FirstQuadrant

A one-sentence summary

FirstQuadrant was an AI-based sales execution platform designed for founders and sales teams, capable of managing the sales pipeline, nurturing existing relationships, and sending personalized email campaigns; it ceased to be in operation in November 2025.

Current status

On November 1, 2025, FirstQuadrant announced that it would cease operating, as the components of its platform and its data infrastructure were acquired by an AI technology company whose name was not disclosed, through a confidentiality agreement. The company also canceled customers’ subscriptions and stated that it would no longer charge any fees.

Once operations are discontinued, the integrated access to email, customer relationship management systems, and other services is also removed. The current website and documentation are available to provide information about past products, but they should not be considered as services that are still available for registration, purchase, or deployment.

Tool Introduction

Founded in 2022, FirstQuadrant is a people-centered B2B sales automation platform. It brings together conversation understanding, next steps, pipeline management, relationship building, telemarketing activities, and analytics in one workspace.

The platform used the terms Convert, Nurture, and Grow to describe these three types of capabilities, which correspond respectively to driving sales, reactivating relationships, and increasing traffic at the top of the sales funnel. AI can propose or carry out sales actions, while users can also modify those suggestions before they are sent.

Original product modules

Main functions

Understanding sales conversations and next steps

The system reads emails and past interactions to identify the customer’s intentions, emotions, the stage of the business opportunity, and the context surrounding it, and then determines the next steps to take. Situations such as postponing or canceling a meeting, responding promptly, or comparing with competitors can trigger different recommendations for follow-up actions.

Customizable AI inference

Users can add rules to ensure that the AI’s decisions and actions align with their own sales processes. The recommended actions can be edited, and the platform also shows the reasons behind those decisions, which facilitates verification by sales staff.

Automatic follow-up and relationship building

FirstQuadrant keeps track of interactions and schedules follow-up communications to prevent business opportunities from being lost due to lack of follow-up. The Nurture module is also used to identify new signs in existing relationships and to restart conversations.

Company knowledge base

The team can upload company information so that the AI can draw on this internal knowledge when answering questions and formulating sales strategies. The content of the knowledge base influences the personalized emails sent, which is why it is necessary to keep product, price, and case information up to date.

Outbound campaigns and email sequences

The Grow module allows for importing an audience, selecting the sender’s email address, creating the first email message and sending follow-up emails multiple times; it also enables the creation of several test versions for a given sequence. Autopilot can handle the sending process automatically, while in cases where relationships exist, it can be set to require manual review.

AI-based qualification assessment for leads

When importing contacts, the team can set rules and criteria; the AI will then determine whether the company in question has received funding, whether it fits the business model, and whether the website contains specific information. The system can also exclude invalid websites, unverified email addresses, personal email accounts, and existing contacts.

Multiple email account rotation

The platform used to allow multiple email accounts to be connected in a workspace, with the sender being changed according to daily limits. Each email account required settings for the sending limit, a gradual increase in the amount of messages sent, a reply address, and a waiting interval; aliases or shared email accounts could not replace individual accounts.

Sales pipeline and campaign analysis

The analysis panel allows one to view metrics related to opens, replies, clicks, test versions, lead creation, as well as the performance of companies and sending email addresses. Based on this information, teams can pause inefficient workflows, adjust qualification rules, or change audience segments.

Integration, APIs, and Webhooks

The official historical website claims to be able to integrate with customer relationship management systems, email services, calendars, and other sales tools; it also offers APIs and Webhooks. Once the service is discontinued, the integration permissions are revoked, and developers should stop relying on these interfaces for handling operational tasks.

Offline and team collaboration

The product was advertised to offer features such as synchronized updates after working offline, a dark mode, and unlimited email accounts. The number of users under different previous subscription plans varied, as did the benefits related to conference access; therefore, not all of these features can be considered part of the basic package.

