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title: "Altss vs Affinity (2026): Allocator Data vs Relationship CRM"
description: "An honest comparison of Altss and Affinity for private capital teams. Relationship intelligence, allocator data, agents, warm introductions, pricing, and…"
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# Altss vs Affinity

By AltssApril 19, 202615 min readCompetitor figures re-checked August 6, 2026

Affinity is the AI-first private capital CRM. It reads your firm's email and calendar and turns a decade of interactions into a relationship graph, now with agents that prep meetings and find warm paths. Altss starts from the other end: OSINT-verified allocator data on firms nobody at your firm has emailed yet, with a CRM, AI-assisted outreach, a copilot, and a notetaker built on top. One knows your network. The other knows the market. This page covers where each wins, honestly.

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The short answer

Choose Altss when

You need allocators your firm has never met. Affinity's graph is built from your own inbox, so it is empty on every family office and institutional LP nobody at the firm has contacted, which is most of a Fund I or Fund II target list.

Choose Affinity when

You are working a network your firm already has. Relationship strength scoring, warm-intro paths from real contact history, and passive activity capture are things Altss does not attempt and cannot reproduce without reading your mail.

9,000+

Family offices in Altss, global

150,000+

Private-markets entities (broad)

3,300+

Private capital firms using Affinity

$2,000+

Affinity list price per seat per year

## [#](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#at-a-glance)At-a-glance comparison

At-a-glance comparison of Altss and Affinity
| Dimension | Altss | Affinity |
| --- | --- | --- |

| What it is | An allocator data platform with the fundraising workflow built in | A private capital CRM whose moat is captured relationship data[1](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-1) |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Where the data comes from | Public record: filings, registries, CAFRs, 990s, disclosures, published statements | Your firm's own email and calendar, plus resold third-party enrichment[1](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-1)[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2) |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Coverage before you plug anything in | Allocator-only count not separately stated; see dated coverage definitions | Enrichment layer of 8M+ companies and 40M+ people, with the relationship graph empty until your inbox is synced[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2) |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Relationship intelligence | Relationship graph built from public transactions, filings, and roles across the market | Relationship strength scored 10–100 from interaction recency and frequency, with 1st and 2nd degree paths and decay alerts[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2) |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Scale of interaction data | Not captured. Altss does not read your firm's inbox | 25B+ emails and calendar events, 130B+ structured relationships across 3,300+ firms[1](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-1) |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Agents | Research copilot, AI-assisted outreach, meeting notetaker, Scouter for investor discovery | Affinity Ascend, launched July 2026: Meeting Prep, Data Update, and Warm Intro agents, plus AI Chat and MCP skills[3](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-3) |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Outbound sequences | AI-assisted outreach with sequenced follow-ups, sent from your own mailbox | Not a product surface[1](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-1) |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Meeting notetaker | Included, in-platform inbox and notetaker | Included[1](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-1) |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Allocator coverage | The core dataset: family offices, pensions, endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds, insurers | Not a native dataset. LP records come from what your firm has touched or from enrichment partners |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Enrichment sourcing | First-party OSINT collection, traceable to a public source per record | 40+ sources, naming PitchBook, Crunchbase, Dealroom, Preqin and Grata; top-tier gated[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2) |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Developer surface | None. UI-only, no public raw-data API, no export | REST API v1 and v2, webhooks, hosted MCP server, Snowflake and Databricks data share[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2) |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Deal permissions | Team workspaces with permissioned visibility | Per-deal allow lists for MNPI, with fund, strategy and team silos on higher tiers[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2) |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Pricing | Investor Intelligence $15,000–$25,000/year ($12,000–$20,000 emerging); Fundraising OS from $25,000 | Published: Essential $2,000, Scale $2,300, Advanced $2,700 per user per year; Enterprise custom[4](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-4) |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Best for | Raising capital from allocators you do not yet know | Working a network your firm already has, especially deal sourcing |
| --- | --- | --- |

At-a-glance comparison of Altss and Affinity

- What it is

Altss

An allocator data platform with the fundraising workflow built in

Affinity

A private capital CRM whose moat is captured relationship data[1](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-1)

- Where the data comes from

Altss

Public record: filings, registries, CAFRs, 990s, disclosures, published statements

Affinity

Your firm's own email and calendar, plus resold third-party enrichment[1](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-1)[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2)

- Coverage before you plug anything in

Altss

Allocator-only count not separately stated; see dated coverage definitions

Affinity

Enrichment layer of 8M+ companies and 40M+ people, with the relationship graph empty until your inbox is synced[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2)

- Relationship intelligence

Altss

Relationship graph built from public transactions, filings, and roles across the market

Affinity

Relationship strength scored 10–100 from interaction recency and frequency, with 1st and 2nd degree paths and decay alerts[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2)

- Scale of interaction data

Altss

Not captured. Altss does not read your firm's inbox

Affinity

25B+ emails and calendar events, 130B+ structured relationships across 3,300+ firms[1](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-1)

- Agents

Altss

Research copilot, AI-assisted outreach, meeting notetaker, Scouter for investor discovery

