How to get an honest review of your LinkedIn profile from Claude
Short answer: give Claude a tool that can read a live LinkedIn profile, point it at your own, and ask it hard questions. The reading is the only part Iridium does. The review comes from Claude, which already knows your context from your conversations. That is why its read on your positioning lands harder than a score out of one hundred.
The one tool this depends on
Iridium exposes get_linkedin_profile. Give it a name and it reads that person's full live LinkedIn profile. Point it at yourself and your agent is holding everything a reader sees.
| What it reads | What Claude can do with it |
|---|---|
| About section | Judge whether the first two lines say what you do or bury it under adjectives |
| Current role | Check that the headline and the role tell the same story |
| Past companies | Spot the throughline a reader is meant to see, or notice there is not one |
| Education and certifications | Tell you which ones are doing work and which are taking up space |
| Skills | Compare what you listed against what your experience actually demonstrates |
| Recent posts | Tell you what a stranger would conclude you do, based only on what you post |
It reads the live profile, so you are reviewing what is on LinkedIn right now. Change a line, ask again, and the second read reflects the edit.
Why your agent beats a profile scoring tool
A scoring tool sees your profile and nothing else. It grades keyword coverage against a template built for everybody, which means it was built for nobody.
Claude arrives with your context already loaded. It has read the work you described last week. It knows which roles you are actually chasing, which projects you are proud of, and which parts of your history you keep leaving out because you assume they are obvious. Hand it your profile text and it can tell you the thing a score cannot: that your headline describes the job you left, that your About section opens with three sentences of throat clearing, that the strongest thing you have done is in the fourth bullet of your second role.
The tool supplies the evidence. The judgement is Claude's, and it is a better judgement because it is not generic.
How to ask for a review that is actually useful
The quality of the review tracks the quality of the question. "Review my profile" produces a polite list of nothing. Ask for an argument instead.
Ask it to argue against your headline
Adversarial framing gets you past the flattery.
Read my LinkedIn profile. Now argue that my headline is wrong for the roles I have told you I want. Make the strongest case against it, then propose two alternatives and tell me what each one gives up.
Ask what a hiring manager skims in six seconds
Most readers never reach your second role. Test the profile at the speed it is actually read.
Read my LinkedIn profile. You are a hiring manager with six seconds. Tell me only what you registered, in the order you registered it, then tell me what you would have needed to see to keep reading.
Ask what your recent posts say about what you do
Your posts are part of your positioning whether you meant them to be or not.
Read my LinkedIn profile and look only at my recent posts. Ignore the headline. Based on the posts alone, what would you guess I do for a living and what would you guess I care about? Where does that clash with my stated role?
Ask it to compare you against people with the job you want
The same tool reads any profile you name, so the comparison is against real profiles rather than an idea of one.
Read my LinkedIn profile, then read these three profiles: [name], [name], [name]. They all hold the job I want. What are their profiles doing that mine is not? Be concrete about structure and wording, not vibes.
Ask it to cut
Most profiles fail by addition. Ask for the deletion pass explicitly.
Read my LinkedIn profile. Name the three lines a reader would lose nothing by never seeing, and say why each one is dead weight.
What this is not
Being clear about this is worth more than a feature list.
Iridium has no profile optimizer. There is no profile score. There is no dashboard with a completeness bar. There is no button that rewrites your About section and pushes it to LinkedIn. Nothing here grades you.
What exists is a tool that reads a profile and an agent that can think about what it read. You ask, Claude answers, you decide what to change, and you change it yourself on LinkedIn.
That is the honest version and it is also the better one. A score is a number invented by a tool that has never met you. A conversation with an agent that has read your work for months gives you reasons, and reasons are what you can act on. You can also push back. Tell it the headline is deliberate and ask it to defend the version it proposed. No scoring product survives that exchange.
For job seekers: what happens after the read
A better profile does nothing on its own. The rest of the job search is the same set of tools your agent already has.
- Find the hiring managers. Prospect discovery finds the people who own the role, not the general inbox.
- Draft the opening note. Your agent writes the connection note from that person's actual profile and role. It arrives as a draft.
- Comment where hiring conversations are happening. The commenting pipeline can target up to five named companies, which is the shortest route to being a familiar name to people at the company you are aiming at.
- Skip open to work posts. A server-side filter keeps your agent from engaging with job seeking content, so your public comment history stays about your field rather than your search.
On discretion, the honest boundary matters. Nothing any tool does controls what LinkedIn shows other people about your activity, and anyone promising otherwise is guessing. What Iridium controls is its own behaviour. It sends nothing without your approval, and it can skip open to work content entirely. Those two facts are true. Anything beyond them is not ours to promise.
Setting it up
| Step | What you do |
|---|---|
| 1 | Create an Iridium account. Seven day trial, no card. |
| 2 | Connect LinkedIn through the hosted page. Your password is never stored by Iridium. |
| 3 | Add https://api.iridiumhqmcp.com/mcp as a custom connector in Claude and approve it once. |
| 4 | Ask Claude to read your own profile by name, then start asking the hard questions. |
Questions people ask next
Does Iridium have a LinkedIn profile optimizer?
No. There is no profile score, no dashboard, and no automated rewrite. Iridium has one tool, get_linkedin_profile, that reads a full live LinkedIn profile and hands the contents to your agent. The review itself comes from Claude. That is the whole design.
What does get_linkedin_profile actually return?
The About section, the current role, past companies, education, certifications, skills, and recent posts. It reads the live profile, so it reflects what is on LinkedIn right now rather than a cached copy. Point it at your own profile by name and your agent has the raw material for a review.
Why is Claude's read better than a profile score tool?
A score tool grades keyword density against a generic template. Claude already knows your context from your conversations, including the work you actually do, the roles you are aiming at, and the projects you have described. Given the same profile text, it can tell you that your headline describes the job you left rather than the one you want.
Can Claude compare my profile against other people's?
Yes. The same tool reads any public profile you name. Give it three people who hold the job you want and ask what their profiles do that yours does not. This is a read of public profile pages, the same information anyone can see on LinkedIn.
What else does Iridium do for a job search?
It finds hiring managers and drafts opening notes for them, it comments where hiring conversations are happening, and it can skip posts tagged as open to work so you are not publicly engaging with job seeking content. Every outgoing message and comment is a draft until you approve it.
Will Iridium hide my job search from my employer?
No. Nothing controls what LinkedIn shows other people about your activity, and no tool can promise that. What Iridium controls is its own behaviour. It sends nothing without your approval, and you can turn on a filter that skips open to work posts so your public engagement does not read as job seeking.
How Iridium does it
Iridium is a LinkedIn MCP server. Your agent gets profile reads, prospect discovery, the inbox, drafting, commenting, publishing, and the activity log as tools. Every outgoing action is a draft. Approving is a separate step and it is the only thing that sends.
It is $20 a month for one LinkedIn account, with a seven day free trial and no card.
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