Whether securing a job or developing business, it’s always better to have an inside contact, especially someone high on the totem pole.

As Robert Ambrogi explains in a post on LawSites, LinkedIn is no longer the only business development option in town. Relationship Science, or RelSci, is quickly making a name for itself, Ambrogi says, claiming to employ more powerful mapping and searching tools and to have “far more information about prospects” than LinkedIn.