The complete Canadıan business software. No add-ons, ever.
One app that runs your whole business.
Customers, quotes, invoices, crew and the books, in one login. That's a full CRM and ERP in one. And you don't even have to click around: tell Tara, your AI helper, what you want in plain English.
No menus to learn. Tell Tara what you want, in plain English, and she does it. You approve anything that reaches a customer.
Scroll to follow one whole day at Cedar Cleaning, a five-person cleaning crew in Calgary. It starts the night before.
Sunday, 11:40 p.m.
You already know this part.
The laptop is still open. Somewhere in those tabs is the invoice you meant to send, and the message you meant to answer. Tomorrow starts in six hours.
The old way
Five tools and a spreadsheet, each holding a piece of your evening. This is what Ascend replaces.
Tonight, on your laptop
6:12 a.m.
A lead arrives before you're up.
Priya messages from Instagram. She becomes a lead on her own, nobody typed her in.
What just happened
An Instagram DM became a lead in your pipeline by itself, with a reply already drafted. You just hit send.
Inbox
InstagramOr skip the clicks. Just tell Tara
9:40 a.m.
The quote takes ninety seconds.
Three lines, tax done for Alberta, one link. Priya says yes from her phone.
What just happened
You built a quote in the app: three lines, tax handled for you, sent as a link she can accept from her phone.
Quote Q-0041 · Priya
- Move-out deep clean (3 bed)$380
- Inside oven & fridge$70
- Carpet steam, two rooms$85
Or skip the clicks. Just tell Tara
2:15 p.m.
The week catches its own mistake.
Mei booked vacation weeks ago. The board notices she's still rostered Saturday, before Saturday does.
What just happened
The schedule checked itself against booked time off and flagged the clash days before it cost you a Saturday.
Team week
Mei is on approved vacation and still rostered for Saturday 9:00 a.m.
Or skip the clicks. Just tell Tara
6:30 p.m.
Money lands. The books write themselves.
The invoice is paid, and real double-entry bookkeeping records both sides, nobody opens a spreadsheet.
What just happened
The payment posted itself into real double-entry books, both sides at once. No spreadsheet was opened.
Invoice INV-0041 · Priya
PAID · $561.75What the books wrote, on their own
Balanced, double-entry, the real kind
Or skip the clicks. Just tell Tara
11:58 p.m.
While you sleep, Tara keeps watch.
Under the northern lights, your assistant sets up tomorrow, and never sends a thing without your okay.
While you slept
Tara set up tomorrow: drafts, reminders and a morning brief. Nothing goes out without your okay.
Tara · tomorrow, ready
11:58 p.m.- Priya's deep clean is Saturday 10 a.m., confirmation already drafted.
- Two invoices land Thursday. One customer usually pays late; I'll nudge them gently.
- Jordan's Saturday shift is confirmed. Mei is on a beach.
She proposes. You decide. Nothing reaches a customer without your okay.
That was one day, at one company
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Watch one message become a paid job
This is the same customer, followed from her first message to the money in the books and the review that brings the next one. Every step lands somewhere different, and nobody retypes a thing.
Priya messages on Instagram at 6:12 a.m.
“Do you do move-out deep cleans? Keys back on the 30th.”
She becomes a customer record on her own. Nobody typed her in.
One message. Six places updated. Nothing typed in twice.
In seventeen separate apps, every arrow in that list is somebody retyping something, and the review request never happens at all.
79 tools, one login. All included, no add-ons.
Most businesses buy a CRM and an ERP. This is both.
One is for getting the customer. The other is for everything that happens after. Buying them separately is how you end up typing the same invoice into two places, so here they are as one thing, at one price.
Winning the work
Everyone who ever contacts you, and everything you do to turn them into a customer.
- Every message in one inbox: Instagram, WhatsApp, email, text
- Leads scored, chased and never dropped
- Pipeline, quotes and a booking page customers use themselves
- Follow-ups, reviews and referrals after the sale
Running the business
Everything behind the sale, on real books, not a spreadsheet pretending.
- Double-entry accounts: profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow
- Stock costed properly, purchase orders, suppliers and returns
- Staff, rosters, tickets that expire, jobs costed to the hour
- Budgets, cost centres and more than one company if you run them
And it connects to anything, as much as you like
Your channels, your bank, your card terminal, QuickBooks, Slack and Teams come ready to link. Anything else goes through the open API, webhooks and a live data feed your accountant can point Excel or Power BI straight at. No cap on how many, and no per-integration fee, on any plan.
If your business does it, it's in here.
Not a CRM you bolt things onto: the whole cycle, closed. The job becomes the invoice, the invoice becomes the books, and the happy customer becomes the next job.
Win the work
Every channel lands in one inbox; the pipeline doesn't leak.
→ feeds step 02
Fill the diary
Customers book themselves. The calendar can't double-book.
→ feeds step 03
Run the day
Jobs, projects and rosters, clash-checked before the day starts.
→ feeds step 04
Get paid
Quotes become invoices; customers pay from a link.
→ feeds step 05
Keep the books
Real double-entry, GST done, the bank matched.
→ feeds step 06
Your team and your files
People, roles, documents, and who-did-what.
↺ and the happy customer starts it again at step 01
Running through every stage: Tara, your AI helper, with 8 ways to get an answer without hunting for it. And the whole thing re-skins to fit your trade (4 specialist kits, and counting).
79 tools. One login. Nothing sold separately.
Everything your business needs to run. Nothing it doesn't.
And Canadian where it actually costs you: sales tax worked out for the province you're in, T2202 receipts if you teach, T5018 subcontractor totals if you build, and consent rules built into how email sends rather than bolted on afterwards.
If your business runs on customers, you need this
Whatever you sell, customers slip away the same way: a message you missed, a follow-up you forgot. AscendCRM catches every enquiry, keeps track of the relationship, and does the follow-up for you. Pick your business type once and the whole app speaks your language: your words, your pipeline, your paperwork.
All twelve work today, the tinted ones ship with a toolkit built just for that trade, like sample tracking for labs or class rosters for studios.
Not on the list? Pick “Something else” when you sign up and Tara sets the whole workspace up for whatever you run, or tell us about it.
Simple plans that grow with your business
Start free. Everything included, nothing sold as an add-on.
- Pipeline + 50 customers
- Quotes, invoices & booking page
- Customer records + documents
- Everything in Free, for a team of 5
- Every channel in one inbox
- Tara drafts and does (with your okay)
- Your whole team in one place
- Books, ledger & QuickBooks
- We set it up with you
The software your business needs
Customers, quotes, invoices, bookings, team, the books: your whole business in one login, instead of seventeen apps. Start free, no card, no catch.