Deploy an Agentic CRM in 30 Seconds

What is it?

An open-source CRM built the other way round from the usual ones. The agent is not a chat box bolted onto the side of a form - it runs on its own deployment, against its own work queue, and decides what to look at next. It researches a contact, enriches a company, books its own follow-ups, and keeps going after you close the browser.

The rule it never breaks is that nothing about a person is guessed. Its tools report what they actually observed - a signature block in a thread, a GitHub account, a LinkedIn profile - and an evidence ledger decides what is strong enough to write down. Strong evidence updates the record; weak evidence becomes a suggestion for you to settle. A confidently wrong fact about a customer is worse than a blank field, because nobody can tell it is wrong.

Everything runs on one pod: the CRM, its API, the agent, and a PostgreSQL 17 database. It is MIT licensed and developed in the open at github.com/trycompai/crm.

Questions

What do I need before I can use it?

A Google account and about five minutes in the Google Cloud console. Sign-in is Google-only, so you create an OAuth client, paste its ID and secret into your pod, and list who is allowed in. Your pod gives you the exact callback URL to paste - it can only be generated once the pod exists, so this step comes after deploy rather than before.

Do I need a separate database?

No. A PostgreSQL 17 server runs on the pod itself, already migrated and ready. There is nothing external to sign up for, connect, or pay for, and it is included in your pod backups.

Does the research agent cost extra?

Not from us - your pod price is flat. The agent reaches its model through the Vercel AI Gateway, so you add your own key and pay that provider for what it uses. Until you add one, the agent stays stopped and the rest of the CRM works normally.

Which plan does it need?

The Scale plan at $25/mo. Four processes run on the pod - PostgreSQL, the API, the web app, and the durable agent - and the agent alone holds around 2GB of memory while running. We measured it rather than guessing, and smaller plans do not leave it room to work.

Can I limit who is able to sign in?

That is the whole authorization model. You set a list of allowed email domains or individual addresses, and nobody outside it can get in. Your pod starts locked to the email you deployed with, so it is never open to the internet while you finish setting it up.

Is it really open source?

Yes - MIT licensed, developed in the open at github.com/trycompai/crm. Your pod runs that source, your data lives in your own database, and you can take both elsewhere whenever you want.