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Membrain

Swedish sales execution platform for complex business to business selling, combining a system of record with guided sales process, methodology enforcement, account planning and structured coaching. Sold as four per user products (Prospecting, Active Pipeline, Account Growth and a coaching module) with a full relationship database and productivity suite bundled underneath at no extra charge, plus priced extensions and platform upgrades. Positioned as able to replace, run alongside or plug into an existing system of record.

Last VerifiedAugust 20, 2026
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Founded
Headquarters
Stockholm, Sweden
Categories
crm, sales-enablement, revenue-intelligence
Assessment

Capability Axes

AI Capability
AI CentralityAI CentralityWhether AI is the product or a feature veneer. The removal test: peel the AI label off, and does anything sellable remain?
CC on AI CentralityAI features on a conventional platform. Peel the AI label off and the product still works roughly as before.
Vendor Published

The established platform pattern, and here the removal test is unusually easy to run because the vendor has separated the model layer into a line item. Strip it out and everything remains: the pipeline of record, the guided sales process, account planning, coaching, quotes, orders, forecasting, analytics, the content library and the productivity suite. The model layer is a platform upgrade called Insight Engine, sold separately from 199 a month.

A contradiction sits on the same page and is worth a buyer's attention: the site footer tagline reads that this is the artificial intelligence powered platform for companies committed to growth, while the product that supplies that intelligence is described in the navigation panel as soon here, and the pricing answers describe its credit mechanics in the present tense. Marketing has arrived somewhere the product has not.

Autonomy and Oversight ModelAutonomy and Oversight ModelWhat the system does without a human. Draft for review, auto send, or fully agentic, and what contains a bad run.
CC on Autonomy and Oversight ModelAutonomy is claimed or implied with the oversight model asserted rather than documented. Buyers cannot tell from public sources what runs unsupervised.
Vendor Published

Oversight of people is the product, and oversight of the software is thinner than that suggests. On the human side the enumeration is genuinely deep: score cards rating how well a representative executed each stage, coaching plans and journals, skill assessments, performance scores for teams and individuals, support for multi tiered leadership, and coaching activities that can be marked shareable or private.

On the software side the controls listed are advanced permission settings, user rights management, multiple sales teams, and automated events with customisable rules. What is absent from every page read is an audit record of any kind, an approval step on the automation engine sold as a separate upgrade, and any description of review before generated text enters an outbound message. The unreleased assistant compounds it, since a capability described as soon here is already priced and no controls for it are published.

AI Disclosure and Model TransparencyAI Disclosure and Model TransparencyWhat models power the product, whether AI generated outreach discloses itself, and whether scoring and routing logic is explainable.
CC on AI Disclosure and Model TransparencyThe product is described as AI powered with the stack, the disclosure behavior, and the scoring logic all unstated.
Vendor Published

The actions are named individually, which is more than most vendors in this index manage: compose, summarise, rewrite, ask, and automatic field completion, alongside data enrichment. Naming what the model does is a real piece of transparency and it stops there. No model, provider, family, version, hosting region or processing arrangement appears on any page read, and no processing terms govern the layer.

The timing question compounds the disclosure question: the capability is marketed as arriving, priced as available, and described in the answers as already consuming credits, so a buyer cannot tell from published material what is running today.

Operational and Outcome EvidenceOperational and Outcome EvidenceMeasured outcomes with a stated basis: replies, meetings, pipeline, win rates. Logos are not evidence and prestige is not measurement.
CC on Operational and Outcome EvidenceOutcome claims are headline percentages with no stated basis, or customer logos standing in for results.
Vendor Published

Scale is asserted without a number that resolves: clients in more than 80 countries and thousands of happy clients, with no customer count, revenue figure or cohort anywhere. A success stories library exists and was left unread, which is flagged.

The finding on the pages that were read concerns the evidence the vendor chose to display twice: every award badge on the pricing page and again in the footer dates from 2017 to 2019, covering a technology certification, a sales enablement listing, a review site performance badge and a European hundred list, presented in 2026 as current proof.

One specific and checkable claim runs alongside them, that this is the only software named a high performer across four separate review site categories, and it carries no date or period. An independent review platform holds a little over two hundred reviews, which is a real corpus and belongs in any comparison.

