Comparison
A Tradify alternative that answers the phone too.
Tradify is a well-established job management app for trades. BusinessRunAI covers the same day-to-day admin, but the enquiries are answered and the records are written by an AI team rather than by you at nine at night.
What Tradify is good at
Tradify is a mature, widely used job management app built for trades businesses: quoting, invoicing, scheduling, timesheets and job tracking, with a well-regarded mobile app and integrations with the usual accounting packages. If you have a team who are happy entering their own jobs and timesheets, it does that job properly and has done for years.
Comparison written from Tradify's publicly published product information in August 2026. Features and pricing change — check their site for the current position before you decide.
Side by side
The differences that actually change your day, not a feature-tick contest.
| What matters | BusinessRunAI | Tradify |
|---|---|---|
| Who fills the records in | An AI Receptionist answers calls, chat and forms, and creates the job, customer and booking from the conversation. | You or your team enter jobs, quotes and timesheets. |
| Out-of-hours enquiries | Answered 24/7, qualified against your rules and booked into the diary. | Captured once someone enters them the next working day. |
| Quote chasing | The Sales Assistant follows up on a schedule until the quote is won or closed. | Reminders exist, but the chasing message is still yours to send. |
| Pricing model | Per business — £149, £299 or £499 a month, unlimited team members. | Published as per-user pricing, so cost grows with headcount. |
| Accounting integrations | Job records carry the values; you invoice from them or in your existing accounting software. | Long-standing direct integrations with the main accounting packages. |
| Timesheets and staff tracking | Team members and jobs, but not detailed timesheet or labour-cost tracking. | Timesheets and job costing built in and well established. |
| Track record | Newer product, built around AI assistants from the start. | Years in the market with a large trades user base. |
| Reviews and retention | Review requests, replies and win-back campaigns on Growth and Pro. | Not the focus of the product. |
Stay with Tradify if…
- You need detailed timesheets, labour costing and staff tracking across a larger team.
- Deep, direct accounting integrations are non-negotiable for how you invoice.
- Your team already enters their own jobs reliably and you are not losing enquiries.
- You want a product with many years of trades users behind it and are not ready for a newer one.
Switch to BusinessRunAI if…
- You are losing work to missed calls and out-of-hours enquiries more than to bad paperwork.
- You want the job, the customer and the booking to exist before you get back to the van.
- Per-seat pricing is getting expensive as you add staff or subcontractors.
- Quotes go quiet and nobody has time to chase them.
- You want reviews requested and lapsed customers won back without adding a job to your week.
See the equivalent trade pages for plumbing, electrical and landscaping businesses.
What it costs here
One price per business, not per user. Tax inclusive, cancel any time.
Questions people ask before switching
- Is BusinessRunAI a direct replacement for Tradify?
- For a small trades business, yes on the day-to-day: enquiries, quotes, jobs, scheduling, customer records and follow-ups all live here. The difference is that the records are created by an AI team answering your calls and web enquiries, rather than typed up by you afterwards.
- Does it do quoting and invoicing?
- Each job record carries the value, the address, the work description and the source, and you build the quote or invoice from that record. If you already run accounting software you keep using it — we do not ask you to move your books.
- Is the pricing per user?
- No. BusinessRunAI is priced per business — £149, £299 or £499 a month — and you can add your team, field staff and subcontractors at no extra charge. Per-seat pricing is one of the most common reasons small teams look for an alternative.
- Can I try it before committing?
- There is no free trial. You can subscribe to any plan and cancel within 14 days if it does not suit — see the refund policy for details — or request a demo and we will walk you through it first.
- What happens to my existing job data?
- You can start fresh or bring your customer list in. Most small businesses start by pointing new enquiries at the AI Receptionist and let the records build from there, keeping the old system read-only for a month.
See it running on your own enquiries.
Plans start at £149/month. Nothing sensitive — refunds, pricing changes, unusual discounts — goes out without your approval.