Deciding on a CRM for your relationship-driven team
While customer (or client) relationship management (CRM) platforms are typically associated with sales funnels, they’re also foundational tools for relationship-driven dealmaking. Platforms like Salesforce and HubSpot—or even relational databases like Airtable—are ideal for moving deals along a linear sales pipeline for retail sales teams or SaaS startups, but they lack the complexity required to manage relationship-focused deals for venture capital, private equity, or investment banking. Attio CRM, an easy-to-use workspace and deal management tool, may be a good fit for some teams but not for others. Let’s explore how Attio compares to Affinity for dealmaking.
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Affinity vs. Attio CRM
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Relationship intelligence
Automate data capture
Gain new insights into your network with relationship intelligence
Confidently find warm introduction paths and increase the outreach of your engagement efforts with insights into your firm’s entire network of connections, and engagement history to help find, manage, and close more deals faster.
Track all of your deal and relationship data in one place
Use a single platform to keep track of every detail about your connections, relationship strength, ongoing activities, and deals.
Tie your tech stack to your CRM
Customize your software experience by integrating your most-used tools with your CRM platform.
Dealmaking with richer insights
Combine proprietary CRM datasets and external data partners to enrich your records with data that is directly relevant to making faster, more educated dealmaking decisions.
Retain your team's contact history
Surface every interaction your team has had—dating back to the start of their inboxes—so you have a more complete picture of historical relationship context.
Give users a better experience
Flexible, intuitive user interface offers better experience for users and Administrators.
Review, analyze, and improve dealmaking with reporting
Customize reporting and analytics dashboards to monitor and share your deal pipeline visually.
Automatic contact and company creation
Create contact and company profiles directly from inbox and calendar data.
Rely on an industry expert
Entrust your networking and relationship building needs to a market leader with long-standing industry expertise.
Frequently Asked Questions
Attio CRM is a deal management platform company based in London that focuses on servicing startups as well as the venture capital and private equity industries. While the product offers easy-to-use templates and deal flow management solutions, it lacks data enrichment offerings and data partnerships with well-known providers, such as Crunchbase and Dealroom. Additionally, customers highlight the manual nature of Attio's platform, unlike Affinity's automated activity capture. Users also describe a better user experience with Affinity when comparing the UI/UX to Attio.
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Affinity is built for relationship-driven teams. The platform further supports these teams with industry-standard technology requirements including automatic data capture, reporting and analytics, and most importantly relationship intelligence—insights into teams’ network, business connections, and customer interactions that help find, manage, and close more deals. The insights gained from sophisticated but easy-to-use business intelligence help teams compete in the rapidly accelerating market.
Affinity also serves a several-thousand-company global user base distributed across dealmaking teams in venture capital, investment banking, private equity, and more. With these teams in mind, Affinity is designed to be easily scalable for businesses of any size.
Traditional sales CRM platforms end up functioning more like a database than tools built for business intelligence. Simply storing contact and deal data is no longer enough, which is why dealmakers are transitioning to relationship intelligence CRM platforms to support their deals. The insights provided by platforms like Affinity are no longer add-ons, they’re table stakes for tech-forward teams that want to get—and stay—ahead of the competition. Here are a few ways teams are using Affinity’s relationship intelligence to build a better business and close more deals:
- Custom trials using real company data enables you to get a more tangible view into how Affinity impacts into your unique day-to-day workflows–and when you’re ready to fully migrate, all of your information is already in your new CRM—saving time on deployment and training.
- Easily customizable views of relationship and deal data mean your team can quickly make changes to your CRM at any time so they continue to fit your specific preferences and workflows.
- Native reporting and analytics functionality allow you to build reports to monitor forecasting, team productivity, deal flow, KPIs, and make more data-driven decisions to improve your business.
- Flexible integration options ensure your CRM is the foundation of your tech stack. Connect your other software to your CRM—from email providers like Gmail or Outlook to email marketing, marketing automation, task management, and anything else your team depends on.
- Automated reminders and triggers ensure you never miss a follow-up with an important contact.
- Relationship intelligence is drawn from a combination of your team’s collective network—from customer interactions, meetings, phone calls, notes logged from exchanges on social media platforms like LinkedIn and Twitter, and everything in between—to give your team paths to new warm introductions and opportunities.
Flexible pricing options provide teams with the versatility to pick the features they need. Affinity Enterprise tier—the most popular solution—provides teams the broadest and most valuable Affinity offerings.
- Automatic people and company record enrichment with hard to find insights
- Sourcing and deal management CRM extensions
- Analytical reports and dashboards built to improve deal quality and velocity
- Customizable user and content based permissions
- SSO (Single Sign On)
- Additional support and service options
Alternative pricing options are also available with different combination of features. Reach out to our sales team today to find the options that suit your needs.
Relationship-driven deal teams need purpose-built tools, not legacy CRM or sales pipeline platforms. CRM solutions like Attio are beginning to scale to meet these needs, but the functionality remains limited. Teams that are hoping to focus on relationships need relationship intelligence to inform better, data-driven investment decisions.
If your team is looking for a platform that’s as easy to use as a spreadsheet but sophisticated enough to manage every stage of your deal flow pipeline—supported by relationship intelligence, automated capture of your “data exhaust,” and fully customizable, built-in reporting and analytics—choose Affinity. Talk to our team today to learn more.