Chikara Intelligence vs Inven
Inven finds companies. Chikara Intelligence tells you who runs them, what they earn and when they move. If your work is executive search or leadership intelligence rather than deal origination, that difference decides the tool.
Inven
No published pricing — every plan is demo-led
Chikara
From £200 / month — no lock-in
Why teams choose Chikara Intelligence
Built for executive search and leadership intelligence, not repurposed from sales or market research.
- Executive moves classified as hire, appointment, promotion, departure or retirement — Inven has no people-move data
- Compensation attached to each move, with salary, bonus and equity from filings, Companies House and official announcements
- Regulated AUM intelligence with fund ownership chains and per-adviser AUM from institutional filings
- Organisation intelligence scoring with current and 12-month forecast views, including IPO readiness and M&A attractiveness
- Mandate management purpose-built for executive search, linked to compensation budgets and live intelligence
- Branded client portal with your own subdomain, token-based access and report sharing by client
- Candidate and research tools in the same workflow, from CV Maker and JD Matcher to Workforce and AUM reports
- Transparent self-service pricing — every Inven plan requires a demo or sales call
Where Chikara Intelligence is stronger
People intelligence, not just company discovery
Inven profiles give you a decision-maker's name, title and contact details. Chikara Intelligence gives you the events behind the person: each move classified as a hire, appointment, promotion, departure or retirement, with hierarchy and organisation context attached. That is the record a search firm actually works from.
Compensation data tied to the move
Compensation is not a data category Inven covers. Chikara Intelligence records salary, bonus and equity at each leadership move, pulled from filings and official announcements. When a client asks what a hire is likely to cost, you have a verified number rather than a benchmark guess.
AUM you can stand behind
In financial services search, there is a big difference between £4.2bn and £420m. Chikara Intelligence resolves adviser-level AUM from regulatory filings and traces the ownership chain behind it. Inven's financial data is built for valuing companies, not for telling you how much an individual adviser runs.
Client delivery that looks like your firm
Reports are shared through a branded subdomain with your firm's name on it, with access controlled client by client. Inven exports to CSV; Chikara Intelligence produces co-branded research PDFs and delivers them through a portal built for search firm client relationships.
Candidate and research tools in one place
CV Maker, JD Matcher, Scorecards, Cover Letters and Career Coach sit inside the same workflow as the data. Researchers get CV Summariser, People Moves reports, Workforce reports, AUM reports and Workforce Analytics. Inven has nothing candidate-facing — it is built for deal teams, not search firms.
Feature comparison
Chikara Intelligence and Inven, side by side.
| Feature |  | Inven |
|---|---|---|
| Data Coverage | ||
Executive move tracking Chikara Intelligence is built around people-move events; Inven is built around company profiles. | Hire, appointment, promotion, departure and retirement, with compensation attached to each event | Not present — contact data on decision-makers without career timeline or move history |
Compensation data (salary, bonus, equity) Pulled from filings, Companies House, press releases and official organisation sites | ||
Regulated AUM / investment adviser data Chikara Intelligence resolves fund ownership chains from institutional filings | ||
Organisation intelligence scoring | Current and forecast scores across five dimensions, plus IPO readiness and M&A attractiveness | |
Private and public company financials Inven's clearest data advantage — built for valuing and qualifying acquisition targets | Income statements, balance sheets, valuation multiples and analyst estimates | |
Private market deal database | M&A, funding and IPO events captured from regulatory filings | 1M+ searchable private market transactions |
| Search & Alerts | ||
People / executive search | Name, organisation, event type, role, industry, compensation, geography | Contact lookup by role, company and location — no event or compensation context |
Company search Inven's company discovery is broader; Chikara Intelligence goes deeper on the people running each company. | Name, industry and geography across regulatory-sourced organisations | Natural language search across 28M+ companies with advanced filters |
Leadership change alerts Inven's alerts cover company events such as funding and M&A, not individual executive movements. | ||
| Search Firm Workflow | ||
Mandate management Chikara Intelligence links mandates to role, industry, occupation and compensation budget | ||
Candidate toolbox (CV Maker, Career Coach, JD Matcher) | ||
White-label client delivery portal | ||
PDF research reports Inven exports to CSV. Chikara Intelligence produces co-branded research PDFs in-platform. | ||
| Access & Pricing | ||
API access Both REST APIs. Inven's is pay-as-you-go; Chikara's is included with Enterprise. | ||
Self-service entry | From £200 / month, monthly billing, free credits on sign-up | Demo or sales call required for every plan |
See how it works on a live brief
If your workflow is researching, tracking and delivering executive intelligence rather than sourcing acquisition targets, we can show you the difference in a short demo.