Lead → Deal → Project: How to maintain contact & account links throughout the process?

Hi everyone,

We’re an IT service provider working in the B2B space, and we’re currently building our CRM and project workflow in monday.com. Our goal is to create a fully connected data structure across all stages:

  • From the lead to the deal
  • From the deal to the project
  • While maintaining links to both the account (company) and the contact person

We’ve already set up an automation where:

When a lead is marked as “Qualified,” a new item is created in the Deals board.

That part works fine — however, the contact person and company (both connect columns in the Leads board) are not passed to the new deal item.

What we want to achieve is a consistent and traceable connection between leads, deals, and projects so that we can later evaluate and report by account or by contact. For example: “Which deals and projects are connected to Company X or Contact Y?”

Our questions:

  1. Is it possible to pass connect column values (e.g. contact, company) via monday automations?
  2. If not: what workarounds or tools (e.g. Make.com) are you using to solve this?
  3. Are there any best practices or examples from the community for building a clean B2B CRM structure in monday.com?

Any advice, ideas, or links to examples would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Christian

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