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ROI categoryrevenue velocityrevenue velocity
Time-to-ValueAbout 1 week (7-day free trial) (~7d)4–6 weeks (~30d)
Typical annual TCO$4,680/yr$24,000/yr
Starting price$468/yr$10,800/yr
Implementation feeNoneNone
Seat tiersEvery paid plan includes 1 seat; each extra seat is billed at the plan rate. DATA + AI scales to 5 seats, Automations is unlimitedNot seat-based; published example is Professional at 2,500 contacts emailed per month for $900/month
Implementation friction2/53/5
Friction meter
Best forSmall businesses and emerging primes competing for federal, state, local, and education contracts; GovCon capture and proposal teams that want less manual discovery and drafting work; Teams already working in Claude, ChatGPT, Google Drive, SharePoint, Slack, or Microsoft 365; Consultants and APEX Accelerators supporting multiple government contractor clients; Developers and partners building custom apps on the CLEATUS REST API and MCP serverMidsize and enterprise marketing teams running lifecycle campaigns across email, web, SMS and social; Organizations that want an open ecosystem platform rather than a CRM-locked add-on; Brands running distributed marketing through branch offices, franchisees, agents and partners; Teams that want CRM choice (Salesforce, Dynamics, Sugar, NetSuite, Zendesk) with Act-On embedded in the CRM UI; Marketers who need advanced automation in an approachable, non-technical interface
Not forCommercial-only businesses with no interest in US government contracting; Organizations that require on-premises hosting or single-country data residency; Buyers seeking a standalone CRM or ERP rather than a GovCon capture layer; Teams that only need raw opportunity data with no AI drafting or workflow automationVery small teams needing a free tier or sub-$500/month entry point; Buyers who require published, self-serve list pricing before a sales call; Companies that want an all-in-one CRM plus marketing suite from a single vendor; Regulated buyers who need publicly documented SOC 2 or ISO 27001 attestations; Teams needing native Snowflake, AWS or Slack integrations out of the box
Stack fit matrix
SalesforceIntegrationIntegration
AWSNot supportedNot supported
SnowflakeNot supportedNot supported
HubSpotIntegrationNot supported
Google WorkspaceIntegrationNot supported
Microsoft 365IntegrationNot supported
SAPNot supportedNot supported
SlackIntegrationNot supported
MCP (Model Context Protocol)NativeNot supported
Compliance
SOC 2 Not listed Not listed
ISO 27001 Not listed Not listed
GDPR Not listed Not listed
HIPAA Not listed Not listed
FedRAMP Not listed Not listed
CMMC Not listed Not listed
ISO 42001 Not listed Not listed
IAPP AIGPnamed staff Not listed Not listed
Company & support
Who is behind each solution, and how you reach support. “Not listed” means the vendor’s public pages don’t mention a channel, not that it is unavailable.
FoundedNot recorded2008 (18 yrs)
HeadquartersWashington, D.C., USPortland, US
PhoneNot listedNot listed
EmailAll plansAll plans
Live chatAll plansNot listed
Support portal / ticketsNot listedNot listed
Community forumNot listedNot listed
Help centre / docsAll plansAll plans
Dedicated account managerEnterprise onlyNot listed
In person / on-siteNot listedNot listed
Support hours24/7Not recorded
Response timeUnder 24 hours (published as "< 24hrs")Not stated
AI & MCP readiness
Whether each solution can join your AI stack, and what it asks of you to do so.
MCP connectionreaches AI clientsOfficial serverNot supported
AI featuresCopilot / assistant; Agentic workflows; AI search; Document processingAgentic workflows; Predictive analytics; NLP automation
Built around AI?AI-nativeNot recorded
Trains on your dataNever trains on your dataNot recorded — ask the vendor
Runs onOpenAI, Open-weight modelsNot recorded
AI pricingIncluded in the planNot recorded
Model keyNot recordedNot recorded
AI usage auditFull audit trailNot recorded
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Quadrant view
Implementation friction × Value-Position score (estimate)
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