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title: "Run a startup from the first sale | SalexHub"
description: "Free while it is just you. Customers, quotes, money and the team in one place as people join, with records your own code and AI can reach."
url: "https://salexhub.com/startups"
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# A small team, on the work that matters.

The Agent and Minis take the rest. Free while it is just you, then $30 a seat a month. A few people each do the one thing only a person can do, a customer on the line, a sketch, a build, a plan, a meeting, while the quotes, reminders, invoices and reports around them go to the Agent and the Minis.

## Built to be built on

Your engineers and your AI reach the same records your team works in.

- **Your code**: Read and write every record from your own code, with a key. [Build on SalexHub](https://salexhub.com/developers)
- **Your AI keys**: On any paid plan, add your provider's key and pay its rates. [Keep the AI you know](https://salexhub.com/platform/ai-gateway/your-ai)
- **Your assistant**: Work in the company from Claude or ChatGPT. [How it connects](https://salexhub.com/platform/ai-gateway/your-ai)

## What a founder hands over first

- **Answer website visitors when nobody is at the desk**: A site agent that answers from your brief and files the lead. [Read the use case](https://salexhub.com/use-cases/answer-visitors)
- **Get a morning brief of what needs you first**: Every weekday, the deals due and the customers waiting on you. [Read the use case](https://salexhub.com/use-cases/morning-brief)
- **See how the month went, and keep the chart**: Ask in words; get the number, the chart, and the records behind it. [Read the use case](https://salexhub.com/use-cases/how-the-month-went)
- **Set the quarter's goal and hear when it slips**: A goal measured every day, and a word when it moves. [Read the use case](https://salexhub.com/use-cases/quarter-goal)

## Questions founders ask

- **Can I start alone?**: Yes. The Free plan is for one person.
- **What happens when we hire?**: Move to Pro: $30 a seat a month, or $24 billed annually. Everything you made stays where it is.
- **Can our engineers build on it?**: Yes. Your code reads and writes every record with a key, and the developer docs show how.
- **Can we take everything out?**: Yes. Export all of it as one file whenever you want.

## What the research says

- **A company of one**: Twenty-two official releases and studies, read for what a company needs at one person, at ten and at a few hundred: most never hire, and those that do meet people problems first. [Read it](https://salexhub.com/research/a-company-of-one)
- **Cheaper only if you choose**: 38 published sources, read for what a business overpays when one model does all its AI work: the lightest model lists at a hundredth of the strongest, spending moved to the top tier, and the tested gain from choosing is real and smaller than its headlines. [Read it](https://salexhub.com/research/cheaper-only-if-you-choose)

## What a founder works in

- **The Agent**: Does the work, asks before it acts [The Agent](https://salexhub.com/product/agent)
- **Minis**: Small agents with one job [Minis](https://salexhub.com/product/minis)
- **CRM**: Contacts, companies and deals [CRM](https://salexhub.com/product/crm)
- **Every use case**: Each job on its own page, with the sentence that starts it. [Every use case](https://salexhub.com/use-cases)

## Explore more

- **Small business**: The day's work, ready before you are. [Read the page](https://salexhub.com/small-business)
- **Enterprise**: One platform for every company you run. [Read the page](https://salexhub.com/enterprise)
- **Every solution**: Every team, every kind of company, every industry. [Read the page](https://salexhub.com/solutions)
- **Developers**: Build on your own organization. [Read the page](https://salexhub.com/developers)

## Bring your first customer in

Send the first quote today.

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The same page for people: https://salexhub.com/startups. Index of this site for agents: https://salexhub.com/llms.txt