I'm a freelance consultant. Tried Folk, Attio, HubSpot free, Google Sheets. Never stuck with any of them. The problem wasn't the features, it was that I never went back to the tool.
So I built a CRM inside my AI assistant (Claude + MCP server + Supabase). Six contact lists, email drafting, a Chrome extension that scrapes LinkedIn profiles at $0.001 each. Total cost: $10.
The whole thing lives where I already work. That's why I actually use it.
I write a weekly newsletter (68 editions). Most of my time wasn't writing — it was tracking sources and losing tabs. inkwell-mcp is the open-source core of my 50-tool MCP setup: source management, editorial notes, article briefs. Think Pocket + Notion as an MCP server. SQLite-backed, your data stays yours. Built for people who write with AI but don't want AI to write for them.
