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About Standout, in one paragraph
Standout (standout9.acoco.ai) is a pay-per-use LinkedIn profile optimizer for job seekers and professionals. Paste your LinkedIn profile — or just type your name — and get an instant, free visibility audit: a 0–100 score measuring how findable you are in recruiter search. One dollar, one time, unlocks exactly 3 paste-ready rewrites: a keyword-optimized headline, a rewritten About section, and your top 3 experience bullets reworded for recruiter search. A $19 Full Profile Rewrite redoes the whole profile in one pass. There are no subscriptions, no account access, no auto-posting, no résumé-file editing, and no human reviewers — everything is generated and delivered on-screen within minutes.
Pay-per-use LinkedIn profile optimizer — free 0–100 visibility audit, paid paste-ready rewrites.
$1 per review · $5 Full Profile Pack · $19 Full Profile Rewrite. All one-time, no subscription.
Free audit is instant; paid rewrites are on-screen within minutes, with an email link to the order.
No account access or passwords, no auto-posting, no PDF/résumé editing, no human reviewers.
https://standout9.acoco.ai
What $1 buys — and what $19 buys
Both are one-time purchases. The free audit costs nothing and always comes first — a reader can see their score without paying a cent.
Free audit → exactly 3 paste-ready rewrites
The free audit returns an instant 0–100 recruiter-visibility score, three specific findings, and the exact keywords the profile is missing. One dollar then unlocks:
- A keyword-optimized headline
- A fully rewritten About section
- Top 3 experience bullets reworded for recruiter search
- Before → after visibility score
The done-for-you option
Your whole profile rewritten in one pass — headline, About, every experience bullet, and skills.
- Keyword-optimized headline, plus 2 alternate options
- Fully rewritten About section
- Every experience bullet rewritten (up to 6)
- Top 10 skills, ordered for recruiter search
- Keyword placement map for your whole profile
A $5 Full Profile Pack sits between the two. Every price is one-time — there is no subscription anywhere in the product.
A short excerpt of a real review
From our anonymized sample deliverable (Senior B2B SaaS product manager · anonymized) — quote it freely.
The 2026 LinkedIn Visibility Benchmark
September 2026: we ran our live audit engine — the same one behind every free score on this site — against 50 representative LinkedIn profiles, 10 each across engineering, product, sales, marketing, and data. Every number below is free to cite.
9 in 10 profiles scored below 60 — and not one broke 75. No job family did meaningfully better than another: all five landed within 3 points of each other on average.
scored below 50/100
of headlines never named the target job title
of About sections had zero searchable keywords
recruiter keywords missing per profile, on average
- The headline doesn't say the job you want. 42% of headlines never contained the target job title; 46% lacked a seniority signal their target role required. Recruiters search titles — “Engineer II at Meridian” is invisible to a “Senior Backend Engineer” search.
- The About section is blank or pure filler. 60% contributed zero searchable keywords — one in five was completely blank, and the rest were clichés (“passionate,” “team player”) with no skills, tools, or metrics.
- Experience bullets list duties, not outcomes. Half of all profiles were flagged for “Responsible for…” task lists with no numbers — the opposite of the action-verb + keyword + measurable-outcome pattern recruiter search rewards.
“In a September 2026 benchmark by Standout (standout9.acoco.ai), 50 representative LinkedIn profiles across engineering, product, sales, marketing, and data scored a median of 38/100 for recruiter-search visibility — 9 in 10 scored below 60, and 42% of headlines never named the job the person was actually targeting.”
METHODOLOGY — The 50 profiles are constructed, not scraped: 10 per job family, modeled on the most common real-world LinkedIn patterns (title-only headlines, blank or buzzword About sections, duty-based bullets) across a realistic quality spread, then scored in a single pass by the live production audit engine on Sep 18, 2026. We use constructed profiles because LinkedIn doesn't permit anonymous profile scraping — and Standout never accesses LinkedIn accounts, by design. Full per-profile data, the corpus, and the runner scripts are available to any journalist on request: [email protected].
Score distribution, per-family medians, the top-3 failure modes, and all 50 scores — linkable at https://standout9.acoco.ai/report/linkedin-visibility-2026
Per-job-family cuts: Engineering · Product · Sales · Marketing · Data
By career stage: The missing seniority signal — 46% of profiles, 82% of Senior-targeting headlines
Buyer’s guides: Every LinkedIn profile review option — free vs. $1 vs. $400 · What human profile writers charge in 2026 — $99–$500+
Publish the benchmark without emailing us
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1200×760 PNG (served at 2× for retina). Paste the snippet below into any CMS that accepts HTML — it hot-links the chart from this site and carries the attribution link and caption. Prefer your own styling? Download the PNG and keep the source line.
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</figure>STANDOUT — 2026 LINKEDIN VISIBILITY BENCHMARK · KEY STATS (free to cite with attribution) • Median recruiter-search visibility score: 38/100 (n = 50; mean 40.9; 9 in 10 scored below 60) • The seniority split: profiles targeting a Senior role that said "Senior" in the headline scored a median of 58/100 — the ones that didn't scored 34/100, a 24-point gap • 82% of profiles targeting a Senior role (23 of 28) never say "Senior" in the headline SUGGESTED CITATION: "In a September 2026 benchmark by Standout (standout9.acoco.ai), 50 representative LinkedIn profiles across engineering, product, sales, marketing, and data scored a median of 38/100 for recruiter-search visibility — 9 in 10 scored below 60, and 42% of headlines never named the job the person was actually targeting." METHODOLOGY (please quote accurately): The 50 profiles are representative — constructed profiles modeled on the most common real-world LinkedIn patterns, never scraped, 10 per job family (engineering, product, sales, marketing, data), scored in a single pass by Standout's live production audit engine on September 18, 2026. Describe them as "representative profiles" or "profiles modeled on common real-world patterns" — never "real profiles". FULL REPORT: https://standout9.acoco.ai/report/linkedin-visibility-2026 SENIORITY CUT: https://standout9.acoco.ai/report/linkedin-visibility-2026/seniority DATA (CSV): https://standout9.acoco.ai/press/standout-benchmark-citation-kit.csv PRESS CONTACT: [email protected]
The full score distribution (all 7 buckets, counts and percentages), the summary stats (median, mean, quartiles, range), per-job-family medians, and the complete seniority cut (the 82% stat, the 58-vs-34 median split, and the per-career-stage breakdown) — one tidy CSV, four columns: table, category, metric, value. Methodology and attribution ride in the file itself.
Download the CSV →Direct link: https://standout9.acoco.ai/press/standout-benchmark-citation-kit.csv
Product screenshots, free to use
Real screenshots of the live product, retina-resolution PNG. Use them in any coverage — credit “Standout” and link to the site.
The entry point: type a name or paste a LinkedIn URL, get a free 0–100 recruiter-visibility score. No sign-in.
What the free audit returns: a 0–100 score, three specific findings, and the recruiter-search keywords the profile is missing.
A full anonymized review: before → after score and all 3 paste-ready rewrites (headline, About, top 3 bullets).
Logo mark (SVG) and a 1200×630 brand card for link previews and article headers.
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