Compliance and Risk
Outreach Compliance PostureOutreach Compliance PostureHow the product handles regulated outreach: consent, DNC scrubbing, opt out mechanics, caller ID conduct, and the public enforcement record.
CC on Outreach Compliance PostureCompliance is mentioned as the customer’s responsibility, with little or no product enforcement described. The tool can be run lawfully, and nothing about it helps.
Vendor Published

The platform carries three separate recipient touching surfaces and takes a position on none of them. A server side mail integration with a composer and templates sends from the representative's own account; a sequencing extension is sold at 19 a user for structured multi step execution; and a website tracking beacon observes visitors on the customer's own property, with email open tracking alongside it.

Across every page read, no statute is named, no consent position is stated, and no unsubscribe, suppression list, complaint route or recipient removal mechanism appears. A privacy policy and a terms document are published in the footer and both were left unread, which is flagged and is the reason this sits at C rather than lower. The website tracking beacon is the sharpest of the three, because visitor observation carries its own consent regime in the vendor's home jurisdiction and nothing on the marketing pages addresses it.

Data Privacy PostureData Privacy PostureGDPR and CCPA posture: lawful basis, data subject rights handling, DPA availability, subprocessor disclosure.
CC on Data Privacy PostureA standard privacy policy exists and answers none of the questions this product category specifically raises.
Vendor Published

Two documents are published in the footer, a combined cookies and privacy policy and a terms document, and neither could be read for this build. The reason is itself the finding rather than a limitation to apologise for: the legal path on this domain is closed to automated retrieval, so the marketing pages serve freely to any crawler while the two documents that would let a buyer or an agent evaluate the vendor do not.

That is the same pattern recorded at LinkedRent, where the one document contradicting the marketing was the one search engines were told to skip, and it is worth checking on every vendor from here. Two further observations from what is reachable. The terms document is titled and addressed as website terms of use rather than subscription or platform terms, which is the Accent Technologies shape.

And no data processing addendum, sub processor list or dedicated page for the European regulation appears anywhere in the footer, at a Swedish vendor holding pipeline, contact and employee coaching records for customers in more than 80 countries.

Data Licensing and ProvenanceData Licensing and ProvenanceWhere the data comes from and on what legal footing: licensed, contributed, public record, or scraped, and who stands behind the answer.
CC on Data Licensing and ProvenanceData is described by its size and coverage with its origin unstated. The provenance question is answerable only by asking the vendor.
Vendor Published

The vendor sells contact data and never says where any of it comes from. Data enrichment is listed as an included capability of the bundled relationship database, and the credit mechanics answer states that credits are consumed when enriching data such as adding companies, contacts, emails or phone numbers, with advanced enrichment actions like direct dial phone numbers costing more than the rest. A direct dial number priced by credit is a purchased record by any reading.

Across the pricing page, the product pages and the compliance page, no supplier, database, record count, coverage figure, refresh cadence, matching method or licence is named for any of it, and no lawful basis is offered for holding the numbers of people who never dealt with the vendor. This is the Mailshake contact finder shape appearing inside a system of record.

Platform Terms ExposurePlatform Terms ExposureWhether the product operates inside the terms of the platforms it touches, and the restriction risk a buyer inherits when it does not.
BB on Platform Terms ExposureThe method is described and mostly conformant, with one real ambiguity the vendor does not resolve, or conformance asserted without the partnership evidence that would settle it.
Vendor Published

Every external attachment is an official connector into a system the customer already licenses: two major relationship platforms with a dedicated page for one of them, both large mail and calendar suites with two way calendar sync and server side mail integration, four marketing platforms, a support desk, a conferencing platform and a workflow connector reaching hundreds more.

Nothing scrapes, rents, rotates, relays or simulates behaviour, and no browser extension appears anywhere in the product set. That is the Map My Customers position and it earns the same band. Held off the top, which this index reserves for a stated conformance position, because none is published for any connected platform.

One surface worth naming rather than scoring: the tracking beacon runs on the customer's own website, so the exposure it creates belongs to the customer's property rather than to a third party platform.

AI Safety and Data StewardshipAI Safety and Data StewardshipThe cross client boundary: whether customer data trains models that serve competitors, plus retention and deletion posture.
CC on AI Safety and Data StewardshipSecurity language exists but the training question, the one this axis turns on, is unanswered: a buyer cannot tell whether their pipeline data improves a competitor’s instance.
Vendor Published

No training or cross customer statement was located on any page read, and the material at stake here is more sensitive than the category norm because a large part of it is employee data rather than prospect data. The coaching module holds performance scores for named individuals and teams, coaching journals, customisable skill assessments and trend graphs over time, and integrates an external sales assessment provider so third party evaluation results flow in alongside.

