— ABOUT

We build strategic intelligence for technical leaders.

Most "content tools" optimize for the wrong thing. We don't. LinkedIQ is built for the people who write on LinkedIn to build durable authority — and want a tool that takes that seriously.

— OUR MISSION

To give every technical leader a strategic advisor for their professional authority — one that reads their actual work, not their follower count.

Likes are a casino metric. The work that compounds — the post a Distinguished Engineer reads on a Tuesday and remembers six months later when a role opens up — doesn't show up in a dashboard. LinkedIQ is the dashboard for the work that actually compounds.

— WHY WE BUILT THIS

I spent fifteen years building products for engineers. Then I tried LinkedIn — the platform that said it was "for professionals" — and realized the tooling treated everyone like a content creator with something to sell.

The schedulers wanted me to post more. The analytics wanted me to optimize for likes. The AI tools wanted to write for me. None of them asked the only question that matters for someone writing at senior level: is this building authority that compounds?

LinkedIn is where the most important professional conversations happen for technical leaders. But the tooling around it was built for a different user — someone chasing reach, not building a reputation. That gap is what LinkedIQ fills.

We don't schedule. We don't publish. We don't ghost-write. We build a strategic model of the authority you already have — from your real work — and make it legible. What you do with that signal is entirely up to you.

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Shikha Shandilya
Founder, LinkedIQ
The problem

The tools you have are wrong.

Schedulers optimize for cadence. Analytics dashboards optimize for reach. Ghostwriters optimize for output. None of them ask the question that actually matters: is this work building authority that compounds?

So you post, you check the dashboard, and you're left with a vague sense of whether any of it worked.

Our approach

AI-assisted analysis, not automation.

We read your profile, your posts, and your performance as a unified signal. We give you a model of your authority you can argue with. We surface what's working, what's fragmenting your positioning, and what to write next.

You decide what to post. We never publish anything. We're a tool, not a megaphone.

02 — Operating principles

The things we won't compromise on.

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Authority over reach

The metrics we surface are the ones that map to professional outcomes you actually care about. Audience quality, not size. Signal density, not frequency.

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Your voice, not ours

We don't write for you. We don't ghost-author. We surface patterns in your existing work and help you double down on what's yours.

03

Strategy over volume

One sharp post a quarter outperforms thirty mediocre ones. We're built for people who want to write less and matter more.

04

Private by default

Your uploads stay yours. We don't train foundation models on your content. We don't share data. We export, we delete, on demand.

05

Honest about uncertainty

When we predict resonance, we surface confidence. When the model isn't sure, we say so. We'd rather be useful than impressive.

06

Built for senior people

We don't condescend. We assume you've been doing this for fifteen years. The product reflects that — in the writing, the density, the defaults.

03 — By design
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04 — Who's behind this

A small team that ships.

Engineers, writers, and an applied-ML researcher who got tired of how content tooling treats their work.

Shikha Shandilya
Founder · Previously Engineering Lead at ExamTime, Founder at Creative AI

Full-stack engineer who led engineering at ExamTime, then founded Creative AI to bring generative AI into education. Now building LinkedIQ to give technical professionals the strategic intelligence their work deserves. LinkedIn →

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If you're genuinely excited about what we're building and care about helping technical professionals be taken seriously — we'd love to hear from you. careers@linkediq.app →

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