Don't start your startup journey working in spreadsheets, documents and disconnected tools. Use a modern work management platform purpose built for helping startups move from idea to hyper-growth industry leaders.
Position your startup for long-term success by managing your ideas, plans, workflows and people in a single platform that can adapt and scale as your startup evolves.
Startup founders should spend their time building their business, not worrying about systems and tools needed to get work done.
SmartSuite brings together the essential capabilities that startups need to get everything done: databases, spreadsheets, documents, collaboration tools, file management products and automation capabilities — in a single platform - for $10 per user, per month.
Your goal as a startup is to make something that people will love. SmartSuite provides best practice templates designed for startups, helping you manage things like business plans, use cases, software requirements, user interface designs, feature descriptions and test cases.
We’ll help ensure your minimum viable product (MVP) is launched on time and exceeds expectations.
It’s important to let your ideas evolve as you get feedback from users. SmartSuite helps you manage the feedback loop, letting you prioritize and score features based on user responses and long term value to your business.
Successful startups understand the importance of setting monthly and quarterly goals so team members understand priorities and how they can best contribute to the overall success of the business.
SmartSuite allows you to document company goals and objectives so teams can easily track changing priorities, new customer demands and market fluctuations so that you respond quickly and effectively.
Dashboards are a great way for startups to visualize key performance indicators (KPIs) across business segments to gain real time insight into performance against company and industry benchmarks.
Common KPIs that we monitor in our own business include user growth, customer acquisition, monthly and annual revenue, release plans, support tickets, test metrics and marketing campaign performance - just to name a few.
Founders understand that it is not enough to simply build a great product - you must find the most cost-effective ways to reach customers and demonstrate the value of your product.
SmartSuite provides best-practice templates that allow you to plan and manage core marketing workflows like user personas, brand assets, campaigns and core sales processes such as account targets, rep assignments and quotas, incoming leads, opportunity pipeline and customer renewals.
Hiring is one of the most important jobs of any founder and is the key to building a great company that is positioned for long term success. Employees are an investment and add organizational complexity and communication overhead, so it is critical that you attract and hire the right people.
SmartSuite helps you by providing templates for hiring plans, candidate interviews, job descriptions, salary ranges, new employee onboarding, employee evaluations and personnel files.
As a startup you need to hire staff, purchase equipment, rent offices, market your product and more. When your startup requires outside capital to do this, SmartSuite provides you with templates to help manage the entire fundraising process from investment documentation through investor communications.
Download our mobile app for iOS or Android and take your workflows and data with you everywhere you go, easily accessible from your mobile phone or tablet.
All your work is accessible wherever and whenever you need it, with interfaces updating in real-time as other users make changes - whether from Web or mobile. With interfaces optimized for your device you’ll interact seamlessly with existing SmartSuite solutions, or you can build new ones on the fly when the inspiration hits during your latest coffeeshop work session.
Focus on documenting your strategy and competitive analysis with tables, embedded images and callouts to help emphasize your key points.
Create wikis, collaborate on content, or update meeting notes in style. Insert an automatic table of contents to stay organized as you create a business plan that takes your company to the next level.
An integrated Member Directory gives every person a glimpse into their remote co-workers worlds, providing easy access to contact information, time zone, skills and personal interests.
People will be able to find the perfect collaborator for the next big project, identifying those individuals with the right skills to get the job done. You can instantly see who is currently online and what their status is so you know when your teammates are available to collaborate.
SmartSuite offers direct, native integrations with popular business tools like Dropbox, Google Docs, and Slack. Or use our Zapier integration to connect with over 2,000 other systems to bring everything together in one place.
SmartSuite becomes the single platform at the core of your startup, with data synchronized from other systems to give everyone easy access to all the information they need. This unified approach unlocks powerful business reporting and provides access to key metrics and performance indicators. It becomes easy to align teams, manage projects and streamline processes to simply get work done - smarter.
