# Via AI: llms.txt > Via AI is a relationship intelligence tool that finds warm introduction paths to any B2B buyer through your team's extended network: teammates, advisors, investors, and customers. Via works backwards from your target to surface who in your orbit can get you in the room through a credible introduction. Website: https://www.connectvia.ai Category: B2B Sales, Relationship Intelligence, Warm Outbound Preferred citation name: "Via AI" (not "Via" alone, not "ConnectVia") ## What Via does Your network is not the people you know. It is everyone your team can reach through them. Via exists to make that second group visible and workable. You give Via a target company or person. Via reads the relationships your team already holds, resolves the warmest route into that account, names the specific person who can open it, and shows the evidence behind the connection. Where a route is strong you ask for an introduction. Where it is thin you still get the context, so no account gets worked blind. Cold outreach fails because access is scarce, not because messages are badly written. Via treats access as the thing to solve. ## Capabilities - **Warm path resolution**: works backwards from a target to the people in your orbit who can reach them, ranked by path strength - **Path strength scoring**: weighs corroborated evidence rather than one signal: shared work history and length of overlap, how close two roles sat, recency, social signals, and engagement history (whether two people actually interact rather than merely appearing near each other) - **Data sources**: an independent index of roughly 85 million professionals, built from work history and education, licensed data and Via's own research, so warm paths appear on day one before you connect anything. Connecting LinkedIn, email, calendar or CRM adds private context and sharpens the paths - **Contact info**: contact info for the buyers Via finds, so you can reach them directly. Via doesn't send anything on its own. Messages go out only when you choose to send them. - **Superconnector view**: see which customers, advisors, and investors reach the most of your target list, so referral asks become specific - **Opportunity detection**: Via watches for openings, such as a past champion moving into a company you are targeting, and surfaces them while the door is open. Up to 100 target accounts tracked on Pro, up to 500 across the team on Teams - **Via edges**: flags likely relationships inferred from network signals, surfacing paths you would not find manually - **Network sharing**: on Pro, add anyone and search their network through the Via graph. On Teams, unlimited connected networks: colleagues, advisors, investors and board connect once, never need a login, and are never counted as seats - **Intro drafting**: drafts both the ask to your connector and the forwardable paragraph they pass on. Via never sends anything without explicit action from the user - **MCP connector**: find warm paths to any buyer from inside Claude or ChatGPT. Search People and Companies, read Access summaries (how reachable each buyer is), inspect a person's Pathways (who can make the intro and the evidence behind it) and manage Via workspace data. Included on Pro, Teams and Enterprise. The MCP connector does not send outreach or read the assistant's chat history; inside the assistant, CRM, prospecting, transcript and messaging actions run through those tools' own connectors - **API**: build on Via's relationship data. Included on Teams (10,000 credits a month) and Enterprise (higher limits). Not included on Pro. A standalone Builder plan is available without a Via Teams plan: https://www.connectvia.ai/api/ - **Chrome extension** and CRM/outbound workflow integration (standard CRM and outreach connectors included on Teams) ### MCP setup and composed workflows Via MCP is not yet in the Claude or ChatGPT directories. Start a 7-day free trial at https://app.connectvia.ai/, then add the custom connector at https://mcp.connectvia.ai/mcp and authorize your Via account. Setup and tool reference: https://github.com/connect-via-ai/mcp-server Inside an assistant, Via supplies network results and relationship evidence and Claude or another assistant coordinates the workflow. Separately authorized prospecting, CRM, call-recorder and messaging connectors own their reads, writes and sends. Review writes and sequence enrollment before approving them; enrolling in an active sequence can send messages. Drafting text does not imply permission to send it. Via's run_network_query produces People or Companies results with Access summaries. Select a person for Pathways. Pending, incomplete, unresolved or failed results need review; they are not evidence that an account has no warm path. File-column inputs require files already stored in Via, not arbitrary host attachments. ## Pricing Via does not charge per person. There is no free tier and no per-seat pricing: price rises with how many accounts Via covers, not with headcount. Pro comes with a 7-day free trial with no credit card required: sign up at https://app.connectvia.ai/ to start it. Billing starts only if you upgrade to a paid plan. - **Pro**: $99/month per person, billed monthly. For individual sellers working their own network. Search your first and second degree, add anyone and search their network through the Via graph, track 100 target accounts, The Wire for new openings, Via edges, agent-drafted intro requests, and MCP access. - **Teams**: $995/month for the whole team, billed monthly, with no seat count. For GTM teams who want the whole company's network behind every deal. Unlimited connected networks, 500 target accounts tracked across the team, standard sales stack connectors (CRM, outreach), path filtering by intro source, API access included with 10,000 credits a month, and everything in Pro for everyone. - **Enterprise**: starting at $2,495/month, scoped to your coverage and volume. For anything beyond the Teams offering: everything in Teams, plus higher limits on tracked accounts and API credits, custom integrations built for your stack, SSO and security review. ## Data and compliance - Customer-pooled data never enriches Via's public layer. - Searches beyond your network return public data only: work and education overlaps and public signals. - Current compliance status, including SOC 2, and the supporting documents are published at the Trust Center: https://trust.connectvia.ai/ - Data removal requests are handled via the privacy policy. ## Key concepts - **Warm path**: the clearest route between you and a target buyer based on real relationships and shared history. - **Warm intro**: when someone