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. Two things are missing from our shed. They are 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 app 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. There is also a $0 tier with no card at all, where you can build and publish an app and find out whether any of this paragraph is true before you give us a payment method. Unlimited apps come with Mission Control at $149, which is the plan for people running this on behalf of clients.

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 is free.
  • Counting the market is free, so you know how many of these people exist in your states before you spend a cent.
  • Previewing 25 of them by name is free.
  • Adding someone to your CRM costs 1 credit.
  • A verified phone and email cost 5, charged only when they are found.

Which makes the arithmetic six credits for a person in your pipeline with a working phone number and a working address. Launch includes 100 credits a month, Frontier 250, Mission Control 500. Frontier is therefore around forty fully verified people a month, or 250 names worked some other way, 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 Frontier and above, an interested reply turns into a meeting on your calendar because the scheduler is part of the same worker. That is one AI worker on Launch at $24.99, two on Frontier, three on Mission Control.

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 your number 24 hours a day from the first paid tier. 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. It is included in the plan and not billed by the minute, so a good month costs the same as a slow one.

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 arrives on Frontier at $79.

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, cancel from the dashboard, no demo call.