Village

Village is a relationship-intelligence platform for teams pursuing sales, recruiting, fundraising, or job-search opportunities through professional introductions. It is best suited to teams whose shared connections can open doors; its broad search and approval-gated outreach are compelling, but the free plan is tightly capped and wider team access adds cost.

Overview

Village searches more than 775 million professionals in natural language and uses a team’s combined network to find warm paths. Its relationship map draws on work history, LinkedIn, meetings, contacts, VC communities, and funding relationships. That makes it more relevant to teams looking for a credible route to a person or company than to buyers who simply need a standalone contact database.

Autopilot screens and scores prospects, organizes them into lists, and can trigger actions such as enrolling matches in outreach sequences. Sequences adapt to responses, but require user approval before sending. This keeps the final outreach decision with a person, while making Village a weaker fit for teams that want fully autonomous sending.

Key features

Warm-path discovery and workflows

Natural-language search, ranked warm paths, and a multi-network relationship graph combine discovery with relationship context. Autopilot adds prospect scoring and event-driven actions, supporting a workflow from finding prospects to preparing outreach without removing human approval.

Integrations and developer access

Village connects with Google Contacts, Google Calendar, LinkedIn connections, CRM and ATS tools, Zapier, and an MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor. Its API returns ranked warm paths to people or companies, and is intended for developers embedding network mapping and enrichment in their products. These options suit teams that want Village to work across existing tools or build relationship intelligence into another product.

Extension, privacy, and security

The Chrome extension shows connection paths on LinkedIn and other websites, and also works with Chromium-based browsers including Edge and Brave. Village says it does not access email content, calendar event descriptions or notes, private messages, or passwords. It specifies TLS 1.2+ encryption in transit, AES-256 encryption at rest, role-based access controls, and Google Cloud Platform infrastructure. Its data-use documentation lists GDPR and CCPA compliance and says SOC 2 Type II is in progress.

Village says account deletion requests are processed within 48 hours and profile-removal requests for non-users within 24 hours. Support is available through a Contact Support page, with an email contact for privacy and data questions.

Pricing

Free forever

The free 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 useful way to try the core discovery and developer surfaces, but its search-result and credit caps make it a constrained choice for sustained prospecting. There is no free trial.

Business

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 each. The base plan fits teams needing regular search and workflow capacity; the collaborator charge matters for teams that need a broader shared network, since it adds to the monthly bill.

VIP · White-glove

VIP · White-glove costs $2,000 a month 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 for teams seeking managed campaign execution rather than software alone; the campaign-based price and application requirement make it a poor fit for routine self-serve prospecting.

Platforms

Village is available on web, as an extension, and through an API. The extension supports Chrome and Chromium-based browsers including Edge and Brave.

Who it's for

Sales, recruiting, fundraising, and job-search teams are the clearest fit, especially when introductions through shared professional connections matter. It is less suitable for individuals or teams whose work does not depend on a team network, or for buyers looking primarily for outreach that sends without approval.

Pros and cons

Pros

• Search across more than 775 million professionals is paired with ranked warm paths, making relationship context central to prospect discovery.
• Autopilot can score prospects and trigger sequence enrollment, while approval remains required before messages are sent.
• API and MCP access, plus a broad integration set, support both existing-tool workflows and product embedding.
• Village states specific privacy exclusions and publishes encryption and access-control measures.

Cons

• The free plan’s 100 monthly credits, limited connections, and 10-result AI searches constrain ongoing use.
• Business network access adds $19/collaborator/month, so teams requiring third-degree connections must budget beyond the base monthly price.
• Outreach requires approval, which is a drawback for teams seeking hands-off sending.
• VIP is priced per campaign, excludes seats, and requires an application, limiting its fit for self-service buyers.

Alternatives

For automation-oriented prospecting, TexAu offers a free plan with 50 starter credits and every feature included, while its Solo plan costs $79 a month with yearly billing and 2,500 credits/month. Choose it when that credit-based automation offer better matches the workflow than Village’s emphasis on warm introductions.

OutX.ai offers a free plan with 500 leads/week, limited tracked profiles, two private watchlists, 12/24-hour data freshness, and a location filter. Its Growth plan costs $99 a month. It may suit readers prioritizing lead monitoring and watchlists over relationship mapping.

PhantomBuster has a free plan with five automation slots, two hours of execution time, 50 email credits, 1k AI credits, 100 URL finder credits/month, and exports limited to 10 rows. Choose it when those explicit automation and export limits align better with the task than Village’s warm-path focus.

Buzz offers a Core plan at $79 a month per seat, billed monthly, with 500 credits/mo, one seat, and 10,000 records/month export. It is worth considering when a per-seat plan with stated export capacity is a better match.

SocialOS is a web-based paid option with a Base plan at $199 a month, 5,000 actions/month, two LinkedIn sender profiles, three concurrent referral partners, and email support. Consider it when those LinkedIn and referral-partner limits fit your workflow.

LinkedIn Sales Navigator is a paid option with Core at $119.99 a month per license and 50 InMail credits per month, and Advanced at $159.99 a month per license with 50 InMail credits per month. It is an alternative for buyers seeking a license-based sales tool with InMail credits.

Oktopost offers Professional and Advanced plans with custom pricing; Professional includes one marketing user, while Advanced includes one marketing user with additional users available. Sociabble is another paid alternative.

For broader category browsing, see Social Selling Software and Relationship Intelligence Software.

Verdict

Village is a strong choice for sales, recruiting, fundraising, or job-search teams that can turn shared professional connections into introductions. Its main advantage is bringing broad network search, relationship mapping, and prospect workflows together while keeping outreach approval with the user. Look elsewhere if you need autonomous sending or if the added collaborator cost makes team-wide network access impractical.