Village

Village is a deep search people tool. Village maps a team's combined contacts and public relationship data to surface warm introduction paths to people and companies, with a REST API and an MCP connector for Claude and ChatGPT.

Village is a relationship intelligence platform that turns the combined networks of a team into a searchable map of warm introduction paths. It syncs contacts from email, calendar and LinkedIn, then works outward from each contact to infer their professional ties: current and former coworkers, investors and portfolio companies, classmates and alumni networks, plus connections already synced by other Village users. The result is a graph that stretches past first degree contacts into second and third degree reach, which is the layer where useful introductions usually live. The product is built around a four part workflow: map the target market, build a shortlist, craft the outreach using the trust already in the network, and reach out through the strongest available path. Users search for a person or company, for example fintech companies in the US hiring payments engineers, and Village returns candidates alongside the connection that leads to them. A match score indicates how strong that path is, so a route through a former colleague ranks differently from a distant shared investor. Village is aimed at go to market teams, executive recruiters, founders raising a fund, and deal teams looking for access to competitive rounds. The pitch is that cold sequences produce diminishing returns and that a mutual contact converts better. Team features matter here: each member authorizes their own accounts, bringing more shared connections into the pool, and Village adds public data to fill in relationships nobody typed in. Developers can reach the same graph through a REST API and SDKs, which the company positions as a way for other apps to offer network search without building a contacts graph from scratch. An MCP connector lets Claude and ChatGPT query Village directly. On privacy, Village states that subscriptions fund the business, and it publishes SOC 2, GDPR, CCPA and TrustArc certifications along with a third party security report.