Affinity

Affinity Ascend, launched July 2026: Meeting Prep, Data Update, and Warm Intro agents, plus AI Chat and MCP skills[3](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-3)

- Outbound sequences

Altss

AI-assisted outreach with sequenced follow-ups, sent from your own mailbox

Affinity

Not a product surface[1](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-1)

- Meeting notetaker

Altss

Included, in-platform inbox and notetaker

Affinity

Included[1](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-1)

- Allocator coverage

Altss

The core dataset: family offices, pensions, endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds, insurers

Affinity

Not a native dataset. LP records come from what your firm has touched or from enrichment partners

- Enrichment sourcing

Altss

First-party OSINT collection, traceable to a public source per record

Affinity

40+ sources, naming PitchBook, Crunchbase, Dealroom, Preqin and Grata; top-tier gated[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2)

- Developer surface

Altss

None. UI-only, no public raw-data API, no export

Affinity

REST API v1 and v2, webhooks, hosted MCP server, Snowflake and Databricks data share[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2)

- Deal permissions

Altss

Team workspaces with permissioned visibility

Affinity

Per-deal allow lists for MNPI, with fund, strategy and team silos on higher tiers[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2)

- Pricing

Altss

Investor Intelligence $15,000–$25,000/year ($12,000–$20,000 emerging); Fundraising OS from $25,000

Affinity

Published: Essential $2,000, Scale $2,300, Advanced $2,700 per user per year; Enterprise custom[4](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-4)

- Best for

Altss

Raising capital from allocators you do not yet know

Affinity

Working a network your firm already has, especially deal sourcing

*Affinity figures and pricing read from affinity.co on August 6, 2026. Altss figures reflect internal database counts as of August 2026. The two platforms are priced on different units: Affinity is a per-seat CRM licence, Altss is a subscription that bundles the data and the workflow with one named user included.*

Affinity and Altss are not the same product and a team can reasonably buy both. Affinity's moat is your own firm's interaction history, turned into a relationship graph with strength scores, warm-intro paths, and agents that act on it. That graph is deep inside your network and empty outside it. Altss's moat is allocator data collected from the public record, which exists whether or not anyone at your firm has ever emailed the counterparty. If your problem is working a warm network on the deal side, Affinity. If your problem is finding and reaching allocators you have no relationship with, Altss.

Filters

- Entity typeFamily office

- MandatePrivate equity

- Cheque size$5M – $25M

- GeographyNorth America

- SignalMandate active

9,000+family offices · published scope

Illustrative rows · not live results

| Type | Region | AUM band | Decision makers | Checked |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |

| SFO | US · West | $1B–$5B | 3 | today |

| MFO | US · East | $5B–$25B | 5 | today |

| Endowment | UK | $1B–$5B | 2 | 2d |

| SFO | CH | $250M–$1B | 4 | 3d |

| Pension | CA | Over $25B | 6 | 5d |

SourceRegulatory filing

VerifiedBounce-checked

MethodOSINT + AI + analyst

Illustrative record layout. How the work actually looks: filter the allocator universe, and every field on every row carries the public source it came from and the date it was last checked.

## [#](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#what-is-altss)What is Altss?

Altss is an OSINT-native allocator-intelligence platform built for managers raising capital in alternative assets. The data layer comes from the public record: SEC filings (Form ADV, Form D, 13F), state pension CAFRs, Form 990 and 990-PF for foundations, endowment annual reports, sovereign wealth fund disclosures, verified corporate registries, and published allocator statements. That produces verified profiles of 9,000+ family offices and 150,000+ private-markets entities worldwide[5](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-5).

Around that data sits the workflow: a built-in CRM and pipeline, AI-assisted outreach with sequenced follow-ups, a research copilot, an inbox with a meeting notetaker, Scouter for investor discovery, events and conference intelligence, and a relationship graph. Altss also runs a live 35M+ company dataset.

The important architectural difference from Affinity: Altss's relationship graph is derived from public transactions, filings, and roles, not from reading your firm's mailboxes. That means it covers allocators no one at your firm has ever contacted. It also means it does not know that your partner had dinner with a CIO last March, which Affinity does.

Altss is UI-only. No CSV export, no public raw-data API, no CRM sync, no MCP server. Affinity has all four.

## [#](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#capabilities)What ships in the platform today

Every capability below is live for customers today. They sit in two places: the Investor Intelligence plans, and Altss Fundraising OS, which adds the fundraising and IR workflow on top. Roadmap items are named as roadmap on the [platform page](https://altss.com/platform), never here.

### Included in every Investor Intelligence plan

From $15,000/year, or $12,000/year for qualifying emerging managers

- #### AI-assisted research

In-product natural-language research over the selected coverage, with supporting evidence and limitations.

- #### Agentic knowledge base

Research across available filings, registries and profiles with source evidence.

- #### Scouter

Investor discovery and targeting inside the authenticated research workflow.

Research copilot

Which family offices backed a first-time healthcare manager in the last 18 months?

1

Single family office · Boston

Form D990-PFPress release

2

Single family office · Geneva

Form D990-PFPress release

3

Multi-family office · Toronto

Form D990-PFPress release

Every row carries the public source it was derived from.

