LaraContact – Contact Management & WhatsApp AI-assisted CRM

LaraContact is a production-ready CRM that turns a contact list into a real communication hub. Built with a modern UI, it ships with two-way SMS and WhatsApp via Twilio, an in-browser dialer for voice, a queued bulk-email composer with open tracking, and a Sanctum-powered REST API.

Powered by Anthropic Claude, AI features paste-extract contact details from email signatures, auto-suggest tags from a contact’s notes, fix spelling on messages, and translate replies into nine languages — and every AI feature has a fake-mode fallback so the app works without API keys for demos.

Teams get shared workspaces with role-based invitations, a full audit log, real-time inbound message notifications and a built-in installer for one-click deployment.

What’s Included ?

Contacts & Organization

• Rich contact records with custom fields, lifecycle stages, social handles
• Free-form tags and one-of-many groups with color coding
• Duplicate detection by email or phone with one-click merge
• CSV import with auto-column detection and bulk operations

Communication, unified

• Two-way SMS & WhatsApp via Twilio (with signature-validated inbound webhook)
• Click-to-call browser dialer
• Queued email composer with open-tracking pixel
• Bulk send to any selection of contacts — Email, SMS, or WhatsApp — with mail-merge tokens ({{first_name}}, {{company}}, …), rate-limited job queue, and a live progress page
• Reusable bulk-send templates — save the message you keep typing and click to reload it
• Every conversation, call, email, and bulk send lives on the contact’s timeline

Security & data ownership

• Two-factor authentication 
• One-click workspace export — every contact, message, email, reminder, group, and tag as CSVs in a ZIP. 
• Full audit log of contact changes with field-level diffs 

AI assistance…