Effie vs ProposalGrid

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.

ProposalGrid creates AI-assisted proposals and quotes, shares them as branded links, tracks client decisions and turns accepted work into print-ready invoices. Its AI can draft a proposal from a website or job description, including scope, deliverables, timeline and pricing; users can edit or regenerate individual blocks. A block editor supports headings, rich text, images and tables, and recalculates line items, quantities and totals automatically. Contacts can be imported from HubSpot, Pipedrive, Zoho, Salesforce, Excel or CSV exports. Each stakeholder can receive an individual link to a live branded proposal, with view tracking. Clients can accept online or request changes, and signatures may be typed or hand-drawn, with consent, timestamped audit trails, IP logging and tamper-evident content hashes. Optional reminders can follow up on undecided proposals or warn before expiration. Accepted proposals can become branded invoices, including on the free plan. The browser-based service supports client-facing materials in English or Lithuanian. Free allows five active documents and two AI drafts monthly; Pro costs €19 a month.