For 25 years, building software was expensive. That's why nearly every tool you use is a rental — a subscription that only goes up, with your data scattered across a dozen different vendors.
AI collapsed that cost. Software that used to take a team of engineers months now takes a fraction of the time to build. The honest way to prove that isn't to tell you — it's to show you. So we built SmallBizHQ, a complete CRM, and gave it away.
If building good software were still expensive, we couldn't afford to give it away. We can — because the economics changed. Every business that runs on it for free is proof of what's now possible.
Give first. Prove it works. Earn the right to build the big thing.
Most software companies sell you the future. We hand you a working piece of it, free, and let the product make the argument.
Free doesn't mean stripped down. SmallBizHQ ships with the tools a growing business actually runs on. The paywall is a human, never a feature — so there's nothing hidden behind an upgrade.
Contacts, companies, a deal pipeline, tasks, and notes — everything about a customer in one place, not five.
Embeddable web forms that drop new leads straight into your pipeline — no copy-paste, no lost inquiries.
A booking calendar so people can grab a slot with you without the back-and-forth.
Bill your customers and track what's outstanding, right alongside the rest of the relationship.
Request and track Google reviews so your local reputation compounds over time.
Little utilities like a break-even calculator and a business-name generator, free to anyone.
Unlimited users. No per-seat fees. Your data is yours — export it anytime. Email marketing and a customer-support desk are on the way; you'll see them marked Coming Soon in the app — we never sell a feature before it's real.
We're not giving away a CRM out of charity. We're building trust. Run your business on SmallBizHQ, see how we think, and see that the software actually holds up under real work.
If you ever want a human in your corner, that's the only thing we charge for — $99/month for onboarding, setup help, and priority support. Never a feature you have to unlock.
And when off-the-shelf stops fitting how you actually work — when you've outgrown even a great free tool — that's when DriftOps builds you a custom operating system you own outright: the code, the data, the infrastructure. Same team. Same promise. You always own everything we build for you.
The full self-serve product. Run your business on it, forever, at no cost.
Everything free, plus support and onboarding from a real person. The paywall is help, not features.
Outgrown self-serve? DriftOps builds you your own operating system — starting with an audit.
Get SmallBizHQ today — a complete system, free to use, not a trial. Own your work, stop renting a stack of tools that don't talk to each other.