Warm introductions are the highest-conversion channel in venture — a founder who gets a personal intro from a mutual connection is far more likely to take a meeting, share real information, and consider your term sheet. CTD maps your firm's collective network so you always know the fastest, warmest path to any company or founder you're targeting.

Finding paths to target companies

Search for any company at app.ctd.ai/search/all. CTD returns all reachable people at that company — founders, executives, engineers — ranked by relationship strength across your entire firm. Each result shows who the best connector is and how strong their relationship is.

The best connector isn't always who you'd expect. A junior associate might have a strong email relationship with a co-founder from a previous job. An LP might have a board-level connection. CTD surfaces these paths automatically — without anyone having to ask around.

Using the company research skill

Before you reach out to any company, run /company-research [company] in Claude. The company research skill gives you a complete brief: firmographics, recent signals (funding, leadership changes, product launches), warm paths from your firm ranked by strength, former employees now reachable through your network, and investor data. Everything you need before a first conversation — generated in seconds.

Tip: Run company research before every partner meeting or IC discussion on a new target. It takes 10 seconds and often surfaces a path nobody in the room knew existed.

Tracking your target pipeline

Use company lists to track your target pipeline and monitor relationship strength across all of it at once. As your team continues to connect their accounts and as external members join, relationship scores update automatically — a company that was cold last month might have a strong path today.

Co-investor introductions

The same search works for finding paths to other funds and GPs. If you want a warm intro to a co-investor for a syndicate or a lead on a round you're joining, search the fund or the individual partner — CTD will surface who in your firm knows them and how well.

Making the introduction

Once you've identified the right connector, use ghost email to draft the intro request. The connector receives a pre-written email they can review and forward with one click — lowering the friction on the ask and making it more likely they follow through.