A short distance from the Western Alps, in the heart of Europe lies a mountain area called 'Jura'.
It's not the highest mountain range in Europe, but it's beautiful, rich in features and has breathtaking views of Mont Blanc, the highest mountain massif in Europe.
The Jura mountains stretch from France, the country whose 1789 revolution gave birth to freedom and democracies around the globe, to Switzerland, the nation known for its neutrality, strict privacy and rule of law.
That European foundation is the whole point. It guarantees freedom. The freedom of the individual, but also the freedom to compete under free and fair market conditions.
Under the Digital Markets Act, LinkedIn was regulated in 2023 and forced to open its platform to competitors, and a court in Munich recently held that Teamfluence may access LinkedIn's platform data 'without further conditions' and compete head-on with Sales Navigator.
And that's exactly what we're going to do.
So LISN* up, LinkedIn. Here comes your competitor
We've been sales people ourselves. We've carried the bag. We know what it's like to live inside Sales Navigator all day, and we know exactly why it grinds you down.
Features you rely on just vanish. Lookalike search, gone, with no replacement. (Yes! We're bringing it back.) The roadmap isn't built around your workflow or your needs, it's optimized for revenue.
LinkedIn's revenue. Not yours.
CRM sync locked behind the Advanced Plus tier. No native CSV export. Monthly limits. Salesforce integration that starts at a 20-seat minimum. It all quietly tells you who the product is really built for: one mega-corporation building for other mega-corporations.
The rest of us get squashed in between.
Wait. Got squashed. Past tense.
Yes, past tense because those days have come to an end. European regulation has accomplished what was long needed and the courts are confirming it. There's now an official alternative: Teamfluence Jura.
We're not going to pretend it's finished. We're standing on the ridge, not the summit. But you can see the peak from here, and we know exactly how to reach it. We're going to build the best Sales Navigator alternative there is, and we're going to build it with you.
Here's what we're climbing toward.
These are our hypothesis, our core beliefs and the pillars on which we compete with Sales Navigator head on:
A search built for 2026, not 2014
We want a Search that makes sense in a post-cold-email world.
Searching a bunch of total strangers based on a bunch of static filters, made a lot of sense.
Back in 2014. That's when Sales Navigator was released.
It's also when LinkedIn had become "The largest professional network on the planet" and had effectively reached monopoly status.
Not being on LinkedIn stopped being an option for most professional business people. So strapping some filters on the member search, turning their user into the product, and selling it as Sales Navigator was a great opportunity for the ad-selling platform LinkedIn to enter the data brokerage business.
It made sense back then.
Today it doesn't make sense. People are now hardened against cold emails from strangers.
Those emails are cringe, problematic in terms of privacy and GDPR, and not helpful at best. So instead we focus on a search that finds the right companies, not a list of people to cold-blast.
With Jura you find the companies worth engaging: by size, their tech stack, funding events, open roles, or just by describing them in plain language and letting the AI build the list.
Or from Lookalikes of your best customers.
Or from the competitors of your best customers.
Or the customers of your customers. (I'm not kidding.)
Or drop in a few accounts you already love and get their lookalikes.
But wait that's not all. There is more:
- What about the companies visiting your website?
- The companies that are already in your CRM? (Just because they didn't buy back then, doesn't mean they are bad fits.)
- What about the companies of the people who follow your LinkedIn Company Profile? They seem interested, right?
- What about the professional connections of all your team members?
See? Search is so much more than a just a list of static filters spitting out a list of strangers.
A message was never just text in a chat window.
Think about the last deal you closed. By the time that person replied to your message, they'd already made up their mind about you. They'd seen your name come up. Read a post. Checked your profile. Looked at who else from your team they knew. Maybe visited your website twice. None of it in a chat window. All of it before they ever typed a word.
That's how buying works now. The customer journey is invisible until its very last steps. People research you in silence, decide in silence, and only talk when they're already most of the way there. If you wait for a reply to start paying attention, you've missed the entire conversation that already happened.
So you have to read the signals. And here's the thing about a signal: it's a message.
When someone accepts your connection request, they're saying "I'm willing to talk." When they view your profile, they're saying "I want to know who you are." When they follow your company, they're saying "keep me posted." These aren't notifications to clear out of a corner. They're the other half of the conversation, the half nobody built an inbox for.
