ProfileSmith

Find out what is wrong with your LinkedIn profile in about twenty seconds.

Drop in the PDF LinkedIn already makes for you. You get a scored, specific breakdown of your headline, your About section and every job description — free, with no account, and without the file ever leaving your browser.

Works on a phone, and in any language LinkedIn shows your profile in. Open your own profile, select everything from your name down through your experience, and paste it here — keep the About and Experience headings in.

No account. No LinkedIn login. Your file and anything you paste are read inside your browser and never reach our server.

How it works

  1. 001

    Bring your profile, either way

    On a desktop browser, open your own profile, click the button under your photo that opens the rest of the menu, and choose Save to PDF — LinkedIn only offers that on desktop, in English. On a phone, or on a profile in any other language, open your profile and copy the text instead. You do not need us for this part and we never ask for your password.

  2. 002

    Drop the file in above, or paste the text

    Both are read by your own browser. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored, and you do not make an account.

  3. 003

    Read the scan, then decide

    You get every finding for free, including the ones that are costing you. If you want the finished text rather than the diagnosis, that is the $29 rewrite.

What we actually check

The whole rubric is published before you upload anything, so you can decide whether it is worth your time first. Eight checks, weighted, against the real limits LinkedIn enforces: 220 characters of headline and 2,600 characters of About.

Read the full rubric, check by check

What the rewrite actually looks like

The free scan tells you what is wrong. The $29 rewrite is the other half — the finished text. Here is one profile before and after, written against the same rules the rubric checks. It is an example we wrote, not a customer.

The headline

Before

Operations Manager at Northwind Logistics

41 of 220 characters

After

I keep a 400,000 sq ft distribution centre shipping on time — 22,000 orders a day, 180 people, three peak seasons without a late week. Operations Manager at Northwind Logistics.

177 of 220 characters

The About section

Only the opening of it — the rewrite runs the length of the section.

Before

Results-driven operations professional with over 12 years of experience in logistics and supply chain management. Proven track record of driving results and exceeding expectations. Passionate about process improvement, team leadership and operational excellence.

After

Peak season used to cost Northwind a week of late orders. It has not for three years, and that is most of what I do. I run the floor of a 400,000 sq ft distribution centre outside Columbus — 180 people, 22,000 orders on a good day — and the work is mostly finding the one step that is quietly costing a shift, then taking it out.

One scan, free.
One rewrite, $29.
No subscription.

The tools that do this job charge you every month and keep charging after you have stopped using them. Fixing your profile is not a monthly activity — you do it, and then it is done. So we charge once.

Honest objection, since you are thinking it: a general-purpose chatbot can rewrite your About section for free. It cannot tell you which of the eight things below is actually costing you, measured against the real field limits, from your real profile — and it will hand you the same confident paragraph whether your profile is good or empty.

$29

once, in US dollars

  • 001ONE-TIME FEE, NO SUBSCRIPTION
  • 002A REWRITTEN HEADLINE, BUILT FOR THE 220-CHARACTER LINE
  • 003A REWRITTEN ABOUT SECTION, HOOK FIRST
  • 004A REWRITTEN DESCRIPTION FOR EVERY ROLE
  • 005PLAIN TEXT, READY TO PASTE INTO LINKEDIN
  • 006NO ACCOUNT, NO LOGIN, NO DASHBOARD
  • 007WE NEVER CONNECT TO YOUR LINKEDIN ACCOUNT
  • 008SEVEN-DAY REFUND, NO ARGUMENT

Run the free scan first — nobody should pay for a rewrite before they have seen what needs rewriting.

What we will never do

ProfileSmith does not scrape LinkedIn and does not act on your LinkedIn account.

We never ask for your LinkedIn password, we never connect to your account, we have no browser extension, and we will never send a connection request, a message, a comment or a like on your behalf. Tools that do those things get their users restricted and banned. The only thing that ever crosses between LinkedIn and us is a PDF you downloaded yourself.

What ProfileSmith can and cannot do