Historical workflow

1. Connect to the separately configured sales email, calendar, and customer relationship management systems, and check the permissions for each integration.
2. Import companies and contacts, map fields, and then use qualification questions and validation rules to filter out inappropriate leads.
3. Configure rules for the sales process, brand representation, knowledge base, and automation boundaries.
4. Create the first email, subsequent emails in the sequence, and multiple test versions; select the sender, the audience, and the review mode.
5. After launching the campaign, monitor responses, clicks, business opportunities, and the email addresses from which messages are sent, and continuously adjust the target audience and the content used.

Tutorials on historical outbound campaigns

1. Use third-party lead generation tools to prepare the list and export it in CSV format, as FirstQuadrant does not provide its own built-in lead database.
2. On the import page, upload the CSV file, map the contact fields, and enable website, email, and duplicate contact checks.
3. Select the connected sender’s email address and the appropriate target audience, then create the first email along with 2 to 4 follow-up emails.
4. Configure personalized fields, multiple content versions, sending delay times, and exceptions for manual review of existing relationships.
5. After it is launched, the response rate, click-through rate, number of business opportunities generated, and the performance of different sending email addresses are compared in the activity analysis.

List of data processing tasks after shutdown

1. Verify that contacts, business opportunities, email history, knowledge base, events, and analysis data in the workspace have been exported.
2. Revoke FirstQuadrant permissions in Google, Microsoft, customer relationship management systems, and calendar backends, rather than relying solely on the platforms’ automatic handling.
3. Check the last invoice, the status of subscription cancellation, and the corporate contract; save the shutdown notifications and records of any communications regarding refunds.
4. Verify with the platform the status of data deletion in the main database, backups, and third-party processors; for sensitive clients, a written response should also be requested.
5. Before migrating to the new tool, remove duplicate, expired, and unsupported contacts, and reassess compliance with outbound calling rules.

System replacement selection process

1. List the pipeline, cultivation, outbound calling, knowledge base, approval, analysis, and interface capabilities that must be retained.
2. Data residency, authentication, audit logs, deletion timelines, and contract terms are determined based on the region and customer requirements.
3. Select a small amount of real but non-sensitive data for testing, in order to verify import, deduplication, personalization, reply recognition, and unsubscribe processing.
4. First, migrate a team or an activity to assess delivery rates, response times, the amount of manual review required, and data integrity.
5. After verification is successful, the migration is carried out in batches, and the files exported from the old system, field mappings, and change logs are saved.

Which users are it suitable for

FirstQuadrant has ceased operations, so it is not suitable as a new purchasing tool for any team at the moment. Those interested can only use its past designs as a reference for evaluating similar products.

• Startup founder: Find out how to consolidate pipelines, email, and AI follow-ups in one workspace.
• Sales Development Team: Assessing the suitability of leads, as well as controlling email sequences and automated deliveries.
• Revenue Operations Specialist: Studies pipeline data, conducts activity analysis, and explores the logic behind synchronization between customer systems and email accounts.
• Sales technology developers: Understand the historical interfaces of APIs, Webhooks, and multilingual SDKs.
• Former FirstQuadrant customers: Used for verifying old plans, exporting data, and handling data cleanup after service discontinuation.

Typical historical scenes

• Follow up on delayed business opportunities: Identify the time suggested by the other party from previous emails and prepare the content for re-contacting them.
• Activate dormant relationships: Determine whether to resume communication based on past conversations and new signals.
• Batch B2B outbound calls: Import the pre-selected contacts and generate a personalized sequence of emails for each potential customer.
• Small-team sales execution: Use AI to handle some of the research, follow-up, and campaign management tasks.
• Unified sales process: Rules, knowledge bases, and approval processes are used to regulate the way in which different team members communicate with each other.
• Review of campaign performance: Analyze conversion rates based on content version, sending email address, industry, and position.

Advantages of historical products

• Convert, Nurture, and Grow cover the three sales stages: existing opportunities, existing relationships, and new leads.
• AI actions are interpretable and editable, and allow for manual review to be retained for existing relationships.
• The knowledge base and the context of historical emails can work together to enable personalized judgments.
• The activity tools cover import, qualification filtering, sequencing, sender email, and analysis.
• It offered APIs, Webhooks, and client code in various languages to facilitate the customization of workflows.
• The Historical Scaleup and Enterprise plans support an unlimited number of users, making them suitable for cross-functional collaboration.

