Both make point-in-time intros. Boardy's voice agent interviews you and picks someone from Boardy's network. Via finds the warm path to a specific target through your team's network — advisors, investors, customers, board.
Boardy
Boardy is a voice-first AI connector. You share your phone number through LinkedIn, Boardy calls you, interviews you, and makes double-opt-in intros to people in Boardy's network — mostly founders, investors, and operators. Via is relationship intelligence for revenue teams: it maps your team's extended network (advisors, investors, customers, board) and ranks warm paths to the specific accounts you're trying to reach.
| Capability | Via | Boardy |
|---|---|---|
| Network & graph | ||
| Paths through your team's own network | ✓Core feature | —Boardy's network only |
| Pool your whole team's relationships into one graph | ✓Team-wide graph | —1:1 between each user and the bot |
| Map extended orbit: advisors, investors, customers, board | ✓Full orbit mapped | —Not the use case |
| Warm access & pathfinding | ||
| Find a warm path to a specific target person or account | ✓Target-specific pathfinding | —Matches you with whoever Boardy knows |
| Surface second-degree warm paths | ✓Ranked, with context | —Not the play |
| Rank intros by relationship strength | ✓Transparent ranking | —Opaque — handled by the agent |
| Proactive alerts when new paths open to target accounts | ✓Continuous | —Serendipitous matches |
| Experience & workflow | ||
| Interface | ✓Web, CX, MCP | ✓Voice call + LinkedIn / WhatsApp |
| CRM, Clay, Apollo, Notion integrations | ✓Full GTM stack | —Standalone by design |
| Built for | ✓Revenue teams running target-account motions | ✓Individuals expanding their network |
| Entry point | ✓Request access | ✓Free; invite via LinkedIn |
Both products make matches at a point in time. The difference is whose network gets searched, whether the match is target-specific, and what trust the connector actually carries.
Boardy intros you to people Boardy knows. Via surfaces paths through people your team already knows and trusts — advisors, investors, customers, board. Different graph, different trust signal. A warm intro from your CEO's investor lands differently than one from an AI you both met once.
Via answers "who can get me warm to the VP of RevOps at Acme?" Boardy answers "here's someone interesting you should meet." Sales-led GTM motions need the first. Open-ended networking is the second.
Via pools your whole team's relationships into one searchable, rankable graph — every rep sees every warm path. Boardy is a 1:1 relationship between each user and the bot. Useful for personal networking; not how revenue teams run target-account plays.
Via lives where sales already works: CRM, Slack, Clay, Apollo, Notion. Warm paths show up on the accounts reps are already working. Boardy is standalone — a voice call, separate from the pipeline.
You already have a target account list. Via shows you the warm paths to each one through the network your team already has.