Draftboard is a web‑based platform that automatically maps a user's extended professional network, surfacing mutual connections, shared history, and the strongest introduction paths to target prospects. Using AI, it generates personalized outreach emails that reference real relationships and integrates this relationship intelligence into major CRMs, enabling sales, recruiting, and fundraising teams to prioritize high‑value contacts and improve response rates at scale.
Funding
$4.1M raised to dateRaised to date based on public sources. This may differ from the amount the company actually raised and is based only on what is publicly available on the internet.
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Product
Problem
Cold outbound outreach suffers from low response rates and high costs, as sales teams must manually gather data, craft personalized messages, and rely on uncertain cold contacts, leading to inefficient prospecting and wasted resources.
Solution
Draftboard leverages AI and relationship intelligence to automatically map a user's extended professional network, revealing mutual connections, shared history, and connection strength with target prospects. The platform surfaces the strongest introduction paths and generates personalized outreach messages that reference real shared experiences, turning cold contacts into warm introductions. By integrating this network data into existing CRM and sales tools, teams can prioritize high‑value prospects, automate large‑scale outreach, and improve reply rates without extensive manual research. The service operates as a web‑based dashboard with instant network visualization, AI‑driven email drafting, and real‑time connection scoring, enabling sales, fundraising, recruiting, and other go‑to‑market functions to scale efficiently.
Target Audience
Draftboard is aimed at B2B sales teams, business development professionals, recruiters, and fundraising groups who need to identify and engage high‑value prospects through trusted network connections.
Features
- Automatic network mapping that expands a user's 3,000 direct contacts to millions of second‑degree connections, visualizing paths and relationship strength
- AI‑generated personalized email drafts that incorporate real shared history and mutual connections to increase authenticity
- Relationship scoring algorithm that ranks introduction paths based on duration of prior collaboration, number of mutual contacts, and recent interaction recency
- Integration APIs and native connectors for major CRMs (e.g., HubSpot, Salesforce) to embed relationship intelligence directly into existing sales workflows
- Warm‑intro workflow that facilitates requesting and tracking introductions through mutual connections, complete with response rate analytics
- Dashboard analytics showing response rates for cold vs. warm outreach, connection depth, and prospect coverage across industries