ABOUT

Software sprawl is a tax.

Every tool a business adds brings another login, another invoice, another export. n4n exists to end that arithmetic — one account, one balance, and a fleet of 30 apps built to hand work to each other.

THE BELIEF

A small team should not need twelve vendors.

Somewhere between the CRM, the books, the helpdesk and the mail, running the software became its own job. Each vendor is reasonable on its own. Together they are a tax — paid in passwords, seats, CSV exports and the glue code holding it all together.

We think the fix is structural, not another integration. Build the apps as one fleet from the start — same account, same balance, same parts — and the tax disappears along with the seams it was collected at.

The sprawl way

  • a login per vendor
  • an invoice per vendor
  • an export between every pair of tools
  • a new interface to learn per tab

The terminal way

  • 1 login for the whole fleet
  • 1 prepaid balance, metered per use
  • 1 design language across every app
  • handoffs between apps, not exports

THE TERMINAL IDEA

Run it like a terminal.

A terminal works because everything shares the same infrastructure — one hall, one board, one set of gates. The fleet works the same way: you sign in once, one prepaid balance meters everything you use, and every app is built from the same parts in its own hue.

One record, four gates · no exports between them

n4n Formssalesn4n CRMsalesn4n Invoicefinancen4n Booksfinance

A form response becomes a deal. The deal becomes an invoice. The invoice becomes a ledger line. The record moves between gates; it never leaves the building.

1 login·1 balance·1 design language·$0 minimum

HOW WE SHIP

Intelligence departs first.

Every app in the fleet leans on the same model gateway — drafts in Mail, triage in Desk, steps in Flow. So n4n AI shipped first:240+ models behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, metered per token, live today.

The rest boards in waves behind it. No invented history, no countdown clocks — the board shows each app's honest status, and when one boards, the people who asked hear first.

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  1. Livewave 01 · departed

    n4n AI

    One API, 240+ models · pay per token · $0 minimum

    Open
  2. Boardingwave 02 · next departures

    The apps a business needs first — pipeline, ledger, inbox, projects and support — each already sharing the account, the balance and the gateway.

    n4n CRMn4n Booksn4n Mailn4n Projectsn4n Desk
  3. Scheduledwave 03 · 24 apps on the board

    The rest of the fleet, announced and holding at the gate — sales, finance, productivity, people, operations, marketing.

PRINCIPLES

Rules we run by.

Four rules, applied to every app that boards. They are the boring kind — which is the point.

n4n · operating principles

01meter honestlyevery request debits exactly what it costs, itemised to the micro-dollar — the usage log is the bill
02no seat mathpricing follows what runs, not how many people can press the button — bring the whole team
03no lock-inyour records export in open formats — leaving has to be easy, or staying means nothing
04boring securityencryption at rest for credentials, TLS everywhere, isolated planes — unremarkable on purpose

CONTACT

Questions, or want to know when something boards?

Write to support@n4n.io — a person reads it and a person answers.

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