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Foundry CRM

The CRM powering this site, built for solo consultants and small agencies. Contact management, project tracking, invoicing, and an AI-powered chat widget, all in one Rails app. Open source and ready to deploy.

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Everything You Need

Built from real consulting workflow. Every feature exists because I needed it myself.

Contact & Lead Management

Track contacts through pipeline stages from lead to active client. Log notes, record sources, and see full history at a glance. Health check form submissions create contacts automatically.

Stages · Sources · Notes · Health Check Integration

Project & Milestone Tracking

Organize work into projects with status workflows, milestones, and deliverables. Track completion percentage and keep everything tied to the right contact.

Statuses · Milestones · Deliverables · Completion Tracking

Invoicing & Estimates

Create invoices with line items, tax calculations, and automatic totals. Generate professional PDFs. Track status from draft through sent, paid, and overdue.

Line Items · Tax · PDF Generation · Status Workflow

AI-Powered Chat Widget

An OpenAI-backed chat widget that lives on your site. It answers visitor questions using your uploaded knowledge base and captures leads when visitors want to talk to a human.

OpenAI Integration · Knowledge Base · Lead Capture

Time Tracking

Log hours per project with descriptions and dates. Track billable time to keep invoicing accurate and give clients transparency into where time is spent.

Per-Project · Billable Hours · Date Tracking

Admin Dashboard

See your business at a glance. Key metrics, overdue invoices, upcoming milestones, and recent activity. Everything you need to stay on top of client work.

Metrics · Overdue Alerts · Upcoming Milestones

Built With

Modern, proven technologies. No exotic dependencies. Any Rails developer can maintain it.

Backend

Rails 8
PostgreSQL
Solid Queue
Solid Cache

Frontend

Hotwire (Turbo + Stimulus)
Tailwind CSS 4
Propshaft

Deployment

Kamal 2
Docker
Hetzner (managed tier)
Cloudflare DNS

Pricing

Free to self-host. Pay only if you want it fully managed.

Free

Self-Hosted

Full feature access
Open source, deploy anywhere
Bring your own OpenAI key for chat
You manage hosting and updates

Get Started

$49/mo

Managed Hosting

Everything in Free
Hetzner hosting, fully managed
AI chatbot with $10 OpenAI credit included
Ongoing maintenance and updates
Domain setup via Cloudflare or bring your own
No setup fee