Best ChatGPT and Claude prompts for your LinkedIn profile before outreach

A cold message sends someone to your profile before it sends them to your website. If they click and find a headline that says only “Founder | Visionary | Growth,” your careful opening line has to do twice the work. Fix the profile first.

ChatGPT and Claude can turn your real work into a clearer headline and About section. They cannot supply work you haven’t done. The prompts below use facts you provide and refuse to fill gaps with polished fiction. This is different from prompts for connection notes: that guide helps with the invitation itself. This one prepares what the recipient sees when they check the sender.

LinkedIn’s profile guide calls the profile a professional landing page and recommends an accurate headline, short summary and work samples. The headline appears below your name and in search results, according to LinkedIn Help. That makes it the first line to edit, not the place for every keyword you’ve ever worked near.

Before you prompt, make a fact sheet

Write down your actual title, who you work with, what you do, one or two projects you can discuss, and a public link that proves a piece of the work. If you have no measured outcome you can substantiate, don’t add a percentage to make the profile look complete. If a client’s name is private, omit it. The model can shorten your evidence; it can’t authenticate it.

Use the same short fact sheet for all three prompts. Otherwise the headline may claim you work with startups while the About section says you advise enterprise banks. That kind of mismatch is easy to miss when each section is generated separately.

Prompt 1: make the headline say what you do

LinkedIn lets you edit the headline separately from your current job title. Give the model a real role, an audience and a concrete kind of work, then ask for choices you would recognize as your own.

Rewrite my LinkedIn headline in three plain-language options. My current title is [actual title]. I work with [actual audience] on [specific work]. A project I can publicly discuss is [project]. Use only these facts. Do not add credentials, client names, revenue figures, awards, or outcomes. Keep each option short enough to read at a glance. If the facts aren't enough, ask one question instead of guessing.

Example fact sheet: founder of a small analytics consultancy; helps B2B support teams clean up ticket routing; has a public guide to triage rules. One plausible option:

Founder, support analytics | Helping B2B teams sort ticket routing

No “industry-leading,” no imaginary Fortune 500 clients. You can make it more specific once you have more public proof. The example is fictional, not a tested headline formula.

Prompt 2: turn the About section into a useful introduction

LinkedIn says the About section is for your motivation, mission and skills. Its profile guide suggests one or two paragraphs. Write it for someone deciding whether your message came from a person who knows the problem, not a press release about your “passion for transformation.”

Draft a LinkedIn About section in two short paragraphs. Facts: [paste fact sheet]. The people I want to hear from are [audience]. The problem I work on is [problem]. A public example is [link and what it actually shows]. State what I do and why this work interests me, but invent no origin story, customer result, qualification, or quote. End with one low-pressure way to start a relevant conversation. Flag any fact you cannot support.

With the same fictional fact sheet, an opening could read:

I run a small analytics consultancy for B2B support teams. Most of my work starts with a plain question: when a ticket arrives, who should see it first? I help teams write routing rules they can explain and adjust.

I published a short guide to the triage checks I use [link]. If you're working through a similar handoff, I'd be interested in where it gets stuck for your team.

Replace the placeholder with the public guide’s link before publishing the profile.

Prompt 3: choose proof for the Featured section

A promise in a headline is easier to trust when the visitor can inspect something you’ve made. LinkedIn’s Featured help describes work samples such as posts, articles, external links and media. A newer help page describes additional profile-content pinning for Premium Business, Sales Navigator and Recruiter subscribers. The pages cover different ways of using Featured. Check which options your account actually shows before planning an edit around a particular button.

Pick up to two items for my LinkedIn Featured section from this list of work I own and can share: [title, link, date, what it proves for each item]. I message [audience] about [problem]. For each pick, give a plain one-line description that says what a visitor will find, not a claimed result. Reject broken links, private work, client material without permission, and items that don't support my headline. If none fit, say so.

Given a public triage guide and an unrelated conference photo, the useful answer is the guide:

Triage rules for B2B support teams - a short guide to the questions I use before assigning a new ticket.

If nothing public fits, leave Featured alone and fix the headline and About section first.

Do the human review before outreach

Read the three edited sections together on your live profile. Check the job title against your Experience section, open every Featured link, and look at the page on a phone. LinkedIn notes that public-profile visibility differs from what signed-in members see and search engines can take weeks or months to refresh changes. Inspect the actual view a prospect can reach rather than assuming a saved edit is visible everywhere.

Then look at a planned cold DM. Does it refer to the same problem your profile says you work on? If your note talks about support handoffs and your profile reads like a generic growth agency, fix the mismatch before sending. For the message itself, these founder templates start with a reason to write. If messages are already going unanswered, diagnose the first DM before polishing another headline.

Checked September 26, 2026: LinkedIn Help on the headline, About section, Featured work samples, Premium profile-content pinning, public-profile visibility and profile guidance (linked above). The example business and copy are fictional. No reply-rate gain is claimed for these edits.