I’ve always been the person connecting the tools
I spent five years as a product manager at Amazon, where I helped lead the expansion of its stores from two locations to 50. I wrote the handbook our store launch team ran on. Who does what, in what order, with which tools.
I remember processes that needed several people before work could move. Some steps needed someone’s judgment. Others needed someone to type information from one system into another. A small step in the software could hold up everything after it.
In my own businesses, I became the connection between those systems. Two to four Chrome profiles, 20 or 30 tabs in each, and different tools holding different pieces of the same client.
“For once, I was the bottleneck”
I have ADHD. I work in spirals. I move between ideas, projects and possibilities, and I make connections as I go.
That’s the part I think of as my superpower. I see the experience waiting to emerge and how it all connects behind the scenes.
When I started building with AI, for the first time in my professional career, I felt like I was the bottleneck. I could explore and build faster than I could decide what to do next. Ideas that used to mean writing a brief and waiting became things I could try, question and improve the same day.
Once I realized what was possible with agentic AI, I wanted to give that to people running their own businesses. I saw how much it could help, if it was built properly.
I start with the client’s experience
I build with one rule in mind. Everything can be done by hand or with AI, and anything the AI builds can be edited by hand. No more spending tokens to change one sentence in something the AI wrote.
Before I think about a feature, I think about the experience someone wants to give their client. What should feel easy? What should they understand? What happens next?
My cofounder, Eric Baxter, has spent 25 years designing for clients. We both care about the work people do and how it feels to work with them. That became our starting point, purpose-built AI for your clients and the business around them.
When you get paid by the project. You want the proposal to look like your business, with clear pricing and a scope the client understands. You want them to know how to accept it, sign the agreement and pay, and when the scope changes, you want the change attached to the project instead of becoming one more document to track. In Aventide you can ask it to draft the proposal from what’s already saved about your business and your client. You read it, change what you want and decide when it goes. Your client accepts, signs and pays from their portal, and the work you deliver is waiting for them there. If the scope changes after they say yes, you send a change order from their room, and they accept it in the same portal.
When you get paid by the booking. Someone finds your service, picks a time and books, free, paid in full or with a deposit. You meet on Zoom or Google Meet, the way you already do. If you record your calls, your client’s invitation says so and gives them a way to opt out. Afterward, you decide what to share with them, the recording, a short summary of what you covered, or both. Your client finds it all in their portal, with a button to book the next time.
When you get paid by the event. You want someone to discover your workshop, class or retreat on your website or social media, buy a ticket and know what happens next. Afterward, they should have one place to find the materials you share and take the next step with you.
When someone comes back. Someone might book a session, hire you for a project and come back months later. You should be able to see your history together: what they bought, what you talked about and what you promised. That’s why the client relationship sits at the center of Aventide. Their notes and history are there when you open them, so you know where you left off. Someone who took a workshop from you in 2024 might book a one-to-one session in 2027, and it is the same client, with the same history.
What Aventide does for client work spread across too many tools
These are the parts I built for the places my own work went sideways. They’re tools for client work, not for ADHD itself.
When a client’s details live in five places: one page for each client. Bookings, proposals, agreements, invoices, payments, files and notes sit together, so nothing about a client lives only in your head or in a tab you closed.
When the blank page is the hard part: drafts that wait for you. Aventide drafts proposals, follow-ups, invoice reminders and replies, and they wait in one list until you look. Anything Aventide drafts for a client waits for your approval; automations you switch on run on their own.
When you can’t tell what needs you today: one short list each morning. The daily brief arrives on your phone, in the Aventide app or on Telegram, WhatsApp or Slack, with today’s bookings, what’s overdue and the drafts waiting for you, across every business you run.
When invoices slip: paid when they say yes. Clients can pay in full or a deposit when they book. When a client signs an agreement with a deposit, the deposit invoice is ready for your OK, and an overdue invoice gets a reminder drafted for you.
When you’d rather ask than hunt: almost anything you can do by hand, you can ask Aventide to do, in the app or by message from your phone.
When you’ve already explained your business to ChatGPT or Claude: paste in what it knows, and you review what Aventide keeps.
“What they say is true: it really is a single hub for everything related to running a small business.”
Reya B., Founder, Practitioner and Educator. G2 review, October 13, 2026
Where Aventide is strong
Where it’s strong
Everything about a client on one page, from first inquiry to final payment. Plus one place to run your social media marketing.
Drafts that wait for your approval, so you start from something instead of a blank page.
One morning brief on your phone, across every business you run.
Clients can pay when they book, and a deposit invoice is ready when they sign, so there are fewer invoices to remember.
Aventide isn’t built for health records: it isn’t HIPAA compliant.
