A CRM for freelancers
Track leads, projects, and repeat clients in a CRM that's flat-priced, never per seat, cloud or self-hosted. No features built for sales teams, and your client list stays yours.
The daily friction.
- A monthly per-seat subscription is dead weight on a freelance income that already swings month to month.
- Sales CRMs assume a team, a quota, and a manager. You are the whole company, and most of the tool is noise.
- Your client list and project history are your livelihood, and you do not want them locked inside a vendor's cloud.
How freelancers run it day to day.
Track leads without a heavy pipeline
Move an inquiry from first message to quote sent to booked, using a simple pipeline that fits one person juggling outreach between billable work.
Keep project and client notes in one place
Scope, deliverables, and past work attach to the client record, so a returning client picks up from real history instead of a cold start.
Chase the work that pays
Set follow-up tasks for unanswered quotes and quiet clients, so the lead you forgot to nudge does not quietly become lost income.
Turn one project into repeat work
Tag past clients and schedule periodic check-ins, so the people who already trust you stay warm and come back instead of going cold.
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.
- Not when you run only what you need. Keep it to one pipeline and a contact list, whether on Cloud or self-hosted, and nothing forces team features or sales bloat on you.
- Either. Cloud is a flat $29/month, never per seat, good for an income that already varies month to month. Prefer to own the source outright? A one-time $399 license covers a single domain, with nothing to renew.
- Yes. Self-host it and the data lives in your own Postgres database on infrastructure you control. Prefer the cloud plan? It's still your data, hosted for you, never sold or shared.
- No. There are no AI features at all, so nothing is sending your client conversations or rates to a third party or padding a bill.
Is a CRM overkill for one freelancer?
Is it a subscription, or can I own it outright?
Does my client list stay private to me?
Is there AI reading my client notes?
A team of one should not pay team prices
Freelancing is a numbers game played one relationship at a time. You might be tracking a few live inquiries, two or three active projects, and a list of past clients you would love to hear from again. That reality does not justify a sales CRM built for a quota-carrying team, with lead-routing rules, forecasting dashboards, and a per-seat price that assumes you will hire people you will never hire. When your income already rises and falls with the month, per-seat pricing is a fixed cost gnawing at every invoice you send.
Nanobox is flat-priced with no per-seat fee: cloud is $29/month, or self-host outright for a one-time $399. Either way there is no seat to pay for, and you run only the pieces that fit a solo operation: one simple pipeline and a clean contact list is a perfectly good starting point. The tool stays as light as your business is, instead of constantly nudging you toward machinery built for sales orgs you are not.
Your client list is the business, so keep it yours
For a freelancer, the asset is not a logo or a website. It is the list of people who have paid you and the history of work that made them trust you. Who hired you, what the project was, what they cared about, when you last checked in: that record is the engine behind repeat work and referrals, which is the cheapest pipeline a freelancer ever gets. Nanobox keeps all of it in a Postgres database that's yours, self-host it for full control, or let us run it in the cloud without handing it to anyone else. You can chase unanswered quotes with follow-up tasks, tag past clients for periodic check-ins, and keep each project's scope on the record so a returning client starts from context, not a blank page.
And with no AI features anywhere, nothing is quietly scanning your notes or your rates. Cloud is a flat $29/month, never a per-seat charge for one person, or self-host outright for a one-time $399. See pricing for the full picture.
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The CRM your role deserves, free to start.
Start from a setup built for freelancers and shape it to your workflow. Flat $29/mo, unlimited users, every module included. Or own the source and self-host from $399.