, no 'I'd love to pick your brain'.

Fill in what you have. More context, better output.

Tone
What anchors the note

A small set from the tones and types inside Depost AI, where the analytics also show which ones land with your audience.

Free, no account. What you type is sent to our API once, to generate the result, and is not stored.

Result

This is the shape of what comes back. Fill in the form, or hit "Try an example", and the grey turns into words.

Example run

Three connection notes under 300 characters

All three fit LinkedIn’s note limit, counted on each card, and each gives a real reason to accept. The Post Idea anchor and the Friendly tone came from the chips.

What went in

Who they are
VP of Sales at a mid-size logistics SaaS. She posted yesterday about ramping SDRs in under 6 weeks.
Why you want to connect
Her ramp framework is close to what we are trying. I want to follow her posts and compare notes, not sell anything.
Who you are
Head of Sales at a 20-person fintech
Tone
Friendly
What anchors the note
Post Idea

What came back

Note 1 · Their post180/300

Atta Ur Rehman Shah

wants to connect

Your SDR ramp post yesterday hit close to home. We are attempting the same thing at a 20 person fintech, with mixed results so far. Would like to keep learning from what you share.

Note 2 · Shared ground162/300

Atta Ur Rehman Shah

wants to connect

Fellow sales lead here, six weeks into the same ramp experiment you wrote about. Not selling anything, I just want your posts in my feed while we figure this out.

Note 3 · The plain reason154/300

Atta Ur Rehman Shah

wants to connect

I run sales at a 20 person fintech and your ramp framework is the closest thing to a map I have found. Connecting so I can follow along and compare notes.

Why it matters

Two hundred characters between you and a yes.

A request with a specific note out-earns the blank ones, and the ceiling is tight enough that every word has to work.

200

characters for the note on a free account. Premium tiers get 300.

LinkedIn limit

95%

of hidden buyer stakeholders are more open to outreach after strong thought leadership.

LinkedIn · Edelman, 2025

3in 4

decision-makers trust thought leadership over product sheets and marketing material.

LinkedIn · Edelman

Not our numbers. LinkedIn’s and Edelman’s.

Beyond the demo

This page writes from a form. The product writes from you.

The generator above works with whatever fits in a few fields. Connect LinkedIn to Depost AI, the AI content team B2B founders and teams run on LinkedIn, and the same kind of draft starts from your analytics, your voice, and the buyers you are actually trying to reach.

Drafts that start from your analytics

The agents read your posting history first: the hooks that earned the click, the pillars your audience answers, the rhythm of what worked. The draft sounds like you because it learned from you, not from a form.

A reply ready for every person who matters

Build custom lists of the people you want to stay visible to. Their new posts arrive in one feed with a comment drafted in your voice under each. You edit or approve every one before it goes anywhere.

From draft to published, without the paste

Finished drafts go to the queue and publish through LinkedIn’s official API, with the first comment written alongside. Connection notes and follow-ups are drafted with the context already in place. Nothing goes out until you approve it.

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The honest reason is the best material

The reason field asks why you want to connect, and the tool works best when you answer it truthfully rather than strategically. "Her ramp framework is close to what we are trying, I want to compare notes" produces a better note than "expand my network in the logistics space", because the first is a sentence a person can respond to and the second is LinkedIn-speak for nothing in particular.

This is not a moral point, or not only one. Recipients decide on pattern recognition: templated notes have a smell, specific ones do not, and specificity cannot be faked without the specifics. The two minutes you spend finding the real reason (the post of theirs you read, the mutual contact, the talk they gave) is the work. The generator's contribution is compressing it into the limit without losing the reason on the way.

After they accept

The mistake that undoes a good note is the pitch that arrives four minutes after the accept, which retroactively turns your honest reason into a pretext. Every B2B seller runs that play now, which is exactly why not running it stands out. Let the acceptance breathe. Engage with what they post; when there is something real to say, say it. The DM generator on this site writes that first message for the situation you are actually in, and the InMail generator covers the case where you never connected at all.

Questions

Should I add a note to a LinkedIn connection request?
When you have a real reason, yes: a note that names the specific thing that prompted the request gives the other person something to say yes to. When you have no reason beyond wanting the connection, an empty request is honestly better than a templated note, because people have read "I came across your profile and was impressed" a thousand times and know exactly what it means.
How long can a LinkedIn connection note be?
Two hundred characters on a free account; 300 on Premium, Sales Navigator, and Recruiter. This generator writes under 280 so the notes work for paid accounts with margin; if you are on a free account, pick the shortest of the three options or trim with the character counter on this site, which has the connection-note limit built in.
What makes people accept a connection request?
A recognisable reason. "Your post yesterday about SDR ramp times matched what we are seeing" tells the recipient who you are in relation to them, which is the only question they are asking. Flattery does not answer it, and a sales pitch answers a question nobody asked. Reason, brief identity, stop: that is the entire formula, and it fits easily in the limit.
Should I pitch in the connection note?
No. The note's only job is the accept. A pitch in the note converts the request into an ad, and ads get ignored at the accept stage, which costs you the relationship before it exists. If there is business to discuss, it goes in a message after they accept, ideally after some actual interaction.
Is it free, and is what I type stored?
Free, no account, with a daily cap so it stays available. The three fields are sent once to generate the notes and are not stored.
How do I warm someone up before the request?
Be visible to them first: a thoughtful comment on a post of theirs a week before the request changes how your name reads when it arrives. Depost AI makes that repeatable with custom lists of the people you want to reach and replies drafted in your voice when they post, so the connection note is a follow-up to a familiar name rather than a cold open.

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