Village

Village suits sales, recruiting, fundraising, and job-search teams that can use shared professional connections to open doors. Its strongest case is combining warm-path discovery with outreach workflows; the trade-off is that meaningful team-network access costs extra on top of the monthly plan.

Overview

Village searches more than 775 million professionals in natural language and looks across a team’s combined network for warm routes to them. Its relationship mapping draws on work history, LinkedIn, meetings, contacts, VC communities, and funding relationships, making it a fit when introductions matter more than a contact list alone.

Autopilot screens and scores prospects, arranges them into lists, and can trigger actions such as adding matches to outreach sequences. Sequences adapt to responses, but require user approval before sending. That keeps a person in control of outreach, though teams seeking fully hands-off sending should look elsewhere.

Key features

Discovery and relationship context

The combination of broad professional search and ranked warm paths is useful for finding not just a target, but a route through the team’s relationships. Village’s multi-network graph incorporates several professional and organizational sources, which can help teams whose useful connections are spread across contacts, meetings, and communities.

Workflows, integrations, and access

Village supports prospect discovery, LinkedIn outreach, outreach automation, and relationship CRM. Its pricing page lists Google Contacts, Google Calendar, LinkedIn connections, CRM and ATS integrations, Zapier, and an MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor. The Chrome extension, also described as compatible with Edge and Brave, shows connection paths on LinkedIn and other sites. Developers can use the relationship graph API to return ranked warm paths and embed network mapping and enrichment in their own products.

Privacy and security

Village says it does not access email content, calendar descriptions or notes, private messages, or passwords. Its privacy documentation specifies TLS 1.2+ in transit, AES-256 at rest, role-based access controls, and Google Cloud Platform infrastructure. Its data-use documentation lists GDPR and CCPA compliance, with SOC 2 Type II in progress. Account deletion requests are processed within 48 hours; removal requests for non-user profiles are handled within 24 hours. Support is available through a help-desk contact page, with a separate email contact for privacy questions.

Pricing

Village is freemium, with no free trial. The Free forever plan costs nothing and includes 100 credits/month, limited connections, 10 results per AI search, browser extension access, and API and MCP access. It is a practical way to explore the workflow or serve a light individual use, but its credit and connection limits constrain sustained prospecting.

Business costs $149 a month, billed monthly, and includes 7,500 pooled credits/month, unlimited search results, and 500+ integrations. Third-degree team-network access costs $19/collaborator/month, with 1,000 additional credits per collaborator. The base plan suits teams wanting shared prospecting capacity; the per-collaborator charge matters if broadening the network across many colleagues is central to the use case.

VIP · White-glove costs $2,000 a month, billed per campaign, excludes seats, and is available by application only. It includes a dedicated senior partner, a fully managed pipeline, hand-written introductions, and meetings booked on your calendar. This is aimed at organizations buying managed campaign execution rather than software alone; the campaign-based price and application requirement make it a different commitment from self-serve plans.

Platforms

Village is available as an API, browser extension, and web product. The extension works in Chrome and is described as supporting Chromium-based Edge and Brave as well.

Who it's for

Sales teams can use warm paths for prospect discovery and approved outreach; recruiters can seek candidates through shared connections; and fundraising teams can draw on VC communities and funding relationships. Job seekers are also among Village’s stated audiences. It is less suitable when a team wants prospecting without a relationship-network approach or fully autonomous, unapproved outreach.

Pros and cons

• Pros: Search spans more than 775 million professionals and pairs results with warm paths from a multi-network graph, useful when introductions are a key route to a conversation.
• Pros: AI can score and organize prospects and prepare event-driven sequences, while approval remains required before sending.
• Pros: The free plan includes browser extension, API, and MCP access, allowing exploration across several access points without a paid subscription.
• Cons: Free access is limited to 100 credits/month, limited connections, and 10 results per AI search, which may curtail regular use.
• Cons: Business’s 7,500 credits/month are pooled, and third-degree team-network access adds $19/collaborator/month, so a larger shared network increases the bill.
• Cons: VIP is a $2,000 a month per-campaign offer, excludes seats, and requires application, putting managed service beyond the self-serve choice.

Alternatives

For a wider range of social-selling and relationship-intelligence options, browse Social Selling Software and Relationship Intelligence Software.

• TexAu is a freemium alternative with a free plan and trial; consider it if its 50 starter credits and included features suit your needs.
• PhantomBuster offers a free plan and trial with 5 automation slots, 2h execution time, and limited exports, for readers comparing automation-focused options.
• OutX.ai has a free plan and trial with 500 leads/week, limited tracked profiles, and two private watchlists, a possible fit for readers prioritizing that lead allowance.
• Buzz offers a $79 a month Core plan billed per seat monthly, with 500 credits/mo and one seat; compare it if a seat-priced entry plan is preferable.
• LinkedIn Sales Navigator is a paid option with a free trial and 50 InMail credits per month on its $119.99 a month Core plan billed per license; consider it when that license and InMail model fits better.
• Affinity is a paid relationship-intelligence alternative with an Essential plan at $2,000 a year, billed annually per user.
• Linked Helper offers a 14-day no-card trial with full Pro access and no daily caps, for readers who want to assess its campaign workflow before paying.
• Oktopost is a paid alternative with Professional and Advanced plans for one marketing user.

Verdict

Village is the right choice for teams that rely on warm introductions and want search, relationship context, and approval-gated outreach in one workflow. Its broad network and developer access are compelling, but teams should budget for Business’s collaborator charges if they need third-degree connections, and look elsewhere if they need unrestricted free prospecting or outreach that sends without approval.