How do I skip certain companies?

You can configure STACKED, powered by Dux-Soup, to automatically skip profiles associated with specific companies by using a custom pattern.

This option is available in the Expert user interface under Settings → Skipping.

If you’re using the Regular interface, you’ll need to enable the Expert user interface first.

Add companies to a custom skip pattern

1. Open the STACKED app on your computer.
2. Click the profile icon in the bottom-left corner and select Settings.

3. Locate Skip profiles that match the pattern and enable the option under Skipping,

For example, to skip profiles where the search result contains IBM or Microsoft, enter:

(^|>)[^<]*?(?:ibm|microsoft)[^<]*?(<|$)  

The matching is case-insensitive, so you don’t need to account for different capitalisation.

Companies with more than one word

For company names containing multiple words, use \W between the words instead of a space.

For example, to skip:

• IBM
• Microsoft
• National Trust

use:

(^|>)[^<]?(?:ibm|microsoft|national\Wtrust)[^<]?(<|$)  

In this example, National Trust becomes:

national\Wtrust  

You can add more companies inside the same section, separating each company with a vertical line |.

(?:ibm|microsoft|national\Wtrust|company\Wname)  

What happens during automation?

When you enroll or run drip campaigns, STACKED checks each LinkedIn profile against your custom pattern.

If a profile matches one of the companies in your pattern, STACKED skips that profile instead of processing it. You’ll also see a notification when a profile is skipped.

Custom patterns are powerful and aren’t limited to company names. STACKED evaluates the regex pattern against the LinkedIn search-result entry or individual profiles.

You can use  ⁠Regex101 to build and test your regular expression before adding it to STACKED. This can help you check that your pattern matches the companies you want to skip without unintentionally matching others.