How to Track Warm Introductions
You reached out to eight people this week and now you cannot remember who owes you a reply. The fix is one boring tracker that tells you exactly who to nudge and when.
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A plain LinkedIn search buries the people who would actually help you.
It ranks by prominence, so the most-followed, most-messaged names sit on top. FindWarmIntros surfaces the coworkers who share your school or a past employer - the people most likely to reply - and hands you a ready-to-send intro.
✍️ Ready-to-send intro“Hi - we both studied at [your school]. I’d love to hear about your path to a company you are targeting before I apply…”
… plus everyone else in your network who can put in a good word.
See who can refer you in - pick your target company:
Why a tracker beats your memory
A warm intro is not one message, it is a chain: you ask a mutual contact, they forward you, the target replies or does not, and you follow up. Miss one link and the whole path goes cold. Most people lose intros not because they were rejected but because they forgot to nudge on day four.
Your inbox is a terrible tracker. It hides threads, buries the ones waiting on you, and gives you no view of who is stalled. A dedicated row per person turns a fuzzy pile into a short daily to-do list.
The five columns that matter
Skip the fancy CRM. Any spreadsheet works if it holds these five fields. Each one answers a question you will actually ask yourself at 9am.
- Person and company. Who you are trying to reach and where. One row each, never batch people together.
- The shared thread. The exact thing you have in common (same university, a former employer, a mutual contact who can forward you). This is your opening line, so write it down verbatim.
- Ask and date sent. What you requested (a 15 minute call, a referral, one question) and the day you sent it. Vague asks get vague silence.
- Status and next nudge. Waiting, replied, met, or dead, plus the calendar date you will follow up if they go quiet.
Finding the warm threads to track in the first place
A tracker only helps once you have real paths to put in it, and that is the slow part. Digging through LinkedIn to find who at a target company shares your school or a past employer can eat an afternoon per company.
FindWarmIntros does that finding-and-ranking step for you: give it a target company and it surfaces the real people there you share a school or past job with, ranked by how reachable they are, and drafts an intro that leads with the shared thread. You paste the results straight into the columns above and spend your time following up instead of hunting.