Hand-stacked, deliberate, human-scale.
Every call, email, note, and meeting is a stone. Together they form the cairn — the legible path of a relationship. Cairnly is the CRM that marks the path.
We are not building "SuiteCRM but free." Cairnly is the CRM a designer-developer would build for themselves: small, fast, opinionated, and AI-native — with all AI processing optionally local so privacy is real.
Who it is for: solo founders, freelancers, indie consultants, and teams of one to three — typically fifty to five thousand contacts. Features that only matter above twenty-five users do not ship in v1.
The name: a cairn marks the trail when the path is unclear. Cairnly Amber on warm stone neutrals — calm, alpine-adjacent, sparing use of accent color.
License: AGPLv3. The core CRM you self-host remains free.