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# Leveraging your Connections and Relationship Strengths

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With Affinity's relationship intelligence, you and your team can leverage **the shared connections** you have to individuals and companies, as well as **the strength** of these connections to quickly find out who to best ask for a warm introduction.

**Note**: If you're signing in and syncing into Affinity for the very first time, it may take up to 24 hours for your connections to appear.

## Overview

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/support-affinity/-rHSeCgysap8c4--/images/features-ri/leveraging-your-connections-and-relationship-strengths/1.jpg?fit=max&auto=format&n=-rHSeCgysap8c4--&q=85&s=e73172aba185d9b1e30088c891870ad5" alt="" width="2860" height="1126" data-path="images/features-ri/leveraging-your-connections-and-relationship-strengths/1.jpg" />

1. What are Relationship Strengths in Affinity?
2. Types of Connections in Affinity
3. Degrees of Connections in Affinity
4. Viewing Connections on a contact's profile page
5. Viewing Connections within a list
6. Can you export Connections and Relationship Strengths from Affinity?

### What are Relationship Strengths in Affinity?

A relationship strength is a numerical score given to your connections that ranges from 10 (weak) - 100 (strong). Relationship strengths are calculated based on the recency and frequency of interactions between two individuals. The scores are also ranked by different colored bars.

<img src="https://mintcdn.com/support-affinity/-rHSeCgysap8c4--/images/features-ri/leveraging-your-connections-and-relationship-strengths/2.jpg?fit=max&auto=format&n=-rHSeCgysap8c4--&q=85&s=2dc3ae508b654f774c77854288f8df45" style={{ width:"41%" }} width="648" height="982" data-path="images/features-ri/leveraging-your-connections-and-relationship-strengths/2.jpg" />

1. Green bars represent strong connections
2. Orange bars represent average connections
3. Gray bars represent weak connections

### Types of Connections in Affinity

1. **People You Know** - These are the people you have directly communicated with.
2. **People Your Allies Know** - These are the people that your allies have directly communicated with (see [Getting started with Affinity Alliances](/s/article/Getting-started-with-Affinity-Alliances)).
3. **People Added Manually** - These are the people that are manually associated within your Affinity instance.
4. **Inferred Connections** - These are the people that you/your team can potentially get introduced to based on previous shared work experience.
   * Inferred Connections will only appear for organizations, **not** for people or opportunities.
   * Inferred Connections will only be available for those on the **Scale**, **Advanced**, and **Enterprise** tiers. If you're interested in upgrading to one of these new tiers, please reach out to your Affinity point of contact or [support@affinity.co](mailto:support@affinity.co).

### Degrees of Connections in Affinity

Powered by Affinity's relationship intelligence, you will be able to quickly see your 1st and 2nd degree connections with a person or organization:

* **1st Degree** - Someone you directly know and have communicated with.
* **2nd Degree** - Someone who knows one of your 1st degree connections, but you don't directly know.

### Viewing Connections on a contact's profile page

1. Click the **Connections** tab to see your/your team members' connections with that contact.
   <img src="https://mintcdn.com/support-affinity/-rHSeCgysap8c4--/images/features-ri/leveraging-your-connections-and-relationship-strengths/3.jpg?fit=max&auto=format&n=-rHSeCgysap8c4--&q=85&s=9d27fed9393de80a2e1caa14cc9a0fed" alt="" width="1048" height="537" data-path="images/features-ri/leveraging-your-connections-and-relationship-strengths/3.jpg" />
2. Click on each contact to see everyone that can provide you with a warm introduction to that contact.
   <img src="https://mintcdn.com/support-affinity/-rHSeCgysap8c4--/images/features-ri/leveraging-your-connections-and-relationship-strengths/4.jpg?fit=max&auto=format&n=-rHSeCgysap8c4--&q=85&s=3b7e6384d2be4bcf84d119523db75e42" style={{ width:"52%" }} width="755" height="834" data-path="images/features-ri/leveraging-your-connections-and-relationship-strengths/4.jpg" />

### Viewing Connections within a list

1. Click any cell within the **Connections** column to see your connections to that contact. The **Connections** sidebar will slide out from the right side of the screen.
   <img src="https://mintcdn.com/support-affinity/-rHSeCgysap8c4--/images/features-ri/leveraging-your-connections-and-relationship-strengths/5.jpg?fit=max&auto=format&n=-rHSeCgysap8c4--&q=85&s=c2bddb93d7da36f21530c7cf4334134e" alt="" width="2860" height="1126" data-path="images/features-ri/leveraging-your-connections-and-relationship-strengths/5.jpg" />
2. If you cannot find the **Connections** column, click the **Customize View** icon to make sure it's checked and on display.
   <img src="https://mintcdn.com/support-affinity/-rHSeCgysap8c4--/images/features-ri/leveraging-your-connections-and-relationship-strengths/6.jpg?fit=max&auto=format&n=-rHSeCgysap8c4--&q=85&s=28a108449f124d9e030792d198ce6c0c" alt="" width="2862" height="881" data-path="images/features-ri/leveraging-your-connections-and-relationship-strengths/6.jpg" />

### Can you export Connections and Relationship Strengths from Affinity?

* Connections and Relationship Strengths can **not** be exported directly from the Affinity CRM.
  * However, you can leverage the [Affinity API - Relationship Strengths](https://api-docs.affinity.co/#relationship-strengths) endpoint to access the data outside of the CRM.
  * You can also leverage the Affinity API to get [the strongest relationship strength connection to an organization on a list](https://api-docs.affinity.co/#getting-the-strongest-relationship-strength-connection-to-an-organization-on-a-list).

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