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Pipeline CRM

Deliberately narrow system of record serving small sales teams in physical trades and industrial sectors rather than software companies, operating since 2006 and formerly trading as PipelineDeals. The product is a conventional pipeline, contact and deal manager with automation, email drip campaigns, lead forms, electronic signature, reporting and a project management module for tracking delivery after the close, all included rather than sold as additions.

What distinguishes it is the vertical specificity: route planning and map views built for representatives who drive to sites, and thirteen dedicated industry pages running to a granularity nothing else in this index attempts, with separate pages for fencing, flooring, painting and landscaping contractors alongside manufacturing, logistics, wholesale, property development and financial services. The stated target is teams of five to fifty people, and the vendor says plainly which buyers should choose a competitor instead. A mail assistant is metered by writing prompts per tier. Email validation, data enrichment and a connection product are the three paid additions. Onboarding is optional and separately priced, migration is included, and every tier carries a published allowance table down to how many exports each user may run per month.

Last VerifiedAugust 21, 2026
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Founded
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Headquarters
United States
Website
pipelinecrm.com
Categories
crm, sales-engagement, marketing-automation-abm
Assessment

Capability Axes

Capability grades

17 of 17 axes rated · 6 graded A or B

AI Capability
AI CentralityAI CentralityWhether AI is the product or a feature veneer. The removal test: peel the AI label off, and does anything sellable remain?
CC on AI CentralityAI features on a conventional platform. Peel the AI label off and the product still works roughly as before.
Vendor Published

Established platform, trading since 2006, where the removal test leaves everything of substance standing. Strip the model layer and the buyer keeps the pipeline, contact and deal management, workflow automation, email drip campaigns, lead forms, electronic signature, reporting, the project management module, route planning and map views, and the mobile applications.

What goes is a mail assistant, and the vendor's own price card confirms how peripheral it is by metering it in writing prompts, at twenty five per user per month on the entry tier, which is a quantity that describes an occasional convenience rather than a system anyone runs their business on.

Autonomy and Oversight ModelAutonomy and Oversight ModelWhat the system does without a human. Draft for review, auto send, or fully agentic, and what contains a bad run.
CC on Autonomy and Oversight ModelAutonomy is claimed or implied with the oversight model asserted rather than documented. Buyers cannot tell from public sources what runs unsupervised.
Vendor Published

Administrative rather than agentic, with real limits published and little structure described around them. Team count, automation count, custom field count and pipeline count are all published per tier, so an administrator knows exactly what they can configure before buying. Federated sign on appears on the entry tier at twenty five dollars per user, which is genuinely notable because most vendors in this index reserve it for their top plan or an enterprise conversation.

Beyond that nothing is described: no role model or permission structure, no audit trail, no approval step and no guardrail on what the mail assistant may write. Held at the middle band because the assistant is metered rather than governed, and metering is a commercial control rather than an oversight one.

AI Disclosure and Model TransparencyAI Disclosure and Model TransparencyWhat models power the product, whether AI generated outreach discloses itself, and whether scoring and routing logic is explainable.
CC on AI Disclosure and Model TransparencyThe product is described as AI powered with the stack, the disclosure behavior, and the scoring logic all unstated.
Vendor Published

No base model, provider, family, version or hosting arrangement was located on the pages read. The mail assistant has its own feature page in the product navigation and was not opened, and is flagged as the only place a disclosure could sit. What is published is the commercial shape rather than the technical one: usage is metered in writing prompts with a stated allowance per tier, so a buyer knows exactly how much of the capability they get and nothing about what produces it.

Operational and Outcome EvidenceOperational and Outcome EvidenceMeasured outcomes with a stated basis: replies, meetings, pipeline, win rates. Logos are not evidence and prestige is not measurement.
BB on Operational and Outcome EvidenceReal outcome evidence published, with named customers and numbers, but the measurement basis is incomplete: population, period, or definition unstated.
Vendor Published

Unusually strong on operational evidence, which is the half of this axis most vendors ignore. Four support metrics are published as specific figures rather than adjectives: a quality of support score of nine point two out of ten on an independent directory, ninety seven point six percent customer satisfaction, under one minute average chat response, forty five minute first email response and five hour email resolution. A migration timeline is committed as typically three business days.

Customer scale is stated at more than eighteen thousand businesses, and the independent review base is cited with its count and rating rather than as a badge, at four point four across nine hundred and thirty three reviews on one directory with a second linked alongside. A customer stories section and an awards page exist and were not opened. Off the top band because not one named customer or quantified customer outcome was located on the pages read, and the support figures carry no measurement period or sample.

