Detective vs. Vainu

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Detective
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Detective (formerly Charlie App) helps salespeople to find high quality prospects, identify their pains and initiatives, and suggests relevant first touch messaging. Its precision targeting aims to displace a spray-and-pray approach to sales.N/A
Vainu
Score 9.8 out of 10
Small Businesses (1-50 employees)
Traditional sales prospecting is inefficient and tiring. Vainu aims to fix it by transforming disorganized open and big data into insightful leads. Vainu is a sales intelligence, prospecting and account insights platform which aims to help users discover actionable account insights, identify timely prospecting signals, and determine the most valuable sales prospects from a database of +108 million companies enriched with open data. Currently over 1000 organizations and over…N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Features
DetectiveVainu
Prospecting
Comparison of Prospecting features of Product A and Product B
Detective
3.0
1 Ratings
86% below category average
Vainu
8.2
1 Ratings
8% above category average
Load time/data access3.01 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Advanced search00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Identification of new leads00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
List quality00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
List upload/download00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Ideal customer targeting00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Sales Intelligence Data Standards
Comparison of Sales Intelligence Data Standards features of Product A and Product B
Detective
9.0
1 Ratings
18% above category average
Vainu
7.6
1 Ratings
1% above category average
Contact information9.01 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Company information9.01 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Industry information00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification
Comparison of Data Augmentation & Lead Qualification features of Product A and Product B
Detective
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Ratings
Vainu
8.1
1 Ratings
9% above category average
Lead qualification process00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Smart lists and recommendations00 Ratings6.41 Ratings
Salesforce integration00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Company/business profiles00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Alerts and reminders00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
Data hygiene00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
Automatic data refresh00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
Filters and segmentation00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
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User Ratings
DetectiveVainu
Likelihood to Recommend
7.0
(1 ratings)
9.1
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
DetectiveVainu
Likelihood to Recommend
charlieapp.com
If you are in any type of sales, and meeting with people, it is a must. If you already know you contact well, it doesn't have as much value for that particular meeting. Also I wish there was a way to not sync internal meetings, as it just provides clutter, and I don't need info on those people.
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Vainu.io
Vainu is the best software I have ever used for prospecting. It offers everything that we need for sale, prospecting and leads, and indeed really cost-effective. It's really a small investment when comparing what it can bring to your business. Vainu is not indispensable If you don't have an active selling team and continuous need for new prospects.
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Pros
charlieapp.com
  • They easily connect with my Outlook to sync my upcoming meetings.
  • It provides me with the social profiles of people I am meeting with.
  • It gives me the ability to have all my info about my contact in one place to easily review.
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Vainu.io
  • You save time and find right prospects as fast as possible.
  • It's also easy to sort prospects by industry, revenue, digital foot print... etc.
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Cons
charlieapp.com
  • At times it doesn't pull a social profile for the contact correctly, or at all, when I know the person has a profile.
  • The interface is a little clunky, and the font is too large. It could be a lot smaller and still effective.
  • It takes a lot of time to sync at points, which is frustrating.
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Vainu.io
  • Vainu has fixed all bugs we have reported. So no, can't really say what I dislike...
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Alternatives Considered
charlieapp.com
The thing that Charlie does best is it aggregates everything in one place. It allows me to have a one-stop shop, that I can quickly review prior to heading into a meeting. People are usually amazed with the amount of info that Charlie can give you, and it almost always works its way into my sales call.
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Vainu.io
Vainu contacted me 15 months ago. I had been looking for a good prospecting tool a long time before that. There wasn't any reason not to take the test! The introduction went well. We got guidance many times. Our new sales team members can still receive training from them if we want. They have been interested in our feedback.
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Return on Investment
charlieapp.com
  • The info I pull from Charlie prior to the meeting is almost always brought up as a conversation starter.
  • Charlie helps my relationships go deeper than just surface level info.
  • The ability to go deeper in my relationships while using Charlie has absolutely closed me business.
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Vainu.io
  • Your sales team saves time and find right prospects as fast as possible.
  • Your sales team members like their work more when you provide a good tool for prospecting
  • More efficient time management and more sales
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