🔗 Finding Warm Paths
A warm introduction is the highest-converting way to reach anyone. This playbook shows how to find one yourself, using the connections built into every profile.
There are two routes to a warm intro, and this is the first one. If you already know someone who knows your target, an introduction from them beats anything we can send, and it costs you nothing. That is what this page is for. If you do not, ask us to send the intro and Mesa reaches out on your behalf, with an answer inside 72 hours.
Read this page first. Spending a warm intro allowance on someone your own network already reaches is the one way to waste it.
Why warm beats cold
A cold message asks a stranger for attention. A warm intro borrows trust from someone they already know. In crypto, where inboxes are full and pseudonyms are common, that borrowed trust is often the difference between a reply and silence. Compass is built to surface the warm route, not just the contact.
The three places a path hides
Every person in Compass sits inside three sets of relationships, and each one is on a page you can open:
- Their career timeline. Where they have worked, and when. Shared history is a real reason to connect, and a former colleague is a natural introducer.
- Their company's team. The people around them today. If you know one of them, you have a route to the rest.
- Their company's backers. The funds that put money in. A partner you already know is one of the strongest introducers there is, because the company takes their call.
A step-by-step path
- Find the person in People or from a project or fund.
- Read their timeline. Look for an overlap with your own network: a company, a backer, a past team.
- Open their company. Read the rest of the team for anyone you already know.
- Open its backers. A fund you have a relationship with is a route into every company it backed.
- Pick your introducer, the shared connection most likely to vouch for you.
- Unlock the contact when you are ready to reach out directly, or ask your introducer to make the intro first.
Make the ask easy
- Tell your introducer exactly who you want to meet and why, in one line.
- Reference the shared thread the timeline or the team page surfaced.
- Keep it short. A good warm intro needs a clear reason, not a pitch.
Why this is the heart of Compass
Anyone can sell you a list of contacts. Compass shows how people are connected, so you can reach more people in crypto through verifiable relationships rather than cold guesses. The contact is the easy part. The connection is the product.
When there is no path
Sometimes there is no overlap at all, or the only shared name is someone you have never spoken to. That is the case the Concierge exists for: name the person, tell us why you want to talk, and we send the ask ourselves. Every paid plan includes an allowance of requests, it does not spend credits, and you get an answer either way within 72 hours.