{"slug": "how-to-share-an-ai-built-sales-tracker-with-your-team", "title": "How to share an AI-built sales tracker with your team", "summary": "Croft published a September 28, 2026 guide recommending that teams share an AI-built sales tracker by hosting it as a private app on Croft rather than emailing HTML exports or publishing it to a public host. The guide says teammates access one lasting URL, work against shared saved pipeline data, and sign in with company login, with backups and rollbacks handled on the server. It describes connecting Claude or Cursor over MCP, or using Croft Build in the browser, to deploy the tracker as an app on a private croft.", "body_md": "[Blog](https://oncroft.net/blog/) · September 28, 2026 · Rich Chetwynd\n\n# How to share an AI-built sales tracker with your team\n\nHost a sales tracker built with AI as a private team app on Croft. One URL, shared pipeline data, company login, backups. Not emailed HTML or a public host.\n\n## Quick answer\n\nTo **share an AI sales tracker with your team**, host it as a private app on\nCroft and give everyone one URL. Teammates open it in the browser, work against\n**shared pipeline data**, and sign in with company login. That is the path for a\n**sales tracker built with AI for team** use: a lasting private app, not an\nemailed HTML file or a public host.\n\n## The tracker works for you. Sharing it is broken.\n\nSales people already build pipeline trackers with Claude, Cursor, or a rebuilt sheet: deals, stages, follow-ups, next actions. The app often works fine for the person who built it. The cliff is handing it to the rest of the team.\n\nWhat usually happens:\n\n- You email an HTML export or artifact file. Everyone has a different copy. Updates do not sync.\n- You drop it on a public host. Pipeline numbers sit on the open web unless you invent login yourself.\n- You keep it in a sheet or CRM export forever. Two people edit at once, and nobody is sure which version is current.\n- You demo it once in chat. Later, teammates ask for “that tracker” and you have to recreate the session.\n\nSo the sales tracker is useful. The team still does not have one live app with one shared pipeline.\n\nIf your starting point is a stocktake sheet rather than a pipeline, see\n[Replace a spreadsheet stocktake with a private app](https://oncroft.net/blog/spreadsheet-stocktake-to-private-app/).\nFor financial models:\n[Turn a spreadsheet financial model into a private team app](https://oncroft.net/blog/spreadsheet-financial-model-to-private-app/).\nFor hosting AI-built apps in general:\n[Where to host an app I built with AI](https://oncroft.net/blog/where-to-host-an-app-i-built-with-ai/).\nThis post is the sales tracker path.\n\n## What sharing a sales tracker should mean\n\nFor a pipeline the team relies on, “share it” is not “any live URL.” It is:\n\n1. A **lasting URL** teammates can open in a browser\n2. **Shared saved deals** so every update persists for everyone\n3. **Team sign-in** , so outsiders cannot wander into pipeline numbers\n4. **Backups and a way to undo** a bad change\n5. A path to **iterate in chat** , without babysitting servers\n\nRelated reading when you care about recoverability:\n[App hosting with backups and versioning](https://oncroft.net/blog/app-hosting-with-backups-and-versioning/).\n\n## Emailed HTML vs public host vs sheet vs Croft\n\n| Need | Emailed HTML / artifact | Public AI-app host | Spreadsheet / CRM export | Croft | \n|---|---|---|---|---|\n| Team opens their own link | No | Yes | Fragile copies | Yes | \n| Shared pipeline data | No | Extra setup | File chaos | Included | \n| Private to your people | File chaos | You build login | File chaos | Built in | \n| Leave one-off demos behind | No | Possible | No | Yes | \n| Keep iterating with AI chat | Limited | Varies | Limited | Yes | \n| No devops required | N/A | Sometimes | N/A | Yes | \n\nCroft is the private place for vibe-coded and AI-artifact apps. It is not a public AI-SaaS host, and it is not “keep the sheet forever and wrap it.” You bring the sales tracker; Croft gives your team a shared app on a private server.\n\n## Steps: AI sales tracker → private team app\n\n1. Get a croft (private server for your workspace).\n2. [Connect Claude](https://oncroft.net/connect/claude/) or[Cursor](https://oncroft.net/connect/cursor/) over MCP, or\nuse[Croft Build](https://oncroft.net/build/) in the browser if you prefer not to connect an\nassistant yet.\n3. Hand the assistant the tracker: paste the artifact, export key fields, or\ndescribe deals, stages, and follow-ups. Ask it to **deploy the sales tracker\nas an app on your croft** (not to email HTML or publish a public URL).\n4. Invite colleagues. They open a normal URL, sign in with company login, and work against the shared pipeline.\n5. Keep chatting to change stages, filters, or screens. Deploys and rollbacks stay on the server.\n\nMore on the product path: [From artifact to app](https://oncroft.net/artifacts/). Prefer Cursor for\nthe next iteration? See [host a Cursor app](https://oncroft.net/host-cursor-app/). Ready-made\nstarting points: [templates](https://oncroft.net/templates/). Need live business data later:\n[connectors](https://oncroft.net/connectors/).\n\nYou still do not need to learn nginx, Docker, or “how to deploy.” The point of Croft is that the assistant can ship the app for you.\n\n## FAQ\n\n### How do I share an AI-built sales tracker with my team?\n\nHost it as a private app on Croft, then invite the people who work the pipeline.\nThey get a normal link and shared deal data. Details on\n[artifacts to apps](https://oncroft.net/artifacts/) and [connect Claude](https://oncroft.net/connect/claude/).\n\n### Can I just email the HTML or artifact?\n\nYou can, once. Then someone updates a deal stage, another person has an old copy, and nobody has one source of truth. That is fine for a demo. It is not fine for a tracker the sales team uses every day.\n\n### Is this the same as putting the tracker on a public host?\n\nPublic hosts are strong for public products. For an internal sales tracker you\nusually want a private server and team sign-in by default, not a public URL you\nlock down after the fact. See also\n[Where to host an app I built with AI](https://oncroft.net/blog/where-to-host-an-app-i-built-with-ai/).\n\n### What if I rebuilt the tracker from a spreadsheet or CRM export?\n\nSame destination: a private team app. Rebuild the logic as an app (not wrap the\nsheet forever), deploy to Croft, and invite the people who should update deals.\nRelated path for sheets:\n[How to turn a Google Sheet into an app](https://oncroft.net/blog/how-to-turn-a-google-sheet-into-an-app/).\n\n### What if I already built the tracker in Claude or Cursor?\n\nSame steps. Deploy from chat with [connect Claude](https://oncroft.net/connect/claude/) or\n[host a Cursor app](https://oncroft.net/host-cursor-app/), then invite teammates so they can sign\nin and use the shared pipeline.\n\n### Do I need to be technical?\n\nNo. If you can maintain a pipeline sheet or describe your deals to an assistant, you can ask it to deploy to Croft. The people who get the most from this are sales and ops experts, not platform engineers.\n\n### How much does Croft cost?\n\nSolo from $24/month on annual billing, Team $99/month on annual. 7-day free\ntrial, no card to start. See [pricing](https://oncroft.net/pricing/).\n\n## Stake out your croft.\n\nYour team's first app could be live before lunch.\n\n[Get your croft](https://app.oncroft.net/signup)\n\n7 days free, no card to start. 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