How is Draftboard different than Connect the Dots (CTD.ai)?

Draftboard vs. CTD.ai: A Comparison

Both Draftboard and Connect the Dots (CTD.ai) help sales teams leverage professional relationships. Here's how they compare.

Core Philosophy

CTD.ai: Positions itself as a "relationship AI platform" that analyzes email and LinkedIn metadata to create a "supergraph" of everyone your organization can reach. Heavy emphasis on AI-driven analysis.

Draftboard: Focuses on making your team's existing relationships actionable for warm introductions. Built specifically around the warm intro workflow.

Network Approach

Analyzes granular metadata from LinkedIn and email
Creates relationship maps showing who really knows who
Offers "ghost emails" where executives send intros drafted by others
Browser extension reveals connections as you browse LinkedIn, Gmail, or Salesforce

Maps your team's 1st and 2nd degree connections
Focuses on employment history overlaps for relationship strength
Direct intro request workflow through your actual connectors
Purpose-built interface for warm intro discovery and execution

Relationship Scoring

CTD.ai: Uses AI to map and score relationships based on email metadata and LinkedIn connections. Shows relationship strength with deduplication across sources.

Length of overlapping employment
Recency of the connection
Multiple overlaps (worked together at different companies)
Titles and departments
Relative seniority

Key Features

Smart Lists and Shared Lists
Job Change Notifications
External Connectors feature
"CTD Everywhere" browser extension
Ghost email drafting for executives
Email metadata analysis

CSV import from any prospecting tool
Full intro request lifecycle tracking
Supporter prioritization (your best connectors)
Connections View (see all paths at a glance)
Custom message templates by connector type
Team network pooling

Tracking and CRM

CTD.ai: Integrates with Salesforce, Gmail, and LinkedIn. Shows relationship maps and messaging history in a single view.

Marking when you've requested an intro
Tracking declined intros
Seeing intros in progress
Confirming completed intros
Preventing duplicate asks across your team

Deployment

CTD.ai: Claims 15-minute company-wide deployment. Browser extension-based workflow.

Draftboard: Team members connect LinkedIn profiles. Centralized dashboard for managing all warm intro activity.

Best For

You want deep email metadata analysis
You need a browser extension that works across Gmail, LinkedIn, and Salesforce
Your executives want to send intros drafted by the sales team
You want job change notifications built in

Your primary goal is executing warm introductions
You want detailed employment-based relationship scoring
You need comprehensive intro request tracking
You want a purpose-built interface for warm intro workflows

The Bottom Line

CTD.ai takes an AI-heavy approach, analyzing email metadata and offering features like ghost emails. Draftboard is focused specifically on the warm intro workflow - finding paths, scoring relationships, requesting intros, and tracking outcomes. If warm introductions are your primary use case, Draftboard's specialized approach provides better relationship intelligence and a more streamlined intro execution process.