Business software you own.

Your whole business.
Under your control.

Bring customers, projects and invoices together. From the first enquiry to the work you deliver.

Start with what you need. Connect more of your business when you’re ready. Your hosting, your data and the full source code.

Explore the demo $199USD/year
Licence never expires

Updates and support last one year from purchase. They renew automatically at $199/year unless you cancel. Cancel at any time and keep your paid year and your downloaded copy. Hosting and upkeep are separate.

See the full purchase terms

The work, the people and the business behind it.

Real product screens · example records

Pepper’s Fieldnotes print-fair board, with design tasks, assigned people and linked quotes and invoices. — A shared place for the work your team is delivering.

Pepper Home on a phone, showing recorded money, open work, form responses and the inbox. — The overview, wherever you are.

A creative team checks print proofs together in a working studio.

For the business behind the work

Keep doing what
you do best.

The brief is in one place. The hours are somewhere else. Someone still needs to prepare the invoice.

Pepper brings those parts of the job together. Keep the customer, the conversation, the files and the next step with the work.

See what you can run in Pepper

For independent professionals, agencies and teams that sell and deliver work.

Kindred Spaces · design support

The hours you worked.The invoice to come.

Four people are working on the same project. Tasks, files and time stay with it, so you can see what’s done and what’s still unbilled.

Choose the tracked time and approved milestones to include. Pepper prepares a draft for you to check before you issue it.

Follow the work into an invoice

Kindred’s design-support project in Pepper, with four people, task progress, tracked time, budget and the next step to review an invoice draft. — Kindred Spaces · an example project in the real application.

From agreement to payment

Every invoice
has a story.

A community library needs a website. The quote sets out the work; the invoice keeps the agreement in view. When a bank transfer arrives, record it against that same invoice.

One customer. One piece of work.

Offtrail Library

Community library website Design and build

The quote, issued original and recorded payment stay connected.

How payments and credits work

The amount, explained.

Example records

Invoice INV-2026-0034: 6,800.00 USD total, 3,400.00 paid, 3,400.00 due. Its source quote remains linked.

6,800.00 USD invoiced. 3,400.00 paid. The remaining 3,400.00 belongs to the same piece of work.

Invoice balance USD · INV-2026-0034

Invoiced: 6,800.00
Paid: 3,400.00
Credited: 0.00
Still due: 3,400.00

Optional AI connections

Ask your AI client.
Approve it in Pepper.

Connect the AI client you already use. It works with your records and your permissions. Everyday work runs at once. Sending, payments and other sensitive steps wait until you approve the exact change in Pepper.

Drafts save at once. Issuing and sending wait for your approval in Pepper.

Invoices: a conversation with an AI client and the records it changes in Pepper

YouDraft an invoice for the 6 hours on the Acme project.
- projects_unbilled · Acme Design Co.Done
- tax_rates_listDone
AI client
I found 6 unbilled hours of design at EUR 95.00. Which tax rate should I use: VAT 21% or VAT 9%?
In Pepper
Projects · Acme Design Co.
Brand refresh
Open
Unbilled time
6 h
Unbilled value
EUR 570.00
YouVAT 21%.
- engagements_preview_invoice · 6 h, VAT 21%Done
- engagements_prepare_invoiceDone
AI client
The draft is ready. Pepper calculated the total, EUR 689.70 with 21% VAT. It has no number yet.
In Pepper
Invoices · Acme Design Co.
Invoice
Draft
Design · Brand refresh, 6 h × EUR 95.00
570.00
VAT 21%
119.70
Total
EUR 689.70
YouIssue it.
- documents_issue_prepareWaits for your approval
AI client
Issuing needs your approval, so nothing is issued yet. The request is in Agent approvals, and you have an email with the link.
In Pepper
Agent approvals
Approve issuing this invoice?
The connection “My AI client” asks to issue this invoice for you. Check the customer and the exact total.
Customer
Acme Design Co.
Total
EUR 689.70
YouI approved it. Issue it and email it to Acme’s billing contact.
- documents_issueDone
- documents_send_prepareApproved in Pepper
- documents_sendDone
AI client
Invoice INV-2026-0042 is issued, EUR 689.70, due on 4 November 2026. After you approved the email, it went to billing@acme.example with the PDF.
In Pepper
Invoices · Acme Design Co.
INV-2026-0042
Issued
Due
4 Nov 2026
Emailed
billing@acme.example
Total
EUR 689.70

Fictional examples. The tool names are the real MCP tools of this release.

AI is optional. Pepper needs no AI account, and you choose the client. Access starts off, ends on a date you set, and covers only what the connected person may open. Passwords, AI connections, updates and backup downloads stay with people.

How AI connections work What waits for your approval

Bring your customers into the picture

Your website.Connected to your work.

Let someone ask about a project, right on the website you already have. Their answers become records your team can act on in Pepper.

That’s a widget: a small service you can place on your website or share in an email or message. Keep the website and tools you already use.

One enquiry form · three ways in

Right where the interest starts.

Put an enquiry form inside a page you already have. Visitors can tell you what they need without leaving your website.

Available: embedded forms

Placement illustration using a real product screen and example records.

