Polinode vs Relationship Science (RelSci)

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.

Relationship Science (RelSci) is a paid platform for organizations using connections to influential decision makers in business development, fundraising and related goals. RelSci says it provides real-time intelligence on more than 11 million influential decision makers and over 4.5 million organizations across public, private, financial and nonprofit sectors. Path Finder maps possible connections among people, places and lists. More than 50 filters build target lists by industry, geography, role, company type and cause, with relationship filtering for results. Users can receive 360° Alert emails about followed people and organizations. Additional tools cover donor and investor searches, due diligence and finding people to meet while visiting a city. Salesforce integration is available through an AppExchange app. The API can deliver profiles, relationship paths, news, donor and client searches, and deduplication to CRMs or proprietary applications. RelSci offers Android, iOS and web access, plus an API. Pricing is on request with a 30-day trial.