A CRM for customer success teams that you own outright
Track accounts, renewals, and health in a CRM you buy once. No per-seat fees as your CS team grows, no AI scoring you cannot inspect, and your customer history stays on infrastructure you control.
The daily friction.
- Per-seat pricing punishes you for staffing coverage. Every CSM you add to protect revenue raises the monthly bill.
- Renewal dates and expansion signals get buried in a sales-first tool that was never built around the post-sale relationship.
- Black-box health scores tell you an account is "at risk" without showing the math, so you cannot trust or tune them.
How customer success run it day to day.
Run a book of accounts per CSM
Assign accounts to each CSM with full ownership, so everyone sees their book, the renewal dates on it, and the open tasks tied to each customer.
Track renewals before they surprise you
Put the renewal date on the account record and build a stage for upcoming renewals, so a contract is never a fire drill the week it expires.
Log every touch on the account
QBRs, support escalations, and check-in calls attach to the customer record, so a CSM covering for a colleague sees the full relationship at a glance.
Flag risk with criteria you define
Tag accounts as healthy, watch, or at-risk using your own rules and notes, instead of a score you cannot explain to your own team.
Then bend it to exactly how you work.
The role setup is a head start, not a cage. Rename pipeline stages, add the fields your team actually fills in, build the views you check every morning, and wire up automations for the busywork. You own the source, so nothing is off-limits.
- Custom fields and record types
- Rename or add pipeline stages
- Saved views, filters, and automations
Questions, answered.
- No. The license is one-time, and you add every CSM, manager, and ops person without a per-seat charge. Staffing for coverage never reopens the pricing conversation.
- Yes. You own the source, so you add the fields your post-sale motion needs (renewal date, ARR, contract term) and build pipeline stages around them.
- No, by design. There are no AI features at all. You set your own risk criteria, so the call is always one your team can see and defend.
- With Nanobox it stays yours. Every account, note, and renewal record lives in your own Postgres database, ready to export or query directly any time.
Do we pay per CSM?
Can we track renewal dates and contract values?
Is there an AI health score deciding which accounts are at risk?
What happens to our account history if we change tools?
Customer success lives in the relationship, not the sale
A customer success team works a fundamentally different job from sales, but most teams inherit a CRM built for closing deals and bend it into shape. The post-sale world is about renewal dates, expansion conversations, escalations, and the slow accumulation of trust across quarterly reviews. None of that fits neatly into a funnel designed to mark a deal "won" and move on. CS teams end up tracking renewals in a spreadsheet on the side, because the date that actually protects revenue has nowhere natural to live in the tool they were given.
Nanobox CRM gives you the source, so you shape the records around the relationship you are actually managing. Put the renewal date and contract value on the account, build a stage for upcoming renewals, and assign each book to a CSM with real ownership. A teammate covering an account during PTO opens one record and sees the QBR notes, the open escalation, and the renewal that lands in six weeks.
No per-seat tax, and no health score you cannot explain
Customer success is a coverage job. The way you protect a renewal is by having enough people to stay close to accounts, which means a per-seat CRM charges you more precisely as you do the thing that retains revenue. Nanobox is a one-time license ($399 for a single domain, $1,999 for the Agency license), so you add the whole team, including ops and managers, without watching the meter. Hosted is a flat $29/month for everyone if you would rather not run the server yourself, never per CSM.
And because there are no AI features anywhere in the product, there is no opaque health score quietly labeling accounts at risk on logic you cannot inspect. You define what healthy, watch, and at-risk mean for your business, using fields and notes you control. The judgment stays human, the data stays in a Postgres database you run, and nothing about your customer relationships is being fed to a third party. See pricing for the full breakdown, or read about Hosted if you want the team running on day one.
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Own the CRM your role deserves.
Start from a setup built for customer success and shape it to your workflow. One-time price, no per-seat fees, full source.