4Degrees vs The Swarm

4Degrees is a CRM for private-market deals and relationship intelligence, with AI tools for teams that rely on connections. It scores relationship strength and maps connections across an organization to help users identify warm introduction paths. Deal workflows include customizable pipelines, Kanban views, reporting, reminders, and triggers. The system syncs email and calendar activity and enriches contacts from more than 20 sources. AI features can help users prepare for meetings, review relationship history, research companies, and suggest record updates. Integrations include PitchBook, Salesforce, Gmail, Outlook, Slack, Google Workspace, and hundreds of additional apps. Gmail and Outlook plugins, LinkedIn and Chrome extensions, and iOS and Android apps extend access across inboxes, profiles, company websites, and mobile workflows. The mobile app supports network search, deal updates, notes, reminders, and business-card scanning. An API can expose relationship and deal data to other tools, while its MCP integration gives AI assistants permissioned access to deal context. Pricing is by request and depends on the organization and team.

The Swarm is a Go-To-Network platform for companies and investors using relationship data for sales, recruiting and fundraising. Its web app lets teams search a shared network, review connection strength and request email introductions. Users can import LinkedIn connections, Google contacts and Google Calendar connections, and add former colleagues identified from work history. The platform describes a database of 580M+ people, daily-refreshed job data and real-time job-change monitoring across 100M+ profiles. Company information covers 100M+ companies, including funding rounds, investor networks, valuation tracking, team-size changes, locations and industries. Teams can organize prospects with collaborative pipelines, lists, tags and role-based access controls. Integrations include HubSpot and Clay; API and MCP access connect a Swarm network to tools and LLM workflows. The site says its MCP integration provides AI tools such as ChatGPT or Claude access to live relationship and company data. The free plan includes 10 connectors but no API access. Premium costs $99/mo per company and includes 50 connectors and 12,000 API credits; extra credits cost $0.10 each.