Your network is Your network worth.
The average founder spends 14 months raising their seed round.
It should take 4.
The difference almost always comes down to one thing: warm introductions. Not just having them but knowing exactly which paths through your network carry real trust and working those paths before you need them.
Introd Insider exists to give you that edge.
What You’ll Get
Every Tuesday — Relationship Intelligence Deep Dives
The science of how professional trust actually works. We cover TrustRank (our algorithm that measures real relationship strength, not connection counts), multi-hop pathfinding, network decay, and the psychology of introductions that close. Tactical, data-driven, and built for people who take their network seriously.
Every Friday — Founder Playbooks & Field Notes
Real stories from founders closing rounds, landing enterprise deals, and building networks that compound. Plus: behind-the-scenes of building Introd — our metrics, our mistakes, and our $5M raise, published transparently for anyone following along.
Who This Is For
Introd Insider is written for founders, investors, sales leaders, and operators who understand that relationships aren’t soft — they’re infrastructure.
You’ll find it especially useful if you’re:
Raising a round (or planning to in the next 12 months) and want to compress your timeline
Building a network that opens doors instead of sitting dormant in a CRM
Curious about how AI is changing the way professionals manage relationships at scale
Someone who wants the actual playbook — not generic “networking tips”
A Sample of What You’ll Learn
The TrustRank framework — how to score the real strength of every relationship you have, and which ones to activate first when you need something important.
The 15% decay rule — why your best connections are silently cooling off, and the maintenance cadence that stops it before it costs you.
Multi-hop pathfinding — how a single 90-TrustRank path to an investor outperforms 47 meetings through weak intros. (This is a real story. Sarah raised $4M in 6 weeks once she found the right route.)
The AI Chief of Staff model — how autonomous agents can monitor your relationship health, surface intro opportunities, and draft perfect outreach while you focus on building.
The Warm Intro Fundraising Playbook — a step-by-step system for mapping, warming, and activating the paths in your network before you ever send a single “we’re raising” email.
From the Founder
I lost 10 months on my seed raise because I couldn’t see a warm intro path that was sitting 2 hops away in my own network the entire time.
When I finally found it, the meeting was booked in 48 hours. The intro chain had already done the selling before I walked in the room.
I built Introd so no founder makes that mistake again. And I write Introd Insider, so you have the playbook whether or not you use the product.
Subscribe free. Use what helps you. And if you ever want to talk, reply to any issue. I read everything.
— Owen Sakawa, Founder, Introd
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