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Bonsai

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Velocity2.5

Freelancer suite hardens into a CRM-first agency platform with billing tightly stitched to client work.

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◆Current state
Bonsai is reshaping itself around a more flexible CRM core. Recent shipments add independent client/contact creation, multi-client contacts, custom filtered views across contacts/deals/projects/tasks, and a per-contact activity feed that ties documents, messages, and meetings together. Billing-side improvements continue alongside this — auto-attached invoice PDFs, card-on-file charging, and meetings-to-time-entries.
◆Where it's heading
The product is no longer best described as 'freelancer software with a CRM' — the CRM is becoming the spine, with invoices, time, and project work threaded through it. The Zoom integration with synced recordings, transcripts, and AI summaries pushes it further toward an agency-style client operations layer rather than a solo-freelancer toolkit. Smaller billing improvements show continued investment in get-paid-faster mechanics, the original wedge.
◆Prediction
Expect deeper CRM primitives — pipelines, more sophisticated automations, possibly native AI summarization rather than relying on Zoom's. The combination of meeting capture and time entries also suggests a likely move toward auto-suggested billable time from meeting data.

◆Recent moves

  1. 17d ago

    A more flexible CRM

    ⚡ SPARK

    Decoupling clients from contacts and allowing one contact across many clients is structurally important — it transforms Bonsai's data model from freelancer-flat to agency-grade CRM, which underpins the broader CRM-first repositioning.

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  2. 1mo ago

    Custom Views

    Custom filtered views across contacts, deals, projects, and tasks are basic CRM hygiene — useful, expected, and consistent with the CRM-first repositioning.

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  3. 1mo ago

    New Contact activity feed

    A unified contact activity feed pulling in documents, messages, and meetings — the standard CRM 'one timeline per contact' that becomes more valuable now that the CRM is the platform spine.

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  4. 1mo ago

    Send invoices with attached PDFs

    Auto-attaching invoice PDFs to client emails removes a small but persistent point of friction in get-paid flows.

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  5. 2mo ago

    Turn your meetings into time entries

    One-click time entry from a meeting captures billable minutes that otherwise leak — a pragmatic stitching together of the calendar, CRM, and time-tracking surfaces.

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  6. 2mo ago

    Sync Zoom meetings to Bonsai

    Zoom sync with recordings, transcripts, and AI summaries (Zoom-side AI, not Bonsai's) brings client conversations into the CRM timeline. Notable for the workflow but not a directional product move yet.

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