A CRM where the AI never leaves your laptop
Description and use
<p>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week2-2026-10-12">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle</a></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p><strong>Private AI Lead Assistant</strong> — a small CRM where you paste a client conversation and a local model turns it into a structured lead.</p> <p>A freelancer's WhatsApp or email thread with a prospect is already a CRM record in prose: who they are, what they want built, the budget, the deadline. Extracting it is tedious, and every cloud "AI CRM" solves it by uploading the transcript. This solves
Problem
<p>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week2-2026-10-12">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle</a></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p><strong>Private AI Lead Assistant</strong> — a small CRM where you paste a client conversation and a local model turns it into a structured lead.</p> <p>A freelancer's WhatsApp or email thread with a prospect is already a CRM record in prose: who they are, what they want built, the budget, the deadline. Extracting it is tedious, and every cloud "AI CRM" solves it by uploading the transcript. This solves
Outcome
<p>This is a submission for the <a href="https://dev.to/challenges/hacktoberfest-week2-2026-10-12">Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 2: Side Hustle</a></p> <h2> What I Built </h2> <p><strong>Private AI Lead Assistant</strong> — a small CRM where you paste a client conversation and a local model turns it into a structured lead.</p> <p>A freelancer's WhatsApp or email thread with a prospect is already a CRM record in prose: who they are, what they want built, the budget, the deadline. Extracting it is tedious, and every cloud "AI CRM" solves it by uploading the transcript. This solves
Evidence
A CRM where the AI never leaves your laptop
- Record date: 2026-10-16T09:41:09.606Z