Compliance and Risk
Outreach Compliance PostureOutreach Compliance PostureHow the product handles regulated outreach: consent, DNC scrubbing, opt out mechanics, caller ID conduct, and the public enforcement record.
CC on Outreach Compliance PostureCompliance is mentioned as the customer’s responsibility, with little or no product enforcement described. The tool can be run lawfully, and nothing about it helps.
Vendor Published

The platform sends automated email marketing, drip campaigns and bulk mail with open and click tracking, and no compliance position was located on the pages read. No statute governing commercial mail is named, and no consent requirement, unsubscribe obligation, suppression mechanism or complaint route appears.

A dedicated European data protection page exists in the footer alongside terms and a privacy policy, and none of the three were opened, so this row is held at the middle band and flagged rather than treated as an established absence. Email validation is offered as a paid addition, which addresses list quality rather than consent.

Data Privacy PostureData Privacy PostureGDPR and CCPA posture: lawful basis, data subject rights handling, DPA availability, subprocessor disclosure.
BB on Data Privacy PostureA real privacy program is visible (DPA available, policy substantive) with a gap on the hard question, commonly lawful basis for enriched or tracked individuals.
Vendor Published

The document set is more complete than most vendors of this size assemble and none of it was read, so the grade rests on verified structure with contents flagged. Four separate surfaces are linked from the footer of every page: terms and conditions, a privacy policy, a dedicated European data protection page, and a live privacy settings control that lets a visitor manage their own consent rather than only reading about it.

A trust centre runs on its own subdomain and a security page sits in both the main navigation and the company footer. That is a deliberately built privacy surface rather than two links added to satisfy a checkbox. Off the top band because none of the documents were opened, and no sub processor list, retention schedule, representative or transfer mechanism was located.

Data Licensing and ProvenanceData Licensing and ProvenanceWhere the data comes from and on what legal footing: licensed, contributed, public record, or scraped, and who stands behind the answer.
CC on Data Licensing and ProvenanceData is described by its size and coverage with its origin unstated. The provenance question is answerable only by asking the vendor.
Vendor Published

The core platform holds the customer's own records, which is the clean baseline, and two paid additions sit outside it with no provenance attached. A data enrichment product and an email validation product are both sold as premium additions, and neither names a source, partner, coverage figure, accuracy rate, refresh cadence or lawful basis anywhere located.

A named third party prospecting database appears among the integrations, which routes customer acquired contact data into the platform under that vendor's licence rather than this one's, and no position is stated on what may then be done with it. Both feature pages were not opened and are flagged.

Platform Terms ExposurePlatform Terms ExposureWhether the product operates inside the terms of the platforms it touches, and the restriction risk a buyer inherits when it does not.
BB on Platform Terms ExposureThe method is described and mostly conformant, with one real ambiguity the vendor does not resolve, or conformance asserted without the partnership evidence that would settle it.
Vendor Published

Conservative throughout and built on official routes. Named integrations cover an accounting platform, a mail marketing platform, two mail providers, a prospecting database and a productivity suite, each with its own documented integration page. Applications ship in both official mobile stores. Interface documentation is published at its own address.

Nothing scrapes a professional network, ships an extraction extension, rotates an identity or advertises evasion, and the product's whole design points inward at the customer's own records rather than outward at other platforms' data. Off the top band because no conformance position for any connected platform was located, and because the enrichment and validation additions imply upstream data relationships that are not described.

AI Safety and Data StewardshipAI Safety and Data StewardshipThe cross client boundary: whether customer data trains models that serve competitors, plus retention and deletion posture.
CC on AI Safety and Data StewardshipSecurity language exists but the training question, the one this axis turns on, is unanswered: a buyer cannot tell whether their pipeline data improves a competitor’s instance.
Vendor Published

The training question is unaddressed on every page read, with no statement located on whether customer content improves any model, whether prompts are retained by any provider, or whether material crosses between accounts. The mail assistant drafts messages from the customer's own deal and contact context, so the question is live rather than theoretical, though the exposure is narrower than at vendors recording conversations or holding mailbox credentials at volume.

A trust centre exists on its own subdomain and was not opened, and is flagged as the most likely home of an answer alongside the terms and privacy policy. One adjacent statement is verified and worth noting: the vendor's own navigation describes its security position with the phrase that a customer's data is their data, which is an ownership claim rather than a stewardship commitment but points the right way.

