Custom CRM development
Every lead captured and tracked automatically. Nothing slips.
- Leads captured with zero manual entry
- Pipeline stages that match how you sell
- Follow-ups that surface themselves
| Best for | Leads arrive in five different places and get typed in by hand, when they get typed in at all. |
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| What you get |
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| Timeline | 1–3 weeks, depending on how many lead sources and integrations are involved. |
| Where to start | A free audit, then a scoped plan for your business specifically. |
Why most CRM rollouts fail
Businesses buy a CRM, use it for a fortnight, and go back to the notebook. Almost always for the same two reasons: someone has to type every lead in by hand, and nobody agreed what the pipeline stages actually mean.
If using the CRM is extra work rather than less work, adoption collapses. That's not a discipline problem. It's a setup problem.
Automatic capture is the whole game
We build the capture layer first. Website forms, phone calls, and inbox enquiries all write into the CRM automatically as tracked deals, with no retyping. Your team's job becomes moving deals forward rather than recording that they exist.
Pair it with an AI receptionist and even the calls you can't answer become records, including the ones who'd never have filled in a form.
Stages that match reality
Generic pipeline templates force you to bend your process around software. We do it the other way: map how you sell, define what has to be true to move a deal between stages, and build that.
The payoff is reporting that means something, because two people recording the same deal will record it the same way.
What that looks like by business
A home service company's pipeline is usually short: lead in, quote sent, job scheduled, job done, invoiced. The thing that actually needs tracking is speed between stages, because the job goes to whoever calls back first.
A law firm or real estate agent's pipeline runs longer, with stages like consult booked, retainer signed, matter opened, or offer made, under contract, closed. The thing that needs tracking there is which stage a deal has been sitting in too long, because a stalled deal is easy to lose track of over weeks rather than hours. Same CRM, different map, built from how each business actually sells rather than a shared template.
How the build actually goes
Discovery starts with the pipeline, not the software: what actually happens between a lead showing up and a deal closing, in the order it really happens, not the order a sales manual describes. That map gets sanity-checked against a handful of real past deals before anything gets built, because the process people describe from memory and the process they actually follow usually diverge somewhere.
Capture comes next: connecting the website form, the phone line, and the inbox so nothing has to be typed in twice. Automation and reporting are the last layer, once the stages and the capture are both holding up under real use rather than a demo.
What's included
- Automatic lead capture from website, phone, and email
- Pipeline stages built around your real sales process
- Follow-up reminders that surface themselves
- Full history of every conversation against each contact
- Source tracking so you know which channels produce customers
- Integration with your calendar, invoicing, and email
- Reporting on pipeline value, conversion rate, and response time
Frequently asked questions
Often off-the-shelf is the right answer, and we'll say so. Custom makes sense when your sales process doesn't fit the standard shape, or when the integrations you need aren't supported. Either way the work that matters is the same: automatic capture and stages that match how you sell.
Usually yes. If your existing CRM is fine and the real problem is that leads arrive in five places and get entered by hand, we can build the capture and automation layer around what you've already got rather than replacing it.
Typically one to three weeks depending on how many lead sources and integrations are involved. Mapping your pipeline properly takes three to five days at the start and is the part that determines whether the rest works.
Quoted after we've mapped your pipeline and confirmed which lead sources need connecting, since that's what actually drives the scope. A single-source capture layer is a smaller job than a multi-channel build with heavy automation.
It migrates in rather than getting left behind. Old CRMs, spreadsheets of past contacts, and even a folder of emails can usually be imported so the new system starts with real history instead of a blank slate.