8connections matches you with reps who sell to the same buyers — not the same product. Swap intros, trade leads for credits, and close faster with people who actually want you to win.
Revenue teams at 2,400+ companies trade leads on 8connections
Every buyer you want to reach already trusts a handful of vendors. 8connections finds the reps behind those vendors and gives you both a reason to help each other.
Describe your ideal customer, territory, deal size and verticals. Verify with your work email and LinkedIn in under two minutes.
Our matching engine surfaces non-competing sellers who share your buyers, ranked by account overlap and how often they give back.
Share a qualified lead or a warm intro, earn credits when it's accepted, and spend them on leads from your partners. Fair by design.
Leads sync to HubSpot, Salesforce or Pipedrive with attribution attached. When a referred deal closes, agreed payouts are tracked automatically.
Built with AEs, SDRs and partnership leads from 300+ revenue teams. No feed full of motivational posts — just pipeline.
We compare ICPs, territories, tech stacks and closed-won accounts to rank reps whose customers look like yours — and who don't compete with you.
Every intro, accepted lead and closed referral builds a public score. Takers can't hide.
Ask for an intro with context attached. Your contact says yes before anyone's inbox gets touched.
Browse anonymised leads from verified partners, see intent signals, and unlock them with credits you earned by giving.
Two-way sync with HubSpot, Salesforce and Pipedrive. Source, referrer and payout terms land on the deal automatically.
Every lead in the Exchange comes from a verified seller with a reputation on the line. Unlock one, and a private deal room spins up with the referrer, the terms and the timeline in one place.
Leads are shared as anonymised briefs. Contact details are only released after the lead opts in to the intro.
Prices are set by demand and the referrer's track record. Bad leads are refunded and dent the giver's score.
Agree referral fees up front, share notes, and let payouts trigger automatically when the CRM marks closed-won.
Aggregated from 8connections workspaces between January and October 2026.
in partner-sourced pipeline created on the platform
higher reply rate on warm intros vs. cold email
shorter sales cycles on referred deals
leads exchanged between verified sellers
"I matched with an office-furniture rep who had the same 40 logistics accounts on her list. We've swapped 23 intros since March. Half my Q3 pipeline came from three people on 8connections."
"We used to run our partner program on spreadsheets and goodwill. Deal rooms gave us clean attribution and automatic payouts — finance finally stopped asking me who sourced what."
"As an SDR, warm intros felt like something only senior AEs got. Now I trade leads for credits and book 6–8 extra meetings a month without touching a cold list."
"The reputation score is the whole thing. People who only take get filtered out fast, so every intro I get is from someone who's already proven they deliver."
"Salesforce sync was live in ten minutes. Referred opportunities show up with source and referrer already filled in, so my forecast finally reflects where deals really come from."
"Our whole BDR pod joined the Logistics DACH circle. The shared lead pool on the Teams plan means nobody's good lead dies in a private notes doc anymore. Wish the mobile app had bulk actions, but it's close."
"I rolled it out to 14 reps. Within a quarter, partner-sourced deals were 22% of new ARR and closing almost a month faster than outbound."
"I referred a CFO I'd known for years to a treasury-software rep. It closed, and the payout hit my account two weeks later. No awkward invoice, no chasing."
One closed referral typically covers a year of Pro. No credit card required to get started.
For sellers who want to test the waters and start giving.
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Create free profileFor AEs, SDRs and founders who want warm pipeline every week.
$276 billed yearly
Start 14-day free trialFor revenue and partnerships teams that want a shared partner engine.
Billed yearly, min. 3 seats
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LinkedIn is built for everyone and optimised for content. 8connections is built only for quota-carrying sellers and partnership people, and it's optimised for one outcome: warm pipeline. Matching is based on who you sell to, not who you know, and every exchange is tracked with credits, reputation and CRM attribution.
You earn credits when a lead or intro you share is accepted by the receiving member (typically 15–80 credits depending on seniority, company size and intent). You spend credits to unlock leads from others. If a lead turns out to be invalid, the credits are refunded and the giver's reputation score is adjusted.
Credits have no cash value and can't be bought or sold — that keeps the Exchange about quality, not volume.
Yes, when done right — and the product is designed so it is. Leads are shared as anonymised briefs (role, industry, size, region, need). Personal contact details are only released after the prospect opts in to an introduction. Members must confirm they have a lawful basis for anything they share, and every share is logged. See our lead-exchange rules and Privacy Policy.
Anyone in a customer-facing revenue role: AEs, SDRs/BDRs, account managers, sales leaders, partnership and channel managers, and founders who sell. We verify your work email and employer, and we don't allow recruiters, lead-list resellers or anonymous accounts.
Inside a deal room, both sides agree on a referral fee (a percentage or a flat amount) before the intro happens. When the deal is marked closed-won in your CRM and the buyer has paid, the payout is released to the referrer via Stripe Connect. Pro members pay no platform fee on their first $5,000 of payouts per year; after that, and on Free, a 5% fee applies.
HubSpot and Pipedrive on Pro, plus Salesforce (including custom objects and field mapping) on Teams. We also offer a Zapier app, a Slack integration for intro notifications, and a REST API for Teams customers.
On personal Free and Pro accounts, no — your network is yours, and it stays with you if you change jobs. On a Teams workspace, admins can see leads you choose to share into the team pool and aggregate analytics, never your private messages.
Yes. Monthly plans can be cancelled at any time and stay active until the end of the billing period. Yearly plans can be cancelled for a pro-rated refund within the first 30 days. You keep your profile, connections and earned credits on the Free plan.
We're onboarding new members in weekly cohorts by industry and region so every new seller gets strong matches from day one.