Recipient Disclosure and AuthenticityRecipient Disclosure and AuthenticityHow the product presents itself to the people it targets: whether automated outreach and AI agents disclose themselves, whether sender personas are real, and whether personalization is grounded in verifiable fact. Measured as known compliance with Article 50 of the EU AI Act, in force since August 2, 2026, which requires AI systems that interact with individuals to disclose that fact.
CC on Recipient Disclosure and AuthenticityNothing published on whether recipients are told they are dealing with software. For a product whose AI talks to prospects, silence here is now a regulatory posture, not a style choice.
Vendor Published

No position on article 50 of the European artificial intelligence regulation was located anywhere. A mail assistant drafts messages that go to real people with nothing stating a machine composed them, and the campaign layer runs drip sequences with open tracking and click analytics, so recipients are both written to and watched without notice.

Held at the middle band rather than lower because the volume implied is modest by the standards of this index, the assistant is metered to a small number of prompts per user per month on the entry tier rather than sold as a generation engine, and nothing in the marketing celebrates the recipient being unable to tell.

Integration and Deployment
Ecosystem and Integration DepthEcosystem and Integration DepthDocumented depth of CRM and stack integration: objects, sync direction, API surface, marketplace presence that matches the claims.
BB on Ecosystem and Integration DepthSolid primary CRM integration documented, with depth unstated at the edges (sync direction, custom objects, failure behavior).
Vendor Published

Solid and openly documented, with the programmatic surface ungated. Interface documentation is published at its own address and linked from both the main navigation and the footer, so a developer can assess it before any purchase or conversation. A status page runs on its own subdomain, a knowledge base and a separate training academy sit alongside it, and applications ship in both official mobile stores.

Named integrations cover accounting, mail marketing, two mail providers, a prospecting database and a productivity suite, each with a dedicated page, and a connection product was recently added. A partner programme exists. Off the top band because no marketplace, webhook documentation or protocol server was located, the total integration count is never stated, and independent reviewers identify the comparatively short integration list as one of this product's real limitations against larger competitors.

Deployment Model and Data ResidencyDeployment Model and Data ResidencyWhere the product runs and where customer data lives, including residency options for EU buyers.
CC on Deployment Model and Data ResidencyCloud hosted is the whole public answer. Region and residency questions require a sales conversation.
Vendor Published

Nothing on hosting provider, country, region, data centre or residency option was located on the pages read. The available signals are commercial rather than technical: support is repeatedly and specifically described as United States based, which indicates where the operation sits without saying where any data does, and the entire vertical positioning targets North American trades and industrial sectors.

A security page and a trust centre both exist and neither was opened, and they are flagged as the likely home of an answer. For a customer base concentrated in construction, manufacturing and logistics rather than in regulated multinational software, the absence is less consequential than it would be elsewhere, but it is still an absence.

Security Certifications and Trust CenterSecurity Certifications and Trust CenterVerifiable security posture: enumerated current certifications and a trust center an outsider can actually read.
CC on Security Certifications and Trust CenterSecurity is claimed in general terms. Asserting certifications without enumerating them is weaker than it looks, and this band is where that lands.
Vendor Published

A complete trust surface exists and none of its contents were verified, so this row is held at the middle band and flagged rather than graded either way. What is confirmed is the architecture: a dedicated security page appears in both the main navigation and the company footer, a trust centre runs on its own subdomain and is linked from two places, and a status page runs on a third subdomain.

That is three separate assurance surfaces, which is more than most vendors this size build and materially more than the vendors graded at the floor in this session, where a complete footer contained nothing at all. Against that, no certification, audit, attestation, penetration test, control set or vulnerability route was located, because none of those pages were opened.

The one verified control is federated sign on available on the entry tier, which is a real and unusually ungated capability. Opening the trust centre is the highest value check available on this vendor.

Commercial and Operational
Commercial TransparencyCommercial TransparencyWhether a buyer can budget without a sales call. Published pricing graded on completeness, not on the price itself.
AA on Commercial TransparencyReal prices published: plans, seat or usage economics, and the shape of enterprise pricing, sufficient for a buyer to budget without a call.
Vendor Published

A buyer can compute their exact bill and knows every ceiling before they start. Three tiers carry real per seat annual rates, and the allowance table behind them is published to a granularity almost nothing in this index matches, covering teams, lead forms, automations, custom fields, pipelines, active deals per account, email trackings per user, map view routes per user per month, assistant writing prompts per user, and how many exports each user may run in a month.

There is no seat minimum, stated plainly and contrasted against a competitor that imposes one, and file storage is unlimited on every plan. The trial runs fourteen days on the top plan with full features, unlimited seats, and no card. Two disclosures push this to the top band.

