Draftboard vs Happenstance

Draftboard maps a user’s first-degree network to identify people who may be able to introduce them to prospects, investors, founders, or candidates. It builds paths without asking contacts to export or upload their networks, then scores each path and explains it using relationship signals such as shared work or school history. Users can tailor intro requests and send them by email or direct message. Copilot emails top introduction opportunities 30 minutes before a meeting. Adding teammates pools their networks to reveal third-degree paths and identify the teammate with the strongest connection. The Integration API supports listing and importing targets, retrieving connections and strongest open paths, and managing tags. Draftboard is available on the web, through an extension, and via API. Its free plan includes network mapping and 50 quality paths without a credit card. Additional quality paths cost $0.30 as a one-time purchase, with a maximum of three credits per target; non-quality paths are free. Teammates can see all paths and connections by default, though an organization admin can restrict visibility.

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.