A solopreneur runs sales, delivery, follow-up, billing, and admin alone, and the jobs that pay get starved by the jobs that nag. AI fixes the math by taking the nagging work: drafting follow-ups, writing invoices, prepping meetings, tidying data. Orbit gives one person one assistant, Hiro, that does the busywork with your approval, on top of a free CRM.
The problem is not effort, it is switching. Every hour of client work gets taxed by the follow-up you should have sent, the invoice you have not written, and the inbox you are afraid to open. Busywork does not just take time. It takes the focus your billable work needs.
The cruelest part: the work that grows the business, outreach and follow-up, is exactly what slips first when delivery gets busy. That is the feast-and-famine cycle, and you cannot hire your way out of it on a team-of-one budget.
A realistic Tuesday with Hiro alongside you:
Orbit's free CRM is built for exactly this: no credit card, 250 contacts, one pipeline, unlimited tasks, a calendar, notes, and a built-in email inbox with 100 sends a month. Lite is $8/mo, Pro is $14/mo or $112 a year, with the first 100 members locking Pro at $7/mo for life. AI is included on every plan with free monthly credits and no API key to paste, and you can top up with credit packs.
You cannot hire your way out of six jobs on a one-person budget. You can hand the nagging busywork to one assistant and keep the one that needed you.
Keep the judgment. Pricing, scope, conflict, anything where the answer depends on reading a person: that work is still yours, and Hiro is built to respect it. Nothing in Orbit auto-sends. Every draft, from a follow-up to an invoice, lands as a card you approve, edit, or dismiss.
Hiro also works only from your real data, so it does not invent facts about a client. It drafts from the contact timeline, and you make the message yours before it goes out from your own Orbit email address.
Use AI for the drafting, keep the authorship. Hiro drafts the follow-up, preps the brief, and writes the invoice, but every output is a card you approve and can edit, so anything a client sees still went through you. Messages send from your own address, not a generic one.
Whatever is your most-dropped ball. If leads go cold, ask Hiro to draft bumps for quiet threads. If cash flow lags, ask it to write invoices and draft reminders for overdue ones. If meetings catch you unprepared, ask it to brief you from the timeline first.
Yes, it is sized for one. Hiro can run any part of the CRM you ask it to, from contacts and deals to proposals and invoices. You are not managing a team. You are reviewing one queue of approval cards from one assistant.
The CRM is free with no credit card. AI is included on every plan with free monthly credits and no API key to paste, and you can top up with credit packs. The first 100 members lock Pro at $7/mo for life, and Pro also offers an optional 30-day free trial, with a card required at signup.
Hiro drafts when you ask it to, so you can queue work at night and approve in the morning. Nothing it drafts sends on its own. You review each card and decide what goes out, so a client never receives something you did not read.
Six jobs, one queue of approval cards. Free CRM, ask Hiro to do the busywork, nothing to configure.
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