Your LinkedIn network is worth more than your CRM. You just can't see it yet.

Sales Navigator lets you search across all of LinkedIn — but it’s limited to LinkedIn’s own data, which means self-reported titles and often outdated profiles. It can’t tell you a company’s actual tech stack, verified funding stage, or real headcount. Its search is filter-based, not queryable in natural language — and the signals it surfaces (like “recently posted”) are often noise, not buying intent. Circl is fundamentally different: we only analyze your first-degree connections (people who already know you), we enrich each one with data from across the web (company websites, funding databases, tech stack detection), and we score every match against your specific ICP with a plain-English reason. You can query your network in natural language — “VCs who invest in B2B SaaS at Series A” — and we show you how long you’ve been connected, so you know exactly how warm the relationship is.

LinkedIn relies on self-reported profiles — which are often outdated, vague, or incomplete. Circl goes further: we scrape up to 10 pages of each company’s actual website (products, customers, pricing, team), cross-reference funding data, detect tech stack, and pull in verified headcount. This gives us a much richer, more current picture of each connection and their company than any profile-only tool.

Circl works for any professional who wants to unlock their LinkedIn network. The most common use cases: finding potential customers (decision-makers at ICP-fit companies), finding investors (VCs, angels, PE who invest in your space), finding warm introductions (who do I know at a specific company?), finding advisors (senior operators with domain expertise), network intelligence (seniority breakdowns, industry distribution), and outreach prep (reconnecting with dormant relationships before a trip or conference).

Almost anything. The query engine searches across a person’s full work history, current company details, funding stage, company size, tech stack, seniority, geography, industry, and your connection duration — all in plain English. If the data exists in your enriched network, Circl can search it.

We classify every connection by seniority and role. C-suite, VPs, Directors, Founders, and Partners are always fully enriched — they’re the decision-makers. Manager-level connections are enriched on paid plans. Individual contributors are available on-demand. Interns and students are excluded from scoring. This tiering ensures your budget goes toward the connections most likely to convert.

We never ask for your LinkedIn credentials and we never scrape LinkedIn on your behalf. You export your own connections CSV from LinkedIn settings — a file that sits on your computer. Your data is stored encrypted, processed only for your analysis, and never shared with other users or third parties.