What I’d check before choosing client management software
ADHD shaped these questions for me. They work for anyone trying to keep their client work connected, with Aventide or any other tool.
Can I follow one client through the whole process? Try a real example like an inquiry, a booking or proposal, an agreement, a payment and the delivery. Check what stays connected and what you have to type in again.
Will I know what still needs me? Ask where unfinished work shows up and what brings you back to it. A place to store information and a way to act on it are different things.
What does the AI actually prepare? Ask for a draft based on a real example, with the client’s details changed. Check whether the details are right and how much is left for you to do.
Does it work where I actually work? Aventide’s full app is built for a computer; on your phone, the Aventide app covers Sidekick, your inbox and approvals, and Sidekick also works in Telegram, WhatsApp or Slack. Test the one you need.
What do we do with the time?
I want people to have a choice about what they do with the time technology gives back. More attention for a client. Space to think an idea through. An afternoon away from the desk. That’s what human-scale AI means to us.
Straight answers
Is Aventide good for me if I have ADHD?
It might be, if your work is client work. Sessions, events or projects, with bookings, proposals, agreements and payments to keep track of. I built it for what tripped me up, information spread across tools, and work that depended on me remembering it. It won’t change how ADHD affects you. Try it with one real client in the free trial and see where it helps.
Was Aventide built by someone with ADHD?
Yes. I’m Christian Quiver, Aventide’s cofounder and CEO, and I have ADHD. My experience choosing software and connecting tools shaped how we built it. Eric Baxter and I built the company together.
Is Aventide an ADHD app?
No. Aventide is business software for coaches, consultants and creative studios. It isn’t an ADHD treatment or a clinical product. Some of what I wanted to fix, like client information scattered across tools and the same details typed in twice, may sound familiar, but that doesn’t make it the right fit for everyone with ADHD.
What’s the best CRM for someone with ADHD?
There isn’t one answer; it depends on the work. Planners like Structured or Sunsama are built for your day. Notion lets you build your own system. OnePageCRM is built around a sales pipeline and the next action. HoneyBook and Aventide are built for client work like bookings, proposals, events, contracts and payments. Aventide keeps each client in one place, drafts the next step for you to approve, and works for one business or several. Test any of them with one real client and notice where you have to stop and copy something.
I keep forgetting to send invoices. What helps?
Getting paid at the moment the client says yes, so there’s no invoice to remember. In Aventide, a booking can take full payment or a deposit when someone books. When a client signs an agreement with a deposit, Aventide prepares the deposit invoice and asks you to send it. If an invoice goes overdue, it drafts the reminder for you to approve.
How do I keep up with client follow-ups?
Let the software notice the gaps for you. When a proposal goes unanswered or an invoice goes overdue, Aventide drafts the follow-up for you to approve. When a client has gone quiet for two weeks, the morning brief tells you, so you can decide whether to reach out.
How do you keep up with business admin when you have ADHD?
The paperwork (proposals, agreements, invoices) and the follow-ups are the part that slips. What works for me is not trying to remember the steps. I put them in one system that tells me what’s waiting. Then I have one place to go. The morning brief lists what needs me across every business, and the drafts are already there when I sit down. That’s my way, and yours may be different.
Can AI do my business admin instead of a virtual assistant?
Yes, quite a bit of it. This is the list today, and we are adding to it fast. Aventide’s AI can draft proposals, follow-ups, invoices and replies, keep your calendar and client records up to date, and post to your social accounts, and anything it drafts for a client waits for your approval. A virtual assistant still brings judgment, phone calls and relationships that software doesn’t. Which one is worth paying for depends on what you need help with.
Does the AI run my business without me?
No. You can do the work yourself or ask Aventide to do it. Anything Aventide drafts for a client waits for your approval; automations you switch on run on their own.
What happens when the trial ends?
The trial is 14 days and asks for no card. When it ends, the app pauses and nothing is charged. You choose a plan only if you want to keep going; the plans are on the pricing page. If you run out of AI credits on a plan, the AI pauses and the rest of the app keeps working.
Which client management software is easiest to set up?
The one that asks you to retype the least. Aventide starts by reading your website (your services, logo, colors and fonts), and you keep or skip what it found. You can also paste in what ChatGPT or Claude already knows about your business. You still connect your own accounts, like Stripe and Google Calendar, so setup is quicker than starting from scratch, but it isn’t instant.
Try it with one real client
Aventide opened to everyone on October 29, 2026. Eric and I are working closely with the people using it to learn where it makes their work easier and where we need to improve.
If you run a coaching, consulting or creative business, try it with one real client and tell me where it helps and where you get stuck. Write to me at christian@aventide.ai.
After the trial, nothing is charged unless you choose a plan.
Thank you for your time!
Christian Quiver