Everything a freelancer needs to run the business, not just do the work.
A real site, every client in one place, invoices that get paid, and marketing that doesn't wait for a free afternoon.
Who this is for
Runza is built for a freelancer who is also the whole business: designer, writer, developer, video editor, photographer, or anyone billing by the project or the hour with no back office behind them. If you finish client work at 6pm and then spend the evening answering leads, chasing an invoice, and wondering when the portfolio site last got updated, this page is for you. Runza and Ace, its AI co-founder, take that second shift off your plate: one place for the site, the client list, the invoices, and the marketing, and an AI that actually does the work in it rather than waiting for you to fill in fields.
A normal week looks like this without it: a lead messages on Instagram, another emails through the old portfolio contact form, a third texts because they got your number from a referral. Three inboxes, one you. By Thursday you cannot remember which of them you already replied to, and the invoice from two weeks ago is still marked unpaid because you never actually followed up. None of that is a discipline problem. It is a tooling problem, and it is the specific problem Runza is built to remove.
The jobs Ace actually handles
Ace is not a chatbot you prompt for drafts. It runs these jobs directly, inside your account:
- The site. Describe your services and Ace builds a real, modern site on your own domain. Ask for a change in plain English later and it makes the edit, no page builder to fight.
- Leads and clients. Every enquiry lands in one CRM instead of three inboxes, with a flag for who you have not followed up with and a drafted reply ready to send.
- Invoices and quotes. Send a clean invoice or a quote with a pay link from the same place you track what came in, so you know your real numbers, not just what you are owed.
- Light marketing. Ace drafts emails and social posts from what your business actually does, on a schedule, so something still goes out on the week you have zero spare hours.
What you stop duct-taping together
Most freelancers end up with a version of the same stack: a portfolio site that does not talk to anything, a notes app standing in for a CRM, invoices in a separate tool, and a Zap somewhere quietly holding the whole thing together until it breaks. We call this the Frankenstack, and the real cost is not the subscription total. It is the Tuesday you lose babysitting the stitches between tools instead of doing billable work. Runza replaces the stitches, not just one of the tools.
Runza vs what freelancers actually compare it to
Nobody weighing options here is choosing between Runza and an enterprise sales platform on day one. The real comparisons look like this:
- A free Notion board plus Calendly plus a Carrd site. Cheap on paper, and fine for the first few months. It stops working the moment you need the three to share one client list, and every hour spent reconciling them is an hour not billed.
- HubSpot. A real company CRM, built for a sales team with a procurement budget. A freelancer who signs up for the free tier usually finds it overwhelming for a job that is really just "remember to follow up on Thursday," then hits an upgrade wall the moment anything gets automated.
- GoHighLevel.Built for agencies running client accounts and funnels, with a learning curve to match. Powerful if that is your business; a lot of surface area to configure if it is not.
Runza is priced and built for the freelancer who is the whole company, not a scaled-down version of either of those.
Fit, and not a fit
- Bill clients directly, alone or with a small team
- Want one place for the site, clients, invoices, and marketing
- Would rather describe a change than learn a builder
- Run a restaurant or food service business
- Are a large team that needs department-level sales permissions
- Already have a fully connected stack that works for you
Questions, answered
I already have a portfolio site — do I need this?+
If it's not connected to anything else — leads still land in your inbox, invoices still live in another tool — Runza is built to put the site, the clients, and the money in one place.
Is this built for one person, or a team?+
Both. It's sized for a small operation — you alone, or you plus a handful of people on added seats — not a department with stages, assignments, and permissions for roles you don't have. Everyone on the account shares the same CRM, invoicing, and marketing.
What does it cost?+
Runza Pro is $69/mo and includes the website, CRM, invoicing, and marketing. Starter is $14/mo for a leaner start. See the full breakdown on /pricing and how it compares to buying each tool separately on /compare.
Do I need to know how to code or use a page builder?+
No. You describe what you want in plain English and Ace builds and edits the site for you. There is no drag-and-drop builder to learn underneath it.
Can it replace my HubSpot or GoHighLevel free tier?+
For a solo freelancer, usually yes — see the full breakdowns on /compare/runza-vs-hubspot and /compare/runza-vs-gohighlevel. Both are built for teams first; Runza is built for one person who is the whole company.
See everything Runza runs for you, in one place.