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The all-in-one solution for small businesses and self-employed.
Founded with the purpose of empowering anyone to work for themselves, Bonsai is the trusted back-office software solution for 500,000+ small businesses and self-employed around the world. Bonsai helps individuals and teams manage their clients, deliver great work, get paid on time and track finances - all in the same place and integrated together to make running a business as seamless as possible.
Bonsai is a business management platform designed for service-based businesses, consolidating projects, clients, and billing into one integrated system. It offers modules for client management, project management, finance, invoicing, proposals, time tracking, and more, with industry-specific templates and automation to streamline operations.
Bonsai provides an all-in-one platform that unifies client management (CRM), project management (tasks, timelines, Gantt-like views, resource planning), time tracking (timesheets), proposals and contracts, forms, client portal, invoicing, payments, expenses, budgeting, bookkeeping, and accounting integrations. It includes an Estimate Builder to generate project estimates with predicted costs, profits, and timelines, which can be turned into projects with budgets and allocations. The platform emphasizes automated billing (recurring payments and retainers), templates for various documents, and integrations with other tools to streamline workflows across industries such as Creative, Marketing, Software, Consulting, Engineering, IT Services, Accounting, Architecture, and Interior Design. It also highlights customer stories and a “book a demo” process for personalized walkthroughs.
Who it’s for: Small businesses and self-employed professionals that manage client work and billing across industries (creative agencies, marketing, software/IT services, consulting, engineering, architecture, etc.).
Customers: Zabal Media
10,000+ firms/users; multiple customer stories; try/book a demo/pricing pages; mentions of enterprise agency use and 50-people enterprise agency of the year (indicative of traction and case studies)
Matt Nish is the co-founder and Head of Design at Bonsai, which he started with Matt Brown and Redon Gjika in San Francisco, California. Matt has led the user experience and app design from the beginning, leveraging his former freelancing and agency work experience as inspiration.
How Bonsai’s homepage introduced itself over the years — each line is the page title the web actually saw, linked to that moment’s archived capture.
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