The Alliances feature where you can share and get visibility into someone else's network is most unique and interesting. The obvious use case is within a team or company but this can also be handy for investor <> founder relationships. How are you seeing people use it now, @shubham_goel1?

A product that has truly changed the way I work and made me so much more efficient across the team! Amazing and recommend to all!

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I have been interested in this "relationship intelligence" space for a while. I think Linkedin is TREMENDOUSLY lacking in this area which makes for an opportunity. I'm curious how you compare to Relationship Science and Reachable? I always thought the "best path" feature is a billion dollar opportunity if done right

Affinity is an incredibly powerful tool that acts as a "brain" or command center for your team's network. Blows most relationship management and CRM tools I've used out of the water. The team is responsive and iterates quickly, and the product is fantastic. If relationships are fundamental to your team's business, I'd highly recommend it.

This seems to be purely B2B... safe to assume there aren't any options for individuals or 1-3 startup teams?

We used Affinity at NewtonDrive.ai when we were fundraising. We were using a simple spreadsheet previously and imported it into Affinity. It really help us leverage our investors' networks and manage our ongoing conversations with investors.

Pros:

- spreadsheets on steroids: familiar UX but much more powerful

- smooth transition by importing spreadsheets

- leverage external networks

Cons:

- none so far

Hi ProductHunt! We’re very excited to be here! We started Affinity almost three years ago with the thesis that relationships are one of the most valuable asset any business possesses. We set out to solve 3 primary challenges that we heard repeatedly from leaders in the industry. 1) Automatically manage business relationships Managing relationships requires a ton of manual data entry which makes us vulnerable to making costly mistakes. From forgetting to log meetings to neglecting adding contact info in your CRM, manual entry impedes team alignment and wastes time you could spend actually doing your job. Affinity resolves these issues by automatically populating your pipelines with the crucial data points you need. We even enrich contact info with 3rd party data to put everything you need, right in your workflow. 2) Prioritizing business relationships Identifying which relationships in your team's network are the most important is a big challenge. Affinity leverages AI and natural language processing to synthesize all your team's communication data to understand who knows whom, which emails have you forgotten to follow up with, and which relationships are at risk that you might want to engage with again. 3) Effectively leveraging your team's network Growing your network is more than just increasing your followers. The world's best business leaders effectively leverage the right relationships at the right time. Affinity surfaces your team’s relationship graph and makes it actionable. We even allow you to connect outside your team with AlliancesTM to leverage your investor, advisor or even mentor relationships and instantly see who they can warmly introduce you to. After years of hard work, we’ve assembled an incredible team to tackle the most complex infrastructure challenges and deliver an intuitive, powerful product for any business that sees its networks as an important, underutilized currency. Our goal is to bring the next generation of relationship intelligence to all businesses, so everyone can leverage their most valuable asset, their network. If you are interested in Affinity, we are offering all Product Hunt users a 14 day free trial. Please request a demo on the website, and we will be in touch very shortly! We are happy to answer any questions you have through the comments section below! Would love to hear your feedback, and excited to show you what we’ve built :)

After trying about every tool out there for CRM management for our relationships and portfolio management, this checked all the boxes. It's ability to capture meetings, calls, emails, documents and notes between teams is amazing. We have actively been using it from the early days and continue to use it today for our entire globally distributed team. Smart list creation and the fact that everything is LIVE capturing what you do allows our team to stay in touch and in tune with everything going on. The privacy settings are also a great offering allowing you to not include full details or even subject lines where certain teams do not need to see it. Excited to watch this product continue to expand.

Pros:

I looked for a platform to manage the sourcing, conversations and ongoing portfolio and relationships management. This is it.

Cons:

Mobile app does not have the full experience... yet.

I've been using this for over a year for everything in our startup, from lists of customers and prospective customers to lists of investors, advisors, and the like and I have enjoyed the simplicity. Compared to other CRMs this tool is much broader likely because it leverages a spreadsheet-like interface which makes it much more familiar, yet somehow it feels a lot easier to use. Other CRMs are only optimized for sales, but don't go broader to accommodate other use cases and that made them very unintuitive.

But aside from the basic features, hands down the best features are the network ones like the ability to map your network and see the strength of your connection and leverage it with the Alliances feature. By adding allies who can help you get intros to people in a secure and safe way (without exposing people's entire rolodexes) you can leverage their network and expand yours. I would highly recommend this to anyone running a startup who has to manage a number of different people and organizations in one place, it's been a lifesaver for us.

Pros:

- great UI, w/ a familiar spreadsheet-like interface

- simple concepts - person & organization

- leverage network w/ alliances

- A+ support

Cons:

- hard to visualize a pipeline

Can this be utilized well for retail business with focus on local marketing and sales. We have B2C and also B2B customers. Thank you,

I tried every major CRM out there and hated all of them. The biggest issue for me is that CRMs like HubSpot and Salesforce don't sync well with email--you either need to send emails from CRM interface or else remember to BCC the CRM in the email client. This creates a lot of errors in logging and adds a layer of headache for when you need to separate communication across professional streams (ie sourcing clients, raising money, personal stuff, etc). Affinity lives on top of your email client and intelligently categorizes and logs communication for you. It is a game changer because it requires very little maintenance on my part. As a result, I don't need to spend 40 minutes at the end of each day to go through my email client and make sure that everything is logged as I need. It is an insanely elegant solution. After using Affinity for about 8 months, I can confidently say that other CRMs out there look like dinosaurs to me now.

Looking forward to where Affinity goes!

Pros:

I like the reminders of emails to send to people.

Cons:

Wish more people used it, because it's limiting if you only have a handful that do.

I've been using Affinity for 2 months now and I love it. Great way for me and my team to keep track of our external communications and stay on top of follow-ups. h/t @koz

After using Affinity for 6 months, I am thrilled with how the product has impacted our workflow in the office.

Pros:

Superior UI as a CRM for internal network management

Cons:

Search functionality still needs work. Some functions are not very intuitive. Gmail integration doesn't always work.

We have been using this product for 2 years now. WOW - amazing!! Full disclosure we are investors but truly, the best CRM for investing firms.

We've been using Affinity for over a year, and it is an amazing CRM platform for deal makers. Where it is exceptional is being able to leverage the full network of an organization. Not only does it save me time, but it gives me much better access to what my team is working on. While Affinity started off working with VCs and other investment firms, it has branched out into other areas such as Sales. Anyone in a customer, prospecting or external facing role can make good use of Affinity.

Do you support any email or calendar system?

I've been using Affinity for 4 months as a customer and love it. It has helped me categorize and visualize relationships and relationship strength across all aspects of activity and life.

Pros:

Intuitive ways to visualize relationships, strength of relationships, and track emails that haven't been responded to. Affordable.

Cons:

None really other than the product could be expanded further; I'd like to better understand how to use Affinity Alliances.

I have not personally used Affinity, but got a demo from one of the founders. I think it is a game changing product for sales and relationship management. I would recommend it to any VC, or companies with medium to large sales teams. As a prior venture analyst, it would have definitely helped make my job easier.

Pros:

- Love the UI

- Allows you to leverage internal network easily

- Game changer for sales & relationship management

Cons:

none