Watched profiles

Embers reads public LinkedIn profiles that you choose to watch. Every one of them, including your own, is a watched profile with a role. There are no connected accounts, no seats, and no add-on prices. The only number that matters is how many watched profiles your plan allows.

What a watched profile is

A watched profile is any public LinkedIn URL you add on the Watchlist screen (/watchlist). Each entry carries a role chip:

All roles are added from the same list and the same add form. The role changes how Embers treats the results, not what it reads: everything comes from public posts and public engagement, without a login.

What the Own role adds

An Own entry tells Embers this is your voice, not a prospect’s:

• It spawns post monitoring and comment monitoring for that profile, so the people who react to your posts, comment on them, or reply to your comments elsewhere become candidate leads.
• The profile itself is excluded from leads. You never appear in your own queue.
• It gives the outreach voice something to learn from.

Your own profile is optional. Add none, one, or several within the cap.

How many you get

The cap is per workspace, and every self-serve plan is one workspace. Own profiles count toward the same cap as everyone else on the list. Members do not count and are never billed.

Add a watched profile

1. Open the Watchlist

   Watchlist (/watchlist) lists every profile on the workspace, with its role, scan status, and the count against your cap.

2. Paste the public URL and pick a role

   Use the canonical form, for example https://www.linkedin.com/in/your-name. Choose a role chip. Pick Own for a profile you post from.

3. Confirm

   The profile is queued for its first scan. Embers never asks for a password, a session cookie, or a browser extension.

During onboarding the same form appears as the “Add profiles” step, and at least one profile of any role is required to reach the preview.

Edit or delete a profile

You can change a profile’s role at any time from its row. Deleting one depends on the role.

• Deleting a competitor, influencer, investor, or other non-own profile stops its scans and removes it from the list. Leads already attributed to it keep their attribution and history.
• Deleting an Own profile soft-deletes its posts, its engagements, and the leads that came only from that profile. Leads that also engaged with another watched profile stay. Notes are kept.

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