Deciding on a CRM for your relationship-driven team
CRMs aren’t just for sales and marketing funnels. They’re revolutionizing how deals get done. While some CRMs excel at basic pipeline management, they fall short for the complex world of private capital investing. Attio is an easy-to-use workspace and deal management tool that may be a good fit for some teams but not for others. Let’s dive into a head-to-head comparison of Attio vs. Affinity to find out who comes out on top for private capital dealmaking.
Uncover valuable connections and intelligence–not just information–with relationship insights
Access comprehensive data with industry-leading data partnerships
Save time and increase data hygiene with email and calendar integration
Affinity vs. Attio CRM
Single source of truth for your data
Relationship intelligence
Automate data capture
Network insights 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.
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.
Integrated tech stack and 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.
Retention of all 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.
Optimized user experience
Flexible, intuitive user interface offers better experience for users and Administrators.
Improved 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.
Unlimited email and calendar accounts
Allow users to sync an unlimited number of email and calendar accounts, including Gmail, Outlook, and Exchange.
Industry experts you can rely on
Entrust your networking and relationship building needs to a market leader with long-standing industry expertise.
Ongoing support from knowledgeable teams
Work with customer success, onboarding, and technical support teams who are knowledgeable private capital experts.
Frequently Asked Questions
Attio is a general-purpose deal management platform with a range of customers across different industries. While Attio offers easy-to-use templates and deal flow management solutions at an attractive price point, it lacks data enrichment offerings and data partnerships with well-known providers, such as PitchBook, Crunchbase, and Dealroom. Additionally, customers highlight Attio’s basic networking features and reliance on third-party tools. 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’ networks, 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 private capital teams. 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:
- Boost productivity using AI tools—including Deal Assist, Industry Insights, and Affinity Notetaker—and make more informed decisions across the entire lifecycle of your deals.
- Custom trials using real company data enable you to get a more tangible view into how Affinity impacts 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, Outlook, or Exchange to email marketing, marketing automation, and task management.
- 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.
Unlike traditional CRMs that require extensive manual input and maintenance, our platform delivers unprecedented automation and intelligence that transforms how firms manage their relationships and deals.
By automatically capturing 100% of historical and ongoing activities, enriching data from 40+ premium sources, and providing patented relationship intelligence, we eliminate thousands of hours of manual work while surfacing opportunities that would otherwise remain hidden in your team's collective network.
This comprehensive approach not only saves significant operational costs but also directly impacts revenue by accelerating deal flow and preventing valuable opportunities from slipping through the cracks.
Affinity Value:
Saved time and resources
- Eliminates manual data entry through automatic email and calendar sync
- Reduces research time with automated data enrichment from 40+ sources
- Enables go-live in weeks instead of months with industry-specific templates
- Maintains dynamic, real-time database updates without human intervention
More deals
- Uncovers hidden opportunities through relationship intelligence
- Prevents missed connections with complete interaction history
- Quantifies relationship strength to optimize introduction paths
- Provides the highest US and EMEA data coverage in the market
Risk mitigation
- Ensures compliance with top-tier security certifications (SOC2, ISO27001, etc.)
- Prevents embarrassing outreach mistakes with full interaction context
- Eliminates the risk of acting on outdated information
- Maintains data integrity across all workflows
Competitive advantage
- Exclusive patented relationship scoring methodology
- Only platform offering complete historical context and introduction sources
- Unique ability to integrate network and deal data across entire tech stack
- Industry-specific expertise with private capital workflow specialists
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 teams that 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.
Why our customers love Affinity
Affinity eliminated the friction in our relationship management and deal pipelines. The platform has fundamentally changed for the better the way we operate.
Affinity is an out-of-the-box CRM solution… [It] has enabled us to, instead of us spending a lot of money on talent and building everything from the ground up, actually have something out-of-the-box that we can tailor and customize the way that we would like.