CRM · replacement recipe

Small-team sales pipeline

Replaces Salesforce, HubSpot Sales Hub, Pipedrive. 4 ways out. Best: Bigin Express (switch vendor), about $10,260 saved in year one.

Modeled, not measured. Savings use public prices and planning assumptions: the bill you stop paying, minus the new tool, your upkeep time and your setup time at $50/hour, over the first 12 months. No verified migrations yet. Check the must-haves in each recipe before you switch.

What you use

  • Contacts
  • Companies
  • Deals
  • Tasks
  • Simple pipeline report

Not covered

  • CPQ
  • Territories
  • Complex forecast rules
  • Large integration estates
  • Enterprise security parity

Check before switching

  • All must-have features covered
  • Export relationships verified
  • No required CPQ or territory model
  • Compare downgrade and managed CRM first

Agents: get_recipe("crm-pipeline") on the Stackcut MCP server.

4 ways out, best first

Switch vendorBigin ExpressSaves $10,260 in year one
$1,000/mo today → $70/mo + 0.5 h upkeep · setup 10 h + $100 · then $10,860/yr · payback 0.7 mo
10 users; contacts, one deal pipeline, tasks and simple reports
Baseline $100/user/month annual; alternative $7/user/month annual. Both must meet this narrow workflow.
Sources: salesforce.combigin.com
Replace with AIReplace with AI: bespoke pipelineSaves $7,320 in year one
$1,000/mo today → $40/mo + 2 h upkeep · setup 50 h + $500 · then $10,320/yr · payback 3.5 mo
10 users; one pipeline, CSV import/export, roles and weekly digest
Sources: salesforce.com
Switch vendorTwentySavings not modeled yet
License: Open-core; inspect current LICENSE and enterprise directory before distribution. Repository: https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty
Sources: twenty.com
Open sourceTwentySavings not modeled yet
License: Open-core; inspect current LICENSE and enterprise directory before distribution. Repository: https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty
Sources: twenty.com

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