Get high-level overviews, identify bottlenecks, and create strategies based on real-time data from every area of your business.
Use any of the 20+ widgets to track everything from sprints to revenue in one Dashboard. Easily display metrics with directional indicators, visualize data with charts and graphs, or embed a countdown that ensures the entire team knows how many days are left before you launch.
Ready-to-use solutions for Startups looking to jumpstart how work gets done - we have all your project management and business processes covered, from CRM to Product Management, Fundraising and beyond.
Build personal agendas to tackle each week to keep you sharp while maintaining a history of performance.
Never wonder where you are in the design process again. Map designs to product features and website content, and choose to store files directly in the solution or link to external design tools or data stores.
Apply the Strengths, Weaknesses, Threats and Opportunity (SWOT) solution at the company, client or product level. Visualize it all in SmartSuite as you craft your strategic plans.
Keep it simple...enjoy a solution to manage a single-project from start to finish. Just because it's simple, doesn't mean it's not smart:)
Add more structure without slowing your flow with too much structure. Track associated tasks through multiple phases that are easily adjusted to meet your needs.
Keep track of customers, identify new targets, and win new business. Get all of the essential features and none of the extras. Ideal for fast-moving, smaller sales teams.
Establish a comprehensive system of record for a digital employee file. Track personal information, control sensitive information, manage issues and more.
What is Marketing? Your answer starts with this simple, yet comprehensive marketing "all-in-one" solution geared for small businesses looking to establish a brand and get the word out about all the great stuff they have to offer.
Define your top goals and objectives by team or department, then track from start to finish. Align goals and status to keep updated on your most important work.
Never lose track of your million-dollar ideas —or any idea for that matter. Capture and cultivate concepts, and collaborate with team members to bring your ideas to life.
Manage the entire hiring funnel, streamline the recruiting processes and integrate the application form on your website for seamless candidate entry.
Growth hacking is where the art of marketing meets science. Clever creativity meets process. This solution helps you and your growth-obsessed team plan, organize, execute and analyze all your growth experiments.
Get relief with an easier way to raise capital and manage your investment pipeline. Startup founders on the venture-backed path can close more conveniently than ever.
Consolidate inbound feedback from email, social media, website, blogs and more. Have a framework for seeking out customer feedback through interviews and surveys.
Get your entire company telling the same story by documenting your mission, vision and core values. Track pitch decks for tailoring your story to external audiences.
Track the highest-level corporate documents and financial information. Organize formation documents, company operating agreements and periodic financials. Ideal for startups.
We use SmartSuite to manage almost every process and project in our own company. How many companies do you know that use their own product to run their business. Well, we do!
We picked the market leader when choosing a CRM system, yet we never felt like we were getting the most out of our implementation. It was complicated and it’s not like we had dedicated sales ops resources sitting around, so we scrapped it. SmartSuite gave us a refreshing combo of simplicity and sophistication - plus we know it can adapt as our team grows and changes.
Brian Z
VP of Sales
Time is a big theme for us. We’ve developed an operating rhythm to working across oceans and time zones. Our teams have an hour here or there for live conversations, but the rest of our work lives digitally. Email volumes became brutal. We started adding tools to “help”, but they just added to the noise and couldn’t fit our global needs. SmartSuite is the system that fits the way we work, where we work.
Arthur G
CTO
We work with patients to build customized dietary plans to address chronic health problems. Our team converted all of our paper-based recipes and nutrition information into a custom Health and Nutrition solution we built. We were able to instantly build plans for patients and track their progress during the course of service. It’s been a game changer for us, in every country we operate in.
Joe S
Nutritionist
I won’t lie. I had a hard time converting my management style to this remote work world. My team “gently” informed me that I was driving them crazy. Our work depends on getting the details right and I was barraging them with well-intentioned texts, Slacks and emails...that were actually sensory overload. I was so used to the easy chats that come with working in the same room. We implemented SmartSuite for our case management processes - just seeing all the data and being able to ask questions and add comments was a game-changer...and made my team MUCH happier.
