Solutionist vs. alternatives

One workspace vs. cobbling 8 tools.

What you'd normally pay $200+/month for and lose to context-switching every day.

Real cost breakdown

The math on the 8-tool stack.

Conservative pricing — most operators end up paying more once they hit usage tiers.

The 8-tool stack (per month)
  • HubSpot Starter (CRM)$20
  • Stripe (no monthly, fees on volume)$0+
  • Calendly (booking)$12
  • Buffer Essentials (content)$15
  • Notion Plus (notes/goals)$10
  • Mixpanel / Looker Studio (analytics)$25+
  • Squarespace Business (website)$23
  • ChatGPT Plus (AI assistant)$20
≈ Total$125+ /mo

Plus the time + headache of stitching them together. Each tool wants its own login, notification settings, billing cycle, and integrations that mostly don't work.

Solutionist System
  • CRM + Contacts
  • Invoicing & payments
  • Calendar + booking
  • Content planning & publishing
  • Goals + tracking
  • Funnel + revenue analytics
  • Practitioner site + brand kit
  • Chief of Staff (AI)
Pricing TBDPrivate beta

We're growing carefully. Apply for access — early users get grandfathered pricing once we launch publicly.

Feature by feature

The side-by-side.

What you needSolutionistThe 8-tool stack
CRM & contacts✓ Built-inHubSpot / Notion / spreadsheet
Invoicing & payments✓ Built-inStripe + QuickBooks
Calendar & booking✓ Built-inCalendly + Google Calendar
Content planning & publishing✓ Built-inBuffer / Hootsuite + Notion
Goals & tracking✓ Built-inSpreadsheet + sticky notes
Funnel & pipeline analytics✓ Built-inMixpanel / Looker / DIY
Website & brand✓ Built-inSquarespace / Webflow + Figma
AI assistant that knows your business✓ Chief of StaffChatGPT + manual context every time
One login8+ logins
Real-time data flow✓ NativeZapier / manual sync
Switching from?

If you're coming from these, here's what's different.

From Notion

Notion is a blank canvas — flexible but you build everything yourself, and there's no AI that reads your business data. Solutionist comes opinionated: contacts work like contacts, invoices work like invoices, goals work like goals. You skip the database-design stage.

From HubSpot

HubSpot is enterprise CRM at scale — sales-team assumptions, deal pipelines built for B2B reps, and pricing that doesn't fit a solo practice. Solutionist is purpose-built for one operator running their whole business, not a sales team managing leads.

From "I'll just use ChatGPT"

ChatGPT is brilliant but generic — every conversation starts cold. Chief reads your real contacts, invoices, goals, content, and brand on every turn. Ask "how am I doing on my goals?" and you get a real answer, not a checklist of what to consider.

Stop stitching tools.

One workspace, one login, one Chief.

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