A few months ago I wrote about why I built Blake, my own CRM. Here is what happened next. It now emails each workspace a plain-language summary of the week every Monday, ending with a short list of the deals worth a look. It also got more reliable after I found and killed a bug that was quietly dropping real leads, and it finally grew a look of its own.

I have spent years working across startups, where lead generation is everything and a missed follow-up is a lost deal. Every CRM I tried was built for a ten-rep sales team and priced accordingly. So I built my own. You forward Blake a lead, it reads the thread, researches the company, and ranks it against your ICP: four tiers with a reason for each. No data entry. Blake is in closed beta, request a workspace at blakecloses.com.