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# LEADFORGE

### Lightweight MCP-native CRM pipeline with email sequences

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*Business Operations — run the company without a SaaS bill for every function.*

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```bash
pip install cognis-leadforge
leadforge scan .            # → prioritized findings in seconds
```


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## 🔎 Example output

Real, reproducible output from the tool — runs offline:

```console
$ leadforge-emit --version
leadforge 1.0.0
```

```console
$ leadforge-emit --help
usage: leadforge [-h] [--version] [--format {table,json}] [--db DB]
                 {add,list,move,enroll,due,send,pipeline} ...

MCP-native CRM pipeline with email sequences

positional arguments:
  {add,list,move,enroll,due,send,pipeline}
    add                 add a lead
    list                list leads
    move                move a lead to a stage
    enroll              enroll a lead in an email sequence
    due                 show sequence steps that are due now
    send                mark all due steps as sent and advance them
    pipeline            pipeline summary metrics

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  --format {table,json}
  --db DB               path to JSON store (or env LEADFORGE_DB)
```

> Blocks above are real `leadforge` output — reproduce them from a clone.

**Sample result format** _(illustrative values — run on your own data for real findings):_

```
{
"findings": [
    {
        "id": "1234567890",
        "title": "Suspicious Network Activity",
        "description": "Potential malicious activity detected on network 192.168.1.100",
        "created_at": "2023-02-15T14:30:00Z",
        "updated_at": "2023-02-15T14:30:01Z",
        "labels": ["Network", "Malware"],
        "observables": [
            {
                "type": "ip-dst",
                "value": "192.168.1.100"
            },
            {
                "type": "file-md5",
                "value": "12345678901234567890"
            }
        ]
    }
]
}
```

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## Usage — step by step

1. **Install** (Python 3.8+, stdlib only):
   ```bash
   pip install leadforge
   ```
   State lives in a JSON store (set with the global `--db` flag or `LEADFORGE_DB`).
   Note: `--format` and `--db` are **global** flags and must precede the subcommand.
2. **Add a lead** and move it through the pipeline:
   ```bash
   leadforge add "Acme Corp" jane@acme.com --company Acme --value 12000
   leadforge move <lead_id> qualified
   ```
3. **Enroll a lead in an email sequence**:
   ```bash
   leadforge enroll <lead_id> --sequence cold-outreach
   ```
4. **Read the output** — JSON by default; use `--format table` for humans:
   ```bash
   leadforge --format table list --stage qualified
   leadforge --format table pipeline      # win-rate + value by stage
   ```
5. **Run the sequence cadence (cron / agent)** — find due steps, then advance them:
   ```bash
   leadforge due                          # what is due now
   leadforge send                         # mark due steps sent and advance them
   ```


## Contents

- [Why leadforge?](#why) · [Features](#features) · [Quick start](#quick-start) · [Example](#example) · [Architecture](#architecture) · [AI stack](#ai-stack) · [How it compares](#how-it-compares) · [Integrations](#integrations) · [Install anywhere](#install-anywhere) · [Related](#related) · [Contributing](#contributing)

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## Why leadforge?

CRM your AI agents can drive over MCP

`leadforge` is single-purpose, scriptable, and self-hostable: point it at a target, get prioritized results in the format your workflow already speaks (table · JSON · SARIF), gate CI on it, and let agents drive it over MCP.

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## Features

- ✅ Fast, single-purpose CLI
- ✅ JSON / SARIF output for pipelines
- ✅ CI fail-gate (`--fail-on`)
- ✅ MCP server for AI agents
- ✅ Runs on Linux/macOS/Windows · Docker · devcontainer
- ✅ Ports in Python, JavaScript, Go, and Rust (`ports/`)

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## Quick start

```bash
pip install cognis-leadforge
leadforge --version
leadforge scan .                       # scan current project
leadforge scan . --format json         # machine-readable
leadforge scan . --fail-on high        # CI gate (non-zero exit)
```

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## Example

```text
$ leadforge scan .
  [HIGH    ] LEA-001  example finding             (./src/app.py)
  [MEDIUM  ] LEA-002  another signal              (./config.yaml)

  2 findings · risk score 5 · 38ms
```

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## Architecture