Ask in plain language; every row carries the public filing it came from. Interface illustration.

### Altss Fundraising OS

From $25,000/year, in three configurations

- #### Native investor CRM

Altss is not a general-purpose CRM company. Altss Fundraising OS includes a native investor CRM and pipeline; Investor Intelligence provides the research layer. Standard subscriptions do not include external CRM sync.

- #### AI-assisted outreach

Fundraising OS supports AI-assisted outreach and sequenced follow-ups under customer review and authorization. Altss does not independently solicit investors on behalf of customers or provide a bulk email-blasting service.

- #### Meeting intelligence

Meeting records and follow-up context inside authorized fundraising workflows.

- #### Inbox and interaction context

Customer-authorized communication context within the fundraising workflow.

- #### Events intelligence

Conference and event context for research and preparation.

- #### Relationship and warm-path mapping

Altss maps relationship paths that help users understand whom they already know around a target. Users independently decide whether to request an introduction through their own relationships. Altss does not make or broker investor introductions.

Pipeline

Researching24

Single family office · Zurich

Mandate signal

Endowment · US Midwest

Mandate signal

MFO · Singapore

Mandate signal

First contact11

Foundation · Nordics

Mandate signal

SFO · Gulf

Mandate signal

In diligence5

Pension · Netherlands

Mandate signal

Fund of funds · UK

Mandate signal

The investor CRM: allocator records move through your pipeline with their signals attached. Interface illustration.

Outreach · draft for review

Warm path

Your firm

Co-investor

Target allocator

Derived from a filed co-investment, not an inbox

Step 2 of 4 · follow-upAwaiting your approval

Send from your mailboxEdit

Warm paths derived from filings rather than inboxes, and nothing sends without your approval. Interface illustration.

*Altss is UI-only: no CSV export, no public raw-data API, and no external CRM sync. That is a deliberate product decision, and it is stated on every comparison on this site.*

## [#](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#what-is-competitor)What is Affinity?

Affinity is a CRM built specifically for private capital, positioned as the AI-first private capital CRM. Its central idea is that a firm's collective email and calendar activity is already a map of its network, and that the CRM should build itself from that activity rather than depend on deal teams entering data.

Per affinity.co, read August 6, 2026, Affinity publishes[1](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-1):

- **3,300+ private capital firms** on the platform[1](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-1)

- **25B+ emails and calendar events** captured[1](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-1)

- **130B+ structured relationships**[1](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-1)

- **15T+ enrichment data points**[1](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-1)

- Enrichment covering **8M+ companies and 40M+ people** from 40+ sources[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2)

- **330+ private equity firms**, up 71 in six months[6](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-6)

The relationship intelligence layer is the product's core. Affinity scores relationship strength on a 10 to 100 scale from interaction recency and frequency, exposes it as a sortable and filterable column, distinguishes first-degree from second-degree connections, and can alert when a score decays below a threshold. Alliances let a firm share network visibility with trusted partners while exposing only names and strength, never email content[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2).

In July 2026 Affinity launched Ascend, its agent platform: a Meeting Prep agent that builds a brief before every external meeting, a Data Update agent that proposes field updates grounded in meeting notes, and a Warm Intro agent that maps and ranks introduction paths and drafts the outreach. Every agent follows a suggest, review, approve contract; nothing writes to the CRM without human approval[3](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-3). Affinity also ships a hosted MCP server, REST APIs, and Snowflake and Databricks data shares[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2).

Affinity publishes per-seat pricing: Essential at $2,000, Scale at $2,300, and Advanced at $2,700 per user per year, with Enterprise custom. Ascend agents are included from Scale upward; third-party enrichment from PitchBook, Dealroom and Crunchbase is Advanced-tier only[4](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-4).

## [#](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#coverage)Coverage comparison

Family offices with allocator profiles

Altss

9,000+ global

Affinity

Not a dataset Affinity sells

Affinity's data layer is company and people enrichment, not allocator profiles[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2)[5](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-5).

Companies in the underlying dataset

Altss

35M+, collected

Affinity

8M+, resold

Affinity licenses enrichment from 40+ third-party sources, PitchBook among them[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2).

Interaction records behind the relationship graph

Altss

None. Altss does not read your inbox

Affinity

25B+ emails and calendar events

Affinity's moat, and no OSINT pipeline reproduces it[1](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-1).

Relationship graph

Altss

7,871,996 edges

Affinity

Interaction-derived, unbounded

Two different graphs. Affinity's is built from your firm's own email and calendar, so it is richer on people you have met and empty on people you have not. Altss's is derived from public transactions, filings and registries, so it covers allocators nobody at your firm has contacted. Most firms that run both use them for different questions. Altss figure measured August 10, 2026.

### Two relationship graphs, built from different inputs

Affinity's graph is built from interaction data: 25B+ emails and calendar events across 3,300+ firms, scored for strength and decay[1](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-1)[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2). Inside a firm's own network it is excellent, and no public dataset can tell you that a partner has been emailing a CIO weekly for three years.

The structural limit is the same thing that makes it strong. The graph is bounded by your firm's inbox. On an allocator nobody at your firm has contacted, there is no interaction history to score, and the record is whatever the enrichment layer supplies.

