Comparison
TradeDesk vs DripJobs
DripJobs is a legitimate tool with real customers and a real following, and its follow-up automation is genuinely good. If chasing leads is the thing killing your business, they built for that. TradeDesk is built for the other half of the job: the part after they say yes, where the money either lands or does not.
DripJobs pricing below is their publicly listed plan range as of 2026. Check their site, and check ours.
The short answer
Pick DripJobs if
- Your problem is leads going cold, not invoices going unpaid
- You want deep drip sequences and automated follow-up
- You want an established tool with a large existing user base
- You are comfortable at roughly $97–$147 a month
Follow-up automation is their strength and we do less of it today. If that is your bottleneck, they are a fair choice.
Pick TradeDesk if
- You want the whole crew on one rate, so hiring never raises your software bill
- You want lien deadlines, RRP paperwork and apprentice hours handled in the app, not in a folder
- You want books, mileage and tax prep built in, not a second subscription
- You want miles and hours logged for you, without anyone remembering to hit start
- You work in basements and dead zones and need it to keep working with no signal
- You want to reach the two people who built it, not a call center
We start where the handshake happens and carry it to the deposit in your bank.
What it costs
Their published range as of 2026; plans and inclusions change, so confirm before deciding. TradeDesk is $99.99 flat for your whole crew, or $29.99 locked for life on one of the ten founder seats.
Feature by feature
The elephant in the room
We will not put a robot in front of your phone.
Several tools in this category now sell an AI that answers your calls for you. Before you switch that on, ask yourself one question. Have you ever called a company, gotten dropped into a maze of automated prompts, and just wanted to reach a human being?
If that ever frustrated you, remember that feeling, because it is what your next customer feels when a robot answers instead of you. Your phone is the first impression of your business, and homeowners are deciding whether to trust you with a key to their house.
So we built the opposite. Your phone rings to you, and you answer it. What TradeDesk does is make sure the call is worth answering: type the address and the property details are already pulled, so you can price the job while you are still on the line. A real voice, better prepared, beats a machine that never misses a ring.
Where they beat us
Their automation is deeper than ours. If you want long multi-touch drip sequences firing on their own, they have been building that for years and we have not. I would rather tell you now than have you find out in week two.
Where we go further is everything downstream of the sale: the signed scope that protects your lien rights, the mileage and receipts feeding a real Schedule C, the invoice that reconciles estimate against actual, and the deposit landing in your own Stripe account. Different halves of the same job.
Try the half that protects your money.
Two weeks free, no card. Send a CSV of your clients and open jobs and we will load it for you.
Start freeOr text us the question first. You get one of the two of us, not a call center.