Alignable launches Allie, a personal networking assistant built on 14 years of Small Business relationship data. Allie helps Alignable's millions of members know who to reach out to, when, and why, turning the relationships they already have into new customers. BOSTON, September 16, 2026 - Alignable, the largest relationship intelligence platform for small businesses in North America, today launched Allie, an AI networking assistant that helps members act on the network they have already built. The problem was never that small business owners lack a network. It's knowing which relationships to invest in, when to reach out, and why. Allie provides that guidance every day, grounded in 14 years of data on how relationships on Alignable turn into customers. Small businesses account for nearly half of U.S. private-sector employment and roughly 44 percent of GDP, according to the SBA Office of Advocacy. Despite that, they have operated without the relationship infrastructure larger companies take for granted: a business development team, a CRM with someone to run it. Allie closes that gap by helping small business owners make more of one of every entrepreneur's most critical assets: their network of people who know and trust them. "Customer acquisition is the loudest problem small business owners have but it's not the only one," said Eric Groves, co-founder and CEO of Alignable. "The same network that brings you a new customer can bring you your next hire, your next vendor, the answer to a problem you didn't know how to solve. Allie is our first step toward putting Alignable at the center of every one of those decisions: the place small business owners turn to unlock everything they need to succeed." The connection graph Underneath Allie is Alignable's connection graph, built from 14 years of activity across millions of members. It understands not just who is connected, but how: customers who buy, referral partners who send business, and network allies such as bankers, associations, and adjacent service providers who open new doors. How Allie works Allie leverages that graph to identify a member's highest-potential relationships and reviews them continually against the Alignable Method(SM). The method is a five-step framework Alignable derived from studying how its most successful members build quality referral relationships. From there, Allie surfaces which connections are worth acting on now, drafts the outreach, and flags the right moment for an introduction, a follow-up, or a referral. Alignable member, Josh Jamerson (owner of a lending business in Spokane Valley, WA), conveyed his initial experiences with Allie, saying "When I asked Allie which industries could refer business to my network, it didn't just give me names - it considered industry fit and relationship strength, then helped me write introductions that sounded like me. One conversation turned into five to ten warm introductions. It doesn't feel like ChatGPT added to another website - it feels like having a personal relationship assistant who recognizes opportunities hiding in plain sight." Allie is built around a simple principle: the member stays in control. For actions Allie can take on a member's behalf, it recommends the next step and acts only with approval. For inherently personal actions such as asking for an introduction, making a referral, or reaching out, Allie provides the intelligence; the member takes the action. "What makes Allie work isn't the model. It's what surrounds it," said Venkat Krishnamurthy, co-founder and President of Alignable. "On one side, 14 years of real relationship signals across 12 million small businesses: introductions, referrals, and connections that became customers. On the other, a product members already know and trust. The data is ours. The relationship graph is ours. AI makes Allie possible. Our relationship data makes it uniquely valuable." Availability Allie is available today to all paying members on Alignable in the U.S. and Canada. The customers you need are connected to the people you know. Allie is how members find them. About Alignable Alignable is the largest relationship intelligence platform for small businesses in North America. For 14 years, Alignable has helped small business owners turn the people who know them into their most effective source of growth - from customer introductions to the referral partners and network allies most CRMs never see. Today, more than 12 million members across every industry and geography in the U.S. and Canada rely on Alignable to put those relationships to work. Prior to co-founding Alignable, Eric Groves spent 10 years as a founding executive of Constant Contact leading their go to market efforts, and growing the business from start-up to a public company with 400,000 customers and $200MM in revenue. Groves authored The Constant Contact Guide to Email Marketing and is recognized as an expert on engagement marketing, email marketing, and local business. He has appeared on MSNBC's Your Business and contributes to Small Business Trends, Fast Company and Yahoo Small Business. Eric holds a B.A. in economics from Grinnell College and an MBA from the University of Iowa. 3 Comments

Where do new customers live & who can refer you? Apr 17th, 2026 Last week I told you the most powerful business asset you own has no number on it. Today it changes‚ and it goes further than a score. What if you could open Alignable and see, right now, a curated list of ideal customers and referral partners ‚ people already reachable through your existing connections, already vetted by people who know and recommend you? That's not a hypothetical. It's live. The core insight. Alignable, Inc. recently launched the Opportunities page‚ it turns your network into a visible, searchable pipeline. It shows you the professionals reachable through your connections, organized by category: financial services, marketing, health and wellness, referral partners, ideal customers. Every result is filtered by proximity and trust ‚ recommended by people you've already built a relationship with, not strangers from a cold search. Most business owners think about their network as a collection of people they know. The Opportunities page makes it something more useful: a map of the people one relationship away who actually match what you're looking for. The playbook move. The signal here isn't just the people you see ‚ it's how they got there. Every result on your Opportunities page is anchored in trust: recommended by someone you know, nearby, and matched to the customer and partner profile you've set on your business page ‚ the difference between a lead list and a warm introduction waiting to happen. You're not cold-calling strangers. You're walking into rooms where someone already vouches for you. Your action this week. If you're an Alignable member: Log in and go to My Network‚ Opportunities. Look at your Ideal Customers and Referral Partners results. Pick one person. Check who the shared connection is. If it's a strong relationship, reach out to the connector today and ask for a warm intro‚ one sentence, no pressure. One warm intro. That's how this turns into business. If you're on a free plan: Here's what the Opportunities page looks like for its members (screenshot above). This is one of the features unlocked when you upgrade. If you've been thinking about it, this is a good week to try it. You can upgrade here and be on the Opportunities page before the week ends. Alignable is the business network built for small business owners‚ 10 million members, 35,000 communities across North America. Check your Opportunities today! Prior to co-founding Alignable, Eric Groves spent 10 years as a founding executive of Constant Contact leading their go to market efforts, and growing the business from start-up to a public company with 400,000 customers and $200MM in revenue. Groves authored The Constant Contact Guide to Email Marketing and is recognized as an expert on engagement marketing, email marketing, and local business. He has appeared on MSNBC's Your Business and contributes to Small Business Trends, Fast Company and Yahoo Small Business. Eric holds a B.A. in economics from Grinnell College and an MBA from the University of Iowa. 10 Comments