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SekiHQ vs Sansan · honest comparison

From business cards, to relationship intelligence.

Sansan digitizes business cards. SekiHQ tells you who to follow up with, when, and how. Both can coexist — but if you're choosing one tool to drive revenue, here's the honest comparison.

7-day trial · Card required · Cancel in-app · Tokyo data center

The 1-minute difference · TL;DR

SekiHQ

Relationship CRM. AI detects when contacts go cold. Drafts perfect keigo follow-ups. Visualizes warm-intro paths. From ¥4,980/seat/mo.

Sansan

Business card management platform. Scan + digitize cards, share across the company. Retain departed employees' networks. "Network as a corporate asset" is the pitch. Annual contract, custom pricing.

Features, pricing, contract — side by side.

Based on public info as of Dec 2025. Sansan's undisclosed terms may favor them in cases not covered here.

SekiHQ Sansan
Primary use case Relationship scoring + follow-up automation Business card digitization + sharing
Keigo AI drafts 3 registers
Warmth scoring (0-100)
Ma timing intelligence
Warm intro path map ~ Internal only
Business card scanning (by design) Core feature
Gmail / Outlook auto-sync every 5 min ~ Add-on
Japan data center Tokyo
JCT invoice (適格請求書) Auto-issued
Starting price (per seat/mo) ¥4,980 (¥4,150 annual) ¥10,000+ (quote)
Minimum contract None (monthly OK) 1 year
Free trial 7 days (card req) Demo by appointment
Setup time Same day 2-4 weeks
How to cancel In-app, instant Via account rep

For exact Sansan pricing, please contact their sales team. This table reflects publicly available pricing and analyst reports as of Dec 2025.

So which should you choose?

SekiHQ is right for you if

"My follow-ups are slipping."

  • Your contacts are already digital (or you don't need scanning)
  • Your biggest pain is "who to reach out to, when"
  • You worry about your foreign team's keigo
  • You want monthly billing + instant cancel
  • Salesforce / HubSpot feel "not for Japan"
  • You want to start with 1-50 seats
Sansan is right for you if

"We need to retain departing employees' networks."

  • You have thousands of physical cards to digitize
  • You want to preserve departing employees' networks
  • Company-wide rollout (100s-1000s of seats)
  • You don't want to change existing workflows
  • You can run a formal procurement process

Honestly? Using both is fine.

Digitize cards in Sansan, then CSV-import into SekiHQ. Sansan as the "network archive," SekiHQ as the "daily decision engine." Different roles — not direct competitors.

But if you must choose oneSekiHQ moves revenue more directly. Digitizing cards doesn't make sales — reaching the right person at the right moment does.

The difference is obvious after one day of use.

7-day free trial · Card required · 1-minute setup · Cancel anytime in-app. Try it; if it's not for you, just cancel.

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