Connect The Dots vs Happenstance
Connect The Dots
ctd.ai
Happenstance
happenstance.aiSide by side
| Figure | Connect The Dots | Happenstance |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $20/mo | $24/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 5 |
| Spec score · Relationship Intelligence Software | 9.2 (#2) | 9.0 (#3) |
| Email privacy | By default CTD stores email metadata rather than message bodies, and says bodies are only retrieved on demand without being stored. | Email and direct-message content and attachments never reach Happenstance servers; it uses only sender, recipient, and timing metadata. |
| Rating on Apple App Store | No rating overview is displayed because the app has not received enough ratings or reviews. | 5.0 out of 5 from 5 ratings |
| Relationship scoring | Relationship strength is calculated from two-way email activity, recency, LinkedIn messages and career-overlap signals. | The system ranks contacts using evidence such as communication frequency and meeting history to estimate relationship strength. |
| Security | CTD states it has SOC 2 Type II audits and encrypts data in transit using TLS 1.2+ and at rest using AES-256. | Happenstance states that data is encrypted in transit and at rest, is never sold or used to train AI models, and is SOC 2 compliant and DTI Trust Level 2. |
| What it does | Connect The Dots maps, scores and activates professional relationships so users can find warm introduction paths. | Happenstance searches a user's professional network with natural-language queries to find people and warm introduction paths. |
Plans
Connect The Dots
- FreeFree
- FreeFree
- Professional$20 a month
- BusinessPriced on request
Happenstance
- FreeFree
- Pro$24 a month
- Team$24 a month
- Pro$30 a month
- Pro$288 a year
In their own words
Connect The Dots
Connect The Dots builds a relationship graph from a team's connections to find warm paths to people and companies. Its individual product organizes, scores and deduplicates a professional network so it can be searched from AI tools. Relationship scoring uses email activity and LinkedIn data, with some paths also drawing on public career-overlap information. The service ranks possible introductions and can draft an email for the connector to review and send. It tracks job changes among direct connections and can alert users when someone moves. Listed integrations include Gmail, Outlook, LinkedIn, Salesforce, HubSpot, Claude through MCP, Zapier and an open API. The iPhone and Android app includes Dottie, an AI network assistant. CTD says it reads email metadata by default and does not store email bodies; optional body access supports showing requested emails and retrieving signature contact details. Users can export or delete data, manage network sharing and mark contacts private. The Free plan has monthly limits; Professional costs $20 a month.
Happenstance
Happenstance is a people-search service for finding people in your existing network and paths to introductions. It draws relationship signals from email headers, meetings, connections, follows, and contacts, then ranks people by how well you know them. Search results name matches, explain why they surfaced, and show a direct, friend, or group route. It connects to Gmail, Outlook, Google Calendar, Google Contacts, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram. Friends can share networks mutually; groups pool member networks for teams, funds, cohorts, or communities, and groups are free and unlimited. For agents and applications, Happenstance offers a REST API, MCP server, OpenAPI specification, and CLI, and it works with ChatGPT, Claude, Claude Code, and OpenClaw. Its iPhone app includes natural-language search, ranked warm paths, saved lists, introduction drafting, and network updates. Email and direct-message content and attachments are not sent to its servers; it uses sender, recipient, and timing metadata. The Free plan has Chat usage limits. Team is $24 a month per seat; Pro is $30 a month.