Theresa L.
Nurse Practitioner, Clinical Trial Manager
We picked the market leader when choosing a CRM system, yet we never felt like we were getting the most out of our implementation. It was complicated and it’s not like we had dedicated sales ops resources sitting around, so we scrapped it. SmartSuite gave us a refreshing combo of simplicity and sophistication - plus we know it can adapt as our team grows and changes.
Brian Z
VP of Sales
Time is a big theme for us. We’ve developed an operating rhythm to working across oceans and time zones. Our teams have an hour here or there for live conversations, but the rest of our work lives digitally. Email volumes became brutal. We started adding tools to “help”, but they just added to the noise and couldn’t fit our global needs. SmartSuite is the system that fits the way we work, where we work.
Arthur G
CTO
In starting SmartSuite, we imagined a world where we could work with the best people, the best teams, the best companies anywhere in the world to bring our vision to life. The same ethos applies to our vendors and contractors, and we use dedicated solutions to manage these relationships.
We work so we can play.
We use SmartSuite to track team members' play days, sick days - all of our paid time off accruals.
There’s a special place internally at SmartSuite that lives within our Product Development solution. It’s called Design Heaven and those who are allowed to enter witness a product design machine that’s just magical.
We love closing new deals! In our world, that means new Solution Provider Partners. Every week, we celebrate the new partner logos we’ve added to our network. Want to partner with us?
We’ll happily celebrate your logo:)
We’ve been through so many evolutions of our QA methodology as the breadth of our platform has grown. We use custom SmartSuite solutions to aggregate all of our testing efforts - from new feature testing to automated regression test cycle results - integrating with testing tools to centralize our work in a single view.
We use a custom SmartSuite solution to build solutions in SmartSuite. Wait, what? Yes, it gets confusing for us too. We have a single solution to project manage our template development for the Solution Library.
Since we live and breathe in SmartSuite every day, new ideas for enhancements basically rain down from the sky from our internal teams. We have a dedicated solution to capture, review, vote, collaborate and advocate for features. It links to our Customer Feedback solution to help us prioritize.
Partner Customer Relationship Management (CRM) is a mouthful that doesn’t make sense, right? But tracking partner details, opportunities and all the data that goes into managing business relationships at scale does make sense. We use SmartSuite to manage every partner.
Sometimes it feels like we’re a never ending content content generation machine here at SmartSuite. We use the same solutions available in our Solution Library to track all of our content - from social media to blog posts and beyond.
SmartSuite doesn’t process payroll, but we manage every single human resource and recruiting process in the same series of HR solutions available in our Solution Library. Well, almost - we’ve customized the Hiring solution by adding a little secret magic to our interview processes.
If you haven’t figured out a theme in all of these We Run SmartSuite on SmartSuite blurbs, then here it is: literally, everything we do starts and ends in SmartSuite. If customers have an issue, we track it to resolution.
The voice of our customers trump everything inside SmartSuite. Seriously - Jon is a madman about customer feedback. We aggregate every piece of feedback and run it through a dedicated solution in SmartSuite, assessing validity and driving the best through to reality.
We’re just like you. Too much to do and too little time to get it all done. We use our Initiative Management solution (available in our Solution Library:) to map out the most strategic items we need to deliver - without exception.
Our Solution Provider Partners are clients in our world - and we strive to provide an exceptional experience from first contact through onboarding and support. We’ve crafted a solution to track every touchpoint and resolve issues ridiculously quickly - that’s our goal, anyway!
We take pride in knowing our market, tracking everything from the competitive landscape down to website performance scores to build and execute strategies that exceed our customer needs.
In SmartSuite Land, operations is 99% tech-focused and we use SmartSuite to deliver on all fronts. Our Technical Operations solution helps us systematically improve our Dev Ops processes by creating internal user stories, prioritizing and tracking through implementation.
