Business
A CRM for small teams, without the second tool
Pistacio is a CRM for small teams that lives where the work happens: leads move through a simple pipeline from first contact to won deal, and a won deal becomes a project with a budget in one step. Notes, tasks and deal values sit on the lead itself, right next to time tracking and invoicing, so nothing gets copied between tools.
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Your pipeline without a second CRM
Most small teams don't lose deals because they lack features, they lose them because the pipeline lives in a tool nobody opens. In Pistacio the pipeline sits in the same workspace as your projects and time tracking, so it gets seen every day. You create a lead with name, contact and deal size, place it in a stage, and move it from first contact to won or lost. Every lead has an owner, so it is always clear who takes the next step and no follow-up falls through the cracks.
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A won lead becomes a project in one step
The moment a deal is won, the handover problem starts in most teams: the offer lives in the CRM, the project gets built somewhere else, and details get lost in between. In Pistacio a won lead converts directly into a project, with budget, rates and the client attached. Time tracking starts against it immediately, and invoices are generated later from that same project data. Nothing is re-typed, nothing is copied, and the trail from first contact to final invoice stays in one place.
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Notes, contacts and activities in one place
Every lead in Pistacio has a detail page that holds the whole story: notes from calls, the contacts involved, and the history of what happened when. Tasks with due dates are created directly on the lead and assigned to a person, and they show up in that person's own task board, so a promised follow-up doesn't depend on someone remembering to check the CRM. When the deal moves on, the next person sees exactly where things stand without a handover meeting.
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Deal values and forecast per stage
A pipeline is only useful if you can read it. Pistacio tracks the value of every lead and shows you what sits in each stage, what was won, what was lost, and what is still open. That gives you a realistic view of the volume your team is working on and where deals stall. Because conversion and volume live next to project budgets and utilization, you can see not just what you might sell, but whether the team could actually deliver it.
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Why a full CRM is overkill for small teams
Enterprise CRMs are built for sales departments with dedicated admins, long onboarding and per-seat pricing that stings at five seats already. A team of one to a hundred needs something else: a clear pipeline, owners, tasks and values, kept current because it is part of daily work anyway. Pistacio covers exactly that and stops there, no campaign builders, no lead scoring machinery. And during the Open Beta it is fully free, with no credit card, so you can judge the fit yourself.
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