# Saved Search & Alert System

A named set of saved searches inside your plan’s limit, each with a watch reason, a check cadence and the action its alert triggers.

- Version 1.0, updated 18 September 2026
- Works with: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or any capable assistant
- Source: https://www.linkediz.com/prompts/saved-search-strategy

## Use when

- You have saved twelve searches and could not say what three of them are for.
- You want the trigger events from the signal analyzer to actually reach you.
- You are setting up a second seat and want both people watching different things.
- Your alerts fire daily and you have stopped opening them.

## Variables to replace

- `{{PLAN}}` — Your LinkedIn plan. Free, Premium Career, Premium Business, Sales Navigator Core or Advanced, Recruiter Lite or Corporate. It decides what you can actually do.
  Example: Sales Navigator Core
- `{{SEATS}}` — Seats / people sending. How many profiles will be doing the outreach. Changes every volume number.
  Example: 2
- `{{ICP}}` — Ideal customer profile. Firmographics and the trigger, not just an industry.
  Example: Companies of 200–2,000 staff operating in 3+ countries, with an in-house payroll team, that have changed finance system or added an entity in the last 12 months.
- `{{CONSTRAINTS}}` — Constraints. Word limits, banned words, compliance rules, anything that makes an otherwise good answer unusable.
  Example: Connection notes under 280 characters. No "quick question", no "circling back". Legal forbids naming customers without written consent.

## How to use

1. Run the Buying Signal Analyzer first and paste its top three signals into {{CONSTRAINTS}}.
2. Name the plan accurately — the saved-search ceiling differs and the prompt allocates against it.
3. Build the searches in the order given. The base ICP search first, because the trigger searches are that search plus one filter.
4. Put the weekly routine in your calendar. The system fails at the routine, not at the setup.

## Do not

- Turning on every alert type "to see what comes". Three weeks later the tab is unread and the signal is invisible in the noise.
- Saving a search without an action. If you cannot write the action in one line, do not spend the slot.

## Context files this expects

- `SALES-NAVIGATOR.md` — https://www.linkediz.com/ai/files/sales-navigator

## Where this sits

- Previous step: Buying Signal Analyzer — https://www.linkediz.com/prompts/trigger-events
- Next step: Lead List Qualifier — https://www.linkediz.com/prompts/lead-qualification

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## The prompt

You are a sales operations architect designing a monitoring system inside a hard constraint.

## Objective
Allocate my saved search slots so that every alert that reaches me is one I will act on the same day.

## My situation
Plan: {{PLAN}}
Seats: {{SEATS}}
ICP: {{ICP}}
Signals that matter for my product: {{CONSTRAINTS}}

## LinkedIn reality (do not plan past these)

LinkedIn platform limits that apply on EVERY plan, including the most expensive one:
- Connection invitations: ~100 per week. Applies on every plan including Recruiter Corporate. LinkedIn adjusts it per account based on acceptance rate, so a low-acceptance account gets less, never more.
- InMail credit expiry: 90 days. Unused credits expire. They accrue to at most three times the monthly allowance, and a credit is returned if the recipient replies within 90 days.
- Commercial use limit: Monthly search cap. Free accounts hit a monthly ceiling on profile searches. Every paid tier lifts it, but none of them removes the per-search result cap.
- Profiles per search: 1,000 / 2,500. Regular LinkedIn search stops at 1,000 results; Sales Navigator stops at 2,500, paginated 25 at a time. Both are per search, not per day.

Treat these as hard constraints, not guidance. A plan that exceeds them is not an ambitious plan, it is a plan that gets the account restricted.

Per-plan allowances, US list prices, last verified 12 September 2026 by Linkediz:

| Plan | US list price / month | InMail credits / month | Results per search | Saved searches |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Premium Career | $39.99 | 5 | 1,000 | 3 |
| Premium Business | $69.99 | 15 | 1,000 | 3 |
| Sales Navigator Core | $119.99 | 50 | 2,500 | 15 |
| Sales Navigator Advanced | $159.99 | 50 | 2,500 | 15 |
| Sales Navigator Advanced Plus | quote only | 50 | 2,500 | 15 |
| Recruiter Lite | $170 | 30 | 1,000 | 10 |
| Recruiter Corporate | quote only | 150 | 1,000 | 50 |

Notes the numbers do not show:
- Sales Navigator Advanced Plus and Recruiter Corporate carry no published price. LinkedIn quotes them per seat block. Never state a price for those two.
- The InMail allowance does not scale with price. Sales Navigator Core costs three times Premium Career and includes ten times the credits, so per credit the cheap plan is by far the most expensive.
- Unused InMail credits expire after 90 days and accrue to at most three months' worth. A credit comes back if the recipient replies within 90 days, so reply rate, not send volume, is what the allowance rewards.
- The ~100 invitations per week is adjusted per account by acceptance rate. It goes down for accounts that send poorly targeted invitations. It does not go up because a plan was upgraded.

If the user's request requires exceeding any figure above, say so explicitly, state which limit it breaks, and propose the version that fits inside it. Do not quietly scale the plan down and do not quietly exceed it.

## What saved searches and alerts actually do
- A saved search re-runs itself and tells you about NEW matches since last time. It does not tell you about changes to existing matches.
- Lead and account alerts are separate: job changes, posts, company news and growth signals fire off saved LISTS, not off saved searches.
- The saved-search ceiling is per account and is listed above for my plan. Exceeding it means deleting one.

## Method
1. Sort my signals by how quickly a match decays. A job change is worth acting on for about 90 days; a post is worth acting on for about 72 hours. Fast-decaying signals need their own search; slow ones can share.
2. Allocate the slots: no more than half to "new people matching the ICP" and the rest to trigger-specific searches, because the first kind produces volume and the second kind produces meetings.
3. For each search, define: the name, what it watches, the filters that differ from the base ICP search, the check cadence, and the ACTION when it fires. An alert with no defined action is a slot wasted.
4. Set cadences honestly. Daily only for signals that decay in under a week. Everything else is weekly, and weekly on a named day.
5. Where I have more than one seat, split ownership so two people are never notified about the same lead.
6. Name every search so that a person who did not build it can tell what it is for. "UK FD — new entity trigger" not "Search 4".

## Constraints
- Do not exceed my plan's saved-search limit. If the design needs more, say which search to drop and why.
- Do not recommend daily alerts for slow signals. That is the mechanism by which the whole system gets ignored.
- Do not propose watching anything my tier cannot filter on.

## Output format

### Slot allocation
| # | Search name | Watches for | Key filters | Cadence | Action when it fires | Owner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|

### Lists and their alerts
Which saved lead and account lists to create, and which alert types to enable on each.

### Weekly routine
A short block: what to check on which day, and roughly how long each pass takes.

### What I am deliberately NOT watching
And why each one did not earn a slot.

### Review trigger
The condition under which this allocation should be redone rather than left alone.

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## Notes

Written to a fixed structure and run through Claude and ChatGPT to confirm each one returns the output format it declares. That is not the same as a measured reply-rate benchmark, and nothing here claims one — if you run these at volume and have numbers, we want them.

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Linkediz LinkedIn AI Toolkit — v1.0, 18 September 2026
Source and updates: https://www.linkediz.com/prompts/saved-search-strategy
LinkedIn plan limits and prices in this file: https://www.linkediz.com/linkedin-limits