Autopilot vs The AC People

Autopilot is a CRM and field service platform for home service businesses, available as a mobile app and website. Its workflow connects lead capture with job scheduling, customer messages, payments, reviews, and follow-ups. Listed tools include dispatch, estimates, invoicing, online booking, automated texts, time tracking, and reporting. The iPhone and Android apps cover jobs, schedules, GPS, calls, texts, payments, photos, and time tracking; a native desktop app for business calls and texts is listed for Mac and Windows. Plans start at $49 a month, and every plan begins with a free two-week trial. Run includes one user, Grow three, and Scale eight. Scale adds an AI Receptionist with 300 minutes monthly, along with 1,500 VoIP minutes and 1,500 SMS messages per month; overages are charged at listed rates. Additional users cost $29/month per user. Named integrations include Stripe, QuickBooks, Google Ads, Google Business Profile, Google Calendar, Google Local Services Ads, Facebook Ads, and Bing Ads. Zapier connects Autopilot to more than 9,000 apps.

The AC People is a field service operations platform for dispatching crews, preparing estimates, diagnosing field conditions, collecting payments and managing customer follow-up. Its workflows include a dispatch calendar, CRM and property history, industry job forms, field calculators, recommendations, invoices and follow-up. Office and field staff share customer, property, equipment, job and payment records. The site lists 75 industry packs shaped around trade-specific workflows and tools. Prepared connection and migration workflows cover QuickBooks, Jobber, ServiceTitan, Housecall Pro, Salesforce, HubSpot and structured CSV exports, with mapping, validation and rollback records. The current release is a Progressive Web App installed through a browser on Android, Apple devices and desktop using Chrome or Edge. The Field App includes an offline-ready job workspace linked into the secured platform. The site says there are no APK or Apple App Store downloads yet. Listed plan prices are demo pricing for layout and packaging review, and production pricing may change. Example plans address owner-operators, growing service teams and companies with multiple crews, branches or trades. The pricing note lists plans from $99/mo.