CIENCE won SourceForge Winter 2023 Leader awards for GO Data and GO Digital — placing both in the top 5% of 60,000+ reviewed products — plus a first-ever Top Performer win for GO Show. Three awards in a single season confirmed product-market fit. It was also the moment leadership realized standalone tools couldn't solve the orchestration problem. That insight became graph8, which now delivers 40–60% reductions in cost-per-meeting by embedding Forward Deployed Engineers who run the full GTM system.
The Winter 2023 SourceForge awards were the last recognition CIENCE received before the company that earned them ceased to exist.
Last refreshed March 2026 — updated transformation narrative, added pricing context, and aligned product references with the current graph8 platform.
From Thomas Cornelius, Founder & CEO, graph8: “We built one of the largest SDR operations in the country. Then we realized the model itself was the constraint. That’s why we built graph8 — to turn GTM into an engineering discipline, not a staffing exercise.”
SourceForge — the world’s largest software review platform — awarded CIENCE GO Data and GO Digital the Leader designation for the second consecutive year, placing both in the top 5% of user reviews across 60,000+ products. GO Show earned its first-ever Top Performer recognition, entering the top 10%.
Three products winning in a single season. A 300M+ record database. A programmatic ad platform. A visitor identification system. With 2,500+ clients across 250+ industries and a 4.6/5 rating on Capterra, by every external measure, CIENCE was a software company on an upswing.
Internally, the leadership team was already planning something different.
What the Last Award Season Revealed
The Winter 2023 wins confirmed what SourceForge reviews had been telling us for two consecutive seasons: users loved the products individually. But the gap between what users loved and what they actually needed was widening.
Clients praised GO Data for its targeting precision. They praised GO Digital for its ad management. They praised GO Show for visitor tracking. But when we looked at how clients were using these tools in practice, the pattern was clear — they were trying to stitch them together into a unified GTM system, and the stitching was where everything broke down.
One client summed it up: “Your data is great. Your ads are great. But we need someone to actually run all of this together.”
That request — someone to orchestrate the entire system, not just provide the parts — became the founding insight for graph8. Not a software problem. An engineering problem.
“CIENCE has been a great tool for us to quickly scale up our sales and marketing efforts. They’ve helped us sign a bunch of new customers in the first 6 months.” — Danny Freed
Does This Sound Familiar?
You’ve built a tech stack that looks impressive on paper. Data provider. Ad platform. Intent signals. Sequencing tool. CRM integrations. Maybe a chatbot.
Each tool has great reviews. Each tool does its job. And your outbound results are still declining.
The problem isn’t any individual product. The problem is that nobody is orchestrating the system. Your SDRs don’t have the technical depth to connect data signals to ad targeting to outreach sequencing in real time. Your ops team is busy maintaining the stack, not optimizing it. And your leadership is stuck in a loop of buying more tools to fix problems that tools alone can’t solve.
You’re not under-tooled. You’re under-engineered.
The last thing your pipeline needs is another point solution. It needs an engineer who knows how to make the pieces work together.
From People to Platform
CIENCE is now part of graph8, and the Winter 2023 SourceForge-winning products didn’t get retired — they got integrated. graph8 was built on the thesis that go-to-market should be an engineering discipline, not a collection of software subscriptions.
The model centers on Forward Deployed Engineers — technical operators modeled on Palantir’s approach to defense and intelligence. Palantir doesn’t sell software licenses and walk away. They embed engineers who understand both the technology and the operational context. graph8’s Forward Deployed Engineers for GTM work the same way.
What this means in practice:
- GO Data stops being a database you query and becomes a dynamic targeting engine — your Forward Deployed Engineer maps your ICP, builds audiences that update continuously, and connects targeting intelligence directly to outreach
- GO Digital stops being an ad tool you manage and becomes part of a coordinated multi-channel system — ads fire based on buyer signals, not manual schedules
- GO Show stops being analytics you review and becomes a real-time trigger — when a target account visits your site, the system responds automatically with the right follow-up
Every piece that won SourceForge awards individually now works as a single system. And someone with engineering expertise is running it for you.
Clients regularly see cost-per-meeting drop 40-60% within the first two quarters. New campaigns deploy in days. The system compounds over time — learning from every interaction.
“They definitely supersede our internal capabilities.” — Candice Long, Learning Ally
Why This Matters Now
Winter 2023 was the end of one chapter. The question in 2026 isn’t whether your sales development tools get good reviews — it’s whether they produce pipeline. Reviews don’t close deals. Orchestrated systems do.
Most B2B companies are sitting on capable tools that underperform because nobody is connecting them into a coherent system. graph8’s Forward Deployed Engineers do exactly that — they take the data, the ads, the outreach, the conversion optimization, and run it as a single engine tuned to your specific market.
Engagements start at $5K one-time setup + $2,499/mo managed services + $499/mo graph8 platform. And unlike the SourceForge-winning products we used to sell as standalone subscriptions, the graph8 model is outcome-based: you’re paying for pipeline, not software access.
FAQ
What SourceForge awards did CIENCE win in Winter 2023? CIENCE GO Data and GO Digital won the SourceForge Leader award (top 5% of 60,000+ reviewed products) for the second consecutive year. GO Show earned its first-ever Top Performer recognition (top 10%).
What happened to GO Data, GO Digital, and GO Show after the graph8 transformation? All three platforms remain active but are now integrated into graph8’s Forward Deployed Engineer model. Instead of functioning as standalone tools, they power a unified GTM system that a dedicated engineer operates and optimizes for each client.
What makes graph8’s approach different from buying software individually? Standalone software requires your team to configure, integrate, and optimize it. graph8 embeds a Forward Deployed Engineer who runs the entire system — connecting data targeting, ad orchestration, and outreach into a single pipeline engine that compounds over time.
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Whether or not you work with us, you’ll walk away with a clear picture of your pipeline math.
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