Altss's graph is derived from public transactions, filings, and roles: who invested alongside whom, who sits on which board, who moved from which institution to which. It is thinner on warmth, because it does not know your dinners. It is broader on reach, because it does not need them. For a manager raising a first or second fund, most target LPs sit outside any existing network, which is exactly where an interaction-derived graph has nothing to say.

### Allocator coverage: the asymmetry

Altss covers 9,000+ family offices, 150,000+ private-markets entities, and 40,000+ GPs as a first-party dataset collected from the public record[5](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-5). Affinity does not maintain an allocator dataset. Its enrichment layer covers 8M+ companies and 40M+ people, resold from PitchBook, Crunchbase, Dealroom and others, and gated to the Advanced tier[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2).

That enrichment is oriented toward companies and operators, which fits Affinity's centre of gravity in deal sourcing. It is not built to tell you which endowments changed their private markets allocation this quarter, or which single-family office just hired a head of private credit.

### Where Affinity's data is unreachable for us

There is no OSINT equivalent to your own firm's email history, and we are not going to claim otherwise. Affinity knows which of your colleagues has the strongest path into a target, when that relationship last had contact, and whether it is decaying. Altss cannot know any of that, because Altss does not read your mailboxes.

If your fundraising or sourcing motion is fundamentally about mobilising an existing network, that is a real advantage and it is Affinity's to keep.

## [#](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#freshness)Data freshness

Both platforms update continuously, but they are refreshing different things: Affinity refreshes what your firm did, Altss refreshes what the market did.

### Altss

- Public records carry source-specific dates where available. No population-wide measured refresh cadence or universal verification deadline is established here. Page modified, source captured, fact observed, entity verified and aggregate measured describe different events. Check the date attached to the relevant claim; a missing verification date means unknown. Stored source history does not establish a customer-facing historical-analysis interface.

- Faster updates on personnel changes, mandate shifts, and fund launches as they become publicly observable

- Every email bounce-checked before the record appears

- Every record traceable to a public source with a verification timestamp

### Affinity

- Interaction data updates as your team sends email and takes meetings, with no manual entry[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2)

- Enrichment records refresh continuously when a company raises or an executive moves[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2)

- Relationship strength decays automatically and can trigger threshold alerts[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2)

- Coverage of any entity your firm has never contacted depends entirely on the enrichment tier you bought[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2)

Affinity's freshness is unbeatable on your own activity and undefined outside it. Altss's freshness is uniform across the allocator universe because it never depended on your activity in the first place.

## [#](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#methodology)Methodology: public record vs. your own inbox

This is the sharpest methodological contrast in this whole comparison set, and it is worth stating plainly rather than scoring.

**Affinity's approach:** passive capture. On first sign-in Affinity syncs email and calendar, creates contacts from addresses, creates organizations by matching email domains to company websites, and populates job titles and phone numbers by reading email signatures. Nobody types a contact in. Relationship strength is then computed from recency and frequency of interaction. The result is a genuine system of record for a firm's network, earned over years of use[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2).

**Altss's approach:** open-source collection. Altss treats allocator intelligence as an OSINT problem: filings, registries, CAFRs, 990s, endowment reports, sovereign disclosures, public news, and published statements, resolved into entities and timestamped against their source. The output exists for allocators that no customer has ever contacted, in jurisdictions where nobody on your team has a relationship.

The practical test: pick a family office in Zurich or Riyadh that your firm has never emailed. Affinity has whatever the enrichment vendors hold, and no relationship signal at all. Altss has a sourced profile, current mandate signals, and a verified contact. Now reverse it: ask which of your partners has the warmest path into a fund you are co-investing with. Affinity answers precisely; Altss can only offer public co-investment and board overlaps.

## [#](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#pricing)Pricing

### Altss

Published. **Family Office Intelligence $15,000/year** ($12,000 emerging), **Global Investor Intelligence $18,000** ($15,000), **Full Market Intelligence $25,000** ($20,000). One named user included; additional users from $5,000. **Altss Fundraising OS from $25,000/year** adds the investor CRM, AI outreach and meeting intelligence. The price includes the data; there is no separate enrichment tier.

### Affinity

**Affinity (published on affinity.co):**

- Essential: **$2,000 per user per year**[4](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-4)

- Scale: **$2,300 per user per year**, adds Ascend agents and the hosted MCP server[4](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-4)

- Advanced: **$2,700 per user per year**, adds PitchBook, Dealroom and Crunchbase enrichment and packaged integrations[4](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-4)

- Enterprise: custom[4](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-4)

- PitchBook enrichment requires your own PitchBook subscription in addition[4](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-4)

Affinity is far cheaper per seat, and it should be: it is a CRM licence, not a data subscription. The honest comparison is total stack cost. An Affinity Advanced seat plus the PitchBook subscription its enrichment depends on plus an LP database is a different number than the headline $2,700. Altss bundles the allocator data, the CRM, and the outreach into one subscription. Neither model is universally better; price the whole stack for your team and compare that.

