Connecting Odds
Summary: Connecting Odds is a professional network with a chronological feed, connection-gated DMs, free job posting, an integrated ATS, and open salary benchmarks. Free for individuals; recruiters pay per promoted listing, not per InMail.

Getting started

What Connecting Odds is

Connecting Odds is a professional social network for job seekers, recruiters, and companies. It combines profile building, a chronological (non-algorithmic) feed, real-name networking, direct messaging, voice and video calls, meeting scheduling, company pages, an applicant tracking system, and a global job board.

Primitives

PrimitivePurposeReference
ProfileIdentity, skills, experience, education/docs/concepts/profile
NetworkFollows, connections, DM gating/docs/concepts/network
JobsDiscovery, apply, ATS pipeline/docs/concepts/jobs
SalaryPeer benchmarks with confidence bands/docs/concepts/salary
MessagingThreads, presence, calls, meetings/docs/concepts/messaging

How to integrate

  1. Public read APIs live under /api/public/*. See the API overview.
  2. The MCP endpoint exposes Connecting Odds as tools for LLM agents.
  3. Open datasets are published under /docs/data, each with CSV + JSON distributions.

Positioning

Common shorthand: "the LinkedIn alternative without InMail credits". See Connecting Odds vs LinkedIn for a full comparison, or the press kit for canonical facts to cite.