How to Use Korveln
Start with the real operating workflows, then use this guide to understand every page, score, badge, line, and number in the product.
Getting Started
Korveln works in the background. Once you install the Chrome extension and sign in, it captures every LinkedIn interaction automatically. No clicking, no logging, no manual work.
Visit the Korveln extension listing and click Add to Chrome. The extension installs in one click.
Click the puzzle piece icon in your Chrome toolbar, then click the pin icon next to Korveln. This keeps it visible for easy access.
Click the Korveln icon in your toolbar and sign in with the same email and password you used to create your account at korveln.com.
Go to linkedin.com and use it normally. The extension captures every interaction in the background: likes, comments, replies, and mentions. No manual input needed.
Open your dashboard to see relationship scores, champions, at-risk contacts, and network intelligence populate as you browse.
Practical Workflows
You do not need every page every day. Korveln works best when you follow a repeatable rhythm: let the extension capture activity, review the right people, and take the next action while the relationship is still warm.
Best for founders, sellers, recruiters, consultants, and solo operators. This is the simplest workflow if your main problem is losing track of who engaged with you today.
- Open Home and scan Latest Responses, Strongest Relationships, and Relationships Cooling Off.
- Open Inbox and work the highest-signal events first: replies, comments, and repeated activity from the same person.
- Open People and sort by warmth, champions, or cooling-off contacts to decide who deserves attention today.
- Open a person detail page and read What To Do Next, Interaction Mix, Comment Tone Over Time, and the timeline before responding.
- Take one real action: reply, comment back, add a tag, put them in a group, or leave a note so the relationship stays organized.
- Repeat tomorrow. The product gets more useful as interaction history accumulates.
Best for account-based prospecting and outbound teams. Apollo import and warm-path mapping are included in Pro.
- Import your Apollo CSV in Import so Korveln can create people, company, and employment records.
- Review imported contacts on People and add manual tags like TARGET and DECISION MAKER.
- Open a key stakeholder and use Contacts At Company, Routing And Ownership, and Background Research to understand the account.
- Go to Map, switch to Warm Path, choose the company, then search for the role you want to reach.
- Start with the warmest bridge already in your network instead of messaging the coldest senior title first.
- Revisit the account after new LinkedIn interactions to see whether the path is getting warmer.
Best for relationship maintenance, pipeline protection, customer expansion, and founder-led sales. Champion detection and cooling-off alerts are included in Pro.
- Open Home and check which relationships are strongest and which ones are cooling off.
- Open People and review champions, rising contacts, and at-risk contacts separately. They should not get the same action.
- For each person, read Relationship Score, Momentum, Cadence Alert, Open Questions, and the recent timeline.
- If the relationship is strong, deepen it. If it is cooling off, make the lightest useful move first: a reply, a comment, or a message with real context.
- Use tags, groups, notes, AI summaries, and background research so the next touch is informed instead of random.
- Review this workflow weekly, not monthly. Recovery is much easier when the relationship is only starting to cool.
People Page
Your People page shows everyone you have interacted with on LinkedIn. Each person has a row with their photo, name, interaction count, and relationship indicators.
Warmth & Lead Scores
Warmth Tags
Every contact gets a warmth tag based on how many total interactions you share:
Lead Score (0–100)
Five factors combine into a single score for each relationship. Each factor is weighted differently:
Not every interaction is equal. A comment or reply signals much deeper interest than a like. See the interaction weights table below.
How many total interactions you share. More touch points = stronger score.
Recent activity counts more. The score from any interaction fades over time — roughly halving every two weeks of inactivity. A relationship with no activity for 90 days contributes almost nothing to recency.
Is engagement accelerating or slowing down? Korveln compares your last 15 days of activity to the 15 days before that. Growing momentum raises your score.
A two-way relationship scores higher than one-sided engagement. If you always engage with them but they never engage back (or vice versa), this factor pulls the score down.
Trend Arrows
Engagement is increasing compared to last week.
Engagement is consistent with last week.
Engagement is declining. Consider re-engaging.
How Scoring Works
A complete picture of how Korveln turns raw LinkedIn activity into relationship scores, champion detection, and at-risk alerts.
Interaction Weights
Every interaction you track is assigned a depth value. Higher-depth interactions contribute more to your lead score.
How Recency Decay Works
The recency factor uses exponential decay. An interaction made today contributes its full value. That contribution halves roughly every two weeks of inactivity — not linearly, but gradually, like a fading signal.
