intelligence.com vs Polinode

intelligence.com helps users find useful introductions through people already connected to them. Users connect email and calendar accounts, allowing the service to map relationships and identify trusted paths to candidates, clients, partners or investors. Telli AI agents analyze people, companies and markets, then suggest who to contact, what to say and when to follow up. The agents recommend actions but do not act without user input; users choose what to share and when, and requests and introductions are handled privately. Stated uses include career growth, sales and business development, fundraising and investment, knowledge sharing and team building. The service runs on the web and has a free plan. The product page advertises SOC 2 Type II and GDPR/Data Privacy Framework certification. The trust center lists a 2025 SOC 2 Type 2 report, penetration-test validation statement, security policies and integration guides.

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.