Usage restrictions and risks

• The platform has ceased operations; it is no longer possible to register for it, make purchases, or use it as a dependency for production systems.
• The historical website and price pages are still accessible, but their availability does not mean that the services have been restored.
• The shutdown announcement asks customers to export their data; it remains to be determined whether service can be restored after the transition period has passed.
• The customer’s system, email account, and calendar were once granted high-level permissions; the original user should check the status of these permissions in each provider’s backend to confirm whether they have been revoked.
• The qualification assessments and emails generated by AI may be inaccurate; manual verification is required for contact information checks and the content of the emails sent.
• Automatic outbound calls are related to matters such as consent, cancellation of subscriptions, identity of the sender, privacy, and anti-spam regulations; users are responsible for ensuring compliance with these rules.
• Opening and clicking on tracking elements processes data related to the recipient’s behavior; in some areas, it may be necessary to inform the recipient or obtain their consent.
• Sending large volumes of messages can affect the reputation of both domain names and email addresses; therefore, using email rotation as a way to circumvent the restrictions imposed by service providers is not advisable.
• The official documentation states clearly that at that time there was no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification, nor any data routing specific to the European Union.
• The terms of the early beta version stated that the platform had the right to generate text and to use customers’ trademarks in marketing efforts; historical customers were subject to the actual contracts in force.
• The public SDK repository is quite old and its platform interfaces have been discontinued, so it is not suitable for use in new projects.

Historical prices and packages

The following are the monthly subscription plans that were last made available on the official website before it stopped operating; they are provided only for historical purposes and cannot be purchased at present. The official party has automatically canceled these subscriptions and stated that no further charges will be incurred.

All three historical packages include the Convert, Nurture, and Grow functions. The public prices do not specify how points are spent for each feature, nor do they indicate any taxes, annual payment discounts, or additional fees for extra usage; therefore, it is not appropriate to estimate the current costs based on the information on the old pages.

Platform support and integration

APIs, SDKs, and open-source status

The official GitHub repository of FirstQuadrant still contains four repositories: those for API documentation, the status page, the SDK, and the React email renderer. The repositories for API documentation and status information have been archived; the last update to the SDK was in 2023. Since the platform is no longer in operation, these codes do not guarantee that the corresponding interfaces are still usable.

The SDK repository includes clients written in TypeScript Angular, TypeScript Axios, TypeScript Fetch, Go, Python, and PHP, along with OpenAPI specification files. No explicit license is indicated on the repository page; therefore, being publicly accessible does not mean that there is an open-source license permitting free copying, modification, or commercial use.

Privacy and security

According to the official security documentation, data transmission takes place using TLS 1.2 or higher versions, while static data is encrypted with AES-256 by Supabase, which is located in the AWS region in the western United States. The core infrastructure is based in the United States, and the platform does not have any applications specific to the European Union nor dedicated connections to that region.

The document states clearly that no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification is held. It is specified that affected customers will be informed within 72 hours once a data breach is detected, but this is part of past operational policies and cannot serve as proof of actual deletion after the service is suspended.

• The deletion process is initiated one week after the account is closed; first, a soft deletion is performed on the main database.
• Encrypted backups are retained for 7 days before being permanently deleted, while the main database is automatically and permanently deleted as it is still under development.
• Users can request manual deletion from the main database.
• The core data is located in the United States, and companies that have localization requirements in the EU or the UK had to seek alternative solutions at that time.
• The platform relies on third-party sub-processors; the original customer should verify whether the data held by these service providers is deleted upon suspension of service.
• Emails, contacts, customer systems, and knowledge bases may contain sensitive business information; exported files must be encrypted and access to them must be restricted.

Basic information

Recommendation score

Current recommendation score: 1.0 / 5. FirstQuadrant has a fairly comprehensive history of product development, which can serve as an example for understanding AI-driven sales processes, relationship building, and automated calling techniques; however, its cessation of operations means it no longer offers any value in terms of procurement or ongoing use.

