Comparisons written to be useful, including where we are the wrong answer.
Five decisions clients bring us most often. Each page carries a column per option, our own numbers, and a section saying plainly when the other choice is better.
The five decisions
AI UGC vs human UGC
Cost, lead time and volume against trust, community and the categories where a real face wins.
Agency vs in-house
What each route costs in the first year, what it leaves behind, and when hiring is genuinely the right call.
n8n vs Make vs Zapier
Hosting, pricing shape, logic and maintainability, plus the rule we use when picking for a client.
Arcads alternative
A fair look at a good self-serve generator, and the case for buying the hours around it instead.
Creatify alternative
Product-link-to-video is genuinely fast. This is where catalogue volume stops being the same thing as account learning.
Common questions
Because the alternative is a sales call that ends in a refund. Roughly a third of the enquiries we get are better served by a $50 tool, a freelancer or a hire, and saying so early is cheaper for both sides than finding out in week three.
We describe what each product is good at, name the situations where it beats us, and hedge anything that changes quickly, such as pricing. Where we are comparing against a product rather than a service, the honest summary is usually that the tool solves generation and we sell the hours around it.
From the case studies on this site, with the method attached where it matters. Coastline's 698 hours came from their timesheets; Helio Home's 3.1x came from twelve months of their ad account. Anything we cannot trace is written as a floor or a range.
Yes, and it is a normal reason to book a call. Thirty minutes with the constraints written down usually settles it, and we will point you at the option that fits even when it is not us.
Still weighing two options?
Thirty minutes with your constraints written down usually settles it. If the answer is the other column, we will say so on the call and you will keep the reasoning.