Draftboard vs Polinode

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.

Polinode is a browser-based tool for organizational network analysis and visualization. It can work with network data imported from Excel, GEXF, or JSON, gathered through relationship surveys, or accessed through passive data queries. Surveys can collect relationship information along with demographic, engagement, culture, and open-text responses. Its visualizations support networks of up to 50,000 nodes and 250,000 edges, with more than 30 metrics. An AI network chat can answer questions about network data, calculate metrics, interpret results, and find shortest paths. Passive integrations cover metadata from Office 365, Microsoft Teams, Google Workspace, and Slack. Polinode says these integrations do not read or store message content, refresh every 24 hours, and require an organization account. Free accounts have no private networks; Lite allows five and costs $40 a month, while Professional allows 50 and costs $80 a month. Polinode says it is SOC 2 certified and encrypts stored data with AES-256 and transmitted data with SSL/TLS.