Multi-site CMS
Visual editor, live preview, static deploy. No WordPress, no plugins breaking every Tuesday.
Hi, my name is Alessandro.
Graphic designer since 2008, full-time freelance since 2012. I built Rodion because I was tired of paying 7 subscriptions to manage dozens of different clients. More dashboards than common sense.
What's actually inside
12 modules, one dashboard, zero overlapping subscriptions
PM + Kanban
Clients, projects, tasks, time tracking, Gantt. All connected — no Notion+Asana+Numbers chain.
Brain Dump AI
Press a button, talk or type. AI figures out if it's a task, note, todo, or lead. Then sorts it.
AI scanning
Photo of a receipt or brief, AI extracts the data into Finance or Projects. No more shoebox of paper.
Finance + Stripe
PDF quotes, proforma, Italian e-invoices, deposit + final payment links. Webhooks that close things.
CRM + Pipeline
Leads from anti-spam forms, kanban pipeline, scoring, automated follow-ups. Catch to close.
Email marketing
Drip sequences, responsive templates, segmentation. From your SMTP — no rate-limit babysitting.
Social manager
Editorial calendar, multi-account, multi-brand. You post when you feel like it, the app posts when it should.
Booking + Google Meet
Bookings on your Google Calendar, auto Meet link, reminders. No €12/mo Calendly.
Knowledge base AI
Upload docs, AI answers with citations. No hallucinations, no blind RAG — you see the source.
Native Android
Brain dump, scan, timer, smart push. In your pocket when the client calls you on the beach.
Multi-tenant + EU
Manage each client as a separate org. European hosting, your data, no US, no third parties.
The short version
Why I built all of this
I got into graphic design and web in high school, back in 2003. They were teaching us HTML on paper and I thought “wait what — what's the point of learning this with a pen? I want to make a real site.” So I made a real site. Meanwhile I was photoshopping friends' faces, making flyers for tiny parties and underground raves. Serious stuff.
Sometime in my early twenties, people were actually paying for that, so I kept going. Between 2008 and 2012 I was freelancing unofficially; from 2012 with a VAT number, when my accountant finally cornered me.
Since then: websites, brand identity, packaging, some video, apps, prototypes. I work for a bunch of different clients — not 3, definitely more. Finding clients was never the problem. Managing them was.
HubSpot CRM, Notion projects, Wave invoicing, WordPress + 8 plugins, Gmail. Five tools. Five logins. Three contradictory sources of truth. Zero time left to actually design.
In early 2025 I gave up and started writing Rodion. Not to launch a startup. To finish my workday at 6pm instead of 10pm.
Today I use it, and some clients use it. It works — you have to know how, it's not for everyone, but it works.
Yes, it is AI slop. With style.
Solo, by hand, I would have needed 82 years. Or a team costing thousands a month. I picked the third path: time, craft, and AI as an ally, used with awareness.
It is pointless to keep arguing "AI yes" or "AI no". AI is here. The question is how you use it and who is in charge: you, with a craft behind you, or it, free to spit slop on autopilot.
Twenty-plus years (sigh) behind me across web, graphic, UX and design. Plus a love for code, chronic omnichannel curiosity, and a taste for experiments. Until a few years back, a project like Rodion was out of reach for a single individual.
Careful, though. You don't just type "act as the world's best engineer and build me a platform with CMS, CRM, project management, finance, booking, native mobile app and a few more odds and ends" and wait for the miracle.
You need granular control over every layer: stack, architecture, design, UX, problem solving, security, privacy. Plus time. Cursing. More time. Money spent. Failed attempts. Yet more time. Problems.
It is not perfect yet. But I use it every day. And it does its dirty job, brilliantly.
Who uses it
Three real people. Three real stories.
5.0/5.0
"Yeah, it looks good I guess. I'm a wedding planner, not a tech person. All I know is the site works better now, contacts come in, bookings happen. What Alessandro actually did, no idea."
C
Claudia
Wedding planner, Tuscany
"At first I was like, 'another tool? Whatever, we'll see.' Two weeks in I realized I could cancel three subscriptions, and I was like alright. It's not magic — it's just that now things work. Alessandro is a weird one, but he makes serious stuff."
D
Diego
Property manager, Trentino (Italy)
"Yes, it's normal to refer to yourself in the third person on your own landing page. Designer's trick."
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Alessandro
The author, third-person
- Backend: Python + FastAPI + Postgres
- Dashboard: Next.js + React + Tailwind
- Mobile: Native Android (Kotlin + Compose). iOS when I feel like it.
- AI: Anthropic Claude for reasoning, Whisper for transcription, vision models for receipts
- Static sites: build-time HTML, zero runtime, deploy via FTP/SSH/local
- Hosting: European. Your data is yours. Doesn't end up in the US or some obscure data lake.
- Email + e-invoicing: standard Italian SMTP, SDI/PEC support when needed
- Payments: Stripe. Full stop. No PayPal — we have enough logins already.
Open source? Not yet. Maybe when it makes more sense. For now I prefer to know exactly what comes in and what goes out.
Where things stand
No 'subscribe to be the first to know' form, no free plan turning Pro after 14 days, no public Notion roadmap. There's no point giving you generic access right now — if you're interested email me, I'll tailor it to what you need. I'll reply personally, not a bot. If you're not, that's cool too.