The original customer’s priorities are not to continue with the configuration process, but rather to ensure data export, revocation of integration rights, termination of billing, and permanent deletion of the data. When looking for alternatives, it is important to assess factors such as long-term operational capabilities, data retention policies, security certifications, interface stability, and mechanisms for exiting the service.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can FirstQuadrant still be used?

It cannot be used as a regular service available for purchase. On November 1, 2025, the authorities announced the shutdown of this platform; subscriptions were automatically canceled, and access to the integrated services was also revoked.

Why did FirstQuadrant cease operations?

Officials stated that they have reached a confidentiality agreement with a leading AI technology company, which has recognized the strategic value of some of their platform components and data infrastructure. The identity of the partner involved in this agreement as well as the details of the transaction remain undisclosed, so it is not appropriate to draw any conclusions on their own.

Will there still be charges now?

The suspension announcement states that the subscription has been automatically canceled and no further charges will be applied. Original customers should still check their payment accounts, the latest invoices, and their corporate contracts; if anything seems unusual, they should keep records of those issues and contact the original support team.

What was the original price?

Before the service was discontinued, the monthly rates were $250 for Startup, $400 for Scaleup, and custom quotes for Enterprise. These are historical prices; they are no longer available for purchase.

What could FirstQuadrant do in the past?

It was used to manage the sales pipeline, revive existing relationships, carry out personalized telemarketing campaigns, analyze responses and business opportunities, and to assist AI in making decisions through knowledge bases and historical conversations.

Does FirstQuadrant have a built-in lead database?

No. The history tutorial requires users to obtain lists from third-party lead generation tools, import them in CSV format, and then apply qualification rules for filtering.

How did the original customer handle the data?

It is necessary to verify that contacts, business opportunities, emails, events, the knowledge base, and analytical data have been exported. At the same time, check in the email system, calendar, and customer management system to confirm that any unauthorized access has been revoked, and request the permanent deletion of data that is no longer needed.

Are APIs provided?

Historically, API and Webhook services were provided, along with public interface documentation. The platform is no longer in use, so the old endpoints, keys, and automation processes should not be employed in production any longer.

What are the official SDKs?

The public repository contains clients for TypeScript, Go, Python, and PHP. The code was updated quite some time ago and the interface services have been discontinued; it is only suitable for historical research.

Is FirstQuadrant an open-source product?

No. The authorities have made some documents, SDKs, and auxiliary repositories available publicly, but the core sales platform’s source code has not been made available; moreover, the publicly available SDKs do not come with clear licensing terms.

Is the official GitHub still usable?

The repositories can still be viewed; however, the API documentation and status pages have been archived. Viewing the code does not mean that the platform has been restored, nor does it imply that all repositories are available under open-source licenses that permit free use.

Where is the data stored?

The historical security documentation indicates that the core infrastructure is located in the United States, with static data stored using Supabase and AWS’s West US region. At that time, there were no dedicated routes for the European Union.

Does it have SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification?

Official historical documents state clearly that there was no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 certification at that time. Even after the operation was halted, the plans to carry out such assessments and certifications cannot be considered as proof of actual certification.

Is it appropriate to continue recommending it?

It is not suitable as a tool to be recommended for use, but it can be kept as a record of products that are no longer in operation, to assist original customers with the migration process, and to help new users understand the importance of mechanisms related to the ongoing operation of products and their withdrawal from service.

Summary

FirstQuadrant once integrated pipeline advancement, relationship building, outbound sales growth, and sales analysis into a single AI workspace, offering editable reasoning tools, a knowledge base, multiple email accounts, and development interfaces. The design of its existing functions remains useful as a reference.

However, the product is no longer in operation, and any previous prices, features, or SDKs cannot be considered as guarantees regarding its current availability. The catalog page should clearly indicate that the product is no longer available, and it should suggest data export, revocation of permissions, and selection of alternative systems as the most important actions for users to take.