What Steerd is

Steerd is an all-in-one business platform for freelancers and small businesses: media agencies, dev shops, studios, artists, consultants, and anyone else who takes bookings and has client relationships to manage around them.

Managing those relationships is one part of it, so the CRM side is covered: organizations, contacts, and a pipeline of work you have not won yet. The rest of the product picks up where a CRM stops. An inquiry arrives, becomes a project, the project accumulates tracked hours and travel costs, and those turn into an invoice that satisfies German invoicing law. One thread from start to finish, rather than a sales tool at one end and four unrelated tools at the other.

What it covers

Sales. Projects move through a pipeline you configure. Each one points at the organization you are billing and the person you are talking to.

People. Employees and their CVs, so a team can pitch the right person for the work. CVs export to PDF, Word, and JSON Resume.

Finance. Time tracking, travel expenses with statutory per diems, and invoices, including e-invoicing in the XRechnung and ZUGFeRD formats.

Everything around it. A shared file store, an inbox that connects to your mailbox, an audit log, and an API.

What it is not

Steerd is not accounting software. It produces invoices and exports; it does not keep your books, file your VAT return, or talk to your tax advisor's system for you.

It is also not a buy-side tool. It tracks the work you sell, not the suppliers you buy from.

Who it is for

The product is built first for freelancers and small teams working in Germany, so the invoicing, VAT, and travel expense rules are the German ones by default. Nothing stops you using it elsewhere, but the statutory parts assume Germany unless you tell them otherwise.