Onboarding is published at two named prices while the vendor states explicitly that it is optional and that no mandatory onboarding fee exists, which is the opposite of the implementation charge that decides the real bill at several competitors it names. And a thirty day money back guarantee is offered with no questions asked, which puts the vendor's own fee at risk. Users can be added or removed at any time on a pay as you go basis. The only gap is that three premium additions covering validation, enrichment and connection carry no published rate.

Exit and Data PortabilityExit and Data PortabilityWhat happens when a customer leaves: completeness of data export, rights to enriched or licensed data after termination, deletion commitments, and auto renewal mechanics, graded from published terms and documentation.
CC on Exit and Data PortabilityExport exists as a feature claim while the terms that govern exit, data rights after termination, deletion, and auto renewal mechanics, are not published anywhere a buyer can read.
Vendor Published

This vendor supplies the sharpest published instance of the inbound and outbound asymmetry recorded anywhere in this index, because both directions carry a number. Coming in, migration is free on every plan, accepts delimited files from any prior system, is supported by live chat throughout and is committed to complete in typically three business days. Going out, exports are metered: the published allowance table caps them at five per user per month on the entry tier.

The vendor deserves credit for publishing that cap where a buyer can see it rather than burying it, and it remains a rationed right to your own records set against an unlimited and actively assisted right to bring them in. Against the wider axis, no post termination retrieval window, deletion timeline or retention period was located, and the terms of service were not opened. In the vendor's favour, a public interface offers a programmatic route, and the navigation states plainly that a customer's data is their data.

Deliverability and Sending DisciplineDeliverability and Sending DisciplineThe operational craft of sending: warmup, rotation, volume governance, spam rate monitoring, and what happens when reputation degrades.
CC on Deliverability and Sending DisciplineDeliverability is invoked as a benefit with no documented mechanism. For senders this is the axis where marketing most outruns evidence.
Vendor Published

Sending is a real part of this product and no discipline around it was located. Automated campaigns, drip sequences and bulk mail all ship inside the platform rather than as an addition, with open and click tracking, and per user email tracking allowances are published per tier, which functions as a partial volume signal. Mail also synchronises through the customer's own provider, which leaves ordinary correspondence reputation where it belongs.

Against that, no warmup guidance, sender authentication position, complaint rate threshold, bounce handling policy or reputation monitoring was located anywhere. Worth noting for a buyer comparing options: email validation, the one deliverability mechanism this vendor does ship, is sold as a premium addition rather than included, where a considerably weaker vendor graded earlier in this sweep provides both validation and warmup free on every plan.

Segment and Market CoverageSegment and Market CoverageWho the product actually serves, evidenced: segments, geographies, languages, and customers that match the claim.
AA on Segment and Market CoverageWho the product serves is stated with evidence: segments, team sizes, geographies, and languages, with named customers that match the claim.
Vendor Published

This vendor publishes the disclosure whose absence has held almost every other vendor in this index off the top band: a plain account of who should buy something else. The comparison hub carries eleven competitor pages and each states the conditions under which the competitor is the better choice, including that a buyer needing complex multi department workflows, deep code level customisation or a large application marketplace should choose the enterprise platform instead, and that a project management tool is not a system of record at all.

The positive half is equally specific. The target is stated repeatedly as teams of five to fifty people. Thirteen industry pages run to a granularity nothing else here approaches, with separate pages for fencing, flooring, painting and landscaping contractors alongside construction, plumbing and heating, manufacturing, transportation, wholesale, professional services, property development, agencies and financial services.

Customer scale is published at more than eighteen thousand businesses and corroborated by an independent review base cited with its count. The one real gap is geographic and linguistic coverage, which is never stated, though support is repeatedly described as United States based.

Commercial

Pricing

What this vendor charges, what it commits to in writing, and where the bill can move. Figures the vendor publishes itself are labeled Vendor Published. Figures labeled Estimated come from other sources and the vendor has not confirmed them.

What it costs
Vendor Published
$25 per user monthly billed annually or $29 monthly
with annual savings published at $48 to $120 per user
$25 lowest published figure
In short
  • ›Three plans at $25, $33 and $49 per user a month billed annually, or $29, $39 and $59 monthly.
  • ›The annual savings are published as cash rather than percentages: $48, $72 and $120 per user per year. That is the better way to state it, because you multiply by headcount without doing any arithmetic. Ten people on the top plan saves $1,200 a year.
  • ›I checked those against the monthly and annual rates and they are exactly right.
  • ›What decides your tier is active deals, at 250, 2,500 and unlimited. That jumps tenfold between the first two plans, so count your actual open deals before choosing. Above 250 and you are on the middle plan whatever your team size.
  • ›File storage is unlimited on every plan, so documents never force an upgrade.