See how forms work

Example studioWork / About / Contact

Let’s work together

Tell us what
you have in mind.

Your website keeps its own design. Pepper handles the enquiry.

The Pepper public enquiry form for Pulse Studio, with project fields and consent.

Clay Hours’ qualified website enquiry in Pepper, with its original submission, customer and deal linked. — Inside Pepper: Clay Hours’ website enquiry, qualified into a customer and deal. Example records.

Inside Pepper

An enquiry becomes
a next step.

In this example, Clay Hours asks about an exhibition website. The team qualifies the lead and links the customer and deal. The original form response stays attached.

Prepare a quote, record acceptance and open the project. Your team decides when to move the work forward.

Follow an enquiry through Pepper

Receive the enquiry Qualify the customer Agree the quote Deliver & invoice

Customer services

Give people
a reason to return.

A customer saves an offer, visits the counter and shows their code. A staff member checks it and confirms the redemption in Pepper.

The widget programme adds a multi-channel toolbelt for your website, store, venue, newsletter and WhatsApp campaigns. Compare approved campaign labels and named placements, then open the records that need your next action.

Explore the widget journeys

A café owner serves a customer at the counter in natural daylight.

Canal Coffee’s public Coffee with your cake offer, ready for a customer to save. Real product screen with example records. — What the customer sees · example records

The agency opportunity

Run it for your business.
Offer it to your clients.

Customer workspaces give each business its own widgets, records and staff access. The provider assigns a plan and invoices the business from Pepper.

The licence permits selling widget access to multiple customer businesses on one production installation.

See the agency path Read the licence scope

More of the working day, together

Use what you need.
It all belongs together.

Start with invoices. Add projects when you need to track the work. Bring in your team when it grows. These tools share the same business records.

People & teamwork

Assign tasks, discuss records and keep replies in your inbox. Roles and guest permissions control access.

Bring the team together

Records & receipts

Keep supplier purchases and receipt files ready for your accountant. Share the evidence behind the figures.

Prepare the hand-off

Your choice of AI

Connect the AI client you already use. It does the everyday work as you, and you approve the sensitive steps in Pepper.

Explore the AI tools

Customer services

Publish offers, bookings and useful next steps on your website, in a message or through a printed QR code. Follow the response into Pepper.

Explore the widget journeys

The widget library with configured services and their publishing actions. — Choose a service and publish its next step. Fictional example.

Customer decisions

Send proofs to invited contacts and keep their approval with the exact file versions. Use job pages to show progress and collect answers.

Keep the answer with the work

A proof set with invited contacts, selected files and an approval statement. — Choose who can check and approve the files. Fictional example.

Revenue, costs and cash

Compare periods and inspect the records behind each figure. Collect issued invoices through Stripe, or record outside payments by hand.

Read the money with its sources

Money overview comparing revenue, selected costs and recorded cash with the previous period. — Each currency stays separate. Fictional example business.

13 languages · 21 currencies

Pepper needs no AI account. Your chosen AI service is separate. Accountant exports support your books; Pepper does not provide full accounting or tax filing.

Business software you own

Keep the keys
to your business.

Your licence never expires. You hold the installed copy, the database and the full source. Keep using your downloaded software when update access ends.

Your hosting. Your data.: Choose where Pepper runs and who has access. Export records, settings and files to move to a fresh Pepper installation.
The source is included.: Read, change and maintain the code for your licensed installation. It’s a commercial licence; source redistribution is not permitted.
The upkeep is yours to arrange.: You or your technical partner handle hosting, email, security, updates and backups. These operating costs are separate.

What self-hosting involves See your exit plan Check your software dependencies

Pepper has no licence check and does not report usage to us. Your hosting, domain and email services remain dependencies you manage.

One purchase. A capable business platform.

A lot of business
for $199.

Customers, projects, tasks, time, quotes, invoices and forms. Full source code. One production installation, with no per-user licence fees.

If you charge $199 USD an hour, that’s one hour’s fee for the licence. Your rate may differ; hosting and upkeep cost extra.

Read the purchase and hosting details

$199USD/year
cancel at any time

Perpetual licence, full source and one year of updates and product support from your purchase date.

Updates and support renew automatically at $199 USD/year unless you cancel. Cancel right away and keep the full paid year. Your downloaded copy keeps working.

Return for a new year whenever you need it, with no charge for skipped years. Hosting, email and maintenance are separate. Gumroad handles sales tax at checkout.

See everything included

14-day refund · Purchase terms

Ways to run Pepper

Choose who runs it.

One license covers one production installation, with no per-user license fees. Updates install over the copy you already have while your update access is active.

Your server

Install Pepper on hosting you choose. You or your technical partner handle updates and backups. $199 includes a licence that never expires and one year of updates and product support.

See pricing

Built for your business

We design, build and run a platform on Pepper around the way your company works. From €4,000 or US$4,000 a month, excluding VAT.

Discuss your platform

Take a closer look

Make it your business.

Explore real screens, follow a workflow or check what it takes to run your copy.

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Your whole business.
Under your control.

Keep doing what
you do best.

The hours you worked.The invoice to come.