A CRM for founders doing founder-led sales
Track every lead, investor, and early customer in a CRM that's flat-priced, never per seat, cloud or self-hosted. No per-seat creep bleeding your runway, no bloat, and your data stays under your control.
The daily friction.
- Per-seat SaaS pricing quietly compounds as you hire, eating the runway you raised to build the product.
- Heavyweight CRMs are built for sales orgs, not a founder juggling sales, fundraising, and support.
- Picking a tool that locks in your data means another painful migration once you have real data and real customers.
How founders run it day to day.
Keep founder-led sales in one place
Track inbound interest, demos, and follow-ups yourself without standing up a whole sales process you do not have yet.
Run a lightweight investor pipeline
Use a separate pipeline for fundraising (first call, partner meeting, term sheet) alongside your customer deals.
Own the data from day one
Your contacts and conversations sit in a Postgres database that's genuinely yours to export, so the asset compounds with the company instead of getting stuck in someone else's silo.
Grow into it, not out of it
Add a cofounder or first hire as a user for free, and customize fields as the business takes shape. No replatforming.
Then bend it to exactly how you work.
The role setup is a head start, not a cage. Rename pipeline stages, add the fields your team actually fills in, build the views you check every morning, and wire up automations for the busywork. You own the source, so nothing is off-limits.
- Custom fields and record types
- Rename or add pipeline stages
- Saved views, filters, and automations
Questions, answered.
- No. You run only the pipelines you need, and whether on Cloud or self-hosted, you can keep it as simple as a contact list until you need more.
- It never compounds with headcount, unlike per-seat SaaS. Cloud is a flat $29/month. Prefer to own the source outright? A one-time $399 license covers a single domain to self-host.
- Unlikely. Self-host it and you own the code and the database outright; on Cloud your data is still yours to export any time. Either way you extend the same system as the team grows instead of ripping it out for an enterprise tool.
- No, and that is deliberate. There are no AI features, so nothing is marking up the price or sending your early customer and investor conversations to a third party.
Is this overkill for a one-person company?
How does Nanobox's pricing help my runway?
Will I have to migrate again once we grow?
Does it have AI to write my outreach?
Per-seat pricing is a bet against your runway
You raised money (or bootstrapped savings) to build a product and find customers, not to feed a stack of monthly tools. A founder-led company doesn't need a sales suite priced for a 50-person revenue org; it needs one reliable place to remember who it talked to, what was promised, and what happens next. But the default CRMs all run on the same model: a per-seat subscription that bills forever and creeps upward, draining the exact runway you're trying to stretch.
Nanobox is flat-priced with no per-seat fee and no tier you get pushed into as you hire. Cloud is a flat $29/month. Prefer to own the source outright? A one-time $399 purchase covers a single domain to self-host, with no meter and no renewal you'll forget to cancel. For a founder watching every dollar of burn, a price that never creeps with headcount is a small but real way to extend the timeline.
The data you collect now is a company asset
In the early days you wear every hat: you're closing the first customers, courting investors, and answering support yourself. Nanobox lets you keep a customer pipeline and a separate fundraising pipeline side by side, so a "first call to term sheet" investor track doesn't get tangled up with deals. More importantly, all of it lives in a Postgres database you can export any time, whether we host it for you in the cloud or you self-host it yourself. The relationship history you're building (who introduced you to whom, why a deal stalled, what an investor cared about) becomes a compounding asset that stays with the company, not a hostage in someone else's cloud with no way out. When you hire your first salesperson, you add them as a user for free and hand over a system already full of context, rather than starting another migration. Cloud is a flat $29/month, never per seat, or self-host outright for a one-time $399 if you'd rather run it yourself.
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The CRM your role deserves, free to start.
Start from a setup built for founders and shape it to your workflow. Flat $29/mo, unlimited users, every module included. Or own the source and self-host from $399.