Do I need a LinkedIn account to use Replicants?
No. Almost everything works without LinkedIn: your community, Courses, Products, Subscribers and email, Funnels and Website. Only Outreach needs it, because it finds people on LinkedIn and connects with them from your own profile.
Updated 19 October 2026
Works without LinkedIn
Your community
Free forever, on its own address. Invite people by email from Members, or share its link. Invite members.
Courses and Products
Build and sell courses, with payment into your own Stripe. Build a course.
Subscribers and email
Your list, broadcasts, sequences and forms.
Funnels, Website and Socials
Your first funnel page is free; Website, the rest of Funnels and Socials come with Studio. Socials can post to LinkedIn if you want it to, and works without it too.
What Outreach needs from LinkedIn
Outreach likes posts, leaves comments (by default only the ones you approve) and sends connection requests from the LinkedIn profile you connect, in your name. You connect it once, with the Chrome extension, in Google Chrome on a computer. It works through the personal profile you sign in to LinkedIn with, not a company page. Only the owner of the business connects it. How to connect LinkedIn.
If your LinkedIn belongs to your job
Everything Outreach does shows on the profile you connect, as you. If your employer's rules do not allow that, leave Outreach off and use the rest of the platform. Outreach works on LinkedIn only and does nothing on Instagram or X. Can I use Outreach on Instagram or X?
The free preview does nothing on LinkedIn
If your Outreach says it is set up and paused, that is the free preview. Nothing is sent and nothing happens on LinkedIn until you start your free trial and connect it. What the preview is.
What is the Outreach preview, and what happens if I start my free trial?
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Can I use Outreach on Instagram or X?
No. Today Outreach works on LinkedIn only, through your own account.
Do my new connections get a welcome email automatically?
Yes. If you use Outreach, every new connection gets a welcome email by itself, as soon as we have their email address. No LinkedIn welcome message is sent to anyone today, so the email does that job. One screen shows you both, in about two minutes.
How does Outreach turn strangers into community members?
Outreach finds people who have recently shown an interest in the problem you solve, gets your name in front of them on LinkedIn, and brings the ones who say yes into your community. Most of it runs by itself. Your part is a few minutes a day approving comments, and then making new members feel welcome.