*Affinity pricing read from affinity.co/product/affinity-pricing on August 6, 2026. Altss pricing per altss.com/pricing, August 2026. Both are list prices before negotiated terms.*

## [#](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#competitor-wins)

There is no OSINT equivalent to your own firm's email history. If your next twelve months depend on mobilising existing relationships, that advantage is Affinity's to keep.

Where Affinity wins

Affinity is very good, it is entrenched for good reasons, and several of its advantages are structural rather than temporary.

- 01

### Relationship intelligence from your own interaction history

25B+ emails and calendar events, 130B+ structured relationships, scored 10 to 100 for strength with first and second degree paths and decay alerts[1](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-1)[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2). There is no public-data equivalent. If the question is which of my colleagues can make this introduction, Affinity answers it and Altss cannot.

- 02

### Zero data entry

Contacts, organizations, titles, and phone numbers populate from synced email and calendar without anyone typing[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2). Adoption is the failure mode of every CRM, and Affinity's design removes the main reason deal teams stop updating one.

- 03

### Ascend agents, and a trust contract worth copying

Meeting Prep, Data Update, and Warm Intro agents shipped July 2026, all following suggest, review, approve, with nothing written to the CRM without human approval[3](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-3). It is a mature answer to the question of what an agent is allowed to do unsupervised.

- 04

### Deal-side workflow and MNPI controls

Per-deal allow lists for MNPI and public-to-private processes, with fund, strategy, and team silos[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2). Altss has permissioned workspaces but nothing at that level of deal-specific control.

- 05

### It opens outward

REST APIs, webhooks, a hosted MCP server for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Copilot, and Snowflake and Databricks data shares[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2). Altss has none of this by design. If your team wants its CRM queryable from an AI assistant or joined in a warehouse, Affinity supports it and we do not.

- 06

### Per-seat cost

$2,000 to $2,700 per user per year[4](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-4). For a twenty-person deal team, the licence arithmetic is not close, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest.

- 07

### Entrenchment and time in market

3,300+ private capital firms and a decade of accumulated interaction data[1](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-1). A firm's Affinity graph gets more valuable every year it runs, which is a switching cost we respect.

If your firm is deal-sourcing led and the network you need is already inside your own mailboxes, Affinity is the better purchase and adding Altss is about extending reach, not replacing it.

## [#](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#altss-wins)Where Altss wins

Affinity's relationship graph is bounded by its customers' inboxes. It is deep inside your network and empty outside it. Ours is derived from filings and transactions, so it covers allocators nobody at your firm has ever emailed.

- 01

### Coverage of allocators nobody at your firm has met

9,000+ family offices, 150,000+ private-markets entities, and 40,000+ GPs collected from the public record[5](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-5). Affinity's relationship graph is empty on an allocator your firm has never contacted, and its enrichment layer is oriented toward companies and operators, not allocators.

- 02

### The data is first-party, not resold

Affinity's advanced enrichment is explicitly sourced from PitchBook, Dealroom, Crunchbase, Preqin and Grata, and is gated to the top tier[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2). Altss collects its own data from filings and registries, so the record traces to a primary source rather than to another vendor's licence.

- 03

### Outbound is a product surface here

AI-assisted outreach with sequenced follow-ups, sent from your own mailbox. Affinity has no outbound sequencing[1](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-1). For an IR team running a raise, that gap means a separate tool and a separate integration.

- 04

### Mandate and personnel signals

Mandate shifts, CIO transitions, and fund launches surface as they become publicly observable[5](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-5). Affinity can tell you a relationship is decaying; it cannot tell you the institution just changed its private markets target.

- 05

### One price, data included

The allocator data, CRM, outreach, copilot, and notetaker are in one subscription. On Affinity the equivalent stack is a licence plus an enrichment tier plus, for PitchBook enrichment, your own PitchBook subscription[4](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-4).

- 06

### Built for the raise, not the deal

Affinity's centre of gravity is deal sourcing and deal management. Altss is built for capital formation: which allocators to target, what they are mandating, who to contact, and what to send. Both are private capital; the workflows are not the same.

- 07

### A live 35M+ company dataset

Companies and startups[5](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-5), against Affinity's 8M+ company enrichment layer[2](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#source-2). On raw company coverage Altss leads, and Affinity's records carry deal context Altss does not attempt.

## [#](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#full-comparison)Full feature comparison

Full feature comparison of Altss and Affinity
| Feature | Altss | Affinity |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Data and coverage |
| --- |

| Allocator dataset (FO, pension, endowment, SWF) | Yes: Allocator-only count not separately stated; see dated coverage definitions | No: Not a native dataset |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Global family offices | Yes: 9,000+ | No: Not tracked as a category |
| --- | --- | --- |

| GP / fund manager coverage | Yes: 40,000+ | Partial: Via enrichment |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Company coverage | Yes: Live 35M+ | Partial: 8M+ via enrichment |
| --- | --- | --- |

| People coverage | Yes: 1.5M+ verified LP-side contacts | Yes: 40M+ via enrichment |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Enrichment is first-party | Yes | No: Resold from PitchBook, Crunchbase, Dealroom |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Source traceability per record | Yes: Public source + timestamp | Partial: Vendor-attributed |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Relationship intelligence |
| --- |

