For teams leaving HubSpot
Tired of HubSpot eating your week?
What HubSpot users keep telling us
The CRM should help you sell. Not become the second job.
- Spent more hours configuring HubSpot than selling with it. Property maps, pipeline templates, role wiring — before a single deal moves.
- AI lives behind a higher tier. Breeze, the new agents, the better automations — each one a separate line item billed on top of seats.
- The free plan was the on-ramp. The renewal quote was the surprise. Contact-tier limits, marketing seats, operations seats, AI seats.
How FlowGrid is different
An AI canvas, included in every seat. Privacy as a database design decision, not a marketing claim.
Canvas, not config wizards
Describe the dashboard you want. It appears.
Most CRMs make you click through configuration menus to get a view that fits your work. FlowGrid uses a canvas you shape by talking to it. Type a prompt, get a widget. Iterate by talking, not by clicking.
No drag-and-drop puzzle, no setup wizard you abandon halfway through. Just a workspace that adjusts.
AI in every seat, not a separate tier
Nexus has 60+ tools bound to your schema.
Nexus isn't a generic chat box pasted onto a CRM. It has tools wired into your contacts, deals, pipelines, and custom objects, so asking "show me deals closing this month grouped by owner" gets you a real widget — not a recipe to build one.
It's sandboxed to your workspace. Every action is confirmed before it runs and logged in your audit trail.
Privacy as the default
Field-level encryption with keys only your tenant holds.
AES-256-GCM at the field level. Tenant-scoped keys managed in a KMS. Multi-tenant row-level isolation enforced at the Postgres layer, so cross-tenant reads aren't a feature flag — they're a database-level impossibility.
GDPR-compliant with a DPA your legal contact can pull right now. No ad pixels, no enrichment-network re-selling. Full security details are public, with the gaps named.
Side-by-side, no surprises
FlowGrid vs HubSpot, in plain language.
| Aspect | HubSpot | FlowGrid |
|---|---|---|
| First useful dashboard | Hours in setup wizards. Property maps, pipeline templates, role wiring before you've imported a single record. | Type a prompt. The dashboard appears. Iterate by talking, not by clicking through settings panels. |
| AI assistant | Breeze and a stack of AI add-ons. Most useful pieces sit behind a higher tier, billed on top of seats. | Nexus is the product, not a $50/month upsell. 60+ tools bound to your schema, included in every seat. |
| Pricing growth | Free tier as the start of an upsell ladder: contact-tier limits, marketing seats, "operations" seats, AI seats. | One plan, every feature, per-seat pricing. No tier ladders, no surprise add-ons mid-quarter. |
| Customising your CRM | Custom objects on enterprise plans. Workflow editor that takes a week to learn. Admin certifications recommended. | Custom objects, fields, and pipelines from day one. Prompt Nexus to add them; confirm before they ship. |
| Data privacy | "Enterprise-grade security" marketing copy. Tracking pixels and ad-network integrations layered into the platform. | Field-level AES-256-GCM encryption with tenant-scoped keys. No ad pixels. GDPR-compliant with a published DPA. |
| Your data on the way out | Exports gated by plan. Object types you customised may not round-trip cleanly. Cancellation flows aimed at saving the deal. | CSV export of every record, every field, on every plan. Tenant key means nobody else can read what you leave behind. |
- Hours in setup wizards. Property maps, pipeline templates, role wiring before you've imported a single record.
- Type a prompt. The dashboard appears. Iterate by talking, not by clicking through settings panels.
- Breeze and a stack of AI add-ons. Most useful pieces sit behind a higher tier, billed on top of seats.
- Nexus is the product, not a $50/month upsell. 60+ tools bound to your schema, included in every seat.
- Free tier as the start of an upsell ladder: contact-tier limits, marketing seats, "operations" seats, AI seats.
- One plan, every feature, per-seat pricing. No tier ladders, no surprise add-ons mid-quarter.
- Custom objects on enterprise plans. Workflow editor that takes a week to learn. Admin certifications recommended.
- Custom objects, fields, and pipelines from day one. Prompt Nexus to add them; confirm before they ship.
- "Enterprise-grade security" marketing copy. Tracking pixels and ad-network integrations layered into the platform.
- Field-level AES-256-GCM encryption with tenant-scoped keys. No ad pixels. GDPR-compliant with a published DPA.
- Exports gated by plan. Object types you customised may not round-trip cleanly. Cancellation flows aimed at saving the deal.
- CSV export of every record, every field, on every plan. Tenant key means nobody else can read what you leave behind.
Verifiable, not assumed
We're early. Here's how you can verify us anyway.
How your data is protected
Field-level AES-256-GCM encryption with tenant-scoped keys. Multi-tenant row-level isolation. Every mutation logged.
Read the security details →Legal & compliance
GDPR-compliant with a Data Processing Addendum. Your legal contact can pull it now — not after a sales call.
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