Let s be honest: AI is getting eerily good at sounding human. It can craft hyper-personalized content and emails, and handle entire conversations. It s also made sales outreach noisier and eroded trust in once-reliable channels like email, chat, and even voice and crazy enough, video. But it s so seductive and fast. It s learning and adapting faster than ever. And it s not going to stop: in Q1, it already represented the majority share of global venture capital funding.
But one thing AI still can t fabricate is a real, trusted human relationship. These can t be made up or scaled with prompts. They re built through shared experiences, mutual trust, and real-world context.
And yet, in today s business world, precious human connections are slipping through the cracks. They re buried in inboxes, lost in forgotten LinkedIn threads, siloed in the minds of your team and stakeholders. The right lead, investor, or candidate is often just one intro away, hidden in the network you already have. LinkedIn is great if you re an individual building an audience but it fails to unlock the collective relationship capital of an entire company.
The Swarm
Hey Product Hunt! I’m David, CEO at The Swarm.
Let’s be real—cold outreach is broken. Gen AI has only made things noisier. People are tuning out, and you can smell automation a mile away.
Instead, we believe the future of sales lies in real, human relationships. Instead of another sales hack, we built a platform for anyone to use, plus a new data layer and API for developers and builders.
Before this, I founded Automately.io (acquired by Sequoia Capital), where I then built tools to help the portfolio tap into Sequoia's network. I ran hundreds of discovery sessions and saw even the best companies struggling with messy spreadsheets and Slack channels, all to answer one question: “Who do we know at company X?”
LinkedIn in particular was too loose, too noisy, hard to export, and impossible to integrate with other tools. That’s when I saw the gap.
Since 2021, The Swarm has helped hundreds of companies map and unlock extended networks: not just LinkedIn connections, but also shared work experiences, school alumni, and shared investors. Every connection is scored so you find the strongest one.
Four ways to Swarm:
📡 API – Build our data into your products (includes people/company data, job changes, and relationship intelligence data)
🧭 SaaS – Map and combine your company network in one place
🎯 Clay – Warm intros to people or company in your Clay tables
🧩 LinkedIn – Free Chrome Extension for warm intros plus 200M business emails revealed on top of profiles
Big thanks to @chrismessina for the hunt and support!
— David
Co-Founder & CEO @ The Swarm 🐝💛