Public Post Analyzer report
9,502 followers · Building in public · B2B SaaS
Analyzed May 2, 2026 · Benchmarks: shield-2026-03
Best post hit
Across 3 posts
Avg vs. typical
vs Typical for 5-10K
Total impressions
Sum across the 3 posts
Post by post
Most founders treat LinkedIn like a billboard. The ones who pull pipeline from it treat it like a beat. Show up daily, write specifically, link to nothing. The point is the post itself, not the click. Three years of this and our Reply guys closed $2.4M from inbound DMs.
Typical
757
Strong
1.9K
Top
4.9K
Breakout
42K
We tried four ICPs in our first year. Three killed us slowly. The fourth turned into a $1M ARR business. Here is the diagnostic that finally separated noise from signal: who emailed us back without a CTA, who sent product feedback unprompted, who introduced us to a peer.
Typical
757
Strong
1.9K
Top
4.9K
Breakout
42K
Honest founder confession: our Q4 was bad. Pipeline down 30%, churn up, two reps quit. Here is what we changed in 30 days that turned it around. (Long post incoming, but the takeaway is in line one: stop solving for everyone, start solving for the 10 customers paying you the most.)
Typical
757
Strong
1.9K
Top
4.9K
Breakout
42K
How we calculate tiers
What Typical, Strong, Top, and Breakout mean.
Typical
The median post for founders at your follower size. If your post hits this, you are performing in line with peers, no more, no less.
Strong
Meaningfully above average for your follower tier. Roughly the 75th percentile. Good signal that the topic, hook, or timing landed.
Top
90th percentile and up. A real hit. The kind of post that earns warm DMs and new followers.
Breakout
A viral outlier. Less than 1 in 100 posts at your tier hit this. Pipeline-grade attention.
Thresholds vary by follower tier (0-1K, 1-5K, 5-10K, 10-25K, 25-50K, 50-100K, 100K+) and update monthly. We benchmark against The Shield Index, a public dataset of LinkedIn engagement medians by follower size. Current dataset: March 2026 (shield-2026-03).
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