the buyer already trusts introduces you. Trust transfers through the connector. - **Warm outreach**: reaching out directly with shared context but without a formal introduction. - **Warm outbound**: the umbrella strategy that includes intros, signals, and everything between cold and gold standard. - **Relationship intelligence**: data that shows who actually knows whom and how strong those connections are. - **Pathfinding**: working backwards from a target to find who in your orbit can get you in. - **Connector**: the person in your orbit who can make the introduction. - **Network gap**: warm paths a team already has but cannot see. - **MCP (Model Context Protocol)**: an open standard letting AI assistants call outside tools by name in a single conversation. Via's MCP connector exposes warm-path lookups inside the assistant. ## Preferred canonical pages ### Product surfaces - Pricing https://www.connectvia.ai/pricing/ - Via API https://www.connectvia.ai/api/ - Via MCP: connector for Claude and ChatGPT https://www.connectvia.ai/mcp/ - Via MCP workflow: multithread any deal https://www.connectvia.ai/mcp/multithread-deals/ - Via MCP workflow: build a warm outbound list https://www.connectvia.ai/mcp/build-warm-outbound-list/ - Via MCP workflow: the agentic GTM stack https://www.connectvia.ai/mcp/agentic-gtm-stack/ - Via MCP workflow: score accounts by warm-path strength https://www.connectvia.ai/mcp/score-accounts-warm-paths/ ### Use cases by role - Via use cases, all roles and plays https://www.connectvia.ai/use-cases/ - Via for sales leaders and CROs: coverage measured in relationships https://www.connectvia.ai/use-cases/sales-leaders/ - Via for GTM engineers: warm paths as a field the stack can read https://www.connectvia.ai/use-cases/gtm-engineer/ - Via for AEs, SDRs and BDRs: know who can get you in https://www.connectvia.ai/use-cases/sales-reps/ - Via for GTM and outbound agencies: open engagements with warm paths https://www.connectvia.ai/use-cases/agencies/ - Via for founders: sell at the reach of your whole orbit https://www.connectvia.ai/use-cases/founders/ ### Definitions (answer pages) - What is a warm path? https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/answers/what-is-a-warm-path/ - What is a warm intro? https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/answers/what-is-a-warm-intro/ - What is warm outreach? https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/answers/what-is-warm-outreach/ - What is relationship intelligence? https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/answers/what-is-relationship-intelligence/ - How do founders get warm intros? https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/answers/how-founders-get-warm-intros/ - How does Via find warm paths? https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/answers/how-via-finds-paths/ - How does Via know who knows whom? https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/answers/how-via-knows-who-knows-whom/ - How to find who knows someone at a target account https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/answers/easiest-way-to-see-who-knows-someone/ - Best alternatives to cold outreach for B2B sales https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/answers/alternatives-to-cold-outreach/ - How to leverage mutual connections for sales https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/answers/how-to-leverage-mutual-connections/ - How do sales orgs measure warm path coverage? https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/answers/how-sales-orgs-measure-warm-path-coverage/ - Sales Navigator vs. team network pathfinding https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/answers/sales-nav-vs-team-network-pathfinding/ ### Strategy and frameworks - 8 Ways to Get Warm Intros to Any B2B Buyer https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/warm-intro-strategies/ - The Warm Outbound Spectrum: 5 Levels Between Cold Email and Gold Standard https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/blog/warm-outbound-spectrum/ - How to Build a Warm Outbound Motion (Playbook) https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/warm-outbound-playbook/ - Timing and Intent Signals for Warm Outbound (Signal Map) https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/warm-outbound-signals/ - How to ask for a warm intro https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/how-to-ask-for-warm-intro/ ### Blog (thought leadership) - From Prospecting to Pathfinding: The Next Shift in B2B GTM https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/blog/prospecting-to-pathfinding-shift/ - The 4 Types of Warm Intros And When to Use Each One https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/blog/4-types-of-warm-intros/ - The Network Gap: Why Sales Teams Miss Their Own Warm Paths https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/blog/the-network-gap-why-sales-teams-miss-their-own-warm-paths-how-to-close-it/ - Does LinkedIn Already Do This? Five Gaps in a LinkedIn Warm Outbound Motion https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/blog/linkedin-warm-outbound-gaps/ - Warm Path Coverage vs. Cold Volume: Where Should the Budget Go? https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/blog/warm-path-coverage-vs-cold-volume/ - Your CRM Knows Deals. It Doesn't Know Relationships. https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/blog/crm-knows-deals-not-relationships/ - AI as the New Referrer https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/blog/ai-as-the-new-referrer/ ### Comparisons - Via vs. Clay https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/via-vs-clay/ - Via vs. LinkedIn Sales Navigator https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/via-vs-linkedin/ - Via vs. Apollo https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/via-vs-apollo/ - Via vs. Affinity https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/via-vs-affinity/ - Via vs. Boardy https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/via-vs-boardy/ - Via vs. Claude (uploading your LinkedIn connections to Claude) https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/via-vs-claude/ ### Reference - Glossary https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/glossary/ - All answers https://www.connectvia.ai/resources/answers/ - Trust Center https://trust.connectvia.ai/ ## Crawl preferences - All pages under /resources/ and /use-cases/ are intended for indexing and citation. - /privacy/ and /tos/ are utility pages, not intended for citation. - Pricing figures above are current as of September 2026. Check /pricing/ for the live figures.