A closer look
Everything you can do
with Chilli Pepper.
Three separate apps you can buy on their own or together: Smart Budget for a real financial model, Smart Project for proper project tracking, and Smart CRM for customer management. Explore what each one does, then read the guides — no sign-up needed.
Smart Budget
Build a proper financial forecast from a handful of simple inputs — a monthly profit & loss, cash flow and balance sheet over one to seven years — without wrestling with spreadsheets. A short setup wizard gets you started in minutes, then everything recalculates automatically as you type. Change one assumption and the whole forecast re-computes, so you can test scenarios before you commit to them.
Full management accounts
P&L, cash flow and balance sheet, computed monthly across your whole forecast. No formulas to maintain — change an input and the statements update instantly.
Staff planning
Define your roles and people with their annual salary and start month. Smart Budget converts to monthly and adds employer NI, pension and the Employment Allowance automatically.
Sales & revenue models
Model subscription revenue with customers, pricing and churn, or one-off and project-based sales. Smart Budget rolls your customer base forward month by month.
Overheads & funding
Build up overheads line by line, and model equity rounds and loans so your cash flow and balance sheet reflect how the business is actually financed.
Actuals vs plan
Mark each month as “actual” as it closes and track variance against your original plan — so the forecast stays honest as the year unfolds.
What-if scenarios
Pull the revenue and cost sliders, or edit any assumption directly, to see best-case and worst-case in real time. Compare a cautious plan against an ambitious one without rebuilding a thing.
Export anywhere
Send your numbers to Excel or PDF in one click for board packs, investors or your accountant. Your work saves automatically as you go.
Smart Project
Proper Gantt charts with the maths done right — working days, dependencies and baselines — the kind of project tracking enterprise tools charge per seat for, without the bloat. A separate app: take it on its own, or alongside Smart Budget.
Working-day Gantt
Drag to resize and move task bars on a timeline that understands working days — not just calendar days — so durations and end dates stay realistic.
Dependencies & sub-tasks
Break work into sub-tasks, link tasks with dependencies, and mark key milestones so the plan reflects how the work actually flows.
Baselines & critical path
Lock a baseline once a plan is agreed and track slippage against it, and switch on the critical path to see the chain that drives your finish date.
Holiday awareness
Built-in UK bank-holiday calendars — England & Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland — plus your own closed days, so schedules account for the days your team isn’t working.
Smart CRM
Every customer, every conversation, one place. A simple CRM your team will actually use — contacts, pipeline, follow-ups, real email and website enquiries — without per-seat pricing or a six-month rollout. A separate app: take it on its own, or alongside Smart Budget and Smart Project.
Contacts & companies
Every person and organisation with their full history — notes, emails, deals and tasks — merged into one timeline, so anyone can pick up the thread.
Kanban pipeline
Drag deals through your own stages on a kanban board with live £ values and stage totals, so you always know what’s coming and what it’s worth.
Follow-ups & tasks
Set follow-ups and tasks against any contact, company or deal so nothing slips — and see what’s due today across the whole team.
Email from your domain
Send from your own domain, with every reply captured onto the contact’s timeline automatically — and automated sequences that follow up so you don’t have to.
Website lead form
Put an enquiry form on your site. Every lead arrives auto-assigned, with a follow-up task created and an acknowledgement email already sent.
Custom fields & categories
Shape the CRM around your business with your own fields, categories and pipeline stages — no consultants required.
CSV import
Bring your existing contacts over in minutes with column matching — duplicates skipped automatically, 5,000 rows at a time.
Reports
Leads, conversion, pipeline value and team activity at a glance — so you can see what’s working without exporting a thing.
A real three-statement financial model. These guides walk through every part — read them free, no account needed.
Quick start
The 60-second version, from the setup wizard to your first statements.
The full guide
The complete walkthrough of Smart Budget end to end.
The dashboard
Headline metrics, charts and the what-if sliders.
Opening position
Start your forecast from where the business is today.
VAT
Net-of-VAT entry, per-line rates and the quarterly cash effect.
Adding revenue
The five revenue methods and how each behaves.
Staff & payroll
Roles, the salary grid, pay rises, NI, pension and the Employment Allowance.
Funding
Equity and loans, and what each does to your statements.
Proper Gantt scheduling with working-day maths. These guides cover the lot — free to read before you sign up.
Quick start
From nothing to a working Gantt in a few minutes.
The full guide
Projects, the Gantt, task types, editing and colour-coding.
Scheduling & dependencies
Working days, holidays, durations and linking tasks.
Critical path & baselines
Find the chain that drives your finish date; track slippage.
Colours & exporting
Colour-coding in depth, plus PDF and Excel export.
A simple CRM your team will actually use. These guides cover it end to end — free to read before you sign up.
Quick start
From an empty CRM to contacts, deals and follow-ups in minutes.
The full guide
Contacts, companies, the pipeline, tasks, custom fields and reports.
Email & sequences
Sending from your own domain, reply capture and automated sequences.
Website leads
The enquiry form, auto-assignment and acknowledgement emails.
Three separate apps. £20/month each. Up to 25 users.
Smart Budget, Smart Project and Smart CRM are sold separately at £20/month + VAT each. Start a 14-day free trial of the ones you want — and start a trial of another whenever you need it.
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