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Chrome extension: LinkedIn sourcing, capture and recognition

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The Add to Lovelio Chrome extension does three jobs. Source: it turns a Lovelio job into targeted LinkedIn searches and keeps the chosen job in a persistent side panel. Capture: one click adds the person on the current tab, or files the job ad being read as a BD lead. Recognition: on linkedin.com only, it quietly overlays what your agency already knows while you browse, with badges, warnings, fit scores and company history. It reads and annotates only. It never clicks, types, navigates or acts on any page for you, and it never touches your LinkedIn account.

Capturing people

Click the toolbar button, or right-click a page, link or selected text and choose "Add to Lovelio" (if the toolbar popup cannot open, the same form opens in a small window of its own). The popup reads the current page and opens a prefilled form for a person or job lead. A person becomes a candidate when you choose a job, a client contact when you choose a client, or both when you choose both. It recognises LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Reddit and GitHub profiles specifically, and falls back to the page title on any other site.

  • Name, title, company and location prefill from the page. On LinkedIn it reads the profile header; on X it reads the bio, location and follower details into the note; on Facebook it reads the intro and work section.
  • Candidates get a Location field with city and country autocomplete. Free-typed text always saves, so a lookup failure never blocks a capture.
  • On LinkedIn and Facebook profiles, an AI summary of the person appears in the popup: two or three sentences on who they are, with a longer skills-and-experience read behind "Show more". The summary saves onto the candidate's profile as their summary; for client contacts it goes into their notes.
  • Candidates can go straight onto a job from a dropdown of your open jobs, with the jobs you own listed first. The AI suggests the best-fitting job; a chosen job shows as a card naming the job, the client, and the one-line reason it was suggested, with a Change button to pick another. Your own pick always wins.
  • Candidates can go into a talent pool as well, the same way: pick one or more from the Talent pool row, with or without a job. The row shows only when your agency has pools.
  • Dropdowns open in place under their row, so the person stays on screen. Click away or press Escape to close one.
  • The pencil beside the name edits the name, title, company and other details. The More menu at the top holds your email, the extension version and the switch between adding a person and a company.
  • On a LinkedIn profile saved as a candidate, tick Find work email, Find personal email or Find mobile to have Lovelio look those details up. Your ticks are remembered from last time, so a sourcing run that always wants mobiles only needs the tick once. Find mobile shows "Turned off in Settings" unless an admin has turned mobiles on in Settings, Hiring, Web Sourcing. Each shows its price in credits, and you are only charged for what is found. Untick all of them and nothing is looked up. The lookup runs in the background after you save and the popup shows each detail as it lands; the first email or mobile found fills the record's own field only if it is empty. Saving someone already in Lovelio looks up only the details you ticked that their record does not hold yet.
  • Contact details are only ever looked up at two moments: saving someone from the extension, and adding someone from web people search. Nobody added from a CV, an import or a form is looked up, and there is no way to look up someone already in your database.
  • A person on LinkedIn opens as a Candidate. Switch to Contact to add them to a company instead: Lovelio picks the company matching their employer, Change picks another, and if the company is not in Lovelio yet it is created when you save. Someone with a hiring title at one of your clients opens as a Contact to start with. The same Find ticks work on contacts, and found details fill only empty fields on the contact.
  • A company page opens on the company: what the page says about itself (industry, location, size, website) and "Add a company". A page Lovelio cannot read shows only what it found.
  • Add a company also takes a phone number, the people to assign and a note. You start ticked, and anyone you tick becomes one of the client's recruiters. The pencil corrects the company name before you add it.
  • Someone already in Lovelio opens on what you need to know: their job and stage, who last touched them and when, and their last note. If their employer on the page differs from your record, you can update the record, or follow a contact to the new company, in one click. "Harrow & Finch" and "Harrow and Finch Ltd" count as the same place.
  • The last job you added to is picked for you next time, and a note you have half typed stays there if the popup closes.
  • As you type a note, Lovelio spots things worth saving properly, such as a notice period or a call-back date, and offers them under "From your note". Nothing is saved unless you tick it, and it only offers what you wrote.
  • After you save, Draft LinkedIn message writes a short opener for you to copy. Lovelio never sends it.
  • Keyboard shortcut: Cmd+Shift+L on a Mac, Ctrl+Shift+L on Windows, opens the popup.
  • If the person is already in Lovelio, a banner says so with a link to the record. Saving never creates a twin: a duplicate candidate saved with a job selected is attached to that job instead, and your typed note still lands on their timeline.
  • A Dictate button on the Note field records a voice note and transcribes it into the note for you to review before saving. First use asks for microphone access; if the popup cannot show the prompt, a button opens a page that can.
  • "Show me people like this" on a profile opens your own candidates who look like the person you are reading: their job function, level, city and defining skills become an ordinary Lovelio search, opened in a new tab as chips you can loosen or tighten. It is the same search you get by typing, so nothing about the results is special or hidden. To search from several people at once, capture them, then select them on the People page and choose Find people like these.
  • Facebook reads are professional facts only: education, employer, title, location. The personal side is ignored, and your own account can never be mistaken for the person being captured.

