Chikara Intelligence vs SourceWhale
SourceWhale helps you contact people faster. Chikara Intelligence tells you who is worth contacting and why — who moved, what they earned and what just happened at their company. One is the execution layer, the other is the intelligence behind it.
SourceWhale
No published pricing — demo-led, per-seat
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 — SourceWhale provides 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
- Funding, M&A and IPO events captured from regulatory filings, press releases and other official sources
- Mandate management linked to intelligence data, including role, industry and compensation budget
- Branded client portal with your own subdomain, token-based access and report sharing by client
- PDF research reports generated in-platform and ready to share
- Hiring and attrition trends at organisation and industry level, derived from real move events
Where Chikara Intelligence is stronger
Know who moved before you reach out
SourceWhale acts on the names you already have. Chikara Intelligence supplies the names: each leadership move classified as a hire, appointment, promotion, departure or retirement, with organisation context attached. That tells you who has just become approachable and how to frame the call.
Compensation data tied to the move
No outreach tool records what an executive earned. Chikara Intelligence ties salary, bonus and equity to each leadership move, pulled from filings and official announcements. That gives you a compensation-benchmarked mandate before the first conversation happens.
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. SourceWhale has no company intelligence of this kind.
Client delivery that looks like your firm
SourceWhale manages the conversation with candidates. Chikara Intelligence also handles the conversation with your client: co-branded PDF reports shared through a branded subdomain, with access controlled client by client.
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. SourceWhale has no candidate-facing tooling.
Feature comparison
Chikara Intelligence and SourceWhale, side by side.
| Feature |  | SourceWhale |
|---|---|---|
| Data & Intelligence | ||
Executive move tracking Chikara Intelligence provides the underlying intelligence; SourceWhale is the execution layer acting on it. | Hire, appointment, promotion, departure and retirement, with compensation attached to each event | Not a data feature — SourceWhale works from your ATS/CRM and the web |
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 | ||
Funding / capital event data Pulled from regulatory filings, Companies House and other official sources | ||
Hiring and attrition trends | Organisation and industry level, derived from real move events | |
| Outreach & Engagement | ||
Multi-channel outreach sequences SourceWhale's core capability — the two products are complementary here. | Email, LinkedIn and phone in one AI-managed sequence | |
AI-powered sourcing search | Search within the intelligence platform by event, role, compensation and geography | Natural language sourcing across ATS/CRM and the web |
Inbox management | Application tracker captures candidate responses as events | AI inbox that surfaces hot leads and auto-generates follow-ups |
| Search Firm Workflow | ||
Mandate management SourceWhale Projects tracks pipeline; Chikara mandates link to compensation budgets and live intelligence. | ||
Candidate toolbox (CV Maker, Career Coach, JD Matcher) | ||
White-label client delivery portal | ||
PDF research reports Co-branded research PDFs generated in-platform | ||
| Access & Pricing | ||
ATS / CRM integration SourceWhale's integration breadth is a genuine advantage for agency workflows. | Invenias live; Salesforce and HubSpot planned | 70+ live integrations including Bullhorn, Vincere and Greenhouse |
Self-service entry | From £200 / month, monthly billing, free credits on sign-up | Demo required for the full platform; limited free trial on select modules |
See how it works on a live brief
If your bottleneck is knowing which people are worth contacting — with verified compensation context and client-ready delivery — we can show you the difference in a short demo.