What this can and cannot do
ProfileSmith does not scrape LinkedIn and does not act on your LinkedIn account.
What it never touches
- We never ask for your LinkedIn password and there is nothing to log into. ProfileSmith has no accounts at all.
- There is no browser extension, and there never will be. LinkedIn’s User Agreement forbids software that overlays or modifies the service, and the tools that tried it have been shut down.
- We do not send connection requests, messages, comments, likes or posts on your behalf, and we do not read your connections, your inbox or anybody else’s profile. Tools that do those things get their users restricted and banned.
- The only thing that moves between LinkedIn and ProfileSmith is a PDF you downloaded yourself from your own profile.
Where the free scan is limited
- It reads LinkedIn’s own Save to PDF export. A CV you wrote yourself, a scanned image, or a PDF from another site will be rejected rather than guessed at.
- LinkedIn’s export only carries your top skills, not all of them, so we do not score your skills list. Grading you on a list we cannot see in full would be dishonest.
- LinkedIn caps Save to PDF at 200 downloads per member per month and offers it in English on desktop only. That is their limit, not ours.
- The scan judges structure and evidence — length against the real field limits, missing sections, blank roles, numbers, stock phrases. It does not judge whether your career is impressive, and it cannot tell whether what you wrote is true.
- Files over 10 MB are refused. A profile export is far smaller than that.
What happens to your file
Nothing. The PDF is read by your own browser and never sent to us, so there is no copy of your profile to store, leak or sell. Close the tab and it is gone.
The $29 rewrite is the one exception, and only if you choose it. Clicking Get the rewrite hands the text we pulled out of your PDF to your own browser tab and sends you to Polar to pay. When you come back, that text is posted to our server, the rewrite is written, and it is emailed to you. If you never click the button, we never receive a thing. The text is used to write your rewrite and for nothing else — not training, not a mailing list, not resale.
The one exception, stated so the sentence above stays exactly true: if the reader crashes on your file, or refuses it for not looking like a LinkedIn export, our error monitoring records that it happened. That report contains the software fault and nothing taken from your document — not the text, not your name, not the file name. We keep it because a reader that breaks silently is a reader nobody fixes.
We also count visits and scans, so we know whether anybody is using this. Four events, no cookie, no IP address kept, and a new random id every browser tab, so we cannot follow you between visits. A finished scan sends the band your score fell into — under 40, 40–59, 60–79, or 80 and up — because we need to know whether the scan is telling people anything useful. That band is the only thing derived from your profile that ever leaves your browser. Not the score, not a single word of the text, not your name, not the file name.
Who we are
ProfileSmith is built by Geary Works, 1380 Rio Rancho Blvd SE #470, Rio Rancho, New Mexico 87124. mike@gearyworks.com. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to LinkedIn Corporation.