Choose your signal agents

Agents are the part of Embers that goes and looks. There are three kinds, each reads a different kind of public LinkedIn activity, and they all feed one ranked list of leads.

The three kinds of agent

Your own profile is one agent, Your profile: adding a profile tagged Myself (the Own role) to the watchlist creates it, and removing the profile stops it. It reads your posts and the comments you leave, and the leads it finds still say which, Your posts or Your comments. Every other role, from competitor to client founder, gets a watchlist agent, one per profile or page, and the role becomes a label on the leads it finds. The watchlist and keyword tracking each have their own page.

A single LinkedIn post you want qualified is not an agent. Add it on the Watchlist with Add monitor, then Posts; Solo and above include 20 per billing cycle.

HeyReach, Instantly, Smartlead, and Emelia can route each agent to its own campaign or list.

Add an agent

1. Open Agents

   Choose Agents in the sidebar (/agents) and select New agent, or press A. The button reads Add keyword tracker when that is the only agent left to add, and it is hidden when there is nothing left or the workspace has no plan.

2. Pick the agent

   The New agent dialog lists what you can still add, one row each with what it does; selecting a row goes straight to its next step, and Back returns to the list. Your profile appears once, as “Reads who engages with your posts and the comments you leave”. Picking it without your own profile on the watchlist opens Add your profile; adding the profile is the whole step, and the agent starts scanning with it. Picking the watchlist asks for a public profile or page URL and a role.

3. Add keywords, for the keyword tracker

   Type each keyword and press Enter or a comma, up to 85 characters each, or use Suggest from your ICP. Three kinds work: pain points you solve (“manual data entry”), your category or competitor names (“switching from X”), and buying phrases (“looking for a CRM”). Then choose Activate keyword agent.

What the Agents page shows

A banner across the top sums up every agent in one line, such as “All systems scanning normally” with when the last scan finished and when the next starts, or “One agent hit an error”. Each card below it shows:

• The agent’s name and one line under it: “Your posts and comments” for Your profile (the profile’s name instead when the workspace has two own profiles, such as “Priya Shah’s posts and comments”), or “Watching” and the profile’s name for a watchlist agent.
• A status: Active, Paused, Error, Inactive, or Scanning while a run is in flight.
• Leads found and engagers found, then the cadence and the last run, for example “Every 24 hours · last ran 8m ago”.
• An on and off switch that pauses or resumes the agent, and View details.

View details opens the agent’s totals, next scheduled run, and last 20 scans; pausing agents and scan history explains each run.

Your profile is one card although it reads two things. Its switch pauses or resumes both, and it counts each person once. Its details show Posts scanned and Comments scanned and list the post and comment scans together, and its View leads opens the leads found through your posts and your comments. With two own profiles, View leads shows only that profile’s leads, and the filter shows as a Profile chip on the leads list that you can remove.

The 24 hour cadence

Every agent scans every 24 hours, on every plan. Plan around two consequences:

• Once a day is the right rhythm. Checking hourly surfaces nothing new; working the priority queue daily does.
• A new source starts with its history. A newly added profile or page is first read back through its recent public posts, 365 days by default, and the dashboard shows a “Reading public history” card while that runs. How far back the first scan reads has the detail for each agent.

What each plan runs

Your free trial runs on Solo, so every agent works from signup. When a workspace is on Free, its agents stay paused, the banner reads “Your agents need a plan to run”, and each card offers Start free trial in place of the switch.

Choosing between them

• You post consistently. Start with Your profile, and nothing else, for a week.
• You comment more than you post. Your profile still fits: it reads the comments you leave, and those will out-produce your posts. The Comments page (/comments) ranks your comments by engagement or ICP rate and names the author whose posts bring you the most leads.
• Your buyers cluster around someone else. Put that person or company page on the watchlist with the role that describes them honestly.
• Your buyers announce the problem in public. Keyword tracking, with phrases a buyer would type, not phrases a vendor would.
• One post you do not watch drew the right crowd. No agent needed: qualify the post to read its engagers once.

Most accounts do not need every kind; two well-chosen agents produce a workable queue. If a week passes with nothing, no leads yet walks through the causes, and an agent showing Paused or Inactive is covered in find out why your agents stopped scanning.

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