LinkedIn headline analyzer
Paste your headline and get a 0-100 score with a specific fix for every failed check: the 220-character limit, the ~65-character search truncation, buzzwords, pipe soup, audience signal. Runs entirely in your browser.
● free · no login · runs in your browser
Copy it straight from your profile. Edit here until the score is where you want it, then paste back.
How to use it
- Paste your current headline (or draft a new one directly in the box). Nothing you type leaves your browser.
- Read the score and the eight checks. Each failed check tells you exactly what to change — not just that something is wrong.
- Edit in place until the first ~65 characters carry a value word and an audience, then copy the headline back into LinkedIn.
Your headline is the most-seen line you own
Your headline doesn't stay on your profile. It travels with you: it appears under your name in search results, next to every comment you leave, on every connection request, in "people you may know" boxes, and above every post you publish. Most people will read your headline dozens of times before they ever open your profile — and many will never open it at all. For them, the headline is your profile.
That's why "Senior Product Manager at Acme" is such an expensive default. It's accurate, but it answers the wrong question. Nobody reading a comment thread wonders what you're called internally; they wonder whether your take is worth their time. A headline that names an outcome and an audience answers that in one glance. If your whole positioning needs work, not just the headline, run the profile checklist too.
The 65-character front-load rule
The limit is 220 characters, but the truncation is the real constraint: search results and comment bylines cut the headline around 60-70 characters (unofficial and UI-dependent, so treat ~65 as the safe zone). Whatever sits after the cut simply doesn't exist in those surfaces. The rule that falls out: your first ~65 characters must work amputated. Put the outcome and the audience first; credentials, company names and side projects go after the cut, where they're a bonus for profile visitors rather than your only pitch.
Formulas that pass every check
- Outcome for audience + proof. "Helping seed-stage founders hire their first 10 engineers | 200+ placements"
- I do X for Y. "I turn messy Notion docs into onboarding flows for B2B SaaS teams"
- Title, then translated. "CFO for agencies — I find the 6 figures hiding in your P&L"
- Specific niche claim. "The pricing-page guy. 340 teardowns and counting."
All four front-load a value word, name who it's for, and save the résumé line for the back half. If writing the line is the hard part, the headline generator drafts options you can score here.
Writing or reviewing LinkedIn headlines with Claude Code or another agent? Install the skill version — it carries these eight checks and the front-load rule so your agent scores headlines without leaving the terminal:
npx skills add liftli-ai/skills --skill linkedin-headline-analyzerPart 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.