How the price works

What you are charged for, and what makes the bill go up.

Per user subscription across three tiers with an enterprise tier quoted, published at both billing frequencies.

Annual rates are $25, $33 and $49 per user per month. Monthly rates are $29, $39 and $59 per user per month. Structured data declares a range from $25 to $49 in United States dollars together with all three annual figures.

Annual savings are published per tier as cash amounts: $48, $72 and $120 per user per year, with a headline of up to $120. These compute exactly against the published monthly and annual pairs.

Active deals are the metered dimension, published at 250 per account, 2,500 per account and unlimited across the three tiers.

Unlimited file storage is published across all tiers.

The trial is fourteen days with no credit card required, stated in both the page description tag and the rendered page.

No seat minimum, contract length or overage rate for deals beyond a tier's limit is published, and no band or minimum is published for the enterprise tier.

What the contract says about your data

What the vendor commits to in writing once your data is in the product.

Not established from the pricing page, which served no legal or security links in the retrieved markup. No processing agreement, sub processor listing, certification claim, retention period or residency statement was located, and only the pricing page was followed on this vendor.

The custody question is the ordinary record system one with a storage dimension. A configured account holds the buyer's pipeline, deal records, contact history and, on the published entitlements, unlimited file storage.

Unlimited file storage deserves a note. It means the platform holds whatever documents a sales team attaches to deals, which in practice includes contracts, proposals, pricing sheets and correspondence from customers. That is a broader content set than structured record fields, and it accumulates without a published retention period or deletion mechanism.

A buyer should establish retention for attached files specifically, since a deal closed five years ago may still carry a customer's signed agreement and commercially sensitive pricing.

The deal count limits published per tier are the metered dimension, so the platform's economics are tied to how many active deals a buyer retains rather than to how much they store.

Getting started

What it costs and what is included before the product is running.

None charged and none located. The trial is fourteen days with no credit card required, and no setup fee, onboarding charge, migration rate, professional services rate or seat minimum was found.

The annual arrangement is published as cash savings per tier rather than as a percentage: $48, $72 and $120 per user per year against annual rates of $25, $33 and $49 per user monthly and monthly rates of $29, $39 and $59.

Those compute exactly and let a buyer size the decision directly. A ten person team on the middle tier saves $720 annually by committing, and pays $3,960 rather than $4,680.

The cost driver to establish before selecting a tier is active deal count, published at 250, 2,500 and unlimited. That is the meter, and it rises tenfold between the first two tiers, so a buyer with an existing pipeline above 250 active deals is on the middle tier regardless of team size or feature need.

A buyer should count their actual active deals rather than their total historical records, since the limit is published as active rather than total.

Unlimited file storage is published across all tiers, so document volume does not force an upgrade and no storage overage exists.

No overage rate is published for deals beyond a tier's limit, so the escalation path is the tier above rather than a top up.

The enterprise tier is quoted with no band, minimum or contract length published.

What to watch for

Where this pricing can surprise a buyer who has not read it closely.

Annual savings published as cash amounts per tier rather than as a single percentage, which is the treatment that lets a buyer verify the claim.

Three tiers are published at $25, $33 and $49 per user monthly billed annually, with monthly rates of $29, $39 and $59, and an enterprise tier quoted. Structured data declares a range from $25 to $49 with all three annual figures.

The savings are published per tier as cash: $48, $72 and $120 per user per year, with a headline of up to $120. Those check exactly against the monthly and annual pairs, at $4, $6 and $10 per user per month across twelve months.

Publishing the saving as a per user annual amount rather than as a percentage is the more useful form, because it is the figure a buyer takes to a budget conversation. A percentage requires the reader to compute; a cash amount per seat multiplies directly by headcount. Ten users on the top tier saves $1,200 annually, and that is derivable without arithmetic.

It also means the headline is honest by construction. Up to $120 is the top tier's actual figure rather than a rounded aspiration, and the two lower figures are published alongside rather than behind the qualifier.

The metered dimension is active deals, published at 250, 2,500 and unlimited across the three tiers. That is the constraint a buyer should size against, and it is a different meter from the record count used by Bigin or the contact volume used by the marketing automation vendors in this index. Active deals is a narrower unit and rises tenfold between the first two tiers.

Unlimited file storage is published across the tiers, so the platform is not metered on storage at any level.

The trial is fourteen days with no credit card required, stated in both the metadata and the page.

The numeric field carries $25, the entry tier on annual billing.

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