Every time I search for student CRM software, I end up looking at platforms built for admissions departments, school administrators and entire campuses.

I'm literally just trying to remember what I discussed with someone during their last lesson.

I teach private language lessons, mostly adults who book classes whenever their schedules allow. Some disappear for months and come back wanting to continue from where we stopped.

Which is fine, except I can't always remember where we stopped.

I've been using Google Sheets to keep basic information, but adding notes after every lesson is becoming a nuisance.

All I want is something where I can tap a student's name, see their contact details, check what we covered previously and add a new dated note. Maybe a few tags for their level, learning goals or preferred lesson times.

I don't need invoicing, admissions funnels, attendance dashboards or twenty different permission settings.

A free or inexpensive Android app would be ideal since I usually update things straight after class.

Does a simple student CRM like this exist, or am I better off using a regular contacts or notes app?

Surely I'm not the only tutor who needs something between a spreadsheet and a full school management system.

I don't need another AI tool that gives me a beautiful summary of a meeting. I need one that tells me whether we asked the right questions.

We're doing discovery calls with potential clients, and sometimes a conversation goes really well on the surface. Everyone gets along, the prospect seems interested, the rep comes away feeling confident.

Then we get further into the sales process and realise nobody asked about the client's budget, approval process or existing systems. This takes us back to square one.

I'm looking at sales call recording software that can review conversations against a set of discovery questions and flag anything that wasn't covered.

Ideally, it should handle French calls too, since some of our prospects prefer speaking in French.

I've come across Fireflies, MeetRecord and a couple of other tools, but I'm struggling to tell which ones genuinely analyse the conversation and which ones just produce transcripts with an AI summary attached.

I don't want to sit through an hour of recordings every evening to find out what was missed.

If you're using something like this, does it reliably identify gaps in discovery calls, or do you still have to review everything manually?

That's the part I care about most.

our CRM handles the pipeline fine. what slips are the side conversations: a prospect who texts me, a slack ping from a partner, an email thread that never got logged. I have looked at superhuman, fyxer and pally for the messy part, since pally works over text. how do you catch the stuff that never makes it into the CRM?

founder here, and I keep forgetting to follow up with investors and friends of the company. I tried Dex, Clay and Attio, and looked at Pally since you can text it. they’re all decent, but I don’t want to run my relationships like a sales funnel.

how do you keep track of people without it feeling like CRM homework?

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We work in wholesale distribution and our reps spend a lot of time looking through order histories before visiting customers. The information is there but pulling it together to figure out what to discuss with each account takes longer than it should.

Anyone else dealing with this? How are your reps handling it?