❦ STACK GUIDE · No. 004 · By founder stage
Growing team (5–15)
Post-PMF. Hiring active. Multiple departments, real revenue.
You're past product-market fit. The team is 5–15 people across engineering, GTM, and ops. Per-seat costs that didn't matter at two now compound. International hires need EOR or contractor agreements. The stack needs to scale through this size band without rebuilding it again at 30.
❦ The stack, at a glance
$2000–6000
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20
$2,000–6,000/mo
Who this is for
- ●5–15 person team, $100k–1M ARR
- ●Distributed or hybrid — usually both
- ●First international or full-time hires happening
Who it isn't for
- ●Teams of 2 — see Team of two
- ●30+ person scale-ups — your CRM and HR stack will need to mature further
❦ Project management & docs
❦ Hosting & infrastructure
❦ Database & backend
❦ Sales / CRM
❦ Customer support
❦ Marketing & email
Kit
Creator Pro ($59). Subscriber scoring and advanced segmentation at this list size.
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Jasper
Pro tier ($59/seat) if you have 3+ writers — brand voice training pays off at that scale.
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Postwyse
Business tier ($99). Multiple founder / exec accounts on the same dashboard.
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❦ Payments & billing
❦ Payroll & contractors
First real HR stack moment — domestic + international hires usually need different tools.
❦ Banking & legal
❦ A note from the editors
Budget target: $2,000–6,000/mo. The biggest line items are Supabase Team, Deel EOR (if any), Notion Business across all seats, and HubSpot Pro. Audit quarterly for inactive seats — most teams find $1–2k/mo of waste in the first pass.
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