Draftboard vs The Swarm

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.

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.