Use cases
Creatives’ Garden — where it earns its place
On Creatives’ Garden — People → Touchpoints → Garden. Tend the relationships your craft grows from.
The Creatives' Garden holds the people your craft grows from — editors, gallerists, first readers, past clients, the friend who always shares your work — and the touchpoints between you. It is a personal CRM for the kind of creative career that does not want to be a funnel.
The writer keeping in touch with editors
You have twelve editors across six magazines. You want to nudge one of them each fortnight without making it a spreadsheet. The Garden lists them, tracks the last touchpoint, and gently surfaces who you have not spoken to in a while.
It is a rhythm, not a pipeline.
The painter tending collectors
A dozen people have bought a painting. They are not leads. They are people. Log the studio visits, the emails, the show they came to. Over five years, the Garden becomes a map of the small world that keeps your work possible.
The musician after the release
You just put out a record. There are 40 people — writers, playlist curators, venue bookers, friends who tell friends — who make the difference. Log the sends, the follow-ups, the who-listened. It is the difference between a release that fades and one that keeps travelling.
What lives in the Garden
- PeopleName, role, how you met, what to remember.
- TouchpointsEach interaction, tagged and dated. The record of a relationship over time.
- The Garden viewA quiet weather report — who is warm, who has drifted, who is due.
Questions people ask
How is this different from a real CRM?
A CRM measures pipeline in dollars. The Garden measures relationships in touchpoints. Different tool, different job.
Can I import my contacts?
The Garden is deliberately hand-built. Type in the people who actually matter; the shortness of that list is a feature.
What if I have hundreds of contacts?
You almost certainly don't have hundreds of people your craft grows from. Ten to sixty is normal. The Garden is sized for the true number.
A quiet, hand-kept record of the people your work is possible because of.