Most people leave Salesforce for two reasons: per-seat pricing that stings when you are a team of one, and admin overhead that wants a full-time hire. Orbit is a simple, all-in-one CRM for solo founders and consultants, with one AI assistant, Hiro, that drafts follow-ups and does the busywork on your say-so. The free plan needs no credit card.
Salesforce is an enterprise CRM. It is built for sales organizations with admins, permission sets, validation rules, and dashboards that roll up to a VP. That is its strength, and it is exactly why it feels like overkill the moment you are the only person in the room.
The complaints that send people searching are consistent. The per-seat price keeps climbing. Setup and upkeep quietly become a part-time job. You spend evenings logging activity so the reports stay true. And the reporting itself is designed for a manager reviewing reps, which is strange when you are both the manager and the rep.
None of that means Salesforce is bad. It means it was scoped for a company, and you are a person. The real question is what replaces it without losing your pipeline, your history, or your follow-up discipline.
Orbit keeps the CRM core you actually use, in one place, and gives you one AI assistant, Hiro, that can do any of it for you. Everything Hiro drafts waits for your approval. Nothing sends on its own.
Be honest with yourself here. Salesforce has the deepest enterprise feature set in the industry: advanced reporting and forecasting, granular permissions, a huge app marketplace, and an ecosystem of admins and consultants who can build almost anything on top of it. Orbit has none of that depth. It has one pipeline on the free plan, a simple money ledger instead of enterprise forecasting, and no army of integrators.
If you manage a team of reps, need audit-grade permission controls, or run revenue operations across departments, stay on Salesforce. It is the right tool for that job. Orbit is the right tool when the whole sales department is you.
You do not need a Salesforce admin. You need a CRM that does the admin work for you.
Yes. Export your contacts, accounts, and opportunities from Salesforce as CSV files, then import them into Orbit and map the fields. Custom fields, tags, and pipeline stages can be rebuilt in a few minutes, and most people finish the whole move in an afternoon.
Orbit's free plan is genuinely free and needs no credit card: the CRM with up to 250 contacts, one pipeline, unlimited tasks, calendar, notes, a built-in email inbox (100 sends a month), basic Tables, and free monthly AI credits. Pro is $14/mo or $112/yr, with an optional 30-day free trial that requires a card and converts automatically unless you cancel.
No. Orbit has one assistant, Hiro, and everything it drafts lands as a suggestion you approve, edit, or dismiss. Nothing sends on its own. Hiro can create contacts and deals, manage tasks and your calendar, and write proposals, invoices, and follow-ups, but you stay in control of what goes out.
Stay on Salesforce if you run a sales team that needs enterprise reporting, granular permissions, or a deep app ecosystem. Orbit is built for solo founders, consultants, freelancers, and very small teams, not for managing reps at scale.
AI is included on every plan: every workspace gets free monthly AI credits with no API key to paste and nothing to configure. If you need more, you can top up with a credit pack, and on paid plans you can bring your own AI key when credits run out. The core CRM is free, and Pro is $14/mo or $112/yr.
Orbit is free to start, no credit card. Import your Salesforce contacts, then ask Hiro to draft your follow-ups.
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