Capturing BD leads

On a job-ad page the popup opens straight onto the BD lead tab, prefilled with title, company, location and salary. Big boards are recognised by URL (LinkedIn Jobs, Seek, Indeed, Glassdoor, Jora, Totaljobs, Reed), hosted-ATS career pages by host (Greenhouse, Lever, Workable and similar), and a company's own careers pages by their shape; when the read is unsure or thin, a quick AI pass reads the page and fills the gaps. Saving as a BD lead records it in Lovelio, tells you the estimated fee where a salary was found, and matches it against your own candidates: the success screen names candidates who already fit, or says none match yet. If the advertiser is already your client, it says so. An advertiser that already has a lead comes back as a duplicate rather than a second lead, and an ad placed by another recruitment agency is refused. BD lead capture is part of AI business development, included in the one Lovelio plan; without an active plan the tab is hidden and job-ad pages fall back to capturing the person.

Creating a job from highlighted text

See a job you want to run? Highlight the ad or description on any page - a job board, a client's careers page, LinkedIn, or a job description a client emailed you in Gmail - then either right-click and choose "Create job from highlighted text", or open the popup and click the same button. A Lovelio tab opens straight into the job wizard with your highlighted text already in place. The wizard asks which client the job is for (every job belongs to a client, and the ad is written in that client's voice) - and if the page you highlighted is on a client's own website, their careers page say, Lovelio recognises the domain and picks that client for you. You can change it in the wizard, and if the domain is shared or could belong to two of your clients it asks as normal. Then it drafts the whole job from the text: description, criteria, interview questions, ad and social posts, with any gaps asked as quick questions before you confirm. The highlighted text feeds that one draft and expires within a day if you never confirm; nothing is created until you do.

Recognition on LinkedIn

A small Lovelio card appears bottom-right. It is dismissable and stays silent when you are signed out.

  • Profile pages: if the person is in Lovelio, the card shows who last contacted them ("Last contact: Dom" - on a migrated database that is the consultant who worked them at your old system, not whoever ran the import), when they were last updated, and any live application with its stage, plus an "Open in Lovelio" link. If they work at one of your clients, a red off-limits warning appears: hands off. Someone Lovelio has never seen is labelled "Not in Lovelio yet".
  • Every profile carries a "Show me people like this" button, whether the person is in Lovelio or a total stranger: it opens your own candidates who match their role, level, city and skills. A stranger is often exactly when it pays, because you may already have three of them.
  • Job sourcing: open a job, click "Find candidates" and open the LinkedIn tab of the People search for the job (Search LinkedIn on a new job opens it directly). Lovelio compiles the full structured job requirements through its shared search engine and builds four materially different LinkedIn search lanes: closest matches, adjacent talent, feeder companies and hidden gems. Each lane explains what it targets and what, if anything, it broadens. It never quietly drops a hard requirement.
  • LinkedIn account awareness: normal LinkedIn opens a broad title or skill search and shows a recipe for its location, company, industry and seniority filters. Full Recruiter gets a natural-language AI-assisted search. Recruiter Lite gets a starting job title and an exact recipe for its guided filters. Lovelio remembers which product the extension last saw. The extension never types, clicks or submits anything on LinkedIn.
  • Active sourcing run: launching a lane detects the installed extension live, opens Chrome's persistent Lovelio side panel and keeps that job and lane active for 24 hours. Search results are never scored because their summary does not contain enough evidence for a trustworthy assessment; bulk add in the side panel adds people without a score. Known people and client off-limits warnings still appear beside their names. Open a profile to get the full score out of 100, strong / possible / weak fit verdict, reasons and Add to job action, with the same Find picks as the popup; the same side panel updates without closing. The Add to job button on the LinkedIn page card itself never looks up contact details. The score uses the same criteria-weighted job-fit evaluator as Lovelio's saved candidate assessments, including the job description, job criteria and Client DNA. The generated search finds likely people, but it does not guarantee that each LinkedIn result is a strong fit. You do not need to open the toolbar popup. A candidate already on the job is never re-attributed.
  • Learning loop: after a run, tell Lovelio whether the results were good, at the wrong seniority or location, from the wrong industry, missing key experience, or better suited to another role. The next plan uses that feedback. The LinkedIn tab of Find candidates lists everyone captured from LinkedIn for the job, when they were captured, and their stage on it.
  • Manual sourcing mode still works: choose a job in the popup and click "Source this job" to show fit and Add to job on LinkedIn without launching a planned search. Click "Stop sourcing" to end it; a job that closes stops automatically.
  • People search results: known people get a pink "in Lovelio" pill next to their name, while people at clients are marked hands off.
  • Bulk add: on LinkedIn people search results, click the toolbar button and Lovelio's side panel lists the people on the page. Tick who you want, or Tick all; ticks stay as you move to page 2. People already in Lovelio and people at your clients cannot be ticked. Pick a job, tick Find work email or Find mobile if you want them, and Add. Lovelio checks everyone again at that moment, adds them with what the results page shows, and tells you how many were added and what was found. It never scores anyone from the results page: open a full profile for that. LinkedIn Recruiter is not covered; bulk add works on normal LinkedIn people search.
  • Company pages: a history card shows client status, how long they have been a client, placements, live jobs, and key contacts. For non-clients it shows warm paths in: candidates in your database whose current employer matches the company.
  • Sighting signals: viewing the profile of someone already in Lovelio records a structured observation (employer, title, open to work). When that differs from what Lovelio knew, a signal fires on the spot and shows in the card: job change spotted, promotion spotted, or open to work. Every signal writes a note on the candidate's timeline and notifies the candidate's owner. The candidate record itself is never silently rewritten. Looking at an unchanged profile again within seven days records nothing.

