Why a goal-first CRM exists.
Most CRMs are sales pipelines. They were built to help reps move deals through stages. That model fits a sales team. It does not fit a founder.
A founder's day looks different. You're raising a round and tracking 40 investors. You're hiring three engineers and tracking 60 candidates. You're trying to land 10 design partners and tracking 80 conversations. None of these are "deals." They are goals with a finite list of humans attached, and a deadline.
Existing tools push founders to either:
- Hack a generic CRM into shape, or
- DIY a Notion / Airtable database that decays the moment you stop maintaining it.
Both are bad uses of time when you should be talking to investors, candidates, or customers.
WorkToDo is built for the founder workflow. Every contact belongs to a goal. Every interaction (meeting, email, call) is auto-logged from your calendar. Every morning you get a queue of what to do today, across every goal.
The product is opinionated about one thing: goals are the spine. When the goal closes (round wired, hire accepted, design partner converted), you have history. When it opens, you have a queue. That's it.
"We're starting with founders because the pain is loudest there. Engineering leaders and solopreneurs are next: same product, different templates."