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Replace a $40K CRM contract with a custom CRM built in an afternoon
Atonom, a 25-30 person AI sales company, built its own CRM in Lovable with a first working prototype in about 3 hours. It replaced a Salesforce contract, cutting annual CRM costs from $40,000 to about $1,200.
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- Estimated setup time
- 3 hr
- Indicative monthly cost
- $25/mo
- Reported or estimated benefit
- $38,800 per year
How to do it
- List the CRM features your team actually uses each week
- Describe those screens and fields to Lovable and generate a first version
- Connect a database and sign-in so the team can share it
- Import your contacts and deals from a CSV export
- Run both systems side by side for a few weeks before canceling
The prompt
Build a simple CRM for a 25-person sales team. I need: companies, contacts and deals; a deal pipeline board with drag-and-drop stages (Lead, Qualified, Proposal, Won, Lost); an activity log per deal; owner assignment; and a CSV import for contacts. Add email sign-in and a dashboard showing pipeline value by stage and by owner.
Where this comes from
One person reported it. Promising, not yet confirmed. Original report: Lovable (customer story).
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