Approval is the step that defines Conextly. Every other tool in this category either leaves you to write everything yourself or sends automatically on your behalf. Conextly does neither: it drafts, and you approve. Nothing reaches a real person's inbox without your explicit yes.
The approval queue
Drafts collect in a queue, each in a pending state. You open the queue and work through it: read the draft, decide, move on. Every item shows you the person it's going to and why the draft says what it says, so you can judge it in context rather than in a vacuum.
For each draft you can:
- Approve it as written — it joins the send queue.
- Edit, then approve — change a word or rewrite the whole thing, then send it.
- Skip it — this person isn't right, or now isn't the time.
Nothing moves out of pending on its own. A draft you never look at is a draft that never sends.
Editing a draft
Treat the draft as a strong first version. The fastest, highest-impact edits are usually:
- The opener. Make sure the first line is specific and true. It's the line that decides whether the rest gets read.
- Your real reason. Add the thing only you know — why this person, why now — that the profile couldn't tell the model.
- Your voice. Cut anything that doesn't sound like you. The message goes out under your name; it should read like you wrote it, because you did.
A few seconds per draft is usually all it takes, and it's the difference between outreach that sounds like you and outreach that sounds like a tool.
Sending after approval
Approved messages don't all fire at once. They go into a send queue that releases them gradually, at natural intervals across your day, always under LinkedIn's limits and your account's current standing. You approve in a batch when it's convenient; Conextly sends at a human pace so your activity never looks like a machine's. See Account Safety & Sending Limits.
Why keep a human on every send
- Quality. A person catches the draft that's slightly off, the prospect who isn't actually a fit, the tone that doesn't land. That judgment is what keeps reply rates high.
- Safety. Human-approved, human-paced, personalized outreach is exactly what LinkedIn wants to see. Bulk auto-sending is what gets accounts restricted.
- Accountability. Your name is on every message. Approval means you always know — and always decide — what goes out under it.
The approval step costs you a few seconds per message. In return it keeps your outreach personal, your reply rate high, and your account safe. That trade is the whole philosophy of Conextly.