On top of that sit opportunity notes, win and loss analysis and message content, all reachable by a compose, rewrite and summarise layer. That combination is the enablement specific twist first recorded at Accent Technologies, and it is sharper here because the assessment integration means the vendor holds judgements about employees that a third party produced. Nothing published states how any of it is retained, who inside the vendor can reach it, or whether it informs a model.

Recipient Disclosure and AuthenticityRecipient Disclosure and AuthenticityHow the product presents itself to the people it targets: whether automated outreach and AI agents disclose themselves, whether sender personas are real, and whether personalization is grounded in verifiable fact. Measured as known compliance with Article 50 of the EU AI Act, in force since August 2, 2026, which requires AI systems that interact with individuals to disclose that fact.
CC on Recipient Disclosure and AuthenticityNothing published on whether recipients are told they are dealing with software. For a product whose AI talks to prospects, silence here is now a regulatory posture, not a style choice.
Vendor Published

The structural position is clean and the disclosure position is empty. Messages leave from the representative's own connected mailbox under their own identity, generated text is drafted for a person who sends it rather than dispatched autonomously, and not one line of detection avoidance or behaviour simulation language appears anywhere across the pages read, which sets this apart from most of the current stretch of the runway.

Two surfaces still engage a recipient's expectations and neither carries a position: email open tracking, and a website beacon that identifies and follows visitors on the customer's site. The obligation on artificial authorship now in force in the vendor's own regional market is addressed nowhere, at a company selling a compose and rewrite layer into outbound messages.

Integration and Deployment
Ecosystem and Integration DepthEcosystem and Integration DepthDocumented depth of CRM and stack integration: objects, sync direction, API surface, marketplace presence that matches the claims.
BB on Ecosystem and Integration DepthSolid primary CRM integration documented, with depth unstated at the edges (sync direction, custom objects, failure behavior).
Vendor Published

A broad and well documented surface. Ten integrations are named individually with a dedicated page for the largest relationship platform, a workflow connector reaches hundreds more, server side mail integration works with any mail platform and calendar sync is two way across both major suites, mobile applications ship for both phone platforms, and a maintained help centre sits alongside a product updates log and a published forward roadmap page, which very few vendors in this index offer at all.

Held off the top band on two points. Public developer documentation or an endpoint reference was not located. And programmatic access is split in a way a buyer should read carefully: an interface appears in the included capability list of the bundled relationship database, while an enhanced interface is a platform upgrade at 499 a month, which costs more than ten entry seats, and nothing published distinguishes what the included one can do from what the upgrade adds.

Deployment Model and Data ResidencyDeployment Model and Data ResidencyWhere the product runs and where customer data lives, including residency options for EU buyers.
CC on Deployment Model and Data ResidencyCloud hosted is the whole public answer. Region and residency questions require a sales conversation.
Vendor Published

Hosting, region and residency are unaddressed on every page read, including the page the vendor dedicates to its security posture, which discusses an audit framework at length and never says where the data sits. A buyer would reasonably expect a European seat given the company's origin and its regional market, and expectation is not disclosure.

The privacy policy that would ordinarily carry a transfer position could not be retrieved because the legal path on this domain is closed to automated access, so this row rests on the absence of a statement rather than on a statement of absence, and would move on a successful read.

Security Certifications and Trust CenterSecurity Certifications and Trust CenterVerifiable security posture: enumerated current certifications and a trust center an outsider can actually read.
CC on Security Certifications and Trust CenterSecurity is claimed in general terms. Asserting certifications without enumerating them is weaker than it looks, and this band is where that lands.
Vendor Published

A dedicated compliance page linked from the footer, which is better placement than most vendors this size manage, and what sits on it does not support the band above. The certification is named honestly as the point in time variety rather than the operating effectiveness variety, and naming which one earns credit.

The page then repeatedly claims more than that variety delivers, stating that it ensures services remain consistently available and perform as expected with minimal downtime, when a point in time report assesses whether controls were suitably designed on a single date and assures nothing about how they operated over any period.

Around that claim: no auditor named, no report date, no observation period, no report offered on request or self service, no penetration test summary, no sub processor list, no status page, and not one individual control enumerated anywhere on the page or the site. The certification badge itself renders as a broken link to a legacy address at the standards body, and the vendor's own explainer links point to an accounting body and to a compliance automation supplier's marketing guide.

