# The outreach message tool

> One message to one named person - the three channels, why LinkedIn notes count to 300 characters, what goes in the background field, and why there is no bulk.

Source: https://www.revquix.com/docs/tools/recruiter-outreach-dm
Last verified: 2026-09-04

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Drafts one message to one person about one specific role. 1 credit, and it runs at [the outreach message tool](https://www.revquix.com/dashboard/tools/recruiter-outreach-dm).

## Three channels, because they are three different messages

Nothing is pre-selected - guessing would hand you a 300-character note when you meant to send an
email, and the drafts are not interchangeable.

| Channel                      | What it has to do                                                             |
| ---------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **LinkedIn connection note** | Fit one specific fact and one ask into LinkedIn's hard 300-character limit.   |
| **Referral request**         | Ask somebody who already works there, without assuming they owe you anything. |
| **Intro email**              | Includes a subject line, because an email without one does not get opened.    |

### The LinkedIn character count is real

LinkedIn caps connection notes at 300 characters, so a longer draft is simply rejected by the site
you are pasting it into.

The count is taken **after the recipient's name is put back in**, and a draft that overruns is
re-asked shorter. If it is still over, the count turns red and tells you - rather than cutting a
sentence in half on your behalf.

> **Note** - The limit is a useful constraint anyway
>
> 300 characters has room for exactly one specific fact and one clear ask, which is what a good cold
> note actually contains.

## What to put in the background field

One or two specific things you have done - not a summary of your career.

> Six years on payment systems, rebuilt a settlement service and cut the nightly batch from four
> hours to forty minutes.

is far more useful than "experienced backend engineer with a passion for scalable systems".
Everything the message claims about you is drawn from this field, so being specific here is what
makes the draft worth sending.

## The recipient's name never reaches the AI provider

If you name the person you are writing to, that name is **not** in the request we send onward. The
draft is generated against a `[RECIPIENT]` placeholder and the real name is put back on our own
servers once it returns.

> **Note** - Why this one is treated differently from your own details
>
> The person you are writing to is a named third party who has not agreed to anything. Redacting your
> own contact details and then forwarding theirs would be a strange sort of privacy.

## There is no bulk mode, and there will not be

One recipient field. No second name, no CSV upload, no campaign mode.

A tool that writes one message to one named person about one specific role is outreach. The same tool
pointed at a list is a spam engine, and the difference between them lives entirely in the interface.

It would also make the output worse: what earns a reply is that the message obviously could not have
been sent to anybody else, and that property is destroyed by scale.

## What it will not do

- **Find recruiters for you.** There is no contact database, no email lookup and no scraping. You
  bring the person.
- **Exaggerate your background.** Where there is nothing to say, the draft says less rather than more.
- **Send anything.** The output is text you read, edit and send yourself, from your own account.

## Will it look automated?

Mostly that depends on your input. The draft avoids the usual tells - it does not open by praising
the company and it does not describe you in adjectives. But a message built from a vague background
reads as vague. Give it one real result and it produces something only you could have sent.

## Related

- [The cover letter generator](https://www.revquix.com/docs/tools/cover-letter-generator) - For an application rather than a message.

- [What leaves your browser](https://www.revquix.com/docs/tools/what-leaves-your-browser) - The redaction rules in full.