We did. Teambox is one inbox for your whole team, across LinkedIn, email, SMS and WhatsApp, where what people say and what people do live in the same thread, in the order it happened. A profile view sits right next to a reply, because both are the person talking to you. The moment a new signal lands, verbal or not, the conversation surfaces to the top, so the people leaning in are always the ones in front of you.
You stop guessing who's warm. You can see them raising their hands.
Data used to be crude oil. Now it's everywhere, and most of it is yours.
In 2014, LinkedIn had the data and you didn't. That was the whole game. If you wanted to reach professionals, there was one well, and you paid the owner to draw from it.
Twelve years of digitalization later, that scarcity is gone. Data isn't crude oil anymore, rare and locked under someone else's land. It's abundant, and the richest deposit is yours, sitting in your own systems, untouched. Even the data inside LinkedIn is yours to use now, not by their good grace but by right: the DMA says the data you uploaded and generated through your own use of the platform belongs to you.
Look at what you've already got. A CRM full of companies, including the ones that didn't buy two years ago and would be perfect today. Your teammates and their networks, thousands of contacts between them, plus everyone who views their profiles, accepts their requests, reacts to their posts. The followers on your company page. Your own followers. Your customer lists. The visitors hitting your website right now who'll never fill out a form. Every one of them is a person showing a flicker of interest, and on most tools that flicker dies the second it happens.
Teamfluence Jura lets you harvest all of it. Your CRM, your team's contacts and interactions, your company page's followers and visitors, your website traffic, gathered and put to work instead of scattered and lost.
Here's what that looks like. Your social team writes a post. Your CEO publishes it. It does its rounds, likes, a few comments, the usual. Normally that's the end of it. But some of the people who saw it didn't just scroll past. They clicked through to your CEO's profile. They opened the company page. They didn't comment, they didn't message, they just looked, the way people do when they're starting to get interested.
With Teamfluence Jura you catch every one of them and can reach out as people you can talk to. That post wasn't content. It was bait, and it worked, and now you know exactly who bit.
People want to talk to people, not AI.
The smartest thing you can do with AI isn't to point it at everything. It's to draw a clear line: this is for the machines, and this is for the humans.
On one side of that line sits the busywork. Running sequences. Scoring leads against your criteria. Sifting prospects. Watching for signals and chasing down contact details. Hours of it, every week, and none of it is the work you actually hired salespeople to do. Hand it to the AI agents. They're tireless, they don't skip a day, and they're genuinely good at it.
On the other side sits the one thing that closes business: a real conversation between two people. And no amount of AI does that for you, because the moment someone realizes they're talking to a bot, the trust is gone. People want to talk to people. That's truest at the very start, when someone's deciding whether you're worth their attention, and at the very end, when they're deciding whether to buy.
So we built Teamfluence to keep those two jobs apart. The agents do the finding, the qualifying, the filtering, the chasing. By the time a person reaches your Teambox, the busywork is already done and what's left is a human being worth talking to. The machines fill the room. You work it.
That's the whole idea. Let AI handle what drains your team, so your team can do the one thing AI never will.
A Sales Navigator alternative for the rest of us
The rest of us who live in 2026 and not in 2014.
Here's the part that matters most. For me, for the team and for our customers. It's also the part LinkedIn never understood and why they are so desperate:
We're going to build this fast, and we're going to build it on your feedback.
Not a roadmap handed down from a boardroom.
A roadmap build on your input.
You, the sales rep grinding through lists all day.
You, the sales manager trying to see what your team is doing.
You, the GTM lead.
You, the content marketing agency running campaigns for ten clients at once.
You, the social media manager.
You the rebels, the troublemaker, the creative tinkler, the GTM innovator, the round peg in the square hole**… the one who wants to sell differently.
You, our customer.
You talk, we listen, we build. That's the whole idea.
It's the one thing LinkedIn never had to do, because until now it never had a competitor worth listening to.
Now it does.
Join the climb
Teamfluence Jura is being built in the open, right now. Get early access, tell us what you need, and help shape the best Sales Navigator alternative there is.
*) LISN, if you didn't know is a common abbrivation for LinkedIn Sales Navigator.
**) I do not pretend to be Steven Jobs. I am Steven Morell. That's enough Steven to carry. But we all are inspired by some of the things he said and did.