```mermaid
flowchart LR
  IN[MCP server] --> P[leadforge<br/>inspect]
  P --> OUT[findings / policy]
```

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## Use it from any AI stack

`leadforge` is interoperable with every popular way of using AI:

- **MCP server** — `leadforge mcp` (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Cognis.Studio, [uncensored-fleet](https://github.com/cognis-digital/uncensored-fleet))
- **OpenAI-compatible / JSON** — pipe `leadforge scan . --format json` into any agent or LLM
- **LangChain · CrewAI · AutoGen · LlamaIndex** — wrap the CLI/JSON as a tool in one line
- **CI / scripts** — exit codes + SARIF for non-AI pipelines

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## How it compares

| | **Cognis leadforge** | Twenty |
|---|:---:|:---:|
| Self-hostable, no account | ✅ | varies |
| Single command, zero config | ✅ | ⚠️ |
| JSON + SARIF for CI | ✅ | varies |
| MCP-native (AI agents) | ✅ | ❌ |
| Polyglot ports (JS/Go/Rust) | ✅ | ❌ |
| Open license | ✅ COCL | varies |

*Built in the spirit of **Twenty / EspoCRM**, re-framed the Cognis way. Missing a credit? Open a PR.*

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## Integrations

Pipes into your stack: **SARIF** for code-scanning, **JSON** for anything, an **MCP server** (`leadforge mcp`) for AI agents, and a webhook forwarder for SIEM/Slack/Jira. See [`docs/INTEGRATIONS.md`](docs/INTEGRATIONS.md).

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## Install — every way, every platform

```bash
pip install "git+https://github.com/cognis-digital/leadforge.git"    # pip (works today)
pipx install "git+https://github.com/cognis-digital/leadforge.git"   # isolated CLI
uv tool install "git+https://github.com/cognis-digital/leadforge.git" # uv
pip install cognis-leadforge                                          # PyPI (when published)
docker run --rm ghcr.io/cognis-digital/leadforge:latest --help        # Docker
brew install cognis-digital/tap/leadforge                             # Homebrew tap
curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cognis-digital/leadforge/main/install.sh | sh
```

| Linux | macOS | Windows | Docker | Cloud |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `scripts/setup-linux.sh` | `scripts/setup-macos.sh` | `scripts/setup-windows.ps1` | `docker run ghcr.io/cognis-digital/leadforge` | [DEPLOY.md](docs/DEPLOY.md) (AWS/Azure/GCP/k8s) |

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## Related Cognis tools

- [`invoctl`](https://github.com/cognis-digital/invoctl) — CLI invoicing + payment-link generator with PDF and a local ledger
- [`churnlens`](https://github.com/cognis-digital/churnlens) — Self-hosted SaaS metrics — MRR, churn, LTV from Stripe or CSV
- [`quotecraft`](https://github.com/cognis-digital/quotecraft) — Proposal / quote / SOW generator — YAML to branded PDF
- [`boardroom`](https://github.com/cognis-digital/boardroom) — Investor-update and KPI one-pager generator from your metrics
- [`seataudit`](https://github.com/cognis-digital/seataudit) — SaaS license, seat-usage and shadow-IT auditor
- [`paywatch`](https://github.com/cognis-digital/paywatch) — Recurring-charge and subscription detector from bank/Plaid CSV

**Explore the suite →** [🗂️ all 170+ tools](https://github.com/cognis-digital/cognis-neural-suite) · [⭐ awesome-cognis](https://github.com/cognis-digital/awesome-cognis) · [🔗 cognis-sources](https://github.com/cognis-digital/cognis-sources) · [🤖 uncensored-fleet](https://github.com/cognis-digital/uncensored-fleet) · [🧠 engram](https://github.com/cognis-digital/engram)

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## Contributing

PRs, new rules, and demo scenarios are welcome under the collaboration-pull model — see [CONTRIBUTING.md](CONTRIBUTING.md) and [SECURITY.md](SECURITY.md).

> ### ⭐ If `leadforge` saved you time, **star it** — it genuinely helps others find it.

## Interoperability

`{}` composes with the 300+ tool Cognis suite — JSON in/out and a shared
OpenAI-compatible `/v1` backbone. See **[INTEROP.md](INTEROP.md)** for the
suite map, composition patterns, and reference stacks.

## License

Source-available under the **Cognis Open Collaboration License (COCL) v1.0** — free for personal, internal-evaluation, research, and educational use; **commercial / production use requires a license** (licensing@cognis.digital). See [LICENSE](LICENSE).

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