Connection partner guide
Your network, working for you
You have a private portal showing your own contacts, ranked for fit. You stay in control of every introduction.
Updated 1 Nov 2026
Which partner are you?
Workspace admin ā you run your own CIS workspace
If you're the admin for your own team's CIS workspace, this isn't your page. Sign in at the sign-in page and you land in your workspace: Up Next, your contacts and companies, and your own connected accounts. Your team's connections map and intelligence panel live at your workspace's own link ā see Your connections map for what's on it, including adding colleagues from there. Everything below this is about a different role.
Connection partner ā you share your own network for introductions
That's what the rest of this page covers, below.
What you get
Your network, searchable
Every contact you've shared, in one place, searchable by name, company or role ā and ranked by how good a fit each one looks, strongest first.
How to reach anyone
Open a contact to see the warmest path to them and the best angle for a conversation.
An introductions inbox
When someone in your network is a strong fit for someone John Bennett is helping, it appears in your inbox as a simple question: would you introduce them?
How an introduction works
1
You see a suggestion
A person from your own network, with a short note on why they might be worth an introduction.
2
You decide
Happy to introduce, maybe later, or not a fit. Entirely your call ā you're never obligated.
3
The note is built from your words
If you're happy, the person asking and the person being introduced are asked too, and all three of you have to say yes, and John signs off every introduction before anything goes out. The note is built from your own tap and the member's own words, with no template and nobody writing it for you.
4
You forward it, if you want
You send the note to your contact in your own words. You're always the one who reaches out.
Your privacy
Nobody is contacted without you
The system never messages anyone in your network. Other members never see your contact details or your notes; what they can see about you depends on your Introductions switch, and they see a person's name only after you say yes to that person. You approve every introduction, and you make it yourself. That's the whole model. Full detail on what CIS holds and how to have it changed is in Your data & privacy, and how CIS earns that trust more generally is in Trust, built in.
The exchange
It works both ways
You help open a few doors; in return CIS works for you ā surfacing people worth knowing and helping with whatever you're looking for. A fair, two-way relationship, not a one-way ask.
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