For the creators here - how are you currently managing your brand deals?

Genuinely curious what people are using before Paperclip or instead of Paperclip.

When I was talking to creators while building this, the answers were all over the place - a Google Sheet with 40 columns, a Notion database they stopped updating after the third deal, a folder of starred emails, or just their memory. A few people had genuinely impressive systems that I ended up learning from.

But the common thread was always the same: whatever system existed was built to survive, not to scale. It worked fine for 2 deals a month and completely fell apart at 6.

I'm curious what the breaking point was for people here - the moment where whatever you were using stopped working. Was it a missed deadline? An invoice you forgot to send? A brand asking for your rate and realizing you had no idea what you charged them last time?

Or if you've found something that actually works - I want to know that too. Building a tool in a space means you should know every alternative better than anyone.

What are you using?