Our Story

Built by people who
know the problem
firsthand.

We spent years building CRM systems for Fortune 500 companies. Then we watched small businesses struggle with tools that were never designed for them. So we built something better.

Our Mission

Enterprise-quality software.
Small business simplicity.

We believe every small business deserves the same quality software tools that Fortune 500 companies use to manage their customer relationships — without the six-figure implementation fees, months-long training programs, and dedicated IT teams those tools require.

The CRM market has long treated small businesses as an afterthought. The affordable tools are stripped-down and underpowered. The powerful tools are overpriced and overcomplicated. Southwest CRM Partners was founded to close that gap for good.

Our mission is straightforward: build a CRM that a five-person team can get running in a single afternoon, that scales comfortably as that team grows to fifty, and that never requires a consultant to explain what a button does.

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Enterprise Power

The same CRM capabilities that Fortune 500 teams depend on, available to every small business.

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Real Simplicity

Intuitive enough that any team member can be productive from day one — no training required.

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Fair Pricing

Plans that make sense for small business budgets, with no surprise fees or feature paywalls.

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Built to Scale

Start small and grow without ever needing to migrate to a different platform.

Our Story

From Fortune 500 projects
to Main Street businesses.

Southwest CRM Partners was founded in 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada by a team of developers who had spent the better part of a decade building and customizing CRM systems for large enterprise clients.

We worked on implementations for companies with hundreds of sales reps, dedicated CRM administrators, and IT budgets that could absorb the complexity those platforms demanded. And for those clients, the tools worked — because they had the resources to make them work.

But along the way, we kept hearing the same story from small business owners: they had tried Salesforce and bounced off the learning curve. They had tried HubSpot and hit pricing walls. They had tried simpler tools and outgrown them within a year. They had given up on CRM altogether and gone back to spreadsheets, sticky notes, and memory.

That bothered us. We knew exactly how to build a CRM that was genuinely powerful — we had built them for companies with thousands of employees. So we asked ourselves: what would that look like if we rebuilt it from scratch with a five-person HVAC company or a local insurance agency in mind as the primary user?

The answer was Southwest CRM Partners. We moved back to Las Vegas, where we had all built our careers, and started building. We interviewed small business owners across Nevada and the Southwest. We watched how they actually managed their customer relationships. We threw out every assumption we had carried over from enterprise work and started from what those owners actually needed.

The result is a CRM that a team of any size can get running in under a day, that includes every feature a growing small business genuinely needs, and that charges prices that reflect small business economics — not enterprise licensing models.

Our Values

The principles that guide
everything we build.

These aren't slogans. They're the decisions we make every day when we're writing code, writing documentation, and writing support replies.

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Customer-First

Every product decision starts with one question: does this make life easier for a small business owner? Features that don't serve our customers don't ship, regardless of how technically interesting they are.

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Simplicity

Complexity is easy. Simplicity is hard. We do the hard work of making powerful things simple so our customers don't have to do the hard work of learning something complicated.

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Transparency

Our pricing is public. Our roadmap is shared. When something breaks, we tell you what happened and what we're doing about it. No hidden fees, no buried clauses, no corporate speak.

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Continuous Improvement

We ship every two weeks. We read every support ticket. We respond to every feature request. The platform you use today will be meaningfully better six months from now.

The Team

The people behind the platform.

A small team with deep experience, all based in Las Vegas, all focused on the same goal.

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Marcus Rivera

Co-Founder & CEO

Former Salesforce architect with 10 years of enterprise CRM implementations. Marcus led the product vision and customer research that shaped Southwest CRM from day one.

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Jana Chen

Co-Founder & CTO

Full-stack engineer who previously built integrations for a major enterprise CRM vendor. Jana leads the engineering team and is the architect behind SWCRM's speed and reliability.

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Derek Wills

Head of Product

UX and product specialist with a background in B2B SaaS. Derek runs customer interviews, owns the product roadmap, and is responsible for making sure every new feature is actually usable.

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Aisha Lawson

Head of Customer Success

Former small business consultant who spent years helping companies select and implement CRM tools. Aisha leads onboarding, support, and makes sure every customer gets real value out of the platform.

Ready to work with us?

Start a free 14-day trial today or reach out and we'll walk you through the platform personally. No credit card required, and our team is based right here in Las Vegas.

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