Bootstrappers
A free CRM for bootstrapped founders
When the company is funded by its own revenue, every monthly tool bill is a decision. Founder CRM is free, needs no account, and keeps your list on your own machine. If you want AI, you bring your own key and pay the provider directly.
What it costs
Nothing. There is no plan to pick, no seat, no trial that ends, and no card on file. The full answer is on pricing.
Flows can read a page and collect people without AI. Some features, like writing a flow in chat or asking AI to judge who fits, use a key from xAI, OpenAI, Anthropic or Google. That key is yours, stored in Chrome, and those providers bill you directly. Founder CRM does not mark it up, because it never sees the bill.
A free outreach stack
You can get to first customers without a subscription:
- The sites' own search, on Reddit, X and Product Hunt.
- Our free tools: static buyer phrases, a Reddit account-health checklist, a launch-day checklist.
- Founder CRM to keep the people, the threads and the follow-ups.
The free Reddit lead-gen stack guide goes through each piece, including the paid jobs it will not pretend to cover.
You own the list
Contacts, notes, follow-ups and flows live in your Chrome profile. Export CSV or JSON whenever you like. If Founder CRM disappeared tomorrow, your list would not.
If you are weighing paid tools, the comparisons list their published prices and where they are stronger than us. The alternatives pages say which job each of those tools is for. Add Founder CRM to Chrome from the Chrome Web Store when you are ready.
Not quite you?
A short list of people you met in public and a date to look again. Not a pipeline.
One person, a handful of outreach hours a week, and no one else to remember for you.
Before HubSpot, before a sales hire: the people who described the problem your SaaS solves.
Keep the people from launch day, and follow up after the leaderboard resets.
Questions founders ask
- Is Founder CRM really free?
- Yes. The extension is free, with no account, trial or card.
- Do I need to pay for AI?
- No. AI features are optional. If you use them, you add your own provider key and that provider bills you.
- Is there a contact limit?
- Founder CRM does not set one. The list is stored in your Chrome profile.
- Can I get my data out?
- Yes. Export CSV or JSON from People or Flows.
Install Founder CRM
Free, local, no account. The only optional cost is your own AI provider, if you choose to use one.