Kumu vs Village

Kumu organizes complex data into relationship maps connecting people, systems, and concepts. It supports stakeholder, systems, social network, community asset, and concept mapping. Users can build maps by hand or import spreadsheet data, including live data from Google Sheets. Built-in analysis includes closeness, betweenness, and eigenvector centrality, plus automated community detection and clustering. Kumu also provides a presentation builder and lets users embed interactive maps on websites. It is available on the web and as self-hosted software, and the maker describes it as a tool for organizations working with complex relationships and systems, including social-sector leaders seeking to create impact. The free Basic workspace includes unlimited public projects, collaborators, maps, and views, but public projects are visible to everyone and indexed by search engines. Private projects require payment or an eligible student discount; a two-week trial of private projects is available. A private project costs $9/month per project. The Pro workspace costs $10/month per workspace, with private projects priced separately. Enterprise is billed annually per user, with self-hosted or managed cloud options, SAML single sign-on, priority support, and a 99.95% uptime SLA.

Village is a relationship-intelligence platform for teams pursuing sales, recruiting, fundraising, or job searches through warm introductions. Natural-language search covers more than 775 million professionals and uses a combined team network to find paths. Relationship maps draw on work history, LinkedIn, meetings, contacts, VC communities, and funding relationships. AI workflows screen and score prospects, organize lists, and trigger event-driven actions such as enrolling matches in outreach sequences. Village says sequences adapt to responses but do not send without user approval. Its Chrome extension displays connection paths on LinkedIn and other websites, including Chromium browsers such as Edge and Brave. The relationship graph API returns ranked warm paths to people or companies. Listed integrations include Google Contacts, Google Calendar, LinkedIn connections, CRM and ATS systems, Zapier, and an MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor. The Free forever plan costs nothing and includes 100 credits per month, limited connections, 10 results per AI search, browser extension access, and API and MCP access. Business costs $149 a month, billed monthly; VIP costs $2,000 a month per campaign.