| Interaction-derived relationship graph | No: Does not read your inbox | Yes: 25B+ emails and events |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Relationship strength scoring | No | Yes: 10–100, with decay alerts |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Warm-intro path mapping | Partial: Public co-investment and board overlaps | Yes: Ranked paths + drafted outreach |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Passive activity capture | No | Yes: Email and calendar sync |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Workflow |
| --- |

| Built-in CRM & pipeline | Yes | Yes: Core product |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Outbound sequences | Yes: AI-assisted, from your mailbox | No |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Meeting notetaker | Yes | Yes |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Research copilot / AI chat | Yes: Over allocator data | Yes: Over your CRM data |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Agents | Partial: Copilot, outreach, Scouter | Yes: Ascend: Meeting Prep, Data Update, Warm Intro |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Mandate-shift signals | Yes | No |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Events & conference intelligence | Yes | No |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Openness and commercial |
| --- |

| Per-deal MNPI permissions | Partial: Workspace-level | Yes: Per-deal allow lists |
| --- | --- | --- |

| REST API | No: By design | Yes: v1 and v2 |
| --- | --- | --- |

| MCP server for external LLMs | No | Yes: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Warehouse data share | No: By design | Yes: Snowflake, Databricks |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Bulk export | No: By design | Yes |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Mobile app | Partial: Responsive web | Yes |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Published pricing | Yes: From $15K/yr; Fundraising OS from $25K | Yes: $2,000–$2,700 per seat |
| --- | --- | --- |

| Data included in the price | Yes: Allocator dataset included | Partial: Top-tier enrichment; PitchBook needs its own licence |
| --- | --- | --- |

Full feature comparison of Altss and Affinity

### Data and coverage

- Allocator dataset (FO, pension, endowment, SWF)

Altss

Yes: Allocator-only count not separately stated; see dated coverage definitions

Affinity

No: Not a native dataset

- Global family offices

Altss

Yes: 9,000+

Affinity

No: Not tracked as a category

- GP / fund manager coverage

Altss

Yes: 40,000+

Affinity

Partial: Via enrichment

- Company coverage

Altss

Yes: Live 35M+

Affinity

Partial: 8M+ via enrichment

- People coverage

Altss

Yes: 1.5M+ verified LP-side contacts

Affinity

Yes: 40M+ via enrichment

- Enrichment is first-party

Altss

Yes

Affinity

No: Resold from PitchBook, Crunchbase, Dealroom

- Source traceability per record

Altss

Yes: Public source + timestamp

Affinity

Partial: Vendor-attributed

### Relationship intelligence

- Interaction-derived relationship graph

Altss

No: Does not read your inbox

Affinity

Yes: 25B+ emails and events

- Relationship strength scoring

Altss

No

Affinity

Yes: 10–100, with decay alerts

- Warm-intro path mapping

Altss

Partial: Public co-investment and board overlaps

Affinity

Yes: Ranked paths + drafted outreach

- Passive activity capture

Altss

No

Affinity

Yes: Email and calendar sync

### Workflow

- Built-in CRM & pipeline

Altss

Yes

Affinity

Yes: Core product

- Outbound sequences

Altss

Yes: AI-assisted, from your mailbox

Affinity

No

- Meeting notetaker

Altss

Yes

Affinity

Yes

- Research copilot / AI chat

Altss

Yes: Over allocator data

Affinity

Yes: Over your CRM data

- Agents

Altss

Partial: Copilot, outreach, Scouter

Affinity

Yes: Ascend: Meeting Prep, Data Update, Warm Intro

- Mandate-shift signals

Altss

Yes

Affinity

No

- Events & conference intelligence

Altss

Yes

Affinity

No

### Openness and commercial

- Per-deal MNPI permissions

Altss

Partial: Workspace-level

Affinity

Yes: Per-deal allow lists

- REST API

Altss

No: By design

Affinity

Yes: v1 and v2

- MCP server for external LLMs

Altss

No

Affinity

Yes: Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Copilot

- Warehouse data share

Altss

No: By design

Affinity

Yes: Snowflake, Databricks

- Bulk export

Altss

No: By design

Affinity

Yes

- Mobile app

Altss

Partial: Responsive web

Affinity

Yes

- Published pricing

Altss

Yes: From $15K/yr; Fundraising OS from $25K

Affinity

Yes: $2,000–$2,700 per seat

- Data included in the price

Altss

Yes: Allocator dataset included

Affinity

Partial: Top-tier enrichment; PitchBook needs its own licence

*Comparison accurate as of August 6, 2026. Affinity figures, feature list, and pricing read from affinity.co on that date. Altss figures reflect internal database counts. A “No” against Altss on API, MCP, export, and warehouse share reflects a deliberate product decision; see the platform page for the reasoning.*

## [#](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#testimonials)What fund managers are saying

“Affinity told us who we already knew. That was genuinely useful and it was also the whole problem: for Fund II we needed LPs nobody here had ever emailed.”

— Partner at a European growth equity fund1

“We run both. Affinity is the system of record for the deal team, Altss is where the raise happens. Nobody has proposed collapsing them.”

