Breakcold

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   You connect your accounts: a LinkedIn account, a Gmail or Outlook mailbox, a calendar, and whichever of WhatsApp, Telegram, Instagram, X, and Facebook you actually sell on. The base plan covers two connected accounts and each additional one costs ten dollars a month, which is the number to model before you sign up.

2. 2

   Contacts arrive by import, by enrichment, or by capture from a browsing session. Enrichment populates more than fifty fields including work email, phone, job title, LinkedIn URL, and company data, and it is careful not to overwrite values a human entered by hand.

3. 3

   The unified inbox becomes the daily surface. Every message across every connected channel lands there and attaches itself to the right prospect and deal automatically, so a LinkedIn DM, an email reply, and a WhatsApp message about the same opportunity sit in one thread history rather than in three apps.

4. 4

   The engagement feed shows what your pipeline is posting on LinkedIn. You react, comment, and message from inside the record, which is the social-selling loop the product is built around. Tasks can be created straight out of a conversation and assigned with reminders.

5. 5

   Outbound campaigns exist for email but are deliberately modest. Breakcold sends from your own connected mailbox, so provider limits apply and there is no inbox rotation or relay. For genuine cold volume the intended pattern is to run a dedicated sender such as Lemlist, Smartlead, or Reply.io and let Breakcold be the CRM and inbox those tools report into.

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   AI assistants connect through the MCP endpoint and can query the CRM, enrich records, draft follow-ups, and update fields on instruction, which is the most genuinely modern thing in the product.

A single published plan billed monthly, with seats and connected accounts sold as ten-dollar add-ons and AI usage metered as CRM actions against active contacts.

Value assessment: For a solo founder, $59 for an unlimited-contact CRM with a genuine seven-channel inbox and unlimited enrichment is very strong value; the comparable stack assembled from a CRM plus an enrichment tool plus a LinkedIn inbox tool costs more and integrates worse. For a five-rep team the picture is still good at roughly $180 a month all in, but the connected-account charge means you should count accounts rather than heads. What you are not buying is a sequence engine, a dialer, or deliverability infrastructure. If your sales motion is cold volume, Breakcold is cheap because it does not do the expensive part, and you will end up paying a second vendor for it.

Setup time

An afternoon. Connecting accounts and letting history sync is the slow part and mostly runs unattended. Importing contacts and defining a pipeline takes another hour. There is nothing to install locally because sync is server side.

Learning curve

Low for anyone who has used a modern CRM, with one adjustment: the daily habit is the inbox and the engagement feed, not the pipeline board. Teams that keep treating it as a record store never get the value.

Onboarding

Fully self-serve with a 14-day trial and no sales call. The founder is well known for answering support personally, which is a real advantage at this size and a real single point of failure.

Migration notes

CSV import handles contacts and companies, and enrichment fills the gaps rather than requiring a clean export. Conversation history syncs from the connected accounts themselves, so you get past threads without migrating them. There is no importer for another CRM's activity log or deal history, and moving off Breakcold means an export plus rebuilding pipelines elsewhere.

Platforms

Web applicationChrome extension for lead captureMCP endpoint for AI assistants

API

REST API and webhooks for inbound ingestion and outbound triggers, plus an MCP server that lets Claude, ChatGPT, and similar assistants read and act on CRM data directly.

Compliance

GDPR (EU-based company)

Data residency

Company is based in Paris, France; no separately advertised regional hosting options.

SSO

Not advertised on the standard plan; role-based permissions and workspaces cover team access control.

Security notes

Encryption in transit and at rest with role-based access control and workspace separation. There is no publicly marketed SOC 2 attestation, which is the expected gap for a bootstrapped team of this size and a genuine blocker for regulated buyers.

Channels

In-app chatEmail supportDirect founder access, which customers cite repeatedly

Documentation

A help centre plus an unusually large blog covering CRM workflows, LinkedIn selling, and tool comparisons, much of which functions as product documentation.

Community

Active founder presence on LinkedIn and X, which is where most product announcements and user discussion happen.

Founded

2021

Headquarters

Paris, France

Ownership

Bootstrapped, founder-owned

Founders

Arnaud Belinga

Employees

Fewer than 10

Funding

No outside funding. The founders have publicly described starting the company with roughly $1,200 and growing it without venture capital.

Breakcold is the best tool available for a specific way of selling: LinkedIn-led, relationship-driven, conversation-heavy, and spread across half a dozen apps that no ordinary CRM can see into. The unified inbox and the engagement feed genuinely change the daily routine, unlimited enrichment at $59 flat is strong value, and the MCP endpoint is ahead of everything else in this category. Just do not buy it expecting a sequence engine. Email campaigns run from your own mailbox with the ceiling that implies, there is no dialer at all, and the vendor will tell you to bring your own sender for volume. Count connected accounts rather than seats before you compare prices, and accept that you are buying from a handful of people in Paris with no SOC 2 and no investors. For a founder or a small agency selling on LinkedIn, that trade is a good one.

Written by the SaaSTracker editorial team. Awards, when shown, are judged against the published criteria in our methodology.