LinkedIn About section generator
Paste your background and get an About section structured like a landing page, not a bio: hook in the first 3 lines, who you help and the outcome, proof, how you work, one CTA. Inside the 2,600-character limit.
● free · no login · no email · fair-use daily limit
The more real numbers, client types and outcomes you include, the less generic the result. Bullet points are fine.
How to use it
- Describe your background, your achievements — with numbers where you have them — and who you serve. Rough notes work; the structure is the generator's job.
- Hit Generate About section. You get a complete summary: hook, who you help + outcome, proof, how you work, one CTA.
- Swap any placeholder specifics for your real figures, read the first 3 lines alone to check they earn the click, then paste it into your profile.
Your About section is a landing page, not a bio
Most About sections are autobiographies: a chronological recap of jobs the reader could get from the Experience section anyway. But the people who open your profile aren't there for your history — they're there to answer one question: can this person help me? A landing page answers that question in order of what the visitor needs to know. A bio answers it in the order things happened to you. That's the whole difference, and it changes everything about how you write the section.
The fold makes this urgent. LinkedIn gives you 2,600 characters, but only around 4 lines show before …see more (unofficial, and it varies by device). Your first 3 lines are effectively a headline: they decide whether the other 2,400 characters get read at all. Spend them on your sharpest claim or your reader's exact problem — never on "I've always been passionate about…"
The structure this generator uses
- Hook (lines 1-3). The problem you solve or the claim you can back — written to survive the fold on its own.
- Who you help + the outcome. One paragraph. Named audience, concrete result. The reader should recognize themselves — or not — immediately.
- Proof. Numbers, names, results. This is where "10 years of experience" becomes "$2M to $11M ARR in 4 years". Proof is stated, never adjectived.
- How you work. A short paragraph that filters: your method, your opinions, what working with you is actually like.
- One CTA. Exactly one. "DM me about X" or "email me at Y" — a landing page with three buttons converts on none of them.
First person or third person?
First person, almost always. The About section appears on your own profile, directly under your own photo — writing it in third person ("Jane is a seasoned executive with a proven track record…") reads as if a press office manages your identity, which creates distance in the one place you want connection. It also drags in the passive, adjective-heavy register that third-person bios default to. Third person is defensible only for public figures whose profiles genuinely are maintained by a team.
This generator writes in first person and builds only from what you pasted. The finishing step is yours: replace every approximation with the actual number, the actual client, the actual result. Then make sure the one line that has to match it — your headline — is pulling in the same direction, and run the full profile through the profile checker.
Using Claude Code, Cursor, or another coding agent? Install the skill version of this tool and run it locally — your agent's own model writes the About section, with the same landing-page structure and fold rules:
npx skills add liftli-ai/skills --skill linkedin-about-generatorPart of the liftli-ai/skills collection — browse all 28 skills, one per tool on this site. For the full pipeline (voice extraction, strategy memory, publishing), connect the Liftli MCP.