Champion Tiers
Champions are contacts who consistently engage with you. There are four tiers:
At-Risk Tiers
At-risk alerts fire when a previously active relationship goes quiet. Severity increases with silence duration:
Relationship Health Score
The overall health score shown on your home page is not just your average lead score. It combines four signals across your entire network:
Badges & Alerts
Badges appear next to contact names to highlight important relationship signals:
This person consistently engages with your content. They comment on your posts, reply to you, and interact regularly. Champions are your strongest advocates.
This relationship was active but has gone quiet. You used to interact regularly, but there has been no activity recently. This is your window to re-engage before the relationship goes cold.
You are 1st-degree connections on LinkedIn. You can message them directly and they can introduce you to others.
You follow this person on LinkedIn. You see their content in your feed.
Network Graph
The Network Graph shows your entire professional network as an interactive map. You are at the center. Everyone you have interacted with surrounds you.
Target Mode
Target Mode helps you find warm paths to reach someone at a specific company. Select a company and optionally a role, and Korveln builds a chain showing the best path from you to your target through people you already know.
How it works
Korveln builds the best chain from you to the target by walking through seniority tiers at the company. It finds your strongest connection as an entry point, then fills in each level between you and the target. The chain is scored by relationship strength, so the warmest path always shows first.
What the nodes mean
What the arrows mean
Employee list
Below the graph, a detailed list shows everyone at the selected company. Here is what a typical row looks like:
Graph Colors & Lines
Node border colors (Network mode)
In Network mode, node borders show warmth:
Node border colors (Target mode seniority)
In Target mode, borders show the person's seniority level:
Line thickness
Companies Page
The Companies page groups your contacts by company. For each company you can see:
Insights Page
The Insights page gives you a bird's-eye view of your network intelligence. It combines scoring, patterns, and content analysis into one view.
Engagement Heatmap
The heatmap shows when your network is most active. Each cell represents a day of the week and hour of the day. Darker cells mean more interactions happened at that time.
Timeline
The Timeline shows every interaction in chronological order. Each event card shows who, what type of interaction, and when it happened.
Interaction types
Inbox
The Inbox shows all incoming interactions: people who liked your posts, commented on your content, replied to your comments, or mentioned you. Think of it as a feed of everyone engaging with you.
Click the stat cells at the top to filter by type. Each event shows the interaction type, who it came from (with a link to their LinkedIn), a post excerpt, and the timestamp.
Apollo CSV Import
If you use Apollo.io for prospecting, you can import your contact list to enrich your Korveln data with emails, phone numbers, company details, and more. Included in Pro.
- Export your contacts from Apollo.io as a CSV file.
- Go to the Import page in your Korveln dashboard.
- Drag and drop the CSV file or click to browse.
- Korveln will parse the file and show a preview of what will be imported.
- Click "Import" to start. The import writes to three tables: contacts archive, people, and companies.
Settings
The Settings page lets you control what the extension captures and manage your account.
Toggle which LinkedIn pages the extension scans. These settings sync between the dashboard and the extension popup.
Toggle between dark mode (default) and light mode using the sun/moon icon in the top bar. Your preference is saved in your browser.
The Danger Zone section at the bottom of Settings allows you to permanently delete your account. This is a three-step confirmation process to prevent accidental deletion.
Tips & Best Practices
These are relationships that were active but have gone quiet. A quick comment on their latest post can bring them back. It is much easier to maintain a relationship than to restart one.
Before reaching out to someone cold, check Target Mode. You may already have a connection at their company who can introduce you. Warm introductions convert dramatically better than cold messages.
If someone's lead score is dropping, it means recency is decaying. They were engaged before, but it has been a while. This is normal, but if they are important, re-engage before the score drops too far.
A Champion badge means this person actively and consistently engages with you. Do not take them for granted. Engage back. Comment on their posts. These are the people who will refer you, advocate for you, and open doors.
A Cold tag just means few tracked interactions. It could be a brand new connection, or someone you interact with on platforms Korveln does not yet track. Use it as context, not as a judgment.
Plans & Billing
Korveln has one plan: Pro. Every new account gets a 7-day free trial with full access — no credit card required. After the trial, subscribe to keep your access.
Account Management
Your current plan and billing status are visible in the dashboard. If your payment fails, a banner will appear at the top of the dashboard prompting you to update your payment method.
You can permanently delete your account from the Settings page in the dashboard. This is a three-step process to prevent accidental deletion:
- Click "Delete My Account" in the Danger Zone section
- Read the warning and click "I understand, continue"
- Type "delete my account" to confirm
Have questions?
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