A pitch ends with decision-makers to approach cold; the warmer question is who your team already knows who could open the door.
Importing your network
Your network (sidebar, under Workspace) takes the knowledge as data, without any integration. The screen is one main act — paste a list — with the two file imports behind the ghost buttons below it, and the small ⓘ by the title holding the fine print:
- A pasted list: pick a category — Investors, Partners, Customers, Advisors, Friends & former colleagues, or Other… to name your own — then one per line, who then how-you-know-them after a dash. A minute of typing, no file needed. Press Add the list.
- A LinkedIn export, per member (Import LinkedIn connections): from LinkedIn, Settings & Privacy → Data privacy → "Get a copy of your data" → tick Connections → Request archive; LinkedIn emails the
Connections.csvwithin ~10 minutes, and it uploads here. Re-uploading replaces your previous import rather than double-counting. Email addresses in the export are dropped at import and never stored — the studio keeps who and where, never how to email a stranger. - An email address book, per member (Import your email address book), with instructions per provider:
- Google (Gmail / Google Workspace): contacts.google.com → Export (in the left sidebar) → Google CSV, then upload the file here.
- Outlook / Office 365: outlook.office.com/people → Manage contacts → Export contacts → all contacts → Export, then upload the file here.
What is kept per contact: name, company, job title. Email addresses, phone numbers and everything else in the file are dropped at import and never stored. Re-uploading replaces your previous address book import.
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## Networksection in the brief, for ties that read better as prose.
Every import is attributed to the member who brought it, and only that member can remove it. Importing calls no model, and nothing network-shaped ever travels on a shared link.
Warm paths
With a network in the workspace, every finished pitch gains a Warm paths panel: ranked you → connector → target paths, each connector actually in your network, each claim evidenced with the page it was read on (or the line of your own data that states it). The best path comes with a forwardable intro request drafted in your voice. An honest "checked these, found nothing" is a normal result.
It runs by itself as a follow-on of each pitch run when the workspace has a network, and on demand from the panel (Find warm paths / Look again) — useful for pitches that predate an import.
Connection-degree chips
Every decision-maker row carries 1st · 2nd · 3rd+ chips — LinkedIn people-search links pre-filtered by degree. They open in your own logged-in LinkedIn, so the degrees are yours; a teammate clicking the same chips sees their own network. The studio never reads LinkedIn — it only writes search URLs.