No activity today?

Quiet periods are usually normal pacing — here's how to tell normal quiet from a real problem, step by step.

First: a few quiet hours is normal

Your agent doesn't send continuously. It works in batches at human-like times and spaces actions out to protect your LinkedIn account — several hours with nothing new is expected behavior, not a malfunction. "It hasn't run in three hours" is almost always just the gap between batches. See A day in your agent's life for the full daily rhythm.

Nothing needs to stay open for the agent to run — not the app, not the Chrome extension, not your computer.

If it's been longer than a few hours, walk through the checks below in order.

1. Check the Dashboard for today's activity

Open Dashboard and look at today's numbers and recent activity. Activity often happened earlier than you expect — a morning batch you didn't see still counts as a working day. You can also ask your Ninja directly: "what did you do today?"

If today shows activity: you're fine. Quiet now just means the day's batch is done or the next one hasn't started.

2. Check your LinkedIn connection

Go to Settings → Connections. If LinkedIn shows as disconnected or needs attention, that's your answer — the agent pauses all outreach when it can't reach your account, and resumes once you reconnect. Follow Reconnect LinkedIn. Check your email too: we send a notice when reconnection is needed.

3. Check your agent's status card

The card with your Ninja's name (top right of the Dashboard) names the cause directly:

• Running — connected and working. Quiet right now just means between batches.
• Invites paused — LinkedIn capped invitations on your account. Connection requests stop; messages, follow-ups and sourcing keep going. Your agent retries about a day later, on its own. Nothing to do.
• Paused — no active flow. Activate one in the Flows tab.
• Disconnected — see step 2.

A fourth cause produces genuinely low numbers with everything healthy: not enough qualified leads that day. The daily allowance (20) is a ceiling, not a quota — some days there simply aren't 20 people worth inviting.

4. Read the banner, if there is one

A banner across the top of the app is the other place the product speaks up. There are three kinds, and only the first is a fault:

• Reconnect LinkedIn — your agent lost access to your account. Nothing goes out until you reconnect: Reconnect LinkedIn.
• "N messages are waiting for review" — drafts have piled up in your approval queue. Outreach is working; it's the approvals that stalled. Click through and clear them.
• A results note — "Invite acceptance is low", "Messages aren't getting replies", "Few sourced leads receive a connection request". Nothing is broken: it's your agent flagging a rate that drifted below what it normally sees. Clicking it opens your Ninja, which walks you through the diagnosis. You can keep working with it on screen.

5. A full day with zero activity: contact us

One honest threshold: if a full calendar day passes with no new activity on the Dashboard — no sends, no sourcing, no follow-ups — and your LinkedIn connection shows as healthy, that is not normal batching. Don't wait it out: LinkedIn occasionally puts an account on hold pending a security check, and that particular state is one we see on our side without it showing on yours. Contact support and include:

• your account email,
• the last day you saw activity,
• a screenshot of your Dashboard.

We'd rather check a healthy account than have you wait on a stuck one.

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