See where two companies' people overlap.
Relationships reads the work and education history behind the people in the index, 323M+ records of it, and answers questions with two sides: who at one company shares a past employer or school with people at another, who one person can reach, and what two companies have in common.
Four questions.
POST /v1/relationships
Who at Stripe shares a past employer or school with people at Adyen?
People at the first company who share an institution with people at the second, ranked by how far into it they reach. Each side can be narrowed by seniority, department and country.
POST /v1/relationships/reach
Who at Adyen can this one person reach?
Expands one person, by their LinkedIn URL, into the people they can reach at a company. Each row names the shared institution, both people's roles and dates there, and how many months they overlapped.
POST /v1/relationships/institutions
What do Stripe and Adyen have in common?
The employers and schools two companies share, with how many people each side has at each. No people are ranked, so it is the cheap first call.
POST /v1/relationships/ask
Ask any of the above in words.
Send a sentence. The answer reports which of the three questions it was read as, and what was understood.
A real answer.
The institutions Stripe and Adyen share, where each side has at least five people. The first row is Adyen itself: Stripe people who used to work there.
Every institution says how it was matched, by its LinkedIn page or by name, so you can tell a firm match from a likely one before you act on it.
| Institution | Stripe people | Adyen people |
|---|---|---|
| adyen | 15 | 1,333 |
| 227 | 31 | |
| amazon | 195 | 26 |
| microsoft | 159 | 20 |
| deloitte | 82 | 37 |
| paypal | 72 | 47 |
| salesforce | 97 | 20 |
POST /v1/relationships/institutions · at least 5 people on each side · captured 1 Oct 2026 from our live index with a test key
Ask it from your code or your assistant.
The same questions are one MCP tool, sprouts_relationships, in Claude, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. A call costs 2 credits for the first 10 results and 1 credit per next 10, and a call that fails is not charged.
Read the Relationships referencecurl -X POST https://api.sproutsdata.ai/v1/relationships/institutions \
-H "X-API-Key: $SPROUTS_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"companies": [
{ "value": "stripe.com", "by": "domain" },
{ "value": "adyen.com", "by": "domain" }
],
"min_people_per_side": 5
}'You: What do Stripe and Adyen have in common?
Then show me Stripe's directors who used to work
where Adyen's people did.
The assistant calls sprouts_relationships, first for the
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