Comparison

Kernalite vs a spreadsheet.

Q: Can I import my spreadsheet?

Yes. Contacts → Import CSV and Lead Lists take a CSV export; you map the columns on the next screen and the import reports what it added and skipped.

Sheets is free, it bends to any process, and every investor understands it. It is the right tool for your first ten leads. This page is about lead eleven, the first text you forget to send, and the day you hire someone.

Lily · Workspace guide

I am not going to tell you a spreadsheet is bad. I am going to show you the four moments it stops being one, so you can decide whether you have reached any of them.

Side by side

What you need	A spreadsheet	Kernalite
Price	Free	$99/mo, 3 seats, no tiers. 30-day trial with no card.
Any process you like	Yes, it is a grid	An 11-stage pipeline you rename, with fields you add
Where leads come from	You type them in, or paste an export	Driving for dollars, lists, social signals, forms, chat
Owner contact details	Another tab in another tool, then copy them back	Skip trace on the record
Follow-up	A column called "next step" that you remember to read	Workflows that text, email, call and create the task
Texting and calls	Your phone; nothing lands on the row	Unified inbox and dialer on your own Twilio number, every reply on the lead
A second person	Shared sheet, no permissions, no history of who changed what	Seats with roles and an audit log
Selling the contract	A group text to buyers	A public make-offer page per deal; buyers bid without an account
Reports	Pivot tables, if you build them	Marketing cost per lead and per deal, pipeline value, activity, built in
Leaving	It is already a file	CSV export of everything, any time

The four moments a sheet stops being enough

The forgotten follow-up. A seller said "call me in March". The sheet knows. Nobody reads the sheet in March. A workflow calls, texts, and makes the task.
The text that is not on the row. Every conversation lives on a phone that is not the sheet. When you hand the lead to someone else, the history does not come with it.
The first driver. Driving for dollars in a sheet is a photo on your phone and an address typed later. The app makes the tap the lead.
The second person. Two people in one sheet is one overwritten cell a day and no record of who changed what.

Keep the sheet when

You have under ten live leads and you are the only person
You do not text sellers from a business number
You are not driving for dollars yet
You have missed a follow-up you had written down
You have said "let me find that text" on a call
Someone else now touches the leads

The middle path

Run the trial with your sheet imported. If the sheet is still open in a month, we were wrong for you and it cost nothing.

Questions we get

Can I import my spreadsheet?

Yes. Contacts → Import CSV and Lead Lists take a CSV export; you map the columns on the next screen and the import reports what it added and skipped.

Can I get it back out?

Everything exports to CSV from the app at any time. If you leave, you leave with the file.

Can I keep my own columns?

Custom fields on leads and contacts, and saved views that filter on them. The pipeline stages are yours to rename.

Is $99 a month worth it for one person?

If one deal a year comes from a follow-up you would otherwise have missed, yes. If you are under ten leads and not texting from a business number, keep the sheet; we say so above.

Import the sheet and find out.

Thirty days, the whole product, nothing on file. The sheet stays where it is either way.

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