See your Top Connectors

You'll learn how to: Find the people in your network who matter most for growth: the ones who refer business, make warm intros, or sit at the centre of your professional graph.

Time: 5 minutes to look. The insight itself takes years to build.

Prereqs: Your network has been in Nynch long enough for relationship signals to accumulate (typically 30+ days, with email and calendar connected).

What Top Connectors actually measures

Top Connectors is a calculated rollup combining:

• Referrals: deals where this person was the referred_by contact.
• Introductions: meetings where this person introduced you to someone new (detected from calendar attendance patterns).
• Network centrality: how connected they are to other people in your Nynch network (LinkedIn 2nd-degree overlaps, shared meetings, shared deals).
• Engagement signal strength: cadence and recency of communication.

The score is normalised so you see a relative ranking, not absolute numbers.

Where to see it

From the Network view

1. Click Network in the sidebar.
2. Find the Top Connectors section (often a card at the top of the view).
3. The list shows your top 5-10 connectors with their score, last-touched date, and a quick reach-out action.

From Go To Market

1. Click Go To Market in the sidebar.
2. Find the Top Connectors card.
3. Same data, but framed as part of your overall GTM picture: alongside your priority ICPs, services, and authority claim.

Working with the list

Each connector card offers:

• Open profile: full contact details, history.
• Send email: opens compose pre-filled with their address.
• Mark touched: log a manual touchpoint (phone call, in-person, etc.).
• Add to rhythm: ensure they're on a high-cadence rhythm so you don't go silent.

The first practical use: every Friday, glance at the Top Connectors list. If anyone is showing as overdue (last contact > 30 days), reach out. Five minutes of warm-keeping prevents months of relationship cold.

Build the data

Top Connectors gets sharper as you:

• Mark Source = Referral on every deal that came via someone in your network, with the Referred By field set. This is the single biggest signal.
• Add contacts to rhythms so cadence is tracked.
• Connect email and calendar so meeting and message history feeds the score.
• Use the Chrome extension for LinkedIn overlap detection.

Empty workspaces show a near-random Top Connectors list. Six months of real usage produces a list that maps onto your actual business.

If something goes wrong

• Symptom: "Top Connectors card is empty." → Fix: Either you have no contacts yet, OR no deals have a Source = Referral + Referred By set. The card needs referral data to populate.
• Symptom: "The same person shows up but they don't actually refer business to me." → Fix: Network centrality alone can push someone into the list. Look at their referral count vs centrality. If they're high on centrality only, they're a connector candidate, not yet a proven referrer.
• Symptom: "I know someone refers me but they're not in the list." → Fix: Make sure their referrals are recorded on the relevant deals. Open each referred deal, check the Source field is set to Referral and the Referred By field points to them.
• Symptom: "List doesn't update after a new referred deal." → Fix: Top Connectors recalculates on a schedule (typically daily). Wait until tomorrow.

Related: Mark a deal as Won | Relationship rhythms | Create your first opportunity | Network view.