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Custom-built CRM

We'll build your company's CRM.
For free.

Not a template you bend to fit. A system built around how your business actually runs — live in about two weeks. $229/month keeps it hosted, backed up, secured, and maintained.

The build is free on a 12-month plan. No card to book a call.

~2 weekscall to live
$2,500build value, waived
$229/mohosting, backups, support
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Leads

+ New lead

After-hours · answered

100%

New leads · this week

18

Avg call → booking

42s

Tools replaced

9

Jordan M.

Coastal Exteriors

✦ Qualifiednow
New23

Marcus T.

Halifax Roofing

82%
Receptionist2m

Dana W.

61%
Chatbot14m
Contacted12

Lee P.

Fenced In Co.

55%
Web form1h
Qualified12

Priya S.

Comfort HVAC

74%
Referral3h
Closed Won12

Marcus T.

WON

Roof repair · Thu 9:00 AM

$4,200

Receptionistjust now

Jobs

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Roof repair — 14 Maple St

Halifax Roofing · Marcus T.

planned plan_approved scheduled

Scheduled

Thu · 9:00 AM

Est. value

$4,200

Assigned to

Unassigned NIKKO SALCEDO ✓ assigned

Animated preview of the TidalCRM dashboard: on the Leads screen, a lead card advances across the pipeline from New to Contacted to Qualified to Closed Won as the column counts update. The view then switches to the Jobs screen, where a job's status cycles from planned to approved to scheduled and a team member gets assigned, before looping back to Leads.

You already know the shape
of the problem.

Every generic CRM asks your business to become a slightly different business. Most owners just absorb the difference.

The fields nobody fills in.Two-thirds of the form is for somebody else's workflow, so your team skips it — and the reports built on it are fiction.

The step that lives in a spreadsheet.The one part of the process the CRM won't model, so it moved to Sheets. Now the real state of the business is in two places.

The handoff that only works because Dana remembers.No system owns it. When Dana is off, it doesn't happen.

The tool that bridges two other tools.Zapier holding together software that was supposed to replace the manual work.

What "custom" actually means

Your objects. Your stages.
Your words.

Not a theme. Not a custom field bolted onto someone else's data model. Same core underneath — two completely different systems on top.

Off-the-shelf CRM

  • Leads → Opportunities → Deals
  • Stages named for enterprise software sales
  • Fields you don't use, hidden not removed
  • Your real workflow, in a spreadsheet beside it
  • Reports about the wrong things

Built for you

  • The records your business actually keeps
  • The stages your team already says out loud
  • Only the fields that get filled in
  • The awkward step, modelled properly
  • Reports on the numbers you run on

How the build works

Four steps. You see the design before we build it.

1

Blueprint call

Sixty minutes walking through how work actually moves through your business — who touches what, and where it currently breaks.

60 minutes

2

Written design

You get the design of your system in writing — records, stages, automations, who sees what. Nothing gets built until you've read it.

2–3 days later

3

We build it

Your CRM, configured to the blueprint, with your data migrated and your team's logins ready.

~2 weeks

4

Live — and we run it

We host it, back it up, patch it, and pick up the phone. You use it.

Ongoing

The part that sounds too good to be true

Why we can build it for nothing.

Most CRMs are one app with the screens welded to the data. Ours is split in two: a core that holds your data and your rules, and a front end we shape around you. Building your system means shaping the second half — not writing software from scratch. That's why your build takes two weeks instead of six months, and why we can do it for free.

The core

Shared, maintained, and hardened across every customer. Security patches and new capability land for everyone at once — including you, forever.

Your layer

Your records, your stages, your automations, your branding. Shaped during the build and changed whenever your business changes.

It also means you're not stranded on bespoke code nobody else can maintain. You're on a platform that keeps improving, wearing a shape that fits only you.

Shapes we've built

Same core. Completely different systems.

Every one of these started as a blueprint call. None of them look alike.

Every build starts from the same working core.

Calls answered

A voice agent picks up when your team can't, books into the same calendar, and logs the call.

Follow-up that happens

Quotes chased, reminders sent, and reviews requested without anyone remembering to.

Your team's whole day

Schedule, site details, notes, photos, and sign-off on the phone in their pocket.

Money in one place

Quote to invoice to payment, with the numbers reconciled instead of retyped.

What the monthly covers

The bill you'd otherwise be paying yourself.

Build your own and this is the part nobody quotes you for — the running of it, every month, forever.

Hosting

Run, monitored, and scaled. Nothing for you to provision.

Your own database

Isolated per customer — your data does not share a table with anyone else's.

Encryption

In transit and at rest, end to end.

Daily backups

Taken every day and tested, so a bad afternoon isn't a bad quarter.

Audit logging

Who changed what, and when — on the record.

Access control

Row-level permissions, so people see their work and not everyone's.

Platform updates

Security patches and new capability land automatically.

Support

A person who knows your build, because they made it.

The stack you're currently holding together.

Most of what you pay for every month exists to bridge the gap between tools that were never meant to work together.

SpreadsheetsAirtableZapierCalendlyTypeformMailchimpQuickBooks add-onsHubSpotA shared inbox

One system, shaped to your process, replacing all of it.

Pricing

Free to build. Priced to run.

All prices in CAD, monthly. The software is month-to-month — the 12-month term applies only if you take the free build.

Most chosen

Pro

$229 /mo

$2,500 build — free on 12 months

  • 5 seats
  • 150 jobs / month
  • 1,000 chatbot messages
  • 100 voice minutes
  • Standard build: your records, pipelines, forms, branding
  • 2 integrations + data migration
Book a build call

Premium

$399 /mo

$5,000 build — free on 12 months

  • 10 seats
  • 500 jobs / month
  • 3,000 chatbot messages
  • 300 voice minutes
  • Custom modules
  • Priority build queue
Book a build call

The free build requires a 12-month plan. Leave before month 12 and the waived build value becomes due. Your data is yours and exportable at any time, including on the way out. Running a multi-location or white-label operation? Talk to us.

The questions everyone asks.

What's the catch?

A 12-month plan. We spend real time building your system, so we ask for a year of running it. Leave before month 12 and the waived build value — $2,500 on Pro, $5,000 on Premium — becomes due. That's the whole catch, and it's why it's on this page instead of in the fine print.

What happens to my data if I leave?

You export it and go. Your data is yours from day one — during the plan, at the end of it, or in the middle of a disagreement with us. We don't hold it hostage to keep you.

Am I locked into custom code nobody else can maintain?

No — that's the point of building it the way we do. Your system is a shape on a shared, maintained platform, not a bespoke application frozen at the moment it was written. You keep getting security patches and new capability without anyone re-opening your code.

How is this possible at this price?

Because we're not writing you software from scratch. The core already exists and is shared across every customer; the build shapes the layer on top of it. Two weeks of shaping, not six months of engineering.

How long until we're actually using it?

About two weeks from the blueprint call, and you approve the written design before anything gets built. If your process needs more than a standard build, we'll say so on the call rather than discover it in week three.

Is my business too small, or too strange?

Strange is the reason to call. We build for businesses between roughly 5 and 50 people whose work doesn't fit off-the-shelf software. If you're smaller than that, book the call anyway — we'll tell you straight whether a build is worth it yet.

Tell us how your business actually works.

Sixty minutes on a call, a written design a few days later, and a system built around it. The build costs nothing.

No card to book. The 12-month plan applies only if you take the free build.