If you have ever paid $49 a month for a CRM that does seventeen things you will never use and exactly one thing you need, you will understand the specific kind of frustration that eventually tips someone from “I should find a better tool” into “I am just going to build it.” That is more or less what happened with Project Hail Money. It is a lightweight CRM that lets you track clients, manage projects, and log time against them. Nothing more, nothing less. No AI-powered insight dashboards, no third-party integrations with services you have never heard of, no gamified onboarding that awards you a badge for adding your first contact. Just the stuff you actually need, working reliably, without a monthly bill that makes you quietly question your life choices.
I built it because I wanted something that matched how I actually work, and I suspect a lot of freelancers, consultants, and small teams feel the same way. The core product is free for individual users with unlimited projects and clients. If you want to bring in a team, workgroup plans start at $4.99 AUD per month for up to three members, and scale to $19.99 AUD per month for up to twenty members across multiple workgroups. That’s roughly the cost of a coffee in Melbourne for a small team, which I think is a fair exchange for not having to manage a spreadsheet labelled “CLIENT TRACKER FINAL v3 USE THIS ONE.”
Right now I am looking for beta testers who are willing to kick the tyres and tell me honestly what works and what does not. In exchange, you get a free Pro account for your trouble. If that sounds like a reasonable deal, head over to projecthailmoney.com and sign up. Privacy policy is here if you want to know how your data is handled (short version: sensibly).