Effie vs Proposal Expert

Effie is a web platform for service businesses that combines client work, projects, billing, and team delivery. Users can import clients, capture leads with forms, and track prospects through a pipeline. Projects can be divided into tasks, assigned, and monitored, while time tracking includes timers, manual entries, approval workflows, cost reporting, and approved time prepared for invoices. Its proposal tool supports branded editing, AI drafting, fixed or percentage deals, online acceptance, reusable content, and pipeline analytics. AI proposal drafting uses up to 4,000 characters of client website context. Clients can accept and sign proposals through a public link without downloading a PDF. Ask Effie AI answers questions about workspace data, suggests task rescheduling, and drafts proposals, contracts, and email sections; its answers respect row-level security. Effie can invoice clients and accept card payments through Stripe. Connected Gmail accounts can send workflow emails with replies returning to the user's inbox. Workflows combine triggers, conditions, and actions, with scheduled or manual starts and run history. The Free plan costs nothing, with no credit card required.

Proposal Expert is a web-based subscription service for creating proposals, combining an editor, AI feedback, and CRM integrations. Its assistant, Fred, suggests stronger wording, flags weak points, and supports multilingual proposals. Engagement tracking reports when a client opens a proposal, which sections they read, and how long they spend reading. Electronic signatures use email verification and record an audit trail. HubSpot and Pipedrive integrations are listed for Professional, while Salesforce is listed for Business. The company says customer data is stored on servers in the EU, encrypted in transit with TLS 1.2+ and at rest with AES-256, and not sold or used to train foundation models. The free plan includes three proposals per month, 25 AI credits, five templates, three e-signatures per month, basic analytics, and 250 MB of storage. Starter costs €24.00 per month. Support is available in Dutch and English, with weekday replies within one business day; there is no phone line during the beta. Monthly AI credits are pooled per workspace and roll over for one month, capped at one times the monthly allocation.