# About Backchannel | How it works and its limits

> Backchannel analyzes the LinkedIn connections you export yourself, lists public job openings, and runs a recruiter community. Here is how each works and where it stops.

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Last updated: 2026-10-26

What Backchannel is, and what it is not.

## Network analysis

You upload your own LinkedIn Connections export and name a target role and location. We classify each contact by fixed rules, use AI on the most relevant ones, and give you a readiness score, five coverage lanes, a ranked list with a reason for each person, and short messages you send yourself.

## Its limits

LinkedIn exports only include your direct connections, with name, company, position and connection date. We cannot see who they know, so introduction paths are inferred and labelled with a confidence level. Anything beyond the exported fields is an inference, not a fact.

## Job discovery

Find jobs lists open roles from public career boards of a fixed set of companies, and shows which of your contacts work there. Company names are matched by text, so some matches are uncertain and are labelled that way.

## Recruiter community

Job seekers can leave their details so Backchannel can pass them to recruiters about roles that may fit. This list is new and we do not claim a set number of recruiters. Joining does not guarantee that anyone will contact you.

## What we never do

We do not scrape LinkedIn, log in to your account or message anyone for you. We do not promise a job, an interview or a referral.

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- [Contact](https://trybackchannel.online/contact)
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