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Built in the workshop · CRM product and AI-assisted workflow

CRM Lite for Small Businesses

A focused, spreadsheet-familiar CRM that brings customers, opportunities, tasks and useful AI writing into one simple workspace.

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CRM Lite

by Ironworks

Working product

Customer workspace

Simple CRM. Spreadsheet familiar. AI powered.

One

Customer view

Fast

AI follow-up

Yours

Data and code

The challenge

A real business problem ready for a better approach.

Sector

Small businesses and growing commercial teams

Many small teams outgrow shared customer spreadsheets but find mainstream CRM platforms too expensive, complex or rigid. They need better follow-up and visibility without a lengthy implementation or losing ownership of their data and software.

The approach

From problem to working solution.

  • Designed a familiar customer grid so teams can move from spreadsheets with minimal training.
  • Brought customer records, contacts, activity, opportunities and tasks into one focused workspace.
  • Added an AI email writer for practical follow-ups, quotes, thank-yous and payment chasers.
  • Created a client-owned delivery model with an isolated database, deployment and source repository.

The outcomes

Improvement people can see and use.

  • Makes customer information and next actions easier to find and maintain.
  • Reduces repetitive writing while keeping people in control of the final message.
  • Provides the benefits of CRM without enterprise-scale setup or feature overload.
  • Creates a reusable foundation that can be adapted around each client’s actual workflow.

Capabilities demonstrated

Product designCRMAI integrationMulti-tenant dataSmall-business software

What the work reinforced

Lessons worth carrying forward.

  • →Adoption improves when new software preserves the useful familiarity of the old process.
  • →AI creates the most value when it removes a frequent, clearly defined piece of admin.
  • →Client ownership can be a meaningful product feature, not merely a delivery detail.

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