Connect The Dots turns your team's pooled connections into warm intro paths, and does it well. AVNIR goes further: it measures the actual quality of every relationship and coaches what to invest before you ask.
Connect The Dots, founded by Salesforce veterans, calls itself the relationship graph that turns into warm intros. It maps who knows whom from email metadata, LinkedIn connections, and career overlaps, then scores connection strength by interaction frequency. The graph is real and useful. AVNIR's position is that the graph is the starting point, not the product.
We are not here to trash competitors. These are real strengths. AVNIR serves a different buyer with a different set of priorities.
| Dimension | AVNIR | Connect The Dots |
|---|---|---|
| What it measures | Relationship quality and strategic value, grounded in Relationship Economics® | Connection strength scored from interaction frequency and recency in email metadata |
| Warm-path discovery | Collective firm network mapped and ranked by actual relationship strength | Shortest, strongest path search across the pooled network; a core CTD strength |
| Whole-firm collective network | Unified relationship map across all connected team members | Pooled team graph, plus a global cross-company graph shared by all CTD users |
| Relationship coaching (Magellan) | Prescriptive give-first coaching: who to invest in, what to give, when to ask | Drafts ghost intro emails for connectors to send; no give-first strategy layer |
| Relationship Economics® framework | The validated behavioural foundation for every score and recommendation | No behavioural framework; metadata frequency is the scoring proxy |
| Depth of relationship signal | Assesses relationship depth from the interactions your team actually has | Header metadata only by default: who, how often, how recently, never the content or context |
| Built for (primary ICP) | CROs and Managing Partners at mid-market consulting and professional services firms | Horizontal: individuals, sales teams, VCs, PEs, and recruiters |
| Data model | First-party only, scoped to your firm | One unified global graph with logical separation; every user feeds the shared network |
| AI-agent interoperability | Not a current AVNIR feature | Open API and MCP; graph queryable from Claude and other agents |
| Pricing transparency | Early Access founding pricing; contact the AVNIR team | Fully public: free individual tier through $40 per user per month teams |
Documented capability · Partial = limited or proxy · Roadmap = planned, not yet live
CTD scores connections from email metadata: who, how often, how recently. That beats a raw connection list, but a weekly thread with a difficult vendor will outscore a deep, decade-long advisory relationship that meets quarterly. AVNIR's Relationship Economics® framework measures the quality and strategic value that frequency cannot see.
CTD's job ends when the ghost email is drafted and the intro is made. AVNIR's job is the relationship itself: Magellan coaches what to give before the ask, tracks whether the relationship is warming or cooling afterwards, and manages the whole portfolio over time.
CTD is built as one global relationship graph where every user strengthens the shared network, with logical separation between tenants. AVNIR is built on first-party data scoped to your firm. For advisory businesses whose client relationships are the product, that boundary is a feature, not a limitation.
CTD serves everyone from individual job seekers to VC platform teams, which is a strength of its model. AVNIR is purpose-built for consulting and professional services firms, where relationship stewardship is a partner-level discipline with a named methodology behind it.
If you want an affordable, low-friction way to find warm intro paths across a sales team, a VC network, or your own career history, and API or MCP access to that graph matters to you, Connect The Dots is a genuinely well-executed tool with transparent pricing.
When knowing the path is not enough, and you need to know which relationships are genuinely strong, which are decaying, and what to invest to earn the next introduction, AVNIR is built for that discipline.
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