Startups
A CRM for startups of fifteen to forty.
A CRM for startups is a pipeline the whole team can read, with one record per customer.
Pilot, 20 seats
Team plan
Integration pilot
Annual plan
Design partner
Security review
Enterprise plan
Annual planFour tools before the Series A.
The free tiers were right at five people. At twenty-five they are four bills, four logins and four copies of the customer. The best CRM system for startups at that size is the one that replaces three of the four.
A quarter in a growing company, and what carries each part of it.
Sell it, ship it, bill it, support it, hire for it.
The pipeline
Deals on the stages your team actually runs, with the fields you added rather than the ones a template shipped with.
Airbnb
Asana
Figma
Miro
WebflowThe first invoices
The won deal becomes an estimate and then an invoice on the same customer, so nobody rebuilds the numbers in a second tool.
The support that arrives with customers
Requests land in one queue with a target on them, and your customers follow their own without holding a licence.
StripeThe team channel
Channels and threads for the work, on the same people directory, so a decision sits beside the record it was about.
The first ten hires
One record per person, the chart drawn from it, and the joining list somebody actually works through.
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What stops happening.
What stops once every product reads the same client record.
Onboarding a new starter into four tools
One workspace and one set of roles, so the person who joins in week three is given access once rather than four times.
The customer who exists twice
The deal, the invoice and the ticket are on one company record, so support does not have to ask sales who this is.
The invoice nobody raised
The won deal and the money sit on the same record, so closed work is not waiting in a spreadsheet for somebody to notice.
Paying for seats that only look
Customers in the portal hold no account at all, however many of them there are, so a growing customer base does not grow the bill.
What runs without anyone.
When a record changes, create the next record or send the email.
Spodus AI knows every client.
Ask about your startup, catch up on a client, or turn a meeting note into work. It asks before it changes anything.
Notion
SlackAsk in plain words
Get the answer from your records, with the clients behind it.
Catch up on a client
Summarize any company: what's open, what's paid and who owns it.
Notes become work
Spodus AI proposes the tasks in a meeting note. You confirm.
You can be running the company on this inside a week.
Choose what you run first, bring the customer list in, give seats to whoever signs in.
Start with the part that hurts
Contacts, companies and tasks are there from the first minute.
Bring the customer list in
Contacts, companies and deals from a CSV or a spreadsheet, through a guided importer with presets for HubSpot, Pipedrive, Salesforce, Zoho, Asana, ClickUp and Trello.
Give seats to the people who sign in
Everyone doing the work takes a seat.
Everything in one seat.
Every product comes with every seat, on the same records your startup already keeps.
CRM
Contacts, companies and deals, with every email on the client.
Invoicing
Quotes, invoices and payments on the client's record.
Support
Every ticket shows on the company it came from.
Chat
Talk about a client and turn a message into a task.
Dashboards
Revenue, pipeline and forecast, live from your records.
Team
Your people, time off and reviews, next to their clients.
Two ways
to start
Start fresh today, or bring the clients, deals and history you already have.
Start fresh
Free for up to three people.
You get every product: CRM, invoicing, support, team, chat and Spodus AI, which asks before it changes anything. Upgrade when your team grows.
Start for freeBring your data
Bring your data from the tool you use now.
Your deals arrive with their stages, owners and dates. Connect your work email, and each client's emails land on their record. On a paid plan, we'll move it all for you, free.
Put the whole startup on one seat.
Start today, or bring your own data to a demo and see it there.
Questions, answered
Probably not yet. It is built for a team of roughly fifteen to forty where more than one person is selling, billing and answering customers. Below about ten people a shared inbox and a spreadsheet genuinely are cheaper, and we would rather say so than sell you five products you will not open. Come back at the first sales hire.
The best CRM for startups is the one that gets updated. That is the one that also holds the invoice and the support queue, because then people open it for reasons other than the pipeline. Spodus is built that way. If you are two founders, the best CRM for a startup at that size is a spreadsheet, and we would rather say so.
You add seats and turn products on as you go; the rate per seat does not change with team size and there is no band to cross. What is tiered is how much you can store and how much control you need, not which products you get. Past fifty people, or with a sales team that lives on a dialer, you will want something else.
Yes. Contacts, companies and tasks are there from the first minute, and the rest switch on when you want them. Turning one on later brings back its screens with whatever is already in them. Start with the pipeline. Switch support on the week a customer writes in twice.
No. Estimates, invoices, payments and statements live here on the same records as your customers, but there is no bank feed and no double-entry ledger, so your accountant keeps theirs. There is also no card checkout on an invoice: you record the payment when it lands, and the balance and the customer history update together.
Only if they sign in and do work. Anyone raising or following a request through the portal holds no account at all. A read-only role exists, but it is still a seat, so a board member who wants to look at the dashboard is a seat like anyone else. Export the numbers to the board deck instead.