The CRM is already inside MentionFox.
Find a lead. Enrich them. Run a dossier. Move them through your pipeline. Close the deal. All in one place. The way you wanted HubSpot to feel before they bolted on twelve modules and quadrupled the bill.
What is in CRM v0
v0 is the working baseline. Every surface listed here is live on day one. Anything coming later is in the comparison table further down so you can see exactly what is and is not ready.
Why this exists
HubSpot priced themselves out of solo founder relevance. The Starter tier is fine. The Sales Hub Professional tier is six hundred ninety dollars per month per seat for what most people need. Then there is Marketing Hub Professional. Then Service. Then Operations. Then the Sales Pro add-on. Founders we talked to had migrated to HubSpot when the company was three people and were now paying eight hundred or twelve hundred a month for a tool they used to track ten or fifteen open opportunities at a time.
MentionFox already does the hard part of CRM. We find your leads in conversations across fifty platforms. We enrich them with sixty-section dossiers. We run outreach sequences with personalization tokens. We track engagement. The only piece missing was the pipeline-and-contacts shell on top. That is what CRM v0 is.
If you have already paid for our Pro tier you have always had the data. Now you have the surface to manage it.
What it costs
- Try the scan engine
- 10 credits per month
- One Den active
- CRM read-only preview
- Full CRM v0 included
- Contacts, companies, deals, pipelines
- Inbox + lists + reports
- Two Dens active
- Send from your own Gmail or Outlook
- Everything in Pro
- Workflow automation engine
- Email infrastructure (transactional, sequences, tracking)
- HubSpot displacement bonus when switching
- Multi-client CRM
- White-label reports
- Team seats and roles
- Five Dens active
How it compares to HubSpot, honestly
| Capability | MentionFox CRM v0 | HubSpot Starter | HubSpot Pro |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contacts, companies, deals | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Custom fields | Yes | Limited | Yes |
| Pipeline editor (probability per stage) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Lists (static + dynamic) | Yes (visual builder v0.2) | Yes | Yes |
| Workflow automation | Schema live; engine v0.2 (Pro+ tier) | No | Yes |
| Unified inbox | Schema live; sync v0.1.1 | Yes | Yes |
| Send from your own Gmail / Outlook | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Mention scanning across 50+ platforms | Yes (this is the original product) | No | No |
| Sixty-section person dossiers | Yes | No | No |
| Outreach sequences with token personalization | Yes | No | Sequences add-on |
| Reporting (velocity, conversion, sources) | Yes | Limited | Yes |
| Owner leaderboard, email engagement | v0.2 | Limited | Yes |
| Forecast and quota tracking | v1 | No | Yes |
| Service desk and ticketing | Not in scope | Yes | Yes |
| Marketing automation suite | Not in scope | Limited | Yes |
| Approximate cost for a solo founder running CRM only | $99/mo | $20/mo (limited) | $1,200/mo+ (Sales Hub) |
What we will not build
To be clear about the trade. MentionFox is a research-and-pipeline tool, not a marketing automation platform. We will not build a landing-page builder, an SMS marketing module, a service desk, a lead-scoring AI bolt-on with usage-based pricing, or a knowledge base product. If you need those things, HubSpot Marketing Hub Professional is genuinely the better choice. If you mostly need pipeline-plus-research-plus-outreach in one tool, we are it.
Switch from HubSpot
How the import works
You log in to MentionFox. You go to Import HubSpot. You click Connect HubSpot and sign in. We pull a count preview of every contact, company, deal, note, and email-thread record on your account. You eyeball it. You click Start migration. We pull each record over in pages. The job is resumable, so if your connection drops or HubSpot rate-limits us, we pick up where we left off without duplicating anything. Custom fields are mapped automatically when types match; we surface a small mapping UI for fields we cannot guess.
HubSpot stays untouched while we work. We do not ask for write access. After the import you decide when to cancel HubSpot. If you want help with that conversation, that is what the migration assistant offer covers.
Where this fits with the rest of MentionFox
You already use MentionFox to scan for mentions of your brand and your prospects. Now every lead you find has a one-click Send to CRM button. The dossier you generate becomes the contact-detail view. The outreach sequence you launch logs activities into the CRM activity timeline. The Den widgets that show your daily ALPS targets link to the contact in the CRM. None of this is glued together with Zapier or webhooks. It is one product.
If you came here from a Den landing page, the CRM is the layer that aggregates everyone you are working with across all your Den scans. If you came from pricing, the CRM is what you get included in Pro at the same ninety-nine dollars you were already paying. If you came from a comparison page, the CRM is the answer to "do I still need HubSpot for this." For most solo founders and small teams, the answer is no.
Frequently asked
Is my CRM data isolated from other users?
Yes. Every row in every CRM table is scoped to your auth user via row-level security. We tested this with multi-tenant probes before launch. You cannot read another user's contacts and another user cannot read yours.
Can I import a CSV instead of HubSpot?
Yes. The import surface accepts CSV uploads with column mapping. HubSpot is the headline because it is the migration most people are blocked on, but Salesforce export, Pipedrive, Close, and raw CSV all work the same way.
What happens to my MentionFox data if I cancel?
You can export every CRM table to CSV at any time, free, including after cancellation. We do not hold data hostage. The export includes contacts, companies, deals, activities, lists, custom fields, and email threads.
Will the workflow engine actually arrive in v0.2?
The schema is already in production. The engine is the next sprint. If you switch from HubSpot today on the strength of v0 and v0.2 has not shipped by the end of your three-month displacement-bonus window, your bonus extends until v0.2 lands. We are publicly accountable to the timeline.