🤝 Intros you can trust 🧠 Notes + context memory 📤 Export anytime

Contactful for Founders

Founders don’t need “more tools”. They need a reliable way to remember relationships. Contactful turns LinkedIn into a lightweight relationship system: save profiles you care about, add notes + context, segment with tags, and track next steps in pipelines — without a heavy CRM and without fragile automation.

At a glance

Relationship flow beats CRM overhead

Fundraising, partnerships and early sales are long-cycle conversations. Contactful makes LinkedIn workable with small, fast primitives: notes, tags, pipelines and export.

Remember intros
Who introduced you, why it matters, what’s next
Stay consistent
Follow-ups become a queue, not a memory game
Move fast
Export and share lists whenever you need
Founder use cases

Where Contactful saves founders time

Use it as your lightweight relationship memory for everything that would otherwise live in DMs, docs, or your head.

💸

Fundraising & investor relations

Track investors by thesis and round, add meeting notes, keep the last ask visible, and never lose the thread.

🤝

Partnerships & strategic intros

Remember who can open doors, what the intro context was, and which partner needs a follow-up this week.

📈

Early sales without CRM pain

Track warm leads and next steps in a simple pipeline, then export a list for outreach or reporting anytime.

Workflow

A founder-friendly system in 60 seconds

The goal is simple: keep context close to the profile and make next steps obvious.

Contactful workflow

  • Save the LinkedIn profile (only who you choose)
  • Add notes: intro source, context, last message, next step
  • Tag by purpose (Investor / Partner / Customer) and segment (Round, Industry, Priority)
  • Move through a lightweight pipeline: Intro → Follow-up → Active
  • Filter views by tags to find the right list fast
  • Export filtered lists whenever you need to share/report

What founders usually replace

Contactful replaces messy “systems” like: notes in random docs, LinkedIn DMs, spreadsheets, and half-configured CRMs you stop using after week two.

The win is not “more tracking” — it’s less forgetting, with zero overhead.

FAQ

Questions founders ask

Short answers. Real use cases.

Is Contactful a CRM?
It’s not trying to be a full CRM. Contactful is a LinkedIn relationship memory: notes, context, tags, and lightweight pipelines — with low overhead.
Can I separate investors vs partners vs customers?
Yes — use tags like Investor, Partner, Customer and add segments (industry, round, priority). Then filter views and export the exact segment you need.
How do pipelines help a founder?
Pipelines turn follow-ups into a visible queue: Intro → Follow-up → Active. You always know who needs the next touch. Learn more: Custom LinkedIn pipelines.
Can I export a filtered list?
Yes — export works with filtering, so you can export only “Investors + Series A” or “Partners + Priority”. Learn more: Export LinkedIn contacts.
Is my data private?
Contactful is designed to be local-first — your data stays on your device. Learn more: Local-first.

Stop dropping founder follow-ups

Save key profiles, add context, segment with tags, and keep next steps visible with pipelines. Export your filtered lists anytime — without CRM overhead.