Looking for a Nimble CRM alternative?
Nimble built its name on social and contact insights gathered from around the web. The limit is that it surfaces information without doing much with it. Orbit is a relationship CRM with 16 AI agents that prospect, draft follow-ups, call leads back, and chase invoices, all approved by you. Free to start, no credit card.
Why do people leave Nimble?
Nimble made its reputation by pulling social profiles and contact details from across the web and laying them over your relationships. For people who network heavily, that context felt magical. The pitch was always insight: know more about the person before you reach out.
The trouble is that insight is only half the job. Nimble can tell you a contact just posted, changed roles, or went quiet, but it does not write the message, place the call, or chase the proposal. You still carry the follow-through. And as the social-data features aged, the rest of the CRM started to feel dated next to newer tools.
So people look for a CRM that keeps the relationship context but adds the muscle: something that turns "this contact went quiet" into a drafted bump sitting in your approval queue.
What do you gain with Orbit?
Orbit keeps relationships at the center and puts 16 AI agents to work on them. Each output is a card you approve, edit, or dismiss.
- Kai watches Reddit, LinkedIn, and YouTube for buying signals, the modern version of Nimble's social listening, pointed at intent.
- Ivy enriches a contact from a name and domain, so the dossier fills itself in.
- June schedules long-term check-ins and Tess drafts the bumps, so insight turns into outreach.
- Remy calls new leads back in about 90 seconds and Piper calls deals that went quiet.
- A full contact timeline with custom fields, tags, and smart views, plus a pipeline you live in.
- Invoices, proposals, and booking pages, so the relationship runs all the way to paid.
What might you lose by leaving Nimble?
Nimble's social and contact-insight gathering has years of polish, and its browser tools for grabbing people from around the web are well worn. If your daily habit is built around Nimble's specific social enrichment and the prospecting browser extension as it works today, that muscle memory is a real cost to give up.
Orbit gathers signals too, through Kai and Ivy, and saves people from LinkedIn with its own Chrome extension, but the flavor differs. Stay on Nimble if social-insight gathering is the entire job. Move to Orbit when you want that context plus a team of agents that acts on it.
How do you switch from Nimble to Orbit?
- 1Export your contacts and deals from Nimble as CSV files.
- 2Import the contacts into Orbit and map your fields and tags.
- 3Recreate your pipeline stages, keeping only the ones you use.
- 4Add your AI model key, plus an optional key for prospecting if you want Kai and Ivy gathering signals.
- 5Turn on Tess and June first, so the relationship context you valued turns into drafted outreach.
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Frequently asked questions
Does Orbit gather social and contact insights like Nimble?+
Yes, in its own way. Kai watches Reddit, LinkedIn, and YouTube for buying signals, and Ivy enriches a contact from a name and domain. The difference is that Orbit also acts on what it finds, drafting follow-ups and scheduling check-ins as cards you approve.
Can I import my Nimble contacts?+
Yes. Export your contacts and deals from Nimble as CSV files, then import the contacts into Orbit and map your fields and tags. Rebuilding pipeline stages takes a few minutes, so the full move fits in an afternoon.
Is Orbit free like Nimble's trial?+
Orbit has a free-forever plan with no credit card that includes all 16 agents using your own AI keys, unlimited contacts, one pipeline, and capped landing pages, forms, invoices, and proposals. Pro and Team plans are coming soon.
What do Orbit's agents do that Nimble does not?+
Nimble surfaces context about your contacts but leaves the action to you. Orbit's agents prospect, draft follow-ups, call leads back, run check-ins, and chase invoices, all as cards you approve before anything sends.
Keep the relationship insight. Add the team that acts on it.
Orbit is free to start, no credit card. Import your Nimble contacts and turn on your first agent today.
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