— COO at a mid-market private equity firm2

“The enrichment question decided it for us. We were paying for a CRM tier to get data resold from a subscription we were also paying for separately.”

— Head of IR at a private credit manager3

“Warm-intro mapping is the thing Affinity does that nothing else does. We kept it for that alone.”

— Managing Partner, venture capital4

1–4 *Testimonials reflect verified customer and prospect feedback captured in recorded evaluation calls between January 2026 and July 2026. Testimonials are lightly edited for clarity and anonymized at speaker request. Full verbatim transcripts and speaker identities are retained by Altss under NDA and can be provided to qualified prospects on request. References available.*

## [#](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#which-is-right)Which is right for you?

For deal teams sourcing through their own network

Affinity. Relationship strength scoring, warm-intro paths, and passive capture are built for exactly this, and that is the job it is built for.

For IR teams raising from allocators they do not know

Altss. An interaction-derived graph has nothing to say about a family office nobody at your firm has contacted, which describes most of a first or second fund's target list.

For firms that already run Affinity

Add Altss rather than replace. Affinity keeps being the system of record for your network; Altss supplies the allocator universe outside it and the outreach workflow to reach it.

For emerging managers (Fund I–III)

Altss first. A brand-new firm has almost no interaction history for Affinity to mine, so the relationship graph starts empty exactly when you need coverage most. Emerging-manager pricing starts at $12,000/year.

For large deal teams counting licences

Affinity, on price. At $2,000 to $2,700 per seat against our $15,000 to $25,000 for the first user and $5,000 for each additional one, a twenty-person team is not a close call on the licence line. Compare total stack cost including the data you would otherwise buy separately.

For teams that need API, MCP, or warehouse access

Affinity. It ships REST APIs, a hosted MCP server, and Snowflake and Databricks shares. Altss is UI-only by design, and this is a hard blocker rather than a roadmap item.

For firms with strict MNPI handling requirements

Affinity. Per-deal allow lists and fund and strategy silos are more granular than Altss's workspace-level permissions.

## [#](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#pros-cons)Pros and cons

### Altss

Pros

- +First-party allocator dataset: 9,000+ family offices, 150,000+ private-markets entities, 40,000+ GPs

- +Coverage exists before you plug in any of your own data

- +Records trace to filings and registries rather than to another vendor

- +AI-assisted outbound sequences, which Affinity does not offer

- +Mandate, personnel, and fund-launch signals

- +Live 35M+ company dataset

- +One subscription with the allocator data included

Cons

- −No interaction-derived relationship graph and no relationship strength scoring

- −No passive email and calendar capture

- −Warm-intro paths are built from public overlaps, so they work before your firm has any history with an allocator

- −no public raw-data API, MCP server, warehouse share, or export, all by design

- −Priced as intelligence, not as a CRM seat

- −Workspace-level permissions rather than per-deal MNPI allow lists

### Affinity

Pros

- +25B+ emails and calendar events, 130B+ structured relationships

- +Relationship strength scoring with first and second degree paths and decay alerts

- +Passive activity capture, so the CRM maintains itself

- +Ascend agents with a suggest, review, approve trust contract

- +Per-deal MNPI allow lists and team silos

- +REST APIs, hosted MCP server, Snowflake and Databricks data shares

- +Published pricing from $2,000 per seat per year

- +3,300+ private capital firms and a decade of accumulated data

Cons

- −No native allocator dataset: family offices, pensions, endowments and sovereign funds are not tracked

- −The relationship graph is empty for any entity your firm has not contacted

- −Advanced enrichment is resold from PitchBook, Crunchbase and Dealroom, and gated to the top tier

- −PitchBook enrichment requires a separate PitchBook subscription

- −No outbound sequencing

- −Oriented to deal sourcing rather than capital formation

## [#](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#using-both)Using both together

This is the pairing we see most often, and unlike some vendor claims about complementarity, it holds up because the two datasets genuinely do not overlap.

- **Affinity** as the system of record for your firm's own network: relationship strength, warm-intro paths, deal pipeline, MNPI-controlled processes

- **Altss** for the market outside that network: allocator discovery, family office and institutional LP coverage, mandate signals, and the outreach workflow to reach people you have no path to yet

The division is clean. Affinity answers who do we already know. Altss answers who should we know and how do we reach them. A firm running both loses very little to duplication.

If budget forces one, the deciding question is whether your next twelve months depend more on mobilising existing relationships or on building new ones.

## [#](https://altss.com/vs/affinity#faq)Frequently asked questions

Is Altss a replacement for Affinity?

Usually not. Affinity's relationship intelligence is built from your firm's own email and calendar history, and Altss does not read your mailboxes, so there is no version of Altss that reproduces it. If your team relies on relationship strength scoring and warm-intro mapping, keep Affinity and add Altss for allocator reach.

Is Affinity a replacement for Altss?

Not for fundraising. Affinity does not maintain an allocator dataset: family offices, pensions, endowments, foundations, and sovereign wealth funds are not tracked as a category. Its enrichment layer covers companies and people, resold from PitchBook, Crunchbase and Dealroom, which is a different dataset for a different job.

Both have a relationship graph. Are they the same thing?

