Reach

Type a company. See who can get you in.

Reach is the fastest way to answer one question: does my own network already give me a door into this company — and if so, whose?

Updated 5 Oct 2026

How it works

Type a company

Open Reach and type a company name — nothing else to fill in.

See your doors

CIS searches your own workspace's relationship graph and ranks who could open a door there: who the contact is, who you know that connects to them, how strong that tie actually is, and how many hops it takes to get there.

Ask for the intro

People you already know directly show “You know Aad directly” with an Open contact button, because nobody needs an introduction to them. Found a door worth trying through someone else? Tap “Ask for this intro”, add an optional one-line reason, and confirm. Nothing is sent yet — this creates a pending request that still needs the introducer's agreement and our sign-off before anything is ever actioned. Once asked, the same door shows “Added to your intro requests” instead, linking straight to where you can track it. Once introductions are agreed, the same page follows each one from accepted to met to a project, for example “Your 3 introductions: 2 met, 1 led to a project”.

Reading a result

Strength and hops

Each door shows how warm the tie is (the same warm/cold rating used everywhere else in CIS) and how many hops it takes — a direct contact of yours is 1 hop, a contact of a contact is 2, and so on. The path between you and the door is shown in full where there is one.

A door you've never actually interacted with

Reach will sometimes surface someone at the right company that the graph connects you to, but you've never personally dealt with. It's shown as a genuine lead worth checking, not a promise. When that happens, Reach asks one quick question first — do you actually know them well, a bit, or not really — so your answer sharpens every future search instead of the same shaky tie showing up rated as certain forever. Skip is always there too, and skipping never blocks asking for the intro.

A door via a shared connection

Some results come through another workspace that has agreed to share visibility with yours. These are marked “shared connection” and never name the individual intermediary — only the workspace that's vouching for the path. Ask us to broker these rather than requesting directly.

Nothing found yet

If your network genuinely has no door into that company, Reach says so plainly. Doors come from people you have actually spoken to — an imported list on its own never produces one, so a freshly-imported workspace should expect this. Where you do have a strong door into somewhere else, Reach offers those as a next-best pivot; either way it links straight to connecting a source, never a fabricated result for the company you actually searched.

A search that didn't finish in time

A very broad or heavily-populated company can occasionally take too long to search. Reach says so plainly — “didn't finish in time”, not “no warm path yet” — and suggests a narrower company name. Searching again usually works.

Your introductions so far

The line under the heading

Once an introduction has been agreed, Reach shows a short count under its heading, such as “3 introductions: 2 met, 1 led to a project”. It counts only your own workspace’s introductions, with no names or figures.

Where it stops

Reach never sends anything on its own

Asking for an intro only ever creates a pending request. A real person — the introducer, then our team — still has to agree before anything is sent. Reach only ever searches contacts your own workspace has brought in; it never exposes a colleague's network to answer your search.