Orbit vs Pipedrive

Pipedrive earned its reputation honestly. It was built by salespeople around one idea: keep your eyes on the pipeline. The drag-and-drop deal board is still one of the cleanest in the business, and activity-based selling (always have a next step scheduled) is baked into how the whole product thinks.

It is also genuinely good for small sales teams. Managers get forecasts, rep activity reports, and team dashboards without hiring an admin. A large marketplace of integrations covers calling, email tools, and lead capture. For a 3 to 20 person sales team that wants shared visibility without enterprise weight, Pipedrive is a sane default. Check their site for current plans and tiers.

Orbit starts from a different question: what do you actually run your business on when there is no team? In Pipedrive, the pipeline is the product, and everything else lives in other tabs. In Orbit, contacts, tasks, calendar, notes, email, proposals, invoices, and booking pages all sit in one place, so the work does not scatter across five subscriptions.

One assistant ties it together. Hiro opens with Cmd or Ctrl J and can create and update contacts, deals, and pipelines, manage your tasks and calendar, write and send proposals and invoices, draft follow-ups and replies, and even build pages and forms. It remembers facts across chats, so you are not re-explaining your business every time. If you want the plain version first, Orbit is also a free CRM with full task management.

Nothing sends on its own. Every draft and suggestion waits as something you approve, edit, or dismiss, so the judgment stays yours while the busywork does not. The free plan covers the whole CRM for a solo operator: up to 250 contacts, one pipeline, unlimited tasks, a calendar, notes, a built-in email inbox, a booking page, landing pages, forms, 10 invoices, and 10 proposals. AI credits are included free every month with no API key to paste, and Pro can bring its own key when credits run out.