No, and this is the key distinction. Affinity's graph is derived from interactions: 25B+ emails and calendar events, scored for strength and decay. Altss's graph is derived from the public record: co-investments, board seats, filings, and role histories. Affinity's is deeper inside your network and empty outside it. Altss's covers allocators nobody at your firm has met but knows nothing about your actual relationships.

Why is Altss more expensive than Affinity?

Because the price includes the data. Affinity is a CRM licence at $2,000 to $2,700 per seat, with top-tier enrichment resold from third parties and PitchBook enrichment requiring your own PitchBook subscription. Altss bundles the allocator dataset, CRM, outreach, copilot, and notetaker into one subscription. Compare total stack cost rather than the licence line.

Does Altss have agents like Affinity Ascend?

Altss ships a research copilot, AI-assisted outreach, a meeting notetaker, and Scouter for investor discovery. Affinity's Ascend agents launched in July 2026 with Meeting Prep, Data Update, and Warm Intro, and its Warm Intro agent does something Altss cannot: rank introduction paths through your firm's own contact history. Their agents act on your data; ours act on market data.

Can Altss data be pushed into Affinity?

No. Altss has no public raw-data API, no CSV export, and no CRM integrations. If your requirement is to enrich Affinity records from an outside allocator dataset, Altss is the wrong tool and we would rather say so before a trial than after.

Which should an emerging manager buy first?

Altss, in most cases. A firm on Fund I has almost no interaction history for Affinity to mine, so the graph that makes Affinity valuable starts close to empty. Coverage of allocators you have never met is the binding constraint at that stage.

Can I trial Altss before deciding?

Yes. Book a demo to get a working account and test allocator coverage against your own target list before committing.

## Affinity knows your network. We know the market.

Book a demo and bring twenty allocators nobody at your firm has emailed. We will show you what Altss holds on each one, and where keeping Affinity is the right call.

[Book a Demo](https://altss.com/book-demo)[See pricing](https://altss.com/pricing)

See also

[All comparisons](https://altss.com/vs)[Altss vs Preqin →](https://altss.com/vs/preqin)[Altss vs PitchBook →](https://altss.com/vs/pitchbook)[Altss vs FINTRX →](https://altss.com/vs/fintrx)[Altss vs Dakota →](https://altss.com/vs/dakota)[Altss vs DealCloud →](https://altss.com/vs/dealcloud)

## Sources

- 1.**Affinity scale claims and positioning:** affinity.co homepage, read August 6, 2026 (3,300+ private capital firms; 25B+ emails and calendar events; 130B+ structured relationships; 15T+ enrichment data points; product surfaces Ascend, CRM, Relationship Intelligence, Activity Capture, Affinity Data, Analytics, Mobile, Open Platform) [View source ↗](https://www.affinity.co/)

- 2.**Affinity relationship intelligence, enrichment sourcing, permissions, and developer surface:** affinity.co product pages for Relationship Intelligence, Activity Capture, Affinity Data and Private Equity, plus api-docs.affinity.co and developer.affinity.co, read August 6, 2026 (relationship strength 10–100 from interaction recency and frequency; 1st and 2nd degree; decay alerts; Alliances; enrichment 40+ sources naming PitchBook, Crunchbase, Dealroom, Preqin, Grata across 8M+ companies and 40M+ people; per-deal MNPI allow lists; REST v1 and v2; hosted MCP server; Snowflake and Databricks data share) [View source ↗](https://www.affinity.co/product/relationship-intelligence)

- 3.**Affinity Ascend agent platform:** Affinity blog, "Introducing Affinity Ascend," and Affinity support documentation on Ascend agents, July 2026 (Meeting Prep, Data Update and Warm Intro agents; AI Chat; MCP skills; suggest, review, approve contract with no autonomous CRM writes) [View source ↗](https://www.affinity.co/blog/introducing-affinity-ascend)

- 4.**Affinity published pricing:** affinity.co/product/affinity-pricing, read August 6, 2026 (Essential $2,000, Scale $2,300, Advanced $2,700 per user per year, Enterprise custom; Ascend included from Scale; PitchBook, Dealroom and Crunchbase enrichment Advanced-tier only and PitchBook requiring its own subscription) [View source ↗](https://www.affinity.co/product/affinity-pricing)

- 5.**Altss internal database counts and live 35M+ company dataset:** Internal platform metrics, measured August 8, 2026 (9,000+ family offices; 150,000+ private-markets entities; 40,000+ GPs; live 35M+ companies; 38,531 investment advisers matched to a Form ADV CRD, of which 14,764 report private funds, carrying $165.4T in regulatory assets under management) [View source ↗](https://altss.com/)

- 6.**Affinity private equity adoption:** Affinity press release via GlobeNewswire, "Affinity Sees Surge in Private Equity Adoption as Firms Embrace AI-Powered Relationship Intelligence," June 23, 2026 (330+ PE firms, up 71 in six months) [View source ↗](https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2026/06/23/3316054/0/en/affinity-sees-surge-in-private-equity-adoption-as-firms-embrace-ai-powered-relationship-intelligence.html)

## Canonical URL

https://altss.com/vs/affinity