| # Introduction |
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| **Firm** is a text-based work management system for technologists. It provides a unified view of your business by representing everything as plain text files you own and control. |
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| ## Why Firm? |
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| Modern businesses are natively digital, but lack a unified view. Your data is scattered across SaaS tools you don't control, so you piece together answers by jumping between platforms. |
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| Think of your business as a graph: organizations link to people, people link to projects, projects link to tasks, and so on. Firm lets you define these relationships in plain text files. |
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| Version controlled, locally stored and structured as code with the Firm DSL. This structured representation of your work, *business-as-code*, makes your business accessible to yourself and to the robots that help you run it. |
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| ## Features |
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| - **Everything in one place:** Organizations, contacts, projects, and their relationships. |
| - **Own your data:** Plain text files and tooling that works on your machine. |
| - **Open data model:** Tailor to your business with custom schemas. |
| - **Automate anything:** Search, report, integrate, whatever. It's just code. |
| - **AI-ready:** Bots can easily read, write, and query your business structure. |
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| ## Who is it for? |
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| I built Firm to help me run [42futures](https://42futures.com): a solo venture specializing in software pilots. |
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| The tool is suitable for: |
| - **Freelancers** managing multiple clients and projects |
| - **Technical teams** who prefer plain text and version control over SaaS dashboards |
| - **Anyone** who wants to own their data and tools, not rent them from someone else |
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