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Your CRM sucks.

Funal gives every customer their own AI agent.

Most software is organized around records. The next generation is organized around agents — persistent entities that hold context and pay attention on your behalf. Use Funal as your CRM, or plug it into the one you have.

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§ 01The Architecture

Every customer, deal, and project
deserves its own agent.

Most business software is organized around records: rows in a database that people update. We think the next generation is organized around agents — persistent entities that hold context, make decisions, and pay attention on someone's behalf.

The question isn't whether one agent works. It's how many should exist, and how they should relate. Our answer starts with a simple test:

Becomes an agent

Persistent things that evolve.

A client. A case. A project. A deal. A program. A matter. Things that exist over time, accumulate context, change state, deserve continuous attention.

Stays as data

One-off events.

A single email. A completed task. A one-off comment. Things that happen once. They're fine as records — not everything needs an agent.

Fig. 1 · The temporal test

§ 02The Workspace

When you open a customer,
their AI has already done the work.

Each customer, each deal, each project is a workspace. Files the agent maintains. A brief that synthesizes the state. A chat that knows everything about this one entity, and nothing about anything else.

When you open it, the prep is already there. The brief was refreshed when something changed. You walk into the meeting knowing what matters.

Customer · Acme Coaching Co.

Workspace

brief.md
notes.md
profile.md

Sessions

2026-05-22.md
2026-05-08.md
2026-04-24.md
Brief · refreshed 4m ago

Sarah at Acme — prep for tomorrow's check-in

Where we are. 9 sessions in. Sarah completed the Q2 review last week and flagged the team-restructure work as her top priority. She seemed energized but mentioned sleep quality dropping.

Open threads. Three: the org-chart redesign (due before next call), the difficult conversation with Mike (she's avoiding), and the recurring frustration with the board cadence.

For tomorrow. Lead with the org-chart progress. Don't push on Mike unless she opens it. The sleep mention may be a window into the broader pace question.

Sources

sessions/2026-05-22sessions/2026-05-08notes.md

Ask Acme's Agent

Last time we talked about Mike?
In session 2026-05-08 — Sarah said she was "dreading" the conversation. Hasn't come up since. Worth a gentle probe if she doesn't raise it.
Ask anything…

Fig. 2 · A customer workspace · Acme Coaching Co.

§ 03Directives Down, Signals Up

One AI can't keep up.
A team of them can.

One agent can only watch one thing. But put many agents on a team — each watching its own customer, talking to the others — and suddenly nothing falls through the cracks.

You tell the team what matters. The agents figure out what that means for each customer. Small stuff, they handle. Big stuff, they bring to you — not as a hundred notifications, but as one clear summary.

You stay in charge. You see only what needs you. Everything else is being quietly watched.

§ 04The Difference

A CRM and an agent-first CRM
are not the same thing.

They have the same shape on a screen. Underneath they are completely different artifacts.

Your CRM

Just rows. They sit there until you open them.

Funal

Acme · Agentwatching
BriefReady · prep for tomorrow
Globex · Agentwatching
Signal7 days quiet · suggest re-engage
Stark · Agentwatching
BriefMilestone hit · update drafted
Wayne · Agentwatching
AlertAt-risk · needs you this week
Initech · Agentwatching
BriefAll caught up · next check 4d

The same rows — each one has an agent that's already done the work.

Rows in a databaseA workspace per entity
You query itIt synthesizes for you
One AI bolted on topA persistent agent on every entity

Fig. 4 · Same shape on a screen, different artifact underneath

§ 05Use It Your Way

You don't have to
throw anything away.

Run Funal as your CRM, or plug it into the one you already have. Either way, every customer, deal, and project gets its own agent.

Path A · As your CRM

Use Funal as your CRM.

No legacy system to maintain. Full CRM under the hood — contacts, deals, pipelines, scheduling, automations — with a persistent agent on every customer, deal, and project from day one.

  • Custom objects, fields, and pipelines
  • Scheduling, email, and document workflows
  • Per-team permissions and visibility
  • Everything Salesforce gives you — without Salesforce

Path B · On top of yours

Plug it into the one you have.

Keep Salesforce as your system of record. Funal syncs your contacts, deals, and activity, and stands up an agent + workspace for every customer, deal, and project you care about.

  • Bidirectional sync with your existing CRM
  • Agents read your existing data, history, and notes
  • Nothing to migrate — switch any time
  • Layer intelligence on top of what already works

Works with

SalesforceHubSpotPipedriveAttioCloseFolk
§ 06Built For

Where the work is too complex
to track in your head.

Funal is for businesses with high-context relationships — where every entity is a story, and the story matters.

Executive Search

Every PE firm, candidate, and pitch as its own intelligent workspace.

Briefs before every platinum call. Auto-matched candidate-firm scoring. Conversation history that doesn't live in someone's head.

PE Firm

Acme Capital Partners

$2.1B AUM · Industrials, Services

Agent · 3 active pitches

Coaching & Consulting

Every client gets an agent that prepares the next session.

Synthesized notes across months of work. Calendar and availability built in. The brief is ready before you open the call.

Client

Sarah Mitchell

Acme Coaching · 9 sessions

Agent · Brief ready · 4m ago

Boutique Law

Every matter and client gets its own workspace.

Intake, dossier, and case notes maintained by the agent. Ask any case anything. Pulled context, not page-after-page of documents.

Matter

Doe v. Globex Industries

Active · Discovery phase

Agent · Filing due in 6 days

§ 07 · Join

Stop managing software.
Start running your business.

Funal is in early access. We're hand-onboarding every account.