Privacy and posture

  • Never drive LinkedIn. The extension never clicks, submits, navigates or fires events on LinkedIn. Its Add to job button is Lovelio's own control and writes only after the consultant clicks it; merely viewing a page never creates or changes a record.
  • Standing access is LinkedIn only. On every other site it reads the page once, only when you click capture.
  • Strangers are looked up and forgotten. Lookups store nothing; sightings attach only to people already in Lovelio.
  • Raw page text used for a summary, fit score, lead parse, or lookalike search is discarded after that processing. Saving a record keeps the extracted fields and Lovelio's professional summary. Creating a job from highlighted text keeps that selected text in the job draft you requested.
  • It talks to Lovelio alone. No other site is ever contacted, and no broad browser permissions (tabs, history, cookies) are requested.

Install and sign-in

Install it from the Chrome Web Store (search "Add to Lovelio", or use the Add it to Chrome link on the LinkedIn tab of the People page). Chrome keeps it up to date. A managed work browser that blocks the store can load the zip from lovelio.ai/extension by hand instead.

The first install explains what the extension reads and asks you to choose "Allow and continue". Until you agree, capture actions and the LinkedIn recognition layer stay off.

Once set up, the extension rides your normal Lovelio sign-in: if you are signed in to Lovelio in that browser, the extension just works, and no tokens or passwords are stored in it. Signed out, the popup shows a button that opens the normal Lovelio sign-in page, and the LinkedIn overlay goes silent. The More menu in the popup shows your email, agency and the extension version.

Lovelio runs in three regions (US, EU, ANZ) and your account lives in one of them. You never have to say which: the extension finds the region holding your session on its own and remembers it. The region row in the popup is there so you can see which one you are on, and to switch if you happen to have accounts in more than one region.

Common questions

  • Does bulk add work in LinkedIn Recruiter? Not yet. It works on normal LinkedIn people search. In Recruiter, add people one at a time from their profile.
  • Does it message or connect with people for me? No. It never acts on any page. Capture and recognition are read-only.
  • Can my client see who I capture? No. Everything goes only to your own Lovelio account.
  • Why is the BD lead tab missing? BD lead capture needs an active Lovelio plan; a cancelled plan hides it.
  • Why does nothing show on a LinkedIn profile? You are signed out of Lovelio in that browser, or you dismissed the card on this page.
  • Why does the sourcing side panel say to reload LinkedIn? The current tab did not connect to the extension. Reload that LinkedIn tab once. The active job stays selected and the panel resumes automatically.
  • Why does the toolbar popup close? Chrome closes extension popups whenever you click elsewhere. Sourcing does not use the popup: Start search opens Chrome's persistent Lovelio side panel, which stays visible while you work.
  • It asks me to sign in when I am already signed in. That was a bug, fixed on 5 August 2026: the popup was calling lovelio.ai, which serves the website and passes the call to one fixed region, so anyone whose account lived elsewhere was told to sign in. Reload the extension at chrome://extensions to pick up the fix.
  • The lookalike search found nobody. The chips at the top of the results say what it searched for. Click one off, starting with the skills, and the pool widens.
  • Does a lookalike search tell LinkedIn anything? No. It reads the page you already have open and searches your own database. Nothing is sent to LinkedIn and the page is left untouched.
  • The suggested job is wrong. Pick the right one; a manual pick is never overridden.
  • I captured someone twice. Lovelio detects the duplicate and links you to the existing record instead of creating a twin.