The Swiss Army knife accusation is easy to throw and impossible to answer with adjectives, so we will answer it with an inventory instead. Rocketship covers nine categories. For each one there is a company that owns that category in a founder's head. Below is what that company gets used for, what we do in the same territory, and what the arrangement costs you either way. One thing is missing from our shed. It is named near the end, not buried in it.
Start with the CRM, because that is where the doubt is
What people actually do in HubSpot on a Tuesday: keep contact records, add custom fields for whatever their business happens to track, move deals through named pipeline stages, assign tasks, and look back at what happened before they return a call. That is the working surface. The bill for it is priced per seat, so it grows with how many people you hire rather than with how much you sell, and the founder who adds a second and third Hub finds that out in month four.
Rocketship has contacts, custom fields, pipeline stages, deals, tasks and quotes. The part that is hard to buy from anyone else: the phone and the outbound email live in this same product, so the call recording, the transcript, the message that went out and the reply that came back are already sitting on the contact. Nobody connected anything. There was nothing to connect.
The site builder does the whole loop, not a demo of it
Prompt-to-app tools sell one loop. Describe the thing, get a working app, publish it, put it on your own domain, take money through it. Lovable, Base44 and Bolt sell that loop, and the category meters it: you pay by how much you generate, and the meter is really the product.
Ours does the loop. Describe it, publish it, point a custom domain at it, take payments through Stripe. It is $12 a month by itself, and that plan is the builder only, with no outreach, no AI workers and no phone answering. Starter, Launch and Frontier start with a 7-day free trial, card required, so you can build and publish and find out whether any of this paragraph is true before the first charge. Mission Control, at $1,499 a month, is the plan for teams running outreach at volume.
You can check our lead data before paying us anything
Apollo, Clay and Lusha sell contact data on credits. The shape of the category is that you commit to a plan first and learn the coverage for your particular niche second, and the credits go down whether or not the record turns out to be worth having.
In Rocketship you describe your ideal customer in plain English, and then:
- Searching costs nothing.
- Counting the market costs nothing, so you know how many of these people exist in your states before you spend one.
- Previewing 25 of them by name costs nothing.
- A person you upload costs 3 credits, used when Rocketship starts working them.
- A person Rocketship finds for you with their email costs 4 credits, charged only when the email is found.
Which makes the arithmetic 4 credits plus 15 for the phone number, for a person in your pipeline with a working phone number and a working address. Phone numbers cost 15 credits each, charged only when a phone is found, and come out of the same credits as everything else. Launch includes 500 credits a month, Frontier 1,500, Mission Control 30,000. Frontier is therefore about 375 people found with their emails a month, or 500 you upload, or any mix of the two you like.
Sending is the easy half
Instantly's job is cold email at volume. Apollo runs sequences on top of its database. Both stop in the same place, and the place is worth naming plainly: they send. What comes back arrives in an inbox, and a person reads it, sorts it, writes the reply, and types the meeting into a calendar.
Rocketship sends the sequences, checks your sending domain before you set fire to it, and suppresses bounces. Then it keeps going. It classifies what comes back and it writes the answer. On every plan from Launch up, an interested reply turns into a meeting on your calendar because booking is part of the same worker, Sophie, by email and on a call. Frontier at $79 adds your own booking page, and Mission Control adds calendar invites sent for you.
Somebody has to answer the phone your campaign made ring
Answering services exist because outbound creates inbound, and inbound arrives at 7:40pm. Ruby and Smith.ai price that per call or per minute. Read that pricing model twice: the better your outreach performs, the larger your receptionist invoice gets. Success is billed as usage.
Rocketship answers the number you already have, 24 hours a day, from Launch. Forwarding your number to a Rocketship line is $5 a month. It transfers to a human mid-conversation when the caller needs one. It treats after-hours differently from business hours. Calls are recorded and transcribed. It makes outbound calls too. Mission Control includes 30,000 credits a month, and calls draw 8 credits a minute from the same balance, so there is no per-call invoice.
Scheduling, quotes, payments, support
Calendly is a link you paste. Ours is a calendar the AI worker writes to itself, mid-thread or mid-call, which is why the meeting exists without you touching it. It comes with every plan from Launch up, and Frontier at $79 adds your own booking page.
Quoting is built in, so a deal produces a document instead of a reminder to make one. Payments run through Stripe, on your domain, from the app you built. Customer support is in the same product, against the same contact.
One thing we do not have
Native mobile apps. The builder publishes to the web, on your custom domain. Native is coming.
The seams are the real argument
A founder can go buy every specialist named above. What no one sells is the space between them. Zapier's whole business is that those gaps exist, and it prices them by the task, which tells you they are real and measurable. The reply from the sequence has to be read. The call the campaign generated rings a phone that no sending tool can pick up. The meeting has to be typed somewhere the CRM can see it.
That is hours a week of work, and no one invoices you for it, because you are the one doing it. The shed is what it looks like when nobody has to.
Every number here is on the pricing page. Card required, a 7-day free trial on Starter, Launch and Frontier, cancel from Settings before day 8, no demo call.