Commercial and Operational
Commercial TransparencyCommercial TransparencyWhether a buyer can budget without a sales call. Published pricing graded on completeness, not on the price itself.
BB on Commercial TransparencyPartial pricing published (entry tiers real, enterprise opaque) or pricing published with load bearing exclusions.
Vendor Published

Among the strongest price cards graded in this index and short of the top band for a specific reason. Published in three currencies natively rather than switched by location: four core products at 49, 69, 89 per user a month and 89 per coach a month, each with a feature list running to twenty or more named items; three extensions priced per user at 12, 19 and 29; and two platform upgrades priced outright at 299 and 499.

The bundled relationship database and productivity suite are stated explicitly as included at no extra cost, which removes the most common gate in this category. The credit mechanics for the model layer are explained rather than hidden, with small actions costing one to three credits, enrichment costing more, monthly reset and no rollover stated plainly. What holds it at B is that three load bearing numbers are missing and one of them is mandatory.

Implementation is described as a fixed price and no figure appears. The model layer is quoted only as from 199 with no ceiling and no credit package prices. The minimum commitment question is answered by saying terms depend on your agreement, while a discount of up to 20 percent is tied to committing longer. Every route on the page ends at a request for a quote.

Exit and Data PortabilityExit and Data PortabilityWhat happens when a customer leaves: completeness of data export, rights to enriched or licensed data after termination, deletion commitments, and auto renewal mechanics, graded from published terms and documentation.
CC on Exit and Data PortabilityExport exists as a feature claim while the terms that govern exit, data rights after termination, deletion, and auto renewal mechanics, are not published anywhere a buyer can read.
Vendor Published

This axis does more work in this category than anywhere in the index, because the product holds the pipeline of record, and the vendor treats it as a feature line rather than a commitment. Automated data imports and exports appear in the included list of all three core products, coaching module settings can be imported and exported, and implementation is stated to include data imports, so a mechanism plainly exists. Everything governing it is missing.

No post termination right, retrieval window, deletion timeline, export format or scope is published anywhere, the only terms document in the footer is addressed to website use rather than to the subscription, and the commitment length is deferred to a private agreement while a discount is offered for making it longer. A buyer whose forecast, account plans, coaching history and stage by stage execution record all live here has a published button and no published entitlement.

Deliverability and Sending DisciplineDeliverability and Sending DisciplineThe operational craft of sending: warmup, rotation, volume governance, spam rate monitoring, and what happens when reputation degrades.
CC on Deliverability and Sending DisciplineDeliverability is invoked as a benefit with no documented mechanism. For senders this is the axis where marketing most outruns evidence.
Vendor Published

One structural point counts in the vendor's favour and no mechanism is published beyond it. Mail leaves through a server side integration with the customer's own mail platform, so the sending identity, the domain and the reputation all belong to the buyer and the vendor introduces no shared pool or intermediary infrastructure of its own.

Against that, the vendor sells a sequencing extension for structured multi step execution and a composer with templates and tracking, and publishes nothing on warming, throttling, daily ceilings, bounce categorisation, complaint thresholds, suppression, authentication guidance or reputation monitoring.

The design constrains volume in practice, since this is a platform for deals with sales cycles measured in months rather than for high volume outbound, and that constraint is a consequence of the product rather than a published discipline.

Segment and Market CoverageSegment and Market CoverageWho the product actually serves, evidenced: segments, geographies, languages, and customers that match the claim.
BB on Segment and Market CoverageSegment focus is clear and evidenced with a gap in geographic or language specifics.
Vendor Published

The buyer is defined with a published disqualifier, which this index rewards and which few vendors offer: the platform is built for business to business organisations selling on value rather than price, with a stated minimum sales cycle of three months, so transactional and high volume selling is ruled out in the vendor's own words.

Around that sit four buyer roles with dedicated pages, five named commercial problems each with its own page, two named industries, three adjacent functions beyond sales, and a partner network of independent sales development consultancies that defines the delivery model as well as the market. Coverage is stated as clients in more than 80 countries.

Held off the top band because the coverage claim never resolves into a number, with thousands of clients as the only quantity offered, no company size band or seat minimum appears anywhere, and two named industries is thin next to the ten individually anchored verticals that earned